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I finally saw The Dark Knight last night, and good god did I love it. I actually liked it more than Batman Begins, because I thought it was tighter (if still a little long -- Nolan does love his action scenes, doesn't he?) and more focused.
I'm still bouncing.
rewatched Ocean's Eleven, and man, I still love that ending. So very much The Right Stuff with the fountain standing in for the naked feather dancer. Such a wonderful scene of satisfaction.
Ocean's Eleven is crazystupid fun. I love the Mormon Twins.
I watched 3:10 to Yuma yesterday (the newer one) because I'm kind of working on a Christian Bale obsession. I really enjoyed it, and was particularly impressed by Crowe, who I'm normally sort of meh about.
I thought the director's commentary was interesting, too; he said he'd put a lot of thought into modern westerns and why so many of them didn't work. And I was particularly pleased that he said it was a buddy movie, because early on I was comparing it to Midnight Run.
I saw Quantum of Solace, today.
They killed Mathis, those bastards !
I thought the director's commentary was interesting, too; he said he'd put a lot of thought into modern westerns and why so many of them didn't work.
3:10 to Yuma was one of those movies that I was really happy I decided to listen to the commentary.
Speaking of commentaries... check out the director's commentary for "Out of Sight", which is a great movie, probably one of my personal Top Ten. He doesn't say so explicitly, but you can tell that Soderbergh worked SO HARD with J-Lo to get that performance. Which is possibly why she's never been that good again.
oh, that's interesting.
Via Slashdot, 75 Comics Being Made Into Films. Holy shit.
Damn. They include several that they don't think will actually make it, but still, damn.