'Beneath You'
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Oops, sorry: The latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book. The Jeeves & Wooster bit is just one story (called, "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss"). If you haven't read the other volumes, this one will be pretty incomprehensible, though.
I quite like suspenseful horror movies, too, but I don't think spookiness & chills mesh with giant rampaging monsters. As mentioned, Cloverfield looks like a disaster movie.
Oh Cool. I knew that LoEG was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but I discarded that idea since I haven't read the new book yet. That's awesome!
Current speculation is that in addition to the big building-trashing Not!Godzilla there are also parasites/giant lice that drop off it and menace people inside buildings, escaping through the tunnels, etc. That'd make the terror more personal for the main characters and avoid having 80 minutes of large scale devastation CGI .
Matt, your speculation could work, considering there's a bit in one of the trailers of one of the girls being dragged off after some medic in a hazmat suit says something about "We've got a bite."
And I have a hard time imagining that the Big City Destroying Monster could bit a human in such a way that the person lives for more than thirty seconds.
want Chocolate now!
I am optimistic about Cloverfield as well. I love a good monster movie and a good hand-cam movie and a good New York movie and a good run-on sentence.
Now they're saying that VM won't be involved in that desert island movie.
Veronica Mars what?
Oh.
I'm so glad Juno is doing well. That's really cool!
I really liked I Am Legend for most of the reasons Stephanie stated. I loved the way that it doesn't really tell you what's going on for almost the first half of the movie, and, similar to Children of Men, you're expected to piece together some of the backstory just from the set design, reading articles and flyers and magazine covers posted on the walls that the camera never focuses on specifically but are right there in the frame, waiting to be noticed. It was a cool, creepy experience.
I also finally saw The Third Man, which was interesting. Oh, classic noir and your moral dilemmas!
Then I finally saw Life of Brian, which is the only movie I have seen with a hilarious scene about Latin grammar. And then some aliens for no apparent reason.
That same night, I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still, which was pretty good, if a bit cynical.
I saw No Country for Old Men at the Arclight, which was great because the sound in that movie is amazing. Also, it's scary as fuck. It was three-quarters of the way through the movie before I realized, "Oh yeah, these are the guys who made Blood Simple." Javier Bardem's character is terrifying.
I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still, which was pretty good, if a bit cynical.
Because they turned out to be wrong?
I think it's that they both have super-magnetic-charm power along with an everyman quality.
Re: Clooney. I think it was seeing him in "Good Night and Good Luck" playing a secondary screen character that points this up. He could have taken the Murrough part for himself and done a very good job, but putting Straitharn in there was such perfect casting, I'm glad he didn't. He had that everyman quality that they needed for Fred and he played to it beatifully.