Sweeney Todd, is it whitefonted in here? Unsure due to thinking everyone knows how it all goes down.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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.
Allyson - Dec 26, 2007 9:47:11 am PST #2974 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
sj - Dec 26, 2007 1:34:15 pm PST #2975 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We're at a nearly empty theatre waiting to see Sweeny Todd. I expected it to be more popular than this. This is probably one of those occasions where I expect something that is popular with buffistas to be as popular with everyone else.
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2007 1:42:42 pm PST #2976 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Mmm, Sweeney. It was sold out at the theater here yesterday, but that's LA on a holiday, so YSweeneyMV.
Report on our Christmas Movie day. We saw four:
National Treasure: -Expositiontastic and the clunkiest script EVER, but the audience seemed to dig it. Not convinced Diane Kruger could act her way out of a well-liit paper bag with easily visible Exit signs.
Charlie Wilson's War -Tom Hanks and Phillip Setmour Hoffman RULE and it's great fun to watch them playing off each other. Liked the smart Sorkin script and felt really pulled in by the story.
Sweeney Todd -Loved it lots and lots. And lots. Sondheim, Depp, Burton--just too wonderful for words.
Walk Hard -Funny scenes, the music totally works as parody/pastiche and great cameos. (Jack White does a hilarious Elvis) but not as funny as I hoped it would be.
sj - Dec 26, 2007 5:07:06 pm PST #2977 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Mmm, Sweeney. It was sold out at the theater here yesterday, but that's LA on a holiday, so YSweeneyMV.
A horde of teenagers showed up at the last minute, so the theatre ended up being about half full. I loved the film, but I'm not at all familiar with the original musical, so I can understand how others feel differently. I thought ASH's scenes were cut, but he was in it for about 5 seconds.
SuziQ - Dec 26, 2007 5:14:08 pm PST #2978 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
sj - really? I missed that....geeesh. Might have been when I had my hands over my eyes. I loved the movie, but I have blood issues.
sj - Dec 26, 2007 6:46:04 pm PST #2979 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Really. TCG missed it totally despite my squealing, that's how quick it was.
Edited for clarity.
DavidS - Dec 26, 2007 8:24:20 pm PST #2980 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Slate talks about a movie I never heard of...
It's a totally famous cult movie, tommy!
I don't love it like Cor does, however.
Hayden - Dec 26, 2007 9:32:09 pm PST #2981 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yeah, I love the hell out of it. And I really hate James Taylor, so that's saying something. In fact, it would make a fantastic Zen double feature with Cockfighter, which is a similar Monte Hellman-directed faux-exploitation existential-crisis dialogue-lite movie.
lisah - Dec 27, 2007 5:44:35 am PST #2982 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Cockfighter is one of my favorite movies!
My friend and I are trying to figure out what movie to see on Sunday. So far on the list:
The Savages
Romance & Cigarettes
The Kite Runner
Charlie Wilson's War
Enchanted
No Country for Old Men
What do you all think?
Fay - Dec 27, 2007 5:49:42 am PST #2983 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Having only seen Enchanted from that list, I'm going to say: Don't go see Enchanted.
It's more of a catch-it-on-TV kind of movie. I think if I hadn't paid money for it, I'd have appreciated it a lot more.