In short if it's on a train or has "Shanghai" in the title (like, the must see "Shanghai Gesture") it's worth taking a flyer on.
I enquired of my Shanghainese wife whether she would agree with you. She approves of your message.
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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billytea - Jan 03, 2011 10:27:53 pm PST #12668 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jon B. - Jan 04, 2011 2:11:20 am PST #12669 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Silver Streak! t ducks
Sue - Jan 04, 2011 5:02:58 am PST #12670 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Shanghai Surprise?
erikaj - Jan 04, 2011 5:17:19 am PST #12671 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Teppy, that's so funny! Because one time over Christmas, Mom and I happened to hear that same song that Matt did in the gay chorus, and so I told my mother that and about his "high school boyfriend" Ben. She thought it was really funny just from my description.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2011 6:33:48 am PST #12672 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I love Silver Streak! Of course, not more than The Lady Vanishes or The Palm Beach Story. I remember being disappointed by Twentieth Century.
JZ - Jan 04, 2011 7:12:44 am PST #12673 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Lady Eve isn't really a train movie, but does have one key (and brutally hilarious) scene on a train.
beekaytee - Jan 04, 2011 10:38:39 am PST #12674 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Shanghai Surprise?
Thank you.
zuisa - Jan 04, 2011 6:17:42 pm PST #12675 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I saw Black Swan the other day and I really liked it. I went in knowing absolutely nothing about it. Polter-Cow, I agree with basically everything you said about it a bunch of posts ago. I thought it was very well put together, and there always a chance that I'm just slow, but it kept me guessing the whole time. Not 100% believable, of course, but that never really bothers me in a movie anyway.
I desperately want to see True Grit, The King's Speech, and Rabbit Hole - I don't think the last one is out everywhere yet. If it is anything like the play it is based on it will be amazing.
Laga - Jan 04, 2011 7:13:39 pm PST #12676 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Under Siege 2!
Jessica - Jan 05, 2011 1:53:11 am PST #12677 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If it is anything like the play it is based on it will be amazing.
It's the same writer adapting his own work - my understanding is that they're very similar except that the movie opens up the setting a bit (as most theatre-to-film adaptations do).
The writer is actually a friend of a friend, so I'm hoping I can talk myself into watching it now that the pregnancy hormones are mostly out of my system. (The subject matter was keeping me away - I just didn't think I could handle it.)