Also, this review of Rob Lowe's new memoir includes a bunch (relatively) about The Outsiders: [link]
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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Jesse - Apr 20, 2011 9:46:31 am PDT #14181 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Daisy Jane - Apr 20, 2011 9:49:21 am PDT #14182 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
But The Outsiders movie is still considered pretty great and was at the time as well, personal nit-picks aside.
Sue - Apr 20, 2011 9:50:40 am PDT #14183 of 30000
hip deep in pie
The Vanity Fair excerpt of Lowe's memoir's is about auditioning and rehearsing for The Outsiders: [link]
lisah - Apr 20, 2011 9:52:28 am PDT #14184 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I'm saving that VF for when I travel to the midwest next week. So exciting!
le nubian - Apr 20, 2011 11:30:14 am PDT #14185 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm not sure anyone here saw Restrepo, but the photojournalist behind the movie has died on the frontlines.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2011 1:44:56 pm PDT #14186 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Prim cast in Hunger Games. Apparently her lack of plucking is raising a storm on the internet.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2011 1:47:36 pm PDT #14187 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fuck the internet, man. She's just little!
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2011 1:51:09 pm PDT #14188 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously. Tiara toddlers are the norm now?
Strega - Apr 20, 2011 1:55:52 pm PDT #14189 of 30000
(Found the Cronenberg quote: "I want to show the unshowable.")
Okay, was pondering the great/A+ movie thing on the drive home, which passed the time nicely, and here are some of the disjointed thoughts I had:
Some A+ movies: Jaws, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Shadow of a Doubt, most if not all Kubrick, Unforgiven, A Fish Called Wanda, do I even need to say Miller's Crossing?, Diva, M*A*S*H, Chinatown, and I will think of more as soon as I hit post. My favorite movies include these, but also a lot of others I love despite (or because of) their flaws.
And nothing is perfect, but I guess the best way I can express it is, how close do you come to the target? If you're within the yellow center of the "quality" bullseye you're aiming at? A+. Hit a little further out -- maybe there are a few dangling threads, or something doesn't quite click... or Keanu is in it. So more like an A- or a B? (I had to do letter grades for TWoP recaps for all those years, so it's kind of ingrained now.)
I was trying to think of great movies that I don't necessarily like -- to torture the metaphor even more, "I don't care for this target, but you sure did hit it precisely." And I'm pretty sure they exist, but I'm less likely to see those movies in the first place. (Like, I'm sure there are great sports movies, and great musicals, but... ugh.) I did think of a borderline case, to bring Kubrick up again: The Shining. I don't know when I sat & watched it straight through instead of stumbling upon a edited-for-TV version, but it was on Netflix streaming so I saw it recently. I don't dislike it, but I certainly didn't wind up going, "Wow, I loved that! Can't wait to see it again!" It's too deeply unsettling to make me enthusiastic that way... but that's why I think it's a great movie.
Amy - Apr 20, 2011 2:02:18 pm PDT #14190 of 30000
Because books.
Prim cast in Hunger Games
Oh, she's perfect! She's pretty much exactly what I pictured.
Some A+ movies: Jaws
I always think this one gets discussed for its blockbusterness, and the shark, and the problems filming, but the film itself is so well-written and performed. We probably watch it once a year.
I love Unforgiven, too. One of my all-time favorite movies.