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.
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.)
You astound me, btw. I cannot believe you post, seemingly take a 5 hour break from this forum, have a baby, and you are back to posting again.
You must come from strong stock.
Heh- hospitals are really boring!
(The subject matter was keeping me away - I just didn't think I could handle it.)
Yeah, I definitely can't see it. I probably wouldn't have wanted to even pre-baby, but the fact that John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig!) directed it got my attention.
(The subject matter was keeping me away - I just didn't think I could handle it.)
Tell me about it!! I knew of the playwright, as we had done a production of Wonder of the World at my university and read Fuddy Meers in my contemporary playwrights class, and those are both definitely comedies. Really insane comedies. So my entire theater department was at a huge theater conference in Kansas a few years back and someone was doing a production of Rabbit Hole, and all we knew was that it was by David Lindsay-Abaire so we assumed it would be a fun time. Yeah... not so much. Fantastic play, but... we were not prepared for the subject matter.
I had a question from a friend, and could not properly answer it-- In St. Elmo's Fire how did Demi Moore or Rob Lowe's character a) get in to Georgetown and b) not get kicked out/fail out of Georgetown.
I posited family money for Demi and a marching band career for Rob.
In St. Elmo's Fire how did Demi Moore or Rob Lowe's character a) get in to Georgetown and b) not get kicked out/fail out of Georgetown.
Handwavium?
But actually, I knew people in college who graduated with honors and yet spent their 4 years partying like rock stars. And while my college wasn't quite Georgetown, it was fairly tough.
I think there are just people like that. Not many, but then the movies about people who stay in and study for 4 years tend to not be all that interesting.
Not many, but then the movies about people who stay in and study for 4 years tend to not be all that interesting.
So, you are saying that there may not be a movie of my college career ;)?
