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.
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
Willow ,'Help'
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Beverly - Aug 25, 2007 7:27:25 pm PDT #1148 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Hayden - Aug 25, 2007 7:44:55 pm PDT #1149 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Just finished the gorgeous Criterion reprint of La Jetee, and seriously, when are you going to spend a better 26 minutes of your life?
tiggy - Aug 25, 2007 8:48:01 pm PDT #1150 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
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.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2007 9:23:20 pm PDT #1151 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Glamcookie - Aug 25, 2007 10:24:02 pm PDT #1152 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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.
Laga - Aug 25, 2007 11:29:10 pm PDT #1153 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Aww I'm sorry to hear War sucked, ita. I guess the two minutes I saw was a rare good part.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 26, 2007 4:38:24 am PDT #1154 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Dana - Aug 26, 2007 4:50:31 am PDT #1155 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Awww.
bon bon - Aug 26, 2007 5:33:56 am PDT #1156 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Aw, I'm sorry about War. Bob's bro is trying to finance a movie with the people that made it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 26, 2007 8:31:21 am PDT #1157 of 10000
"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
With 300 I was reeling from the testosterone funk after the movie was over.
Maybe this will help make that feeling go away, Frank?
I saw Death at a Funeral and Eating Out 2 yesterday. The former lived up to my expectations (Alan Tudyk had me cracking up with his every facial expression) and the latter vastly exceeded them (which were, of course, much lower than those for the former movie thanks to the original being crap whose only redeeming features were Jim Verraros' snark and Ryan Carnes' penis).