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."
There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.
Jasmine ,'Power Play'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Steph L. - Jan 13, 2013 4:15:40 pm PST #23406 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
§ 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.
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2013 3:26:30 pm PST #23412 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I found the first 2/3 of Sunshine to be much more rewarding than all of 2001.
Pretty epic going off the rails, though. I'd put its picture next to "jump the shark (movie metaphor)."
le nubian - Jan 16, 2013 4:25:17 pm PST #23413 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
That movie has to be in my top 10 of most disappointing movie endings.
come to think of it, the movie has a lot in common with "Red Lights" which I watched over the weekend.
Hil R. - Jan 16, 2013 5:25:04 pm PST #23414 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I went to see A Royal Affair, and I really liked it. The plot was really predictable, but it was done really well.
Jessica - Jan 17, 2013 5:41:29 am PST #23415 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The plot was really predictable, but it was done really well.
That's exactly how I felt. It was a very formulaic period piece, but it was beautifully shot and the performances were great. And as soon as it was over, DH and I fired up Wikipedia to look up the real story. (Turns out, the movie's pretty close!)