'War Stories'
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.
Anybody seen "Cafe Flesh?"
I thought I was the only person who had seen it, but I was attempting to gloss Children of Men for a spoilerphobe friend who hadn't heard of it, and he said, "Oh! Like Cafe Flesh!" (which, not really, but now I'm wondering how well-known Cafe Flesh is)
The missus and I took advantage of baby day at the Alamo to go see Stardust, which she'd been dying to see. Unfortunately, it was sort of a turd. In fact, even though I'm not that crazy about the story the movie is based on (I mean, I like it pretty well, I guess), just about every deviation from the story made the movie a crappier spectacle. It also seemed to be about 13 hrs long, most of which stemmed from the far-too-overwritten roles for the name stars of the flick. The only worthwhile part of the latter half was Ricky Gervais doing a sword-and-sorcery version of David Brent, and that wasn't worth too much.
Glancing back, there didn't seem to be too many other Stardust-hatas other than me & Mr. Jessica. Ethan, my man!
Glancing back, there didn't seem to be too many other Stardust-hatas other than me & Mr. Jessica. Ethan, my man!
Add me to that list.
SJ, my chica!
Anybody seen "Cafe Flesh?"
Not only have I seen it, I own Rinse Dream's (Richard Sayadian's) other film, the semi-porn, dayglo remake of Dr. Caligari.
Then I went back and watched his actual porn films including Party Doll A Go Go parts 1 and 2.
Which love both as porn and humor. Oh, he also did the first two movies in the well regarded Night Dreams series. Which are basically the more porny versions of Dr. Caligari.
I've always wanted to write an article about him. That was the last time porn film production had any kind of crossover with the mainstream.
Saw Rattatouille yesterday. (FTR, 1pm shows on weekdays? ALL moms w/ babies or toddlers. Sweet!)
I have to say, I didn't love it. I think I have Brad Bird issues, because I came out of it with the same vaguely unpleasant feeling I had after The Incredibles. I haven't been able to pin down exactly what it was in this movie, but there's just something about his worldview that disagrees with me.
I haven't been able to pin down exactly what it was in this movie, but there's just something about his worldview that disagrees with me.
The aristocracy of talent?
It also seemed to be about 13 hrs long, most of which stemmed from the far-too-overwritten roles for the name stars of the flick.
I had the opposite reaction. When it was over, I was surprised to find out it had been two hours long, because it hadn't seemed that long at all.