So, we saw Les Miz today. I am *really* impressed with Hugh Jackman. And I did not yell "Wolverine!"
Until the credits.
Also, oh Russell Crowe NO.
And I need to get my CDs out NOW.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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Steph L. - Jan 13, 2013 3:30:38 pm PST #23402 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2013 3:32:51 pm PST #23403 of 30000
hwæt
I thought DeNiro ruined Stardust. That role would have been perfect for Stephen Fry.
Kalshane - Jan 13, 2013 3:38:11 pm PST #23404 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I thought DeNiro ruined Stardust. That role would have been perfect for Stephen Fry.
I don't know. I'm not familiar with the book at all. I just remember enjoying the hell out of the movie.
Atropa - Jan 13, 2013 3:58:40 pm PST #23405 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I thought DeNiro ruined Stardust. That role would have been perfect for Stephen Fry.
I was deeply disappointed in the movie of Stardust, and felt the whole section with DeNiro's character was unnecessary. t /Stardust book purist
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2013 4:15:40 pm PST #23406 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, I kind of wish I hadn't read Film Crit Hulk's review of Les Miz, because the whole time I kept thinking "SO MANY CLOSE-UPS! HULK WANT WIDE ANGLE. MARIUS, STOP LOOKING INTO THE CAMERA."
§ ita § - Jan 13, 2013 4:37:00 pm PST #23407 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had been watching Fringe when LeN linked to the legible version, so I paused it, read, did my darnedest with weekend brain to pay attention to it, and then went back to the TV trying to at least identify the motives of the shot if I couldn't decide which shot it was exactly.
Interesting exercise, and it's definitely worth me copying and putting into my own Evernote repository.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 15, 2013 11:22:32 am PST #23408 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
I finally saw Vamps last night on a DVD from the library. It was surprisingly full of heart for a comedy about party girl vampires. Or perhaps not so surprisingly with Amy Heckerling at the helm. At any rate, more enjoyable than I'd expected. Krysten Ritter was basically a sweeter, more innocent version of her Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 character. Sigourney Weaver and Wallace Shawn got to chew the scenery to hilarious effect. And the unbelievably awful special effects actually worked with the campiness.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2013 5:33:32 pm PST #23409 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You have a typo in your URL, Matt.
Did that bypass the theatres? I remember discussion during filming, and then next thing I notice is DVD?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2013 5:48:54 am PST #23410 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
Dunno how that happened, I thought I remembered copy/pasting from the URL window. Fixed now.
It definitely didn't hit theaters around here. It has the look of direct-to-video, so maybe they never planned on a release at the box office?
Volans - Jan 16, 2013 2:58:09 pm PST #23411 of 30000
move out and draw fire
It's a good thing you guys don't work for the Foreign Service...they haven't had to write cables in all caps for at least 10 years now, and yet everyone still does.
Now there's IM though, so you can message someone and they'll shout back at you: "SURE, LUNCH AT 11:30 SOUNDS FINE"
"Dude, you writing a cable?"
"SORRY"
...My only movie news is that we watched Sunshine and shouldn't have. It was...not 2001, although it wanted to be.