Sophia - I think you posted in the wrong thread....
'Heart Of Gold'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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DH's magazine is giving away 5 copies of Watching The Watchmen - you can enter the drawing here:
I wonder how many people went into it expecting a superhero movie, which it is... so not.
I think one pair of people a couple rows in front of me walked out at the Hallelujah scene.
I think one pair of people a couple rows in front of me walked out at the
Ha! I wanted to hide behind the metaphorical couch during that scene, but I've never walked out of a movie in a theatre. (I've given up on DVDs halfway through, but that's a different kind of experience.)
I wouldn't have walked -- it was the biggest laugh of the movie...
AV Club has a thoughtful side-by-side comparison of the book vs. movie.
Heh. Patton Oswalt tells you what to watch.
(He's got good taste: BSG, FNL, Burn Notice, Dollhouse....)
You've got to respect the specificity of his comparisons:
Or Sunday night, for that matter? This Sunday is the Season 2 premiere of BREAKING BAD, the best show you weren't watching last year. Bryan Cranston won a much-deserved Emmy, and that was for a truncated, 7-episode first season. How did you guys miss a show about a trampled, neglected genius, who turns his skill at chemistry into a fledgling meth empire, all the while battling cancer -- a cancer which, when undergoing chemotherapy, turns Cranston into a bald, black-clad arch-villain? And, of course, he's forced into an alliance with (as his dopey, meth-head partner puts it) "a psychotic clown" drug dealer named Tuco. Lex Luthor and The Joker, roaming the New Mexico desert, with no World's FInest in sight. The 6th episode of Season One -- "Crazy Handful of Nothin'", is one of the best hours of TV I've ever seen -- up there with "Every Mother's Son" and "The Subway" from HOMICIDE, "Old Cases" from THE WIRE, and "The Pine Barrens" from The Sopranos. BREAKING BAD is compromised villains who create their own false good, played out in a forest of food clubs, strip malls and bland, sinister architecture. A must-see.
I actually prefer the "College" episode of Sopranos but "Pine Barrens" is a worthy little mini-movie in its own right.