Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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 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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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)."
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.
I went to see A Royal Affair, and I really liked it. The plot was really predictable, but it was done really well.
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!)
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!)
I did the same thing. I was kind of surprised to find out that the masquerade ball was real. I was sure that that was an invention, just to make that scene seem really dramatic by having everyone in masks.