Samurai Saga this weekend, which features Toshiro Mifune playing Cyrano de Bergerac in feudal Japan. It had the artificial Technicolor look of a John Sturges movie, but Mifune brought his considerable chops to bear on the role.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Hayden - Jun 09, 2008 9:20:33 am PDT #6260 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Juliebird - Jun 09, 2008 12:26:57 pm PDT #6261 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Primal Fear
And this will always be why Edward Norton gives me the heeby jeebies. While I love Fight Club and Keeping the Faith, my kneejerk reaction to seeing him onscreen is always one of horror and trauma.
Daisy Jane - Jun 09, 2008 1:00:38 pm PDT #6262 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
He's been in the bar with his shirt off! And we have his signed champagne bottle calling it the best bar ever!
That is why I will always love Edward Norton.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 09, 2008 1:06:48 pm PDT #6263 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
OK, that's a story I've got to hear. Isn't your bar a sorta-kinda gay bar?
quester - Jun 09, 2008 2:43:09 pm PDT #6264 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I saw The Fall over the weekend. Very beautiful and the little girl was wonderful.
Laga - Jun 09, 2008 4:24:56 pm PDT #6265 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yep. Also, I'm one of the five people who liked the first one.
I was too. I mean, what sort of Hulk movie did people think Ang Lee would direct? It delivered everything I was expecting.
I watched ... Jesse James... last night. It was another in a long line of movies I think would have been better shorter. Then I discovered the original cut (and the one that got Brad Pitt a best actor award at the Venice Film Fest) was 4 hours long. Maybe the movie was supposed to be more of an experience of what it was like to live during those times than a thing with a plot.
Polter-Cow - Jun 09, 2008 4:29:35 pm PDT #6266 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I mean, what sort of Hulk movie did people think Ang Lee would direct? It delivered everything I was expecting.
I really liked the little inset panels. They were superfluous but neat.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 10, 2008 5:39:27 am PDT #6267 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
Oh the cinematography that mimicked comic book panels was inspired. If only there'd been an interesting (or sense-making) story to put in them...
Daisy Jane - Jun 10, 2008 6:50:05 am PDT #6268 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
OK, that's a story I've got to hear. Isn't your bar a sorta-kinda gay bar?
It's a kinda everybody bar, but definately very gay friendly. A lot of times people who are in town filming something or another or doing a concert will drop by. They can slum it in a hip divey bar, and no one is going to harass them because frankly, there are at least 20 more interesting things going on in that place on a Saturday night than some random celebrity sighting.
That being said, it was awesome having champagne with Fred from the B-52's, and Mr. Jane loves to recall the time he shared a mind eraser with Rachel Hunter.
Strega - Jun 10, 2008 7:01:28 am PDT #6269 of 10000
Oooh, the Gotham Cable News website is up and apparently there's an "Gotham Tonight" On-Demand show on Comcast. Which I don't have. Boo.
Featuring world-renowned journalist Mike Engel -- who helped bust the Gotham "squid killer" -- and the GCN news team.
I desperately want to know more about the squid killer.