Saw Slumdog Millionaire tonight. I'm crushing on Dev Patel. Srsly.
Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?
Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
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Aims - Feb 14, 2009 5:09:30 pm PST #9942 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sarameg - Feb 14, 2009 5:13:37 pm PST #9943 of 10000
The Year of Living Dangerously
Tied in my head to Three Kings and Welcome to Sarejevo.
I think I watched all three on my 25th.
Slumdog, I keep rewatching. I see faults that bug, but I still can't help liking it.
0 - Feb 14, 2009 5:18:31 pm PST #9944 of 10000
Saw Slumdog Millionaire tonight.
I saw it this afternoon. Seriously, that movie went straight into my favorite Top Five. I loved everything about it.
Jessica - Feb 14, 2009 5:41:44 pm PST #9945 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
DH and I saw Synecdoche, NY tonight. (Me for the first time, him for the second.) Loved it.
It's both a very complicated movie and a very simple one. It demands a certain amount of deliberate engagement with the text, but at the same time suffers if you overthink it. It's freaking brilliant.
I never ever want to be stuck in an elevator with Charlie Kaufman, but I am going to be grilling my neighbor who worked sound on the movie the very next time I see her.
le nubian - Feb 14, 2009 6:03:37 pm PST #9946 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I saw "Let the Right One In" and I liked it. The acting of the children in the film is exceptional. The direction should really be commended. Quite an accomplishment that.
I've decided that I often want more details about the fantasy worlds some movies inhabit, and I didn't feel like I got enough details about the world, but I think this is my issue that I need to let go.
This movie has gore, but I didn't think (given the subject matter) that it was excessive or unnecessary.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2009 9:23:36 pm PST #9947 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lowering the tone back down, I finally saw Wanted. Fate speaks ASCII? Too funny.
Glamcookie - Feb 14, 2009 11:01:40 pm PST #9948 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
DH and I saw Synecdoche, NY tonight. (Me for the first time, him for the second.) Loved it.
Oh yay! I love Kaufman's films.
Ash - Feb 15, 2009 3:09:01 am PST #9949 of 10000
I saw Let the Right One In and found it affecting in that way that it keeps playing in your head like a moody song long after you hear it. It was gorgeously filmed (the spare beauty of snow and ice), and the two main actors were perfect.
I think one of the things that got under my skin was the strange mingling of two moods: horror and sweetness, darkness and warmth. Both of the main characters are terribly lonely, and even their surroundings feel lonely. I found the ending quite satisfying, even lovely in its grim way.
The scene at the pool combined two other moods: horror and comedy. As limbs and heads flew through the water, the audience laughed tentatively, as if unsure they should be finding it amusing. I thought it was amusing, but then I'm weird.
The scene with the cats attacking the woman who was newly a vampire disturbed me more than anything, I think.
I thought this was a very unusual vampire movie. I liked it.
Laga - Feb 15, 2009 3:08:53 pm PST #9950 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
We're Discussing a title for Buffista Movies 7 in Bureaucracy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 15, 2009 5:20:17 pm PST #9951 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Saw Let the Right One In this afternoon. It's easily the best vampire movie I've seen since The Addiction. Lina Leandersson was amazingly good at playing older than she appears. (Here's hoping she manages to hold onto her talent as she gets older—Kirsten Dunst, I'm looking at you.)