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Paperhouse was based on one of my childhood favorite books, The Magic Pencil aka Marianne Dreams in the UK, so of course I saw it in the theatre, not to mention have watched a couple times since.
It made me start drawing houses and furniture in my notebooks, but I never did find any of them coming alive... which given what happens in the movie, is probably for the best.
I'm not actually sure what happened in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. I remember lots of shirtless Lucian, which seems to have obscured everything else in my memory.
I'm not actually sure what happened in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. I remember lots of shirtless Lucian, which seems to have obscured everything else in my memory.
I'll go out on a limb and guess cheese-tastic dialogue occurred.
But if it's being delivered by Bill Nighy, who cares how overblown it is?
Would you believe that Crank is on USA network tonight? It'll be cut to ribbons, I expect, but it'll at least give me a little taste.
I'm not sure the movie CRANK and "taste" have anything in common. IJS.
What, seriously? Huh. But I don't think that's a movie I want to watch cut to ribbons.
Bernard and Dorris?! Really?! Getoffamylawn, buncha cheap bastages. /issues
Bernard and Dorris?! Really?! Getoffamylawn, buncha cheap bastages. /issues
I'm missing something here, right?
Tilts head sideways like a confuzzled dog.
I also saw Slumdog this weekend, via the theaters. I thought it had many things going for it, and could easily pull down the Oscar this year as it's extremely accessible, but I was kind of wishing it didn't tie itself up in quite so pretty an ending bow.
Also, why on Earth did the brother decide to die in a bath full of money? And why did he have to get redeemed in the first place? Meh.
Oh, and also also, didn't Jamal know the number for a certain cell phone Latika had at the end? Why did they have to hang out on a train station to find each other? If I had been him, I'd have called her and said "Come meet me at this hotel I JUST BOUGHT US, k?"
I did enjoy it a lot, despite my nitpickies. I thought it was significantly less flawed than Benjamin Button, which seems to have the best chance otherwise, so whatever. Of the ones I've seen (haven't caught The Reader or Milk yet), I actually thought Frost/Nixon was the best movie, though.