As usual, she's pretty much the best thing in it. Which is not so hard, in this movie.
Yeah. As such things go, being the best thing in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a much more impressive accomplishment.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2009 6:07:08 pm PDT #3883 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
Sean K - Aug 23, 2009 9:29:38 pm PDT #3884 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Saw Inglorious Basterds and LOVED it! Laughed my ass off. Super fun time.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 24, 2009 5:07:10 am PDT #3885 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Saw Inglorious Basterds and LOVED it! Laughed my ass off. Super fun time.
Wasn't Cristoph Waltz effing amazing?
Also, Brad Pitt's character pretending to be Italian? Hilarious!
Fred Pete - Aug 24, 2009 5:28:55 am PDT #3886 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Most Beautiful Woman Ever: Elizabeth Taylor. Anyone who can get me to take my eyes off Montgomery Clift....
Alternate game: great scenes from awful or mediocre movies.
Night and Day. A "bio-pic" of Cole Porter that's even less grounded in fact than most bio-pics of the era. But there's one great moment in an audition scene fairly early on -- one of the rejected auditioners tells Monty Woolley that she's spent years in the theater, and what's he ever done to make himself qualified to pass her over for a part. Woolley stares at her and says, "I grew a beard."
One of the two redeeming elements in that movie. The other, of course, being the Cole Porter soundtrack.
DavidS - Aug 24, 2009 6:46:29 am PDT #3887 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
One of the two redeeming elements in that movie. The other, of course, being the Cole Porter soundtrack.
Doesn't looking at Cary Grant in his prime count for anything?
Fred Pete - Aug 24, 2009 7:13:35 am PDT #3888 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Doesn't looking at Cary Grant in his prime count for anything?
Fair enough, and I'll even grant that his performance has nothing to do with Cole Porter because of the script as opposed to any flaw in the performance itself.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 7:33:06 am PDT #3889 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Inglorious Basterds:
Yes, Christophe Waltz was incredible. Also, I never would have imagined it, but when translated into French and German, Tarantino dialog becomes downright poetic.
But having seen the movie, I am completely baffled by this comment from David Denby's review in the New Yorker:
In brief, Tarantino has gone past his usual practice of decorating his movies with homages to others. This time, he has pulled the film-archive door shut behind him—there’s hardly a flash of light indicating that the world exists outside the cinema except as the basis of a nutbrain fable.
Um, the whole first section of the movie is an homage to Sergio Leone. The movie eventually morphs into other homages, but how anybody who's ever SEEN enough movies to qualify as a film critic can watch the opening of Inglorious Basterds and not recognize it as a spaghetti western set in Nazi occupied France is a bafflement to me.
Jessica - Aug 24, 2009 7:37:07 am PDT #3890 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I took Denby's comment to mean that this movie was entirely made out of references to other movies - that there was nothing original about it.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 7:42:36 am PDT #3891 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Oh. Okay. That makes so much more sense.
I disagree completely that there was nothing original about it, but that comment makes more sense to me.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 24, 2009 7:47:28 am PDT #3892 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My take was Jess' take on Denby's comment, but I am with Sean on disagreeing with it. For one thing, I've never seen a movie where not only the ability to speak another language, but to have an appropriate accent, and know all the cultural gestures, be a major plot point. Not that no other movie's done that, but I can't recall one off the top of my head. And that was just one strand.