Haven't seen it yet, Frank, but it's on my radar. The mostly baffled reviews haven't really helped it move up in my queue, though.
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Well, I don't know if you saw Eraserhead, but it's like that, though (believe it or not) less coherent, and without the vaguely sci-fi setting. It's...an experience. I'm glad I saw, and I plan to buy it. And the end credits are the most amazing, life-affirming, JOYOUS thing I think Lynch has ever done (and WAY necessary at that point).
Oh gods I love Mulholland Drive. Even when I handed got it figured out, it was haunting, and the DH and I must have stayed up for 6 hours after working out what is was.
Of course, I'm a big old non-linearity sucker too.
I spent part of today mocking a co-worker's B'more accent (Heh, yuh wuhnt suhm wuddeh?), affectionately of course, so I'm kind of glad Travolta tries one.
Eraserhead
As far as I'm concerned: The only good thing that ever came out of this flick is that I know I can always freak my brother out with poultry (especially a nice cornish game hen) if I wiggle it a bit and make a squeaky noise.
I really liked Stardust. I would use the words "unabashedly fantastical" to describe it. That's my quote! Use it in the ads!
Of course, I told a friend of mine about it, and when she heard about all the things they changed, she was fuming. So what do I know.
Eliza Dushku is going to be in a movie with Bill Pullman and Alan Rickman!
The Wolverine movie gets a director and it's Gavin Hood who won the 2005 foreign language Oscar Tsotsi.
Wolverine movie
I really, really want to start a body count pool.
Can we have a secondary pool for how many times Logan "dies" and then revives due to his power?
I really enjoyed Stardust also. And, like PC, I had not read the book, so that is based purely on the flick.
Juliana, the costuming thing we noticed does carry through on all the brothers. Now I want to see it again so I can look for other cool details.