Ooh. That does look interesting. I hope it will be released here.
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
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Anne W. - Oct 26, 2008 4:40:35 am PDT #8435 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Cashmere - Oct 26, 2008 4:44:29 am PDT #8436 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I saw that film reviewed in Newsweek and was intrigued.
We watched The Last King of Scotland a few days ago and I was really impressed. I didn't think I'd like the film when it was released but man, Forest Whitaker (not surprisingly) was impressive. The pacing was good and James McAvoy was also good.
We also watched Taxi to the Darkside, which is just fucking depressing.
Ash - Oct 26, 2008 5:40:45 am PDT #8437 of 10000
I've been reading about that vampire movie, and I'm really looking forward to it. It sounds intriguingly different.
Scrappy - Oct 26, 2008 9:56:50 am PDT #8438 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw Rachel Getting Married last night and liked but did not love it. I am a huge Demme fangirl, so it pains me to say that although the performances and world-creating are top-notch, the film meanders too much for its own good. There are endless, and I mean ENDLESS, minutes of musicians playing and people grooving on the music as they play.
Rosemarie DeWitt and Anne Hathaway are simply amazing though, and the film passes the Bechtel test with flying colors.
Tom Scola - Oct 26, 2008 10:02:22 am PDT #8439 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I LURVED Rachel Getting Married, and loved all the music. For a little while, the movie switches from a Jonathan Demme drama to a Jonathan Demme concert film, and I was OK with that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2008 10:11:57 am PDT #8440 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
Sounds like I might like it. Of course I was happily bouncing from the concert footage to the sex scenes of 9 Songs when most reviewers I heard from bemoaned both.
Scrappy - Oct 26, 2008 10:34:09 am PDT #8441 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Well, yeah, I loved the actual music, but the story was intense and I didn't want so many breaks from it. Some parts of the extended musical sequences, like the first concert and the dances during the reception felt like they should have been on the DVD extras. Did we really need to see Demme's son playing the Wedding March on his electric guitar TWICE?
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Picky McSnipersons
Jesse - Oct 26, 2008 11:47:56 am PDT #8442 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
erikaj - Oct 26, 2008 12:58:58 pm PDT #8443 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Some of us like them because we didn't grow up in a Neighborhood, you know what I mean?(And, hey, I'm Irish and tormented...maybe only 1/8 worth, but I'm counting it.) People in Arizona have neighbors, in the literal sense, but not a Neighborhood. My whole "Smile, Hon," essay is all about that.
Juliebird - Oct 26, 2008 1:18:27 pm PDT #8444 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
So there haven't been fifty bajillion cop movies about angst, conflict, no-good jammer-upper family members/partners, girls that leave them because of the job, blah blah, that involved white men, black men, and hispanics?
Oh, I forgot, was Mark Wahlberg supposed to be an Irishman in The Corruptor?
My bad, it was Chow Yun O'Fat