Plus - Jet Li! And Michelle Yeoh!
And Russell Wong!
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
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.
Barb - Dec 22, 2008 1:39:04 pm PST #9126 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Fay - Dec 22, 2008 1:40:15 pm PST #9127 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Guh!
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2008 2:06:33 pm PST #9128 of 10000
brillig
said scarabs are not, in fact, stripping the flesh from the kindergarteners' bones,
Sounds like a field trip to me.
le nubian - Dec 22, 2008 3:53:04 pm PST #9129 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
From the Scott NYT review linked above:
For all its pious, earnest air, “Seven Pounds” cries out to be remade as an Asian horror movie, so that the deep, creepy grotesqueness of its governing premise might be allowed to flourish, rather than to fester beneath the surface.
Wow.
Barb - Dec 22, 2008 4:12:59 pm PST #9130 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
From the Scott NYT review linked above:
Man, that's almost got as much haughty disdain as your typical NYT book review.
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2008 5:02:58 pm PST #9131 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
There's been discussion (and, of course, spoilage) of Seven Pounds in the Spoilers thread. The whole premise of the movie sounds utterly, utterly depressing. Also, weird.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 22, 2008 6:01:51 pm PST #9132 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Man, that's almost got as much haughty disdain as your typical NYT book review.
See, for me, the review read less like haughty disdain and more like a well articulated WTFingF??!?!?!??!!
JZ - Dec 23, 2008 5:18:56 am PST #9133 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.
There's been discussion (and, of course, spoilage) of Seven Pounds in the Spoilers thread. The whole premise of the movie sounds utterly, utterly depressing. Also, weird.
Okay, now I've gotta go over there to see if my guess about the premise is right.
eta: Not quite, because there's no way I could possibly have guessed at that particular ending, but I did indeed get the cheesy side of the plot.
le nubian - Dec 23, 2008 6:56:13 am PST #9134 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm not sure anyone could GUESS the ending. I mean the general sketches of the ending seem apparent from the commercials I've seen, but the specifics slay me. Absolutely slay me.
Kathy A - Dec 23, 2008 2:13:36 pm PST #9135 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm currently watching AMC, which is showing The Right Stuff. They've got John Glenn in orbit right now, which has one of the best uses of classical music in modern film (outside of Amadeus)--Holst's The Planets, the Mars and Jupiter movements.