'War Stories'
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.
I love After Hours!
Lots of people do. But I've never understood why.
Dumb people unable to climb out of their own self destructive tracks just make me tired. We criticize Mohinder Suresh for being a box of hair on Heroes but Griffin Dunne's character gets a pass.
Maybe it was the time in my life. I was training to walk across America and, as soon as things started going wrong for Paul Hackett, all I could think was 'walk the fuck home, you idiot.'
Southland Tales was pretty bad.
Southland Tales was pretty bad.
And yet I was transfixed. I kept fast forwarding because it was so aweful, but then I'd rewind to see why people were doing the nutty things they were doing.
Oh, and Be Cool rates high on the blech scale for me. How Dwayne Johnson could do that to himself...and well, just the whole thing.
Aw man, Grand Canyon would have been a great one for the list, too. Although I've heard from reliable sources that Crash makes it seem like a walk in the park.
I love After Hours!
Me too!
I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie. I did turn Crash off after about 20 minutes of torture. so bad.
And I loved "Get Shorty" SO MUCH. "Be Cool" was an embarrassing book that made an embarrassing film. Because I read it prepared to defend Leonard's honor, but there was no honor...only product placement prostitution. I lost a tiny bit of my hero after that.
We tried to watch Waking Life last weekend. It didn't go too well.
I think the only movie I've ever walked out of was Sliver, or another one of those early-90s Lady Exec thriller-type movies. And that was mostly because there was a homeless guy snoring in the theater.
Have Jessica and juliana seen this? [link]
Dumb people unable to climb out of their own self destructive tracks just make me tired.
That's not how I'd characterize a guy stuck in downtown overnight. Especially when the premise is a dark comedy so all forces conspire against him.