I heartily recommend Sunshine for a night at the kinotheque. Or I don't, really, because I have no idea if the anxieties it played on belong to people in general. It was mostly about stuff getting frazzled with the philosophy I couldn't make heads nor tails of kept to a minimum. Though, unfortunately, it fuels one of the twists so I couldn't go "You're silly, I discard you" to it. And a third act problem common to both Boyle and Garland pops up here again. And parts of the last twenty minutes are alternately wilfully and accidentally hard to follow. But generally it's tense and involving and pretty and well worth seeing.
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
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IAmNotReallyASpring - Apr 07, 2007 4:28:28 pm PDT #8111 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2007 5:10:14 pm PDT #8112 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanksgiving cracked us right up. Though the pervy guys in the group are sad that She Wolves of the SS isn't a real flick. One of them is going out to find Women in Cages though.
As for Reign of Fire I view it as a British movie (when the guy was riding to the rescue on the horse, he was a knight and not a cowboy. I don't know exactly how to explain that) with not very subtle commentary on the post-colonial age.
Loved McConnaughey. Adored. Not for the pretty, although he's sure brought that in his time.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2007 6:11:42 pm PDT #8113 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
She Wolves of the SS isn't a real flick.
But it's based on Ilsa The She-Wolf which is a real movie about an evil Nazi sex bomb.
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2007 6:18:49 pm PDT #8114 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it's based on Ilsa The She-Wolf which is a real movie about an evil Nazi sex bomb.
Without werewolves. So no happy.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2007 6:33:33 pm PDT #8115 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Without werewolves. So no happy.
Just watch it in a double bill with Werewolves on Wheels.
Lee - Apr 07, 2007 7:16:50 pm PDT #8116 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
If my main reaction to the first half hour or so of Mirrormask was a nagging irritation with the lead character, is there any point in watching the rest?
(moved from music)
DavidS - Apr 07, 2007 7:36:50 pm PDT #8117 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yes, the character is supposed to an irritating teenager in the beginning.
The story is her character arc so you may presume that she changes over the course of the story.
Lee - Apr 07, 2007 8:04:15 pm PDT #8118 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Okay, I guess I will give it another shot.
P.M. Marc - Apr 07, 2007 8:06:21 pm PDT #8119 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also Alexander Siddig. Rrrrrrowr.
Mmm. Seconded.
Damn, he's one of those men who just gets hotter and hotter as he gets older.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 07, 2007 8:12:09 pm PDT #8120 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Just got back from seeing Grindhouse at the honest-to-God drive-in cinema, with the sound coming over my car's AM radio and everything. Oh, such fun. Though I was surprised that Death Proof was my favorite over Planet Terror.
Then again, had I known it involved Tracie Thoms as a kickass hard-driving stuntwoman beforehand, it would have been obvious. For me to enjoy a character more than I did Kim, it would probably have to be played by Ben Browder and involve frontal nudity .
Werewolf Women of the SS may have finally found the role Nicholas Cage was born to play. At least I was entertained by his presence for the first time since Raising Arizona . .