'Serenity'
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.
I adore the short that came with it. Presto is possibly my favorite Pixar movie ever.
It's my second favorite, though I had to watch it and Boundin' over and over back to back to make sure.
The short about the little fix-it robot on WAL*E was awesome.
Em got Kung Fu Panda for Christmas. Such fun.
Ohohoh!! I FINALLY saw Chocolat this weekend. Um...so totally awesome and, as per usual, I want to sop Johnny Depp up with a biscuit.
There is nobody not good in Chocolat: Depp, Binoche, Molina, Dench, Moss, Olin, Stormare, John Wood and Leslie Caron, plus it's a lovely screenplay and magical locations.
I didn't even RECOGNIZE Moss.
I want to go live there.
No high-speed internet.
And no Depp.
'S okay. One day, I want to live in a tiny little French village. Maybe not forever, but for some time, before that clever north wind comes and sweeps me out.
Saw Benjamin Button. What a lovely movie, and not precisely what I was expecting. A love story for life.
Stormare seems to have taken on the Rutger Hauer mantle of large, indeterminately European, burly actor with a menacing onscreen presence and a goofball personality. Compare Big John Abruzzi (or Serge Muscat) to the "Veedub. Unpimp da auto" commercials silliness, to illustrate my contention.
Sue!
I have Tivoed Play It As It Lays.
And I have committed it to VHS tape (watching most of it too).
Hit my profile addy with your mailing address and I will send it to you.
Here's my brief review: reminded me a lot of A Woman Under the Influence and Altman's 3 Women except Tuesday Weld isn't nearly as good as Gena Rowlands or Sissy Spacek. Also, Tony Perkins looked beautiful and unrecognizeable with longish, early 70s hipster hair. He was very good. There were a lot of striking images in it.
It also reminded me of the LA scenes in Annie Hall.
I have never seen Old Yeller, Red Ferns or Yearling...for all the reasons mentioned.
I have however, relied on Project X as my go-to flick when I need to blubber. God. It just rips me up and leaves me on the floor.
It came out while I was a professional peace activist (working on nuclear disarmament issues, no less) and absolutely KILLS me with the inhumanity.
Animals in peril = no go for bonny
David, you're my hero! Address insent.