Me either, and Kate's the Hepburn I really like. But however much I missed the Audrey H. memo, she's way better than JLH. I think I'd like a Mulgrew/ Clooney movie, though. I'd be sad if Clooney gets like Tom Hanks and forgets he's hilarious.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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.
erikaj - Jul 21, 2008 12:53:53 pm PDT #7276 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
sj - Jul 21, 2008 1:00:52 pm PDT #7277 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Katharine Hepburn movies shouldn't be remade ever by anyone.
I actually like the remake of Sabrina better than the original despite liking Audrey Hepburn and Bogart quite a bit. I can't get past the fact that Hepburn and Bogart really couldn't stand each other when they are making the original. They have no chemistry on-screen.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 21, 2008 1:32:30 pm PDT #7278 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
That's because Bogie used up all the chemistry there was with Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not ten years earlier!
sj - Jul 21, 2008 1:33:32 pm PDT #7279 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That's because Bogie used up all the chemistry there was with Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not ten years earlier!
And The Big Sleep!
JZ - Jul 21, 2008 1:44:19 pm PDT #7280 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Don't shortchange them... they were plenty sparky in Key Largo, too.
Glad I'm not the only one with a small soft spot for the Sabrina remake. The thing is, Audrey Hepburn wasn't just pretty and radiant, she was a fantastic actress; she could easily carry and flesh out an underwritten script like the original, but she could have knocked the remake out of the park too, if she'd gotten a chance to sink herself into all that lovely language.
sj - Jul 21, 2008 1:49:18 pm PDT #7281 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Don't shortchange them... they were plenty sparky in Key Largo, too.
Yes. It's sad that they only managed to be in four films together.
Juliebird - Jul 21, 2008 2:01:18 pm PDT #7282 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Haven't read the white font just yet, but my initial, fairly untainted reaction to TDK was "Okay."
Maybe it was about halfway through I really needed to pee, but I just didn't feel it. It had some wonderful moments, and I really enjoyed the talky bits (yes, I did peek a bit), if only because they were the few character moments before it was plotty plotty Action! What I liked most about Batman Begins was the first half, all those character bits, and the action-packed end left me a bit cold.
It truly was dark, horrific, hopeless, despairing, and bleak, which I suppose made the outcome of the two ferries that much more joyful. I suppose when I heard "dark" I really didn't expect so much of it. So extensive. I was expecting it to all emenate from the Joker, but he was also the only one who brought any [horrific] levity to the piece.
Maybe I'd like it better upon rewatch, now knowing what to expect. And maybe it really was that I shouldn't have had that small Cherry Coke.
Off to the beginning of the discussion!
tiggy - Jul 21, 2008 2:08:21 pm PDT #7283 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
P-C, i have to own up and say that when the Joker made the pencil "disappear", i cracked up and almost didn't hear the subsequent lines because i was laughing so hard. i was suitable horrified, but yeah. i think it was the delivery of the whole thing...
Juliebird - Jul 21, 2008 2:29:13 pm PDT #7284 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I disliked the bat-voice half the time, when it sounded like Bale had a lisp, and the other half didn't mind it.
And one of the thoughts racing through my mind during the final scene between the Joker and Batman was "OMG! It's the Master and the Doctor! In a slashfic!"
juliana - Jul 21, 2008 2:33:53 pm PDT #7285 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
when it sounded like Bale had a lisp,
Doesn't Bale actually have a lisp? Or is that the Welsh accent trying to break through the American accent?
(Haven't seen TDK yet, but did watch Batman Begins last night.)