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Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Dana - Sep 19, 2014 9:57:51 am PDT #27784 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Jesse - Sep 20, 2014 5:05:55 am PDT #27785 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Saw The Drop lat night -- really good, pretty dark. Spoilery note for animal lovers: It looks dicey for the dog at various points, but he ends the movie OK.
beekaytee - Sep 20, 2014 9:21:16 am PDT #27786 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Jesse, thank you a LOT for helping me with a nagging concern. Cheers, really.
Jesse - Sep 20, 2014 12:23:51 pm PDT #27787 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sure thing!
I also saw This is Where I Leave You, and liked it! Possibly helped by mediocre reviews. I didn't expect much, and it delivered.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2014 5:25:02 pm PDT #27788 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mildly amusing XMen gag reel: [link]
Jesse - Sep 22, 2014 6:38:23 am PDT #27789 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The other thing I realized about This Is Where I Leave You is the "seeing yourself on screen" thing -- it was a movie about 40-something white people with money whose lives are basically great, but they still have problems. (I see where the critics are coming from, but didn't really care.)
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2014 10:50:09 am PDT #27790 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.
So the other day I tried to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula. I saw it when it came out and I liked it but was kind of annoyed by it as well.
Watching it again, I just could not get through it--I found it profoundly irritating. It seems my tolerance for Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder is lower than it was in 1992. And the way the sky in Transylvania was always so red got on my nerves. Finally, seeing Reeves hanging out with Oldman's Dracula in his castle while Drac cast weird shadows on the walls kept reminding me of the Simpson's parody. So I had to stop watching.
I'm not sure if my tastes have changed or if I just wasn't in the right mood....
Steph L. - Sep 22, 2014 11:02:57 am PDT #27791 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
seeing Reeves hanging out with Oldman's Dracula in his castle while Drac cast weird shadows on the walls kept reminding me of the Simpson's parody.
The Simpsons have retroactively ruined (or at least cast a new slant on) many, many movies. I kind of love that.
Juliebird - Sep 24, 2014 3:49:28 pm PDT #27792 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Conversation at work turned to movies, me correctly identifying Paul Bettany in Wimbledon even though I'd never seen it, which turned into a rec to watch it because if I thought he was cute, I should watch this flick. OMG, I'm 40 minutes in and even that has been a trial. Give me Dean/Cas AU tennis slash fic instead, please.
Also watched Bronson, as part of my Tom Hardy kick. He was fucking brilliant in it. TH really disappears into his characters, and not just with his body transformations (I still can't believe that he was the kid in Saving Private Ryan).
But I don't think I got out of it what the director wanted me to. There was an interview where he kept talking about a transformation, an autobiography, homosexuality. But in the end, all I saw was ignorant misery.
megan walker - Sep 24, 2014 7:18:10 pm PDT #27793 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm not sure if my tastes have changed or if I just wasn't in the right mood....
My tolerance for Keanu Reeves has always been and will always be very high, and yet Dracula is one of three movies where I've seriously considered walking out of the theater because it was so bad.