My desire to see Magnolia has just intensified.
You don't know about the toads? I thought everyone knew about the toads, even if they hadn't seen the movie. Which I love, for the record.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Polter-Cow - Nov 01, 2006 12:44:48 pm PST #1698 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jackal - Nov 01, 2006 12:52:07 pm PST #1699 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
I only knew about the Aimee Mann of it and before seeing PTA's Hard Eight in the summer I knew even less than that. It's on my long list of films I should see and for some reason haven't.
Kevin - Nov 01, 2006 1:13:30 pm PST #1700 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I started watching it the other night at about midnight. I had work the next day, and had forgotten it's just over 3 hours long.
That said, I hadn't seen it since it's release. I enjoyed it, a lot. It just creates it's own world of characters and story. Of course, when it finished I realised it was 3am, and I was back in the world where I had to be up for work a few hours later.
Laga - Nov 01, 2006 1:48:03 pm PST #1701 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just wondered what they paid the film editor for.
Kevin - Nov 01, 2006 1:58:43 pm PST #1702 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Making it longer?
Worst film for that EVER: Meet Joe Black.
Betsy HP - Nov 01, 2006 3:24:51 pm PST #1703 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Kermit dance! Kermit dance!
Frankenbuddha - Nov 02, 2006 3:44:17 am PST #1704 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
PTA's Hard Eight
Love this movie; I really need to own that.
I started watching it the other night at about midnight. I had work the next day, and had forgotten it's just over 3 hours long.
I'm not sure how the movie as a whole holds up (I really enjoyed it when I saw it in the theater, but it had a LOT of problems), but every time I've flipped on to it on cable (always at different points in the movie), I'm just mesmerized for a scene or two, and then tell myself I really need to see the whole thing again and move on to something else.
JZ - Nov 02, 2006 6:08:30 am PST #1705 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Magnolia cemented my bone-deep love of William H. Macy. I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking. I mean, I already loved him because I'm not insane or stupid, but that performance just killed me nine ways from Sunday.
Also, because it turns out that I have been living under a rock for years and years, I had never seen either John C. Reilly or Phillip Seymour Hoffman before, and there's not a moment in either man's performance in Magnolia that I don't just hopelessly love.
Vortex - Nov 02, 2006 6:32:55 am PST #1706 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking.
His performance in Boogie Nights was stunning as well.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 02, 2006 6:48:16 am PST #1707 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking.
And Henry Gibson (as Thurston Howell!) adding to both by just destroying him from the sidelines with his catty snark.