Hee, Matt! All you needed was a couple of giant insects....
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Theodosia - Nov 25, 2007 2:00:38 pm PST #2422 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"
beekaytee - Nov 25, 2007 2:43:13 pm PST #2423 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I really have to see that movie. It sounds like a great double bill with Hard Core Logo, truly.
That would be a great double bill! Foibles on parade...lots of tension and heart.
Gris - Nov 25, 2007 3:31:56 pm PST #2424 of 10000
Hey. New board.
So I saw Enchanted and Bee Movie yesterday in a happy double feature. I was going to see American Gangster too, but we decided we couldn't end the night with an 11:30 showing of a 2:40 movie that would probably be depressing.
Enchanted was wonderful. Just tongue-in-cheek enough to balance the sweetness, with a truly stellar performance by Amy Adams. I have not seen Junebug and so was only familiar with her because of her short guest stint as a Hot Girl in The Office (though apparently also she played Tara's sister Beth in "Family" - who knew?) but she's just wonderful. I'm afraid she's going to find herself stuck in this type of movie, Anne Hathaway-style, but having already gotten an Academy nod for something less childrenish, maybe she can escape. Either way, Giselle can and will certainly join the list of Amazing Disney Princesses To Be Admired. I don't think Enchanted will displace Ella Enchanted as my Favorite Tongue-in-cheek Fantasy Kids Movie with Musical Numbers, but by this time next year their DVD cases will be sitting right next to each other on my shelf.
Bee Movie was fine, but kind of boring. And that's really all I have to say about that.
le nubian - Nov 25, 2007 3:49:57 pm PST #2425 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
FWIW, and to each his or her own, but I didn't find American Gangster that depressing. Now, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is much higher on the depressing scale, with No Country for Old Men perhaps lower or higher depending on your general orientation toward the Coen brothers.
I didn't find any of the three movies downright BLEAK. But BTDKYD isn't really the movie to see before a party.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 25, 2007 4:11:29 pm PST #2426 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
I think I may have won the bleak movie viewing sweepstakes today. Well, if no one saw Blood Simple in an arthouse, anyway.
Laga - Nov 25, 2007 4:21:07 pm PST #2427 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I didn't know Martha Plimpton was Keith Carradine's daughter
I didn't know that and I've partied with her. We used to have mutual friends in Chicago.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 25, 2007 4:40:21 pm PST #2428 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Well, if no one saw Blood Simple in an arthouse, anyway.
Blood Simple is HILARIOUS. How could it be bleak moviegoing experience?
Laga - Nov 25, 2007 4:57:07 pm PST #2429 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Did anyone else think Beowulf was a comedy? I just read Roger Ebert's review.
Gris - Nov 25, 2007 8:45:19 pm PST #2430 of 10000
Hey. New board.
I didn't know that and I've partied with her.
This would make my best friend SO jealous. She has a huge girl-theater-crush on the Plimpton. (Who, by the way, is excellent in Cymbeline but, in my opinion, somewhat miscast. She's gorgeous, but she's by no stretch of the imagination a 16-year-old, and I was close enough to the stage that the disconnect really killed my suspension of disbelief. Not that this is the theater thread. Move along.)
Laga - Nov 25, 2007 9:34:18 pm PST #2431 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
She's almost two years younger than me and I got carded buying cigarettes last week. (Don't worry. So far I've only smoked 2 of them.)