Jayne ,'The Message'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I'm cautiously hopeful about Where the Wild Things Are.
I agree I would have gotten more Midpoints if the thumbnails were bigger but I think they are the right size based the the premise of the article (you can't judge a film by a thumnail of its midpoint like Youtube asks you to.)
Exactly, Laga. I was going to call foul on not being able to see a bigger version, but it would defeat the purpose of the idea.
I finally saw POTC 3. And, er, I really liked it. Is that okay? I think it was an improvement over the second in that there weren't those long set pieces that went on too long with no purpose (for the most part). I felt like the movie had more of a drive to it. It was pretty fun throughout, and the one major flaw was that the Calypso plot never paid off. She got all big and turned into crabs and...made a maelstrom? That could just as well have already been there, for plot purposes? I expected some more actual Calypso action, the way they were building it up. Especially since they proved they weren't devoid of neato ideas with the Up Is Down method of getting out of the Locker. I was also sort of surprised and not pleased with the resolution of Will and Elizabeth's story. I wanted a happy ending for them, dammit! That's not happy! That's all tragic and shit! They didn't need to be tragic! They were just two hot people who were supposed to be hot together.
On the other hand: BEST. WEDDING. EVER.
ETA: I went back and found that thing Zenkitty posted that was supposed to be important and er, yeah, they really should have made that clear.
I finally watched POTC3 this afternoon as well, and I'm gonna have to sadly part company with P-C, my usual brain-twin. I thought it was a bloated, ungodly mess with irritating orientalism, severe lack of the funny and zero emotional resonance. Also, they killed Norrington (!) for no goddamned reason, and Norrington was by far my favourite character of the lot. Bah.
Elizabeth got to kick some ass, which was some consolation. And Jeffrey Rush, as always, was fun to watch. But the rest of it was very eh. I was bored by even Jack.
I agree with your whitefont, though. They totally wasted Norrington.
I'm watching Phantom on Hallmark.
This is, indeed, as bad as I thought. The singing, oh God... t shudders
Also, the costumer seems to have a corset fetish, and the director watched Moulin Rouge too many times.
And no one ever explained to anyone why we hold our hands at the level of our eyes.
Also, the costumer seems to have a corset fetish, and the director watched Moulin Rouge too many times.
OK, one of these things I can see as a negative, but the other makes me wonder which place this person thinks they are posting.
There is a time and a place. And, really, enough space for plenty of corsetry in the movie without it pinging me as corset porn.
I think the scene of Christine being laced into one was what pushed it over the edge for me.
I dunno. Isn't "gratuitous corsetry" pretty much a Buffista oxymoron? I'll leave it to the board to decide.
I dunno. Isn't "gratuitous corsetry" pretty much a Buffista oxymoron? I'll leave it to the board to decide.
I vote oxymoron.
I vote: the more corsets the better. We went to Pirates Dinner Adventure yesterday and when the princess came out the first thing I said was, "they could have laced her up tighter."