On my blog, I picked her A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as my favorite film seen in theaters last year
Ooh, me too!
Wild that she's working with Keeanu, but she's got SO much talent.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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DavidS - Mar 20, 2015 7:52:12 pm PDT #28675 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Juliebird - Mar 22, 2015 2:04:26 pm PDT #28676 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
In a fit of insomnia, my mum watched The Tree of Life. I have never seen it. Now she wants me to explain it to her. From what little I've seen or heard, I doubt I'd be able to do that even with a viewing.
Gris - Mar 22, 2015 2:40:35 pm PDT #28677 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I'm not sure what there is to explain. It is weird mostly for the sake of being weird and though there is probably some deep meaning stuff happening that you could potentially get out of it, the weird jumping around and random dinosaur scenes aren't really confusing, just auteurish. The only plot point somebody might somehow miss is that Sean Penn is Brad Pitt's youngest son. Otherwise it is just a well acted and beautiful weird mess. Honestly I thought its circle of life message was kind of simplistic, kind of like the Love is All Around message from "Love, Actually" but with far less hilarious Bill Nighy.
I didn't love it, if that isn't clear; though I saw much of the beauty that the critical intelligentsia saw, I derived little pleasure or awe from it, and mostly just wanted to watch a drama with a coherent plot where Brad Pitt plays a bad dad married to Jessica Chastain. But I'm guessing that your mother probably understood everything in the movie that was meant to be understood; unless I'm missing something enormous myself I think a lot of the movie was essentially a mood poem.
Burrell - Mar 22, 2015 6:05:10 pm PDT #28678 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I found it a weird movie. It seemed like it was driven by the thought experiment: what would happen if we made a movie where we left out all the most important plot points? I mean it's clear that things happen to these people, and eventually I figured out what happened and who it happened to, but even that's open to interpretation. Like I'm pretty sure I disagree with Gris about which son Sean Penn plays. Which, if you think about it, pretty much says right there why it's a weird movie.
Gris - Mar 23, 2015 1:47:23 am PDT #28679 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Honestly I might just have forgotten. It was a long time ago.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 23, 2015 2:37:12 pm PDT #28680 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
Recently I saw someone on another message board commenting on some presumably bad romantic drama, and another poster said that it was still a better love story than Twilight.
I couldn't resist interjecting that Bluebeard was a better love story than Twilight.
SuziQ - Mar 23, 2015 6:23:29 pm PDT #28681 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Unfortunately Twilight is a better love story than Fifty Shades (only say unfortunately in that something actually is below Twilight).
P.M. Marc - Mar 23, 2015 7:45:33 pm PDT #28682 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, they're the same love story, so does that really count?
Polter-Cow - Apr 02, 2015 7:35:25 am PDT #28683 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love Todd VanDerWerff's write-up of the Fast & Furious franchise, complete with trailers, GIFs, infographics, and lines like "This is America reimagined as a fireball."
I'm seeing the new one tomorrow!!!
Rayne - Apr 03, 2015 7:00:03 pm PDT #28684 of 30000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Catching up on a couple movies!
Big Hero 6 - LOVED! I'm so adopting "Woman up" as a phrase! Also will now start saying "bah da la da la da la" when I explode after a fist bump.
But I was seriously pissed off when they killed the brother. I had just gotten done saying "Of course the parents are dead. But at least the older brother is really cool!"
Jupiter Ascending - I enjoyed the movie, but I went in with really low expectations. I was expecting Jupiter to be a dithering idiot, and she was anything but. I wasn't bored, and the movie was beautiful! Sadly, most of the people I work with think the movie was stupid.