It's more about Ellison as a person than his work
So I'll dislike him even more?
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Laga - Jun 26, 2009 4:05:44 pm PDT #2671 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Strega - Jun 26, 2009 4:29:10 pm PDT #2672 of 30000
I would suppose so. While the movie itself isn't overtly critical, it's upfront about how much there is to dislike about him. Much as he is.
Beverly - Jun 26, 2009 10:03:50 pm PDT #2673 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, Charlie Martin Smith! In The Untouchables. And oh! Starman! My favorite of his though was Never Cry Wolf, though there's Farley Mowat to thank for the source material. Still--CMS!
Juliebird - Jun 27, 2009 4:00:14 am PDT #2674 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Starman! There's a soundtrack I need to find.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2009 6:14:42 am PDT #2675 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
He really blew the delivery of the big speech to the judge at the end of the film, when he says (IIRC), "I have become what I have beheld, and I am content to have done so." That was a key statement for Elliot Ness, and he buried it in the midst of the rest of the monologue.
Costner really only had one good speech in him. Thank God he made it to Susan Sarandon!
Steph L. - Jun 27, 2009 6:29:20 am PDT #2676 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Costner really only had one good speech in him. Thank God he made it to Susan Sarandon!
I concur. Wholeheartedly.
Beverly - Jun 27, 2009 11:16:37 am PDT #2677 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh my.
Sue - Jun 27, 2009 12:26:24 pm PDT #2678 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Speaking of Point Break. The director has a new movie out this weekend, The Hurt Locker, set in Iraq. From the NYT Review: [link]
There is more friction between James and Sanborn: competition, incomprehension, but also a brand of masculine love similar to the passion between Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in “Point Break.” In one scene Mr. Mackie and Mr. Renner trade stomach punches in a ritualistic display of affectionate aggression that looks as if it will end in either sex or murder, and Ms. Bigelow’s insight is that the tense comradeship of soldiers rests, often tenuously, on barely suppressed erotic and homicidal impulses.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2009 2:10:56 pm PDT #2679 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Clues about moviemaker Michael Bay's decision to leave the Transformers world behind have been revealed in a leaked email to Paramount studio bosses.
[...]
He said, "After the three and a half years I've spent making these movies, I feel like I've had enough of the Transformers world. I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."
tommyrot - Jun 27, 2009 2:28:22 pm PDT #2680 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
something without any explosions
Where is the real Michael Bay, and what did he do with him?