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Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
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.
Juliebird - Aug 30, 2008 4:47:33 pm PDT #7988 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
JZ - Aug 30, 2008 6:06:53 pm PDT #7989 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.
Just got back from taking Matilda to her first big-screen movie, Wall-E. It was a qualified success--she was totally rapt and engaged (in a lively, excited way, not a zombielike televisual glaze) for probably the first hour, roughly through the first appearance of the tiny little neurotic cleaning robot, and then fell asleep and snored through the entire rest of the movie, very very loudly during all the big emotional moments. But she liked what she was awake for very very much.
The only problem was that when she saw something she really liked--especially a preview for some Jennifer Aniston movie that consisted almost entirely of a terribly cute golden retriever puppy floppy-running along a beach, and a preview for a Little League history movie--she wanted "More puppy, more baseball!" and was very confused that the screen wasn't a giant Tivo that we could just backtrack on the minute she asked.
I stayed awake for the whole movie. OMG love. And within seconds I totally saw what Jess meant about EVE being Aeryn Sun, oh so very much. The parts with the humans were more problematic, and I totally get why Typo didn't feel the love (and I feel kind of guilty for loving it anyway), but the Wall-E and EVE parts? Unqualified love, utter smit, oh dear.
Gris - Aug 30, 2008 8:07:18 pm PDT #7990 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Speaking of cute kids and movies, P-C's youtube links sent me back to an oldy-but-goody that always belongs:
Star Wars according to a 3-year-old!
Polter-Cow - Aug 31, 2008 7:40:17 am PDT #7991 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I watched The Man Who Knew Too Much last night! The remake. It was good stuff, as Hitchcock movies generally are. Has there ever been more a tensely awaited cymbal crash in all of film history? Geez. I read that that scene apparently lasted twelve minutes. I can't believe it actually worked without getting boring and stupid.
Also, I didn't know "Que Será Será" was written specifically for this movie! Huh.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 31, 2008 12:02:21 pm PDT #7992 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I read that that scene apparently lasted twelve minutes. I can't believe it actually worked without getting boring and stupid.
There was originally a lot of dialogue written for that scene (all those shots of people talking that you don't hear), but Hitchcock realized it would play better with just the music up until DD's scream.
Polter-Cow - Aug 31, 2008 5:18:48 pm PDT #7993 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2008 5:22:25 pm PDT #7994 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I rewatched The Fast And The Furious today. It's the most romantic movie. Not even kidding.
Theodosia - Sep 01, 2008 11:26:33 am PDT #7995 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I caught the tail end of XXX last night... which, geez, what a stupid movie! At least without the plot run up, which never helps coherence.
Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2008 11:52:29 am PDT #7996 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't remember exactly what I thought about the movie, but I think I probably liked it well enough. There were hot chicks and explosions.
Laga - Sep 01, 2008 1:13:51 pm PDT #7997 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hot chicks and explosions
D's dad will watch any movie as long as it has these two elements.