'War Stories'
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.
and the weirdness was fascinating. Much of it was ungood, but at least it was surprising. I miss that.
It was like eating salad after a week of popcorn and candy. My brain was craving something that wasn't so streamlined by genre conventions.
I feel that way about old science fiction stories too where they didn't feel like they were all greased up and on rails, but were twisty little strange things that could start anywhere and just drop you head first into bizarre scenarios.
In lots of ways Television writing is close to its zenith now. The medium itself is being explored in richer ways - taking advantage of the long narrative form. But there was something to be said for that era when scripts were "teleplays" and written very tight. Like short stories instead of chapters in a novel. Like little plays.
I got that feeling about comics when I read the Frank Miller Daredevil run. Each issue felt like a full, complete story, with action taking place over days, sometimes. Nowadays, you can get an entire issue that only covers, like, five minutes.
I wish Jane Espenson would pop in and talk about this subject. Scrappy! Go wake her up.
So, holy crap, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is incredible.
This is the first time in ages I've been tempted to ahem a movie just to get me through to the Blu-Ray release. The acting is astonishing. It's such an amazingly quiet film, and so much of what is said is said with body language rather than words.
Oh, and the Fright Night remake is awfully fun.
I want to see TTSS so baaaaad.
Just open in NC already!
I am SO irritated that it has such a limited number of US screens. Otherwise, it would be WAY easier for me to find a way to see it again and again and again. There's just too much acting for one viewing! I feel like I have to see it one time per actor so I can focus on them for the whole 2:07.
I think Mark Strong gave the best performance of his career. This morning, that's really sticking to me. Firth as well.
I am SO irritated that it has such a limited number of US screens.
Apparently it's not opening in Canada (or at least in the theatre chain in my area) until January 20th. Waaah!
THAT IS TOO LONG TO WAIT!! OMG!
I want to see TTSS so baaaaad.
Just open in NC already!
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
amych, FYI:
It looks like it's opening at the Chelsea (which is in the same shopping center as the sushi restaurant we ate at the other day) a week from tomorrow, and at the Carolina in Durham on 1/13.
JSYK.