Lack of one. Plus apparently he was visiting from Italy and had a killer accent.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Scrappy - Jun 02, 2007 2:28:18 pm PDT #8928 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2007 2:31:11 pm PDT #8929 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2007 3:22:16 pm PDT #8930 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Just got back from a very fun movie day with ChiKat! We did manage to see both Paris, je t'aime and Once back-to-back, and I liked them both very much. (ChiKat can share her issue about Once if she'd like).
PJT was a wonderful series of 18 5-minute long vignettes about the city, most dealing with love in all of its forms (from familial to romantic, from new love to old and lost loves). The most bizarre (but strangely amusing for me) one was about Mime Love (I hate mimes, but the depiction was goofy enough to help me get over my dislike), the Elijah Wood one was very Gothic Silent Film in style, and the Gus Van Sant-directed one had a nice French New Wave feel. But my two favorites were one about a quiet young man who falls for a Moroccan (possibly--could have been Algerian) girl wearing a hajib, and one co-directed by Gerard Depardieu about an older couple meeting before she finally signs her divorce papers, with Ben Gazarra and Gena Rowlands as the couple. Overall, a movie well worth seeking out.
Once was filled with very real performances and directing style (very cinema verite), and Glen Hansard's performance was all in his eyes (it helps that he is damn sexy in that beard, too!). Loved the music, and just loved the whole film. See it if you can!
Zenkitty - Jun 02, 2007 5:33:30 pm PDT #8931 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I am halfway through Stranger Than Fiction and am finding it less engaging than I had anticipated.
Laga - Jun 02, 2007 6:56:47 pm PDT #8932 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oh I lurved that movie! Maybe it loses something in the translation to small screen.
Zenkitty - Jun 02, 2007 7:06:37 pm PDT #8933 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
It had its charm. I'm not sorry I saw it, but it won't stick with me.
Until the next time I think about killing off a character... I halfway think they're real anyway. Pests.
Dana - Jun 02, 2007 7:37:54 pm PDT #8934 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Just saw Knocked Up. Compared to The 40-Year Old Virgin, this one didn't work as well for me. It had moments, but ultimately, I would rather have seen a movie about Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd's characters.
Paul Rudd is awesome.
Scrappy - Jun 02, 2007 9:51:04 pm PDT #8935 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw both Once and Knocked Up this evening. Enjoyed them both in heir wildly different ways. Particularly loved the Apatow Supporting Players in KU. Martin Starr has grown out of his awkward stage, but not adorkable Jay Baruchel. Paul Rudd IS awesome. How totally fabulous was the whole chair sequence in Vegas?
Once I liked, but felt there was about 30 minutes of movie in there and the rest was just good songs being sung over pretty pictures which didn't do anything to move the story forward. I liked the dialogue scenes and could have used more of them.
Kevin - Jun 03, 2007 1:37:35 am PDT #8936 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
The Prestige
I know the person who wrote the original novel of this. Personally, I thought the movie was okay. It was always going to be hard to adapt to the screen as the book is set over a few hundred years or so, with lots of characters, subplots etc. So for the movie they just dropped a lot of it. The author sold the movie rights decades ago to an indy movie company, who sold them on to Nolan and friends, so he basically got bugger all for it.
Children of Men is still my favourite movie of 2006, by a wide, wide margin.
bon bon - Jun 03, 2007 7:14:02 am PDT #8937 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Paul Rudd rules-- I think that was his best movie. The cake and chair scenes were straight-up brilliant. Leslie Mann was awesome. I didn't quite buy any chemistry between Rogen and Heigl (and would lay that at Heigl's door); the consequences for Heigl were never explored; and I thought Virgin was funnier-- but there's no director today that approaches what Apatow is doing. During the scene where Mann and Rudd meet the baby for the first time it felt like we were in the room, it was so real and unmediated.