Oh, yes, Crash...the latest best picture nominee to remind me that cocaine is still a factor in the film business.And yet it got all those "I laughed," "I cried" reviews...wtf?
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
erikaj - May 08, 2009 9:13:18 am PDT #1166 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Sue - May 08, 2009 9:14:12 am PDT #1167 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Movies I have walked out of: Muppet Movie
GASP!
I was 10.
DavidS - May 08, 2009 9:14:13 am PDT #1168 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love the Cronenburg Crash. In fact I own it.
Pay It Forward.
Euchhh. I can't remember what compelled me to watch that but it skeeved me like that children's book I'll Always Love You with the adult infantilism.
The Muppet Movie? But it's got Steve Martin as a bad waiter and the standard rich and famous contract and a bear in his natural habitat.
Fred Pete - May 08, 2009 9:16:09 am PDT #1169 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Branagh's Hamlet
I saw it on TV not long ago. Looked beautiful, but how in the name of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern does the story belong in an Edwardian setting?
I mean, in college I helped out a professor who staged a couple of scenes of Richard III for a thesis. He used a 1960s Vietnam setting, but he explained the reasons for his choice to the committee. (Short summary for the curious: The government and society of Vietnam in the 1960s paralleled those of England during the Wars of the Roses.)
Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:27:03 am PDT #1170 of 30000
brillig
People like to play with the settings of Shakespeare. I've got a book of Shakespeare in Performance, and I think there's a punk rock version of one of the Henry V or IV plays.
megan walker - May 08, 2009 9:28:57 am PDT #1171 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Nothing is worse than the Mikado set at a 20s British seaside resort, although Carmen with a disco ball came close.
Kathy A - May 08, 2009 9:29:31 am PDT #1172 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I liked the ShakespeaRetold movies that were on BBCA a few years back. Much Ado About Nothing set in the morning talk show realm, Macbeth set in the cut-throat restaurant business, Taming of the Shrew with Katherine being an MP and Petruchio being Rufus Sewell.
Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:31:37 am PDT #1173 of 30000
brillig
The Tosca I saw that was set in Mussolini's Italy was good.
juliana - May 08, 2009 9:36:29 am PDT #1174 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
the Mikado set at a 20s British seaside resort
Ouch. That... really doesn't work.
I would like to call for at least a 10-year ban on any Shakespeare production referencing Nazis and/or Fascists. Especially if it's an American or British production. Also "Taming of the Shrew" set in the Wild West, and "As You Like It" set in the 60s. Those have all been done to death.
erikaj - May 08, 2009 9:47:24 am PDT #1175 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
No, Hec, I wasn't speaking about freaky "Crash" although I never finished watching it. I meant the one where Matt Dillon's cop gropes Thandie Newton's ass for no discernable reason because he is Such A Racist.(Although she does have a nice one, I must say)