Giles ,'Selfless'
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I so want to see Snow Cake, but I don't see it coming my way anytime soon.
Snow Cake was really good, and it's out on DVD now.
Will definitely check out Wilby Wonderful.
My sister edited her HS yearbook with Danny McIvor, the guy who wrote and directed this. (He's done a lot of stuff with CKR, McKellar and Molly Parker. They're some kind of Canadian film mafia, all appearing in each other's stuff.)
Huh. I never did see PotC3. I just ... forgot about it. How sad.
forgot about it like Star Wars 3, but without the urge to pirate it and watch it MST3-style when I did remember it. Which I never did cuz I just wasn't that interested in even watching it drunk.
PotC3 was miles better than 2. Personally, I think it was added Barbosa. Geoffrey Rush was enjoying himself so much he practically put Depp in the shade. Offhand, I don't recall any waterwheel or hamster ball nonsense, either.
Just finished the gorgeous Criterion reprint of La Jetee, and seriously, when are you going to spend a better 26 minutes of your life?
I just finished Becoming Jane and The Bourne Ultimatum. why yes, i was feeling a bit contrary tonight. i liked both a lot. the former mostly for the chemistry between Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. the latter because the action scenes were unbelievable.
the fight between Bourne and the asset was incredibly long, but it was also one of the best fight scenes i've ever seen because it seemed real. handheld camera work notwithstanding.
Wow. War was atrocious. I have a lot of apologising to do--but it was Jason Statham and Jet Li! I wasn't asking for much. I got way less.
GF and I watched Follow My Voice with the Music of Hedwig last night. It showed some making of the tribute album (Wig In a Box) mixed with some true life stories of teens at the Harvey Milk High School in NY (the money made from the tribute CD went to the institute that runs HMHS). It was really good. I teared up when the kids graduated - I'm a sap like that. My only gripe is that though there was a lot of band footage, there was very little of Sleater-Kinney. No fair! The Breeders continue to rock, of course, and were featured pretty prominently. They also have a special feature piece. If you like Hedwig (which I definitely do), you should see it.
Aww I'm sorry to hear War sucked, ita. I guess the two minutes I saw was a rare good part.
Saw SUNSHINE yesterday (very appropriate, because I think we had record highs). Dubious science aspects aside (how HARD is it to resist sound in space? pretty frelling hard apparently), I thought it was really interesting, gorgeous to look at, but it was trying too hard to be too many different movies. The save-the-earth-probably-a-suicide-mission movie was really good, and quite suspensful enough, but they kept forcing other movies in the mix. The threatened drifts towards a trippy Solaris/2001-type movie didn't bother me so much - who knows what kind of weird shit will happen close to the sun - but the Leviathan/Event Horizon/Deep Rising horror movie stuff came out of left field and was unnecessary. I think there was enough chance for things to go wrong that they could have made the ending just as grueling with just the Icarus II crew trying to get the job done.
Also saw 300 later on at friend's house who has a great home theater set up. Luckily, there were three of there who were in the right mood to MST3K the movie for pretty much the whole running time. Interesting look, but at least Robert Rodriguez had a sense of humor that helped SIN CITY work better for me. With 300 I was reeling from the testosterone funk after the movie was over.