'Origin'
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.
Just watched Robocop for the first time in decades. The whole "corporatism run amok" satire hits a little too close to home these days, methinks.
Reminds me of when a friend and I watched Brazil shortly after 9-11. That hit too close to home too, so we had to turn it off.
Midway through Unfortunate Events - Jane Lynch sighting!
As who?
Jane is the Realator who sends Aunt Josephine to gasp in mortal terror. (It's a great take by Meryl.)
Just finished. I had remembered that the closing credits were also amazing, but I'd forgotten just how amazing.
Damn, that movie has so many virtues and its many virtues are so spectacular. Its only, only flaw is Jim Carrey; I could forgive his presence more easily if everything else weren't so very, very good.
Unfortunate Glee:Hawaii Five-O sighting. I found myself utterly unable to believe that a Filipino terror organization was headed up by Coach Tanaka.
Ha, yes, I saw that episode too. Though I doubt this is the right thread.
Damn, that movie has so many virtues and its many virtues are so spectacular. Its only, only flaw is Jim Carrey; I could forgive his presence more easily if everything else weren't so very, very good.
I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
Actually his impact lessens on repeat viewings. You spend more time (a) loving the kid casting; (b) loving the costuming; (c) loving the set designs; (e) loving the opening and closing credits; and (f) loving the supporting actors, especially Meryl Streep just killing in one of her all-time best comic roles.
I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
This is the effect Jim Carrey has for me for every movie I've seen him in.