'Smile Time'
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I loved it, Anne. i've seen it twice now.
Really? I don't even know what it's about, and I'm irrationally annoyed at every new Clint Eastwood movie since EVERY SINGLE ONE is hailed as, like, THE NEXT GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF CINEMA. I didn't like Million Dollar Baby very much, and that's the only movie of his I've seen. And Mystic River is the only other one I'm really interested in, although I am moderately interested in Unforgiven since I know Clint knows his Westerns.
I think Clint suuuuuuucks as a director. I've hated just about everything he directed other than Unforgiven and (for some strange reason) High Plains Drifter. But I mainly only like them in the context of his Leone movies.
If you like westerns, Unforgiven is definitely a must-see.
Speaking of westerns, we were testing out our new TV and Once Upon a Time in the West with the 52" LCD and the surround sound was incredible.
We followed that up with Blu-Ray
Kill Bill.
I had never realized what a Morricone rip-off homage the music in that was.
P-C, i'm not normally an Eastwood fan either. still haven't seen Million Dollar Baby. however, this one just had a great story for me. plus, he's funny. i was not expecting it to be as funny as it was. if you're very sensitive about bigots, this may be a tough movie to swallow. at first.
I can't get past the fact that, quite literally, the trailer shows Clint as an old dude telling kids to get off his lawn. Does he yell at clouds, too?
plus, he's funny.
I can't believe there is not more Internet hilarity hoopla over the fact that in the trailer, he literally tells a bunch of kids, "Get off of my lawn!"
Ha ha ha, x-post!
Ha, ha! No way! `I am not sure how to distinguish good direction, exactly, but I *thought* it was more than manufactured crip outrage that made MDB feel like it took a year and a half. I'm not sure what my compatriots expected...HS going right from the canvas to the local ILC to begin a satisfying but ill-paying life of disability advocacy? I don't even want to see that movie and I made it up.
OK, thanks to a total aside on NPR, I finally realized that Wall-E is a Charlie Chaplin movie.
Buster Keaton, actually.