'Ariel'
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.
I just saw a piece on the costumes of the new Great Gatsby, and they look great-- and I love Baz Luhrman! But another person I irrationally hate is Tobey Maguire, so I am not sure if I can watch it?
It looks gorgeous, but I'm not sure I can get past the not!Redford-ness of it all.
I missed the beginning of the movie due to equipment issues, and I didn't get enough Smaug. Am sad.
Well, you don't really see him in the beginning, just a lot of fire and things being knocked over.
I went with my sister to see it in 2D tonight (she saw the HFR version on her own and texted me after to ask why PJ shot the movie on a cell phone), and it was still good. This theater was pretty crappy, unfortunately, so I can't make a fair comparison between the HFR 3D and the 2D versions of the movie - this theater didn't even have stadium seating and I strained my neck trying to see around the head of the guy in front of me.
Still, damn. That's a lot of movie, and I love it so.
Paul Rudd just went on Conan to promote his new movie, and instead of a clip of This Is 40 he gave them one from Mack & Me.
This 40 thing is the most tempting Apatow to me, like, ever, and that's no small amount due to the leads. I like them. Maybe DVD. Or if there's a gap after Hobbit 2D HFR.
The Hobbit opens here today, mostly in 3D with subtitles. Will the subtitles float in the air? That would be cool.
Jessica, regarding your whitefont,
I was vastly amused by how little of him they showed. Having seen Danny Boyle's Frankenstein via NTL multiple times, I'm really excited about the motion capture aspects of Smaug--Cumberbatch is ridiculously good with making unnatural physical motions for a human seem natural.
Will the subtitles float in the air?
There are actually already a number of subtitles--elves dwarfs, each using their own.
No floating.
But floaty subtitles would have rocked.
We saw Hobbit again last night, and, while the audience sees the Ring fall out of Gollum's...pocket(?), Bilbo can't see the ground from his hiding place. He doesn't go straight over there when he gets out, so I think it's a fair read that he does happen upon it and may not be sure that it came from Gollum until "What does it have in its pocket?"
So I finally saw Lincoln. That was a good movie with a killer cast (Hal Holbrook! I had no idea he was still alive), and surprisingly funny in spots. And not nearly as leadenly manipulative as I expected from Spielberg, except for the very end.
Plus, Tony Kushner in less than 3 hours, which must be some kind of record.