I thought Leelee Sobiyeksi and Albert Brooks were both wornderful in that, Beej, even though it was pretty cliche and predictable.
Albert Brooks in particular seems to be able to do great stuff with pretty average material. See: Defending Your Life.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
'Help'
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Sean K - May 29, 2007 7:40:02 am PDT #8784 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:43:15 am PDT #8785 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Complete agreement on both counts.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 29, 2007 7:43:37 am PDT #8786 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
It's been in my queue forever. I'll move it up!
Just don't watch on a day when you're feeling mopey. They have a picture of the movie poster next to the word "anomie" in the dictionary.
Stephanie - May 29, 2007 8:00:25 am PDT #8787 of 10001
Trust my rage
It feels late now, but I had to chime in to say that I saw PoTC3 on Sunday and DH and I both thought it was so funny. And way better than either of the other two (although I was bored by most of the second one). It just seemed funny in lots of ways, like stupid obvious pranks, but also funny lines.
Aims - May 29, 2007 8:22:16 am PDT #8788 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm watching the HBO series Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
So good.
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 9:05:45 am PDT #8789 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Colour me blind! Tia Dalma (the witchy woman) from PotC2 and 3 was the black chick in 28 Days Later. Never would have gotten that without IMDB. Need to add her to my site, stat.
Kathy A - May 29, 2007 1:07:33 pm PDT #8790 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I might go see two movies back-to-back this weekend--both Paris, Je T'aime and Once will be playing at the Highland Park arthouse theatre by this Friday, and I really want to see both. Once is only about 90 minutes long, so seeing both of them together shouldn't be too much.
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 1:44:17 pm PDT #8791 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do Morgan Freeman's two turns as god in the Almighty movies make him the most Magical of all Negroes ever?
Kate P. - May 29, 2007 1:49:07 pm PDT #8792 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Colour me blind! Tia Dalma (the witchy woman) from PotC2 and 3 was the black chick in 28 Days Later.
Yes! Isn't she awesome? I knew I recognized her when I watched 28 Days Later recently but needed IMDB to confirm.
Just got back from POTC3. It was pretty much exactly the movie I was expecting to see, although with less swordfighting than I would have liked. I was quite glad to see the pair of hapless redcoats from the first movie (do we know their names?), and especially glad to see them end up (gleefully) as pirates. Loved Keith Richards' cameo, and agree that there should have been more Chow Yun-Fat. Keira Knightley still fails to impress me much, but I have mad love for Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom (oh, Orlando! Never change!), who more than make up for Keira. I also have to agree that this movie featured the monkey's best work.
Basically, I enjoyed it, but I don't really ever need to see it again.
Scrappy - May 29, 2007 1:54:41 pm PDT #8793 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I liked Orly more in this movie than the other two. He seemd more THERE somehow.