Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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technically I think I gasped in one scene and said "wow" out loud in the theater for another.
the former was the elevator scene. Is that the one you mean?
The latter was Christina Hendricks. Homegirl can play a red hot mess if she wants to and she was believable. What an end though!
I just saw another TV spot for Chronicle and none of the shots were ones that stood out as cheaty for me.
The ones I'm thinking of are the ones where a character is flying and one where it's way up in the air. And, well, there are several shots that seem like they're out of a regular movie, just the way they're framed and the way they look. I'll be interested to see how those are "shot." Think I'm going to go see it on Tuesday.
Is that the one you mean?
Yep.
said "wow" out loud in the theater for another.
I was like, "Did that just happen??"
The ones I'm thinking of are the ones where a character is flying and one where it's way up in the air.
They explain those.
Tivo picked up Alice in Wonderland for me. . . and I've suddenly realized that I haven't actually read the books. So that whole ridiculous proposal scene at the beginning was that in the books? Because I can't imagine anyone ever thinking that was a good idea.
No, sumi. Not in the books. You're talking about the Tim Burton movie, right? That version of Alice in Wonderland is deliberately not faithful to the books, it's supposed to be a sequel or something. Again, beautiful to look at, oh G-d I hated the plot and dialog. Except for the flashback where she woke up from the nightmare and asked her father if she was mad. That was adorable.
(MY FEELINGS OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND BETRAYAL WITH THAT MOVIE, LET ME WHINE ABOUT THEM SOME MORE.)
Dear Tim, don't fuck up Dark Shadows, okay? I'm counting on you to have a return to good form.
I kind of liked the jabberwocky (that was a jabberwocky, wasn't it?)
haven't seen it yet. I think I've seen the Snark.
I liked wee Alice and her dad very much.
It was fun to see Lindsay Duncan after having just seen her in Merlin.
Yes, it was a jabberwocky. Like I said, the movie was beautiful, if filled with a lot of I can't tell if this is Trademark Tim Burton, or if he's tired and ripping himself off visuals. But oh G-d, the story. The dialog. Ugh. And the OMG HORRIBLE DANCE they made the Hatter do at the end. Hate. Haaaaate.
I have the art book. It's very pretty. I borrowed the Blu-Ray from Dad recently to see if maybe I was over-exaggerating how much I disliked the movie. It turns out I wasn't.
I liked wee Alice and her dad very much.
I may over-identify with wee Alice and her dad. Maybe.
In different movie news, I am hoping I can persuade Pete to go see The Woman In Black in the next week. I must go see it.