Even better if Simple Jack answered.
Best would be Cruise as Les Grossman. My favorite Grossman threat:
"I'm going to shove my fist so far up your ass, if you have a thought it's going to have to tiptoe around my wedding band!"
Okay, back from Clone Wars.
Looked beautiful on the big screen. Lots of snappy dialogue between Anakin and his new padawan Ahsoka, which suffers from lack of snappiness.
You know what? Joss will write this stuff for you for free, George Lucas. Seriously, he'd lock himself in a motel room with a case of Red Bull and knock off a season's worth of quips, 93% of them actually funny. It would make such a difference in the quality of the whole thing just not having the stupid dialogue.
Sigh.
Anyway, some of the plot machinations were underthought and over plotty. For example,
there's a scene where the droids are attacking behind a force shield and they're unstoppable unless somebody is able to shut off the generator. Except, they're crossing a bridge and Obi Wan could've just aimed his cannon at the bridge and stopped their advance.
The fights - both spaceshippy and lightsabery - were exciting and cool.
Lots of women characters with stuff to do. Ventress is an intriguing villain. Amidala more than decorative. Ahsoka is headstrong and reckless and snapless with the dialogue. Which wouldn't have been such a big deal except she spends a lot of time quipping. Oh well.
Emmett liked it. He's about the ideal audience.
Why didn't anybody tell me
2 Days In Paris
is so funny?
Signed,
Laughing
We're seeing Clone Wars tomorrow. LOVED the Tartakovsky (sp?) Clone Wars. Not sure how they can equal/top it...
LOVED the Tartakovsky (sp?) Clone Wars. Not sure how they can equal/top it...
What Laga said. It's good but less good than the Genndy. He had the good sense to end-run the dialogue issues by having many silent battle scenes of beautiful graphic design.
I just finished
Alpha Dog.
Great film but I feel wrung out. It a little weird since I'm only two episodes from the end of season 1 of Veronica Mars and Amanda Seyfriend played pretty much the same character in both. It was easy to imagine Lily Kane mixed up in the whole mess.
edit: wow Vincent Kartheiser did a great job. I never recognized him. I did try to turn off that part of my brain because I knew the cast was huge and it often messes with my enjoyment of a movie when I spend the whole time trying to place people.
Alpha Dog was so heartbreaking. i've only been able to watch it once even though i really, really loved it.
It was brilliantly done. Even if it wasn't true it would still be heartbreaking. Sharon Stone's insight in the featurette is spot on, too. They were all just kids. I'm surprised to find out the trial of "Johnny Truelove" has been pushed back to 2009. I thought he'd already been convicted.
When I first got interested in cinema I would see a movie with someone I really liked in it and look them up in the video companion (no internet back then) and rent everything I could with them in it.
I went through a Bogart Phase, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Duvall, Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery. Now I get interested in an actor, look them up and find I've already seen most of the stuff they've done. I have to wait to watch what they've got coming up next.
I'm sure there's stuff out there I'm missing, heck I still haven't seen
Gone With the Wind.
But I miss being able to discover a dozen films featuring someone I've just fallen in love with.
Oh, Aims - Harry Potter nude scene in film 6? (I need to reread HBP because I don't quite remember that.)
