It's the one movie that makes me regret being unable to get past the Crazy to re-watch. The rest of Gibson's career I can ignore without a twinge of regret.
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2011 5:47:10 pm PDT #15920 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
smonster - Aug 03, 2011 6:38:10 pm PDT #15921 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Pics on fb from Hunger Games filming! [link]
Vonnie K - Aug 03, 2011 6:42:57 pm PDT #15922 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
The Year of Living Dangerously is pretty awesome though. I have a vivid memory of a speech given by Linda Hunt, when he/she waxes poetic about a Richard Strauss song -- one of the Four Last Songs, I think. Although, it's been something like 15 years since I last watched that film, and I don't know if it'd hold up.
Peter Weir movies were one of my gateways into classical music when I knew next to nothing about it. The Beethoven in Picnic at Hanging Rock -- shiver-inducing stuff. Gallipoli also had that gorgeous duet from The Pearl Fishers.
Weir hasn't really done much recently. I wonder why? Master and Commander was his last great film and that was years ago.
billytea - Aug 03, 2011 8:55:55 pm PDT #15923 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.
I had not realised Gallipoli was so well known outside Australia.
Jesse - Aug 04, 2011 3:05:48 am PDT #15924 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Speaking only for myself, I sought it out because I had the mega-hots for Mel Gibson. I swear I hit puberty watching The Year of Living Dangerously.
Jesse - Aug 04, 2011 3:06:42 am PDT #15925 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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§ ita § - Aug 04, 2011 6:15:01 am PDT #15926 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
New Supes. Everything I hear about the story sounds stupid, but the visuals are looking good.
Polter-Cow - Aug 04, 2011 6:26:04 am PDT #15927 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, that's Zack Snyder for you.
Vonnie K - Aug 04, 2011 6:35:36 am PDT #15928 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I sought it out because I had the mega-hots for Mel Gibson.
He *was* ridiculously beautiful when he was young, for all the crazy stuff that came after.
Gallipoli is also super-slashy. I didn't have a term for it when I watched it 20 years ago, but boy, was it ever.
Scrappy - Aug 04, 2011 8:36:54 am PDT #15929 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I love Mel in Mrs. Soffel. He is wonderful in it and so is Diane Keaton as the warden's wife who falls for a prisoner. [link] Based on a true story and filmed in the prison where it actually happened.
It is hard to see it and think of what a wreck of a human being he has become.