FIDO has Billy Connelly as the title charceter (a zombie, natch). I heard it was a fun moive, but it only played here for a week, so I never got to it.
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 20, 2007 7:40:08 pm PDT #1807 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Theodosia - Oct 21, 2007 3:39:09 am PDT #1808 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I shudder to think what Dick Cheney could do with an army of obedient zombie soldiers. Even somewhat-disobedient ones.
A couple of years ago, I heard The Mist adapted as a radio play -- it was one of the more hair-raising adaptations I've ever seen or heard.
Jars - Oct 21, 2007 8:13:12 am PDT #1809 of 10000
As people were talking about The Prestige, I remembered I had a problem with the plot that I couldn't figure out. I may be stupid, or they just didn't feel it was necessary to explain it...
So when Michael Caine finds Christian Bale's character 'killing' Hugh Jackman's character, wouldn't the living Hugh Jackman be making his reveal behind the audience? He wouldn't have know that all that was going on underneath the stage, and would have carried on with the show, surely?
Did they explain this? Or should I just handwave it? It really bugged me. I think probably just because the rest of the movie was so well-crafted.
Ailleann - Oct 21, 2007 3:15:30 pm PDT #1810 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Jars, re: your whitefont...
It's been a while since I've seen it, but wasn't the whole murder a setup so that Jackman could get revenge on Bale? The body in the box was one of the "extra" Jackmans. After the murder, Jackman appeared as an alter ego, right? So, in theory he wouldn't have been out front finishing, that show would have seemed to have gone horribly wrong from the perspective of the audience.
Volans - Oct 21, 2007 3:22:47 pm PDT #1811 of 10000
move out and draw fire
That bugged me too, Jars, because how did Jackman know that this was the time Bale got back there?
le nubian - Oct 21, 2007 5:00:42 pm PDT #1812 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I thought the shouting and hacking of the tank was loud enough to be heard throughout the theater. So as soon as the banging was heard, he knew to disappear "forever."
erikaj - Oct 21, 2007 7:28:27 pm PDT #1813 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I just watched "Crash". All I can say is, the acclaim it got is proof that coke has not disappeared from Hollywood. They should have picked one of those stories and told it for real instead of the whole "Short Cuts" thing. Although I liked "Short Cuts".
BigDuluth - Oct 21, 2007 8:11:38 pm PDT #1814 of 10000
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Just started watching Hot Fuzz. Holy crap, this has everybody!
That is showing up in my mailbox tomorrow...cannot wait
I liked The Departed a whole lot--up until the end, where I thought it got needlessly twisty.I dunno I rode with it the whole way. Though for most movies I'd say the very ending was unneccessary, but for The Departed it was the frosting on a fantastic cake. I've not seen CoM yet and can't compare the two.
I shudder to think what Dick Cheney could do with an army of obedient zombie soldiers. Even somewhat-disobedient ones.
The obedient would eat the disobedient. I would be faster than the other zombies or eaten. It depends on the zombie rules in that situation/world. Running Zombies? In the clear. No running? Eaten.
Atropa - Oct 21, 2007 8:19:33 pm PDT #1815 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So I just re-read The Mist, and I now know that I cannot go see the movie. How had I forgotten that there are giant spiders in this story?! Lots of them, even. Oh well.
BigDuluth - Oct 21, 2007 8:39:01 pm PDT #1816 of 10000
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
So...consensus here, is the original Wicker Man worth watching??