Gris, I think Salim wanted to die in the bathtub of money so that there would be blood all over it, making it literally "blood money." And poetry or something.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2009 4:47:50 pm PST #9651 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
erikaj - Jan 25, 2009 5:02:57 pm PST #9652 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe "Woman of The Year" just to be different.
sj - Jan 25, 2009 5:05:14 pm PST #9653 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Woman of the Year has too many watch from the hall moments for me.
erikaj - Jan 25, 2009 5:09:08 pm PST #9654 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I guess it's been a while since I've seen it. Guess Who is great too...I love Sidney Poitier.
Jessica - Jan 25, 2009 5:11:29 pm PST #9655 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I just couldn't get past the fact that the questions were asked in chronological order to his life story. I know they said up front that the whole thing was about destiny and blah blah blah, but I just could not reconcile myself to how utterly stupid the framing device was. I did love the soundtrack, though.
ION, I finally caught up with Iron Man on DVD and thought it was great fun. And now I would like a snarky British AI valet who builds robots for me. They have those on Amazon, right?
Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2009 5:30:30 pm PST #9656 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica, that definitely required you to just Go with It, but I loved the framing device enough to let it go.
Steph L. - Jan 25, 2009 5:59:02 pm PST #9657 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?
I don't really like their movies together. He always has a scene where he takes her down a peg for being so uppity and feminist.
Even in Desk Set? I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't remember that.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2009 6:04:15 pm PST #9658 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Even in Desk Set? I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't remember that.
I have no vivid memories of him hauling her across his lap to give her a spanking in that movie. Though the premise that Kate's brain is a better reference tool than a computer sort of skips past the notion that she's exceptional and if she gets a cold then the system goes down.
Laga - Jan 25, 2009 6:49:04 pm PST #9659 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've never seen Desk Set. I keep thinking, "this desk set wants to fly"
Vonnie K - Jan 25, 2009 7:13:00 pm PST #9660 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Fave Hepburn/Tracy? Without Love. It's slighter, less witty, and more cliché-ridden than Adman's Rib or Woman of the Year, but but there is a bittersweetness to the story I like very much. Plus, I'm a sucker for the "marriage-of-convenience turning into a real marriage" plot device. I blame all the genre romance I read growing up.
I love the beginning of Woman of the Year, but the part where Hepburn tries to be a housewife and is crashingly bad at it makes me cringe so hard. (And I think the spanking was from Adam's Rib, which... oy.)
I LOVED Slumdog, even though I freely admit the story is flawed like heck, but I figured it was a cracked-out fairy tale and just went with it. I think the framing device worked well within that particular context, actually. Magic realism and all that.
I found the character of Salim most interesting among the lot, since he actually had a character arc unlike Latika. Except after the movie, I realized that he was essentially Spike (at least in terms of the character archetype), and I've been having mixed feelings about him ever since.
However, the music is legitimately FANTASTIC. My favourite track is the song over the credit dance sequence, which is a thing of joy and beauty forever. Also, M.I.A. + AR Rahman = marriage made in musical heaven.