The Wolverine movie gets a director and it's Gavin Hood who won the 2005 foreign language Oscar Tsotsi.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
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.
sumi - Jul 20, 2007 6:33:31 am PDT #307 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Tom Scola - Jul 20, 2007 6:35:34 am PDT #308 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Wolverine movie
I really, really want to start a body count pool.
DebetEsse - Jul 20, 2007 6:44:26 am PDT #309 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Can we have a secondary pool for how many times Logan "dies" and then revives due to his power?
SuziQ - Jul 20, 2007 6:49:21 am PDT #310 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2007 6:50:29 am PDT #311 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cashmere - Jul 20, 2007 7:06:06 am PDT #312 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
that review is a thing of beauty.
sumi - Jul 20, 2007 7:14:07 am PDT #313 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
That's so weird. My computer hung on that post for so long that I stopped it and re-posted only to discover that it had posted the first time!
juliana - Jul 20, 2007 7:36:25 am PDT #314 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Juliana, the costuming thing we noticed does carry through on all the brothers.
Schweet. You know, I think I did notice it on Primus, but the rest of them sort of faded for me.
Anyhoo. As someone who has read the book, I still enjoyed Stardust. As always, it helps if you go into it without the book in your head. And now, we go to whitefont:
For me, the book is much like Gulliver's Travels, with a side of Hero and Heroine Finding Themselves And Gradually Falling In Love. It's more brooding and melancholy and about family as much as it is about love. The movie naturally has to compress storylines, so Septimus/Primus is more secondary, and the Witches are brought forward to the point of having the final confrontation at their home (which kind of looked like it was in the crater of a starfall), but DeNiro and the airship took up a lot more time than they absolutely had to, and GOD it bugged me what they did to Una (Tristan's mother). She's a bloody Princess, and part of a bloodline that's known for its ruthlessness. She was the weakest part of the adaptation, by far.
In short, the director owes a lot to Terry Gilliam. But I think they did a good job of conveying the wild fantasticalness of Stormhold.
Glamcookie - Jul 20, 2007 8:04:23 am PDT #315 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
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.
GF and I were the same way after the first viewing! We were creeped out and talked about it forever trying to work it out. Then we saw it again and were totally hooked.
Gris - Jul 20, 2007 10:49:58 am PDT #316 of 10000
Hey. New board.
I enjoyed reading the Potter commentary. I most agree on Luna's perfection, Tonks' hotness, loving Ginny (always have loved her) and the greatness overall - best yet.