Xander ,'First Date'
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I'm watching Blitz for the Statham, and am quite bored.
However, this Luke Evans dude is quite hot. He's like a manly Orlando Bloom.
Was this a non-American film? My god, it's like they weren't even trying. Hot Fuzz had more integrity. And Jason doesn't take his shirt off. The hell kind of movie is this?
I now must definitely see Safe House. For Ryan's tears (the only redeeming quality of Smokin' Aces). Also, Denzel looks magnetizing in the trailer.
What do you mean by Hot Fuzz and integrity?
The shirt thing makes no sense, though. Maybe you missed a bit?
I might have missed some shirtlessness, my attention wasn't appropriately engaged.
As for the integrity, it just felt like a lot of posturing and badass walks to baddass music without any meat, that I think, for all it's mockery and love, Hot Fuzz managed more true emotion, even with all it's deliberate silliness. Honestly, for all it's serious and graphic subject matter, I snickered more during Blitz than Hot Fuzz.
I've never thought of Hot Fuzz and integrity in the same sentence, no offense to the movie intended. It seemed neither here nor there.
Flipped on the TV, and The Princess Bride was on. You know how the compulsion goes--own it, know it by memory, but nothing stronger than finding someone else has decided to air it.
They're in the fire swamp right now, and I couldn't think what to quote if I wanted to, because I couldn't think of what not to quote.
I couldn't think what to quote if I wanted to, because I couldn't think of what not to quote.
And that's Princess Bride in one.
I just bought Labyrinth for $5. I might watch it tomorrow night. Unless I have another movie that more appeals to the romantic masochist in me.
I've never thought of Hot Fuzz and integrity in the same sentence
That's kind of what I meant by comparing Blitz to it.
No, not in the sense that it has none. Just in the sense that...okay, I can't explain. It strikes me as perfectly integrally intact, if push comes to shove.
You have no idea how many (big screen) screenings it took me to understand Fezzik's speech when he's in the holocaust cloak. I had *no* idea he was pretending to be The Dread Pirate Roberts until viewing #5 or so.
Oh, fuck, wait...
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Yes, it's the easy one. But it's a classic for a reason.
I'm squinting at my Dread Pirate Robert replica sword as I watch the movie, and it would look lovely with a replica of Buttercup's bridal coronet.
I just bought Labyrinth for $5.
Matilda's a fan. She requests it periodically. Though her request is not "That one with David Bowie and his codpiece" but "That one with the girl who lost her little brother."
This is the 2nd time I've bought it for $5. The first time I lent it to a friend who'd never seen it before I opened it, and she thought it was a gift. So then it was. And ever since watching it sick at juliana's, I think of it as "the one where Bowie demonstrates how emotionally abusive boyfriends can be deceptively sexy."