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I'm glad and somewhat appalled at A³'s accent. At least it wasn't supposed to be convincing.
As for the JGL--I'm just glad Eccleston and Nichols were in the movie. And Wayans didn't entirely aggravate me. But Tatum is like, less than Worthington in terms of pull for me. He's so forgettable.
I skipped the credits, although I did notice there were 12 minutes of them.
I reeeally wanted to love Trapeze. But I'm with Theo. Actually I think it would have been a better movie with no women in it at all, because at least then one wouldn't be cringing so much and often and could just enjoy the, um, plot.
Trapeze is a movie that begs for fic. I mean, I can't imagine more blatant HoYay in the '50s.
Oooh!
Fantastic news for Wes Anderson fans: the auteur’s next project appears to be lined up—and actors are already lining up for it. Deadline.com has reported that Anderson is set to begin production in late spring 2011 on the sixties-set Moon Rise Kingdom (written by Anderson and Roman Coppola), concerning two young lovers who run away and the adult leaders of their small New England town who try to track them down. It comes as no surprise that Bill Murray has been named as part of the cast, but the others currently attached are head-turning: Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Bruce Willis, and Tilda Swinton. Moon Rise Kingdom, which will be Anderson’s first live-action film since 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited, is to be produced by Scott Rudin, who has worked on every Anderson title since The Royal Tenenbaums.
Speaking of Wes, there's an art show inspired by his work currently playing in SF.
Oh, some of those prints look very cool indeed.
Ha. He doesn't address the "it's all Mal's dream" which is my favorite theory.
Mark Ruffalo is a terrorist. No, seriously. He's why we have to have backscatter scans, obviously.
DH got the screener for Inception so we watched it again over T-day weekend. I've come to the conclusion that most of the tiny little details that seemed so important and meaningful when I saw this in theatres are actually just regular movie loose ends. (Like Saito buying the airline. I love Saito and it's a great comic beat, but how did he already work out that they would need exactly 10 hours with enough lead time to BUY A FREAKING AIRLINE? And if so, why didn't he mention it earlier? Is the whole Fisher mission just an excuse for Saito to fuck with these people because he thinks it would be funny? Maybe! Who cares, he's awesome!)
I did pay very careful attention to the treatment of the totems since we had that debate here, though, and Ariadne clearly says "It's a very elegant way to keep track of reality." So there is that.
Jessica, in response to the whitefont, I read an awesome Ocean's 11 / Inception cross over that basically posits the same thing.