D got me a special edition of Wanted for christmas. It is the prettiest DVD I have ever seen. It comes in a hard plastic case with a smaller case that slips out. The plastic appears to have a bullet embedded in it. There's two discs, painted like targets, which fit around a ...wait, that's not right. These have printing and firing rings. They tried to make it look like the DVD was shot through with a bullet but they didn't realize that the bullet doesn't take the shell casing with it when it gets fired. Heh. Still this gift kicks ass. Pull up on the discs and a panel lifts out revealing a hard plastic frame containing a lenticular animated scene from the film. It's held together by magnets! There's also postcards with portraits of the main characters and a booklet with profiles of fraternity members. It's freaking awesome.
'Objects In Space'
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:: growls faintly from far away ::
We celebrated the new year by seeing a movie at the theater for the first time in who knows how long -- the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Almost lost me in the first five minutes when Dr. Benson went along without getting an explanation or even making sure the guy at her door was with the government. Or maybe I was just inclined to dislike a high-tech, special-effects heavyish remake of a movie whose idea more than made up for its low budget.
Although I ended up kind of liking it. Not least because they kept the core idea and adapted it for the times.
6 new Harry Potter movie photos.
sumi, that page took me to an article about contenders for the new Dr. Who.
I'll fix.
Just had an interesting double feature while cleaning off my DVR--Jesus Camp followed by the original Stagecoach. The first was sufficiently scary to be a horror film, and the second was pure magic, a real classic that I hadn't seen before. John Wayne and Claire Trevor had wonderful chemistry on screen, and Thomas Mitchell was just brilliant as the drunken doctor.
and the second was pure magic, a real classic that I hadn't seen before
One of the three things I remember Joss citing as an immediate inspiration for Firefly: Stage Coach, Hill Street Blues, and a late sixties western by Robert Aldrich with Burt Lancaster called Ulzana's Raid.
Weighing in late on the Oscar Movie Contenders Discussion. I've seen Frost/Nixon, Doubt, and Benjamin Button. I also saw the stage version of each of the first two.
I think I liked Doubt the best as a movie, which kind of surprised me: I was very worried, because I feel strongly (like Jessica mentioned) that it works incredibly well as a stage show. But it also works as a movie. And Meryl Streep continues to blow my mind on a regular basis.
I quite enjoyed Frost/Nixon - it has some cheesy moments in its translation to screen, but it's still a good story with fantastic acting - and was somewhat disappointed by Benjamin Button. Since we're comparing to Big Fish, I have to say that I actually prefer the latter, both for its surrealistic and lighthearted imagery and its message. I often felt that Button was rambling a bit, getting lost in its own points. Which isn't to say it was a bad film - I liked it a lot, actually - it just didn't blow my mind as much as I was rather hoping.