Everytime Oldboy is discussed I have to go look up parts of the plot. I swear my mind just blocks it after a while. Totally disturb-o-rama and in no way a happy ending. Still really good.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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msbelle - Jan 25, 2010 6:30:03 am PST #6317 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2010 6:34:41 am PST #6318 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I told the guy to imagine that he had a daughter and then to look me in the face and tell me it was a happy ending. He couldn't, but he said I was cheating. Uhuh.
P-C, it's been too long for me to be able to answer that question for you. And although the movie's on my Netflix instant watch queue, not happening for a while.
Msbelle, I remembered my astonishment that you'd rated the movie so highly on Netflix. But I gotta let you have layers.
msbelle - Jan 25, 2010 6:37:02 am PST #6319 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
do you remember that I watched the movie on a plane with my brother? so unsettling.
Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2010 6:37:52 am PST #6320 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, it's been too long for me to be able to answer that question for you.
No problem, ita. I didn't delete it from my DVR yet. I kind of do want to go and rewatch the sleepy parts so I can at least have seen the whole movie for realsies once before I don't rewatch it for realsies. I like the visual style.
do you remember that I watched the movie on a plane with my brother? so unsettling.
They showed it on a plane?? Oh, you mean on a laptop or portable DVD player.
le nubian - Jan 25, 2010 9:00:39 am PST #6321 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ha! can you imagine?
"American Airlines has a special movie for your enjoyment pleasure. Please contribute $5 for headphones. The horror is free."
DavidS - Jan 26, 2010 8:11:59 am PST #6322 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's a really good movie starting on TCM right now that I just discovered recently. It's The Prize (i.e., The Nobel) and it's a Hitchcockian spy thriller much in the vein of North by Northwest. Which is no coincidence since they were written by the same guy - Ernest Lehman.
It stars Paul Newman, Diane Baker, Edward G. Robinson and Elke Somer. Newman is much better in this Hitchcock knockoff than he was in Torn Curtain and he has fantastic chemistry with both Baker and Somer.
Anyway, it seems to be in TCM's rotation now so keep a Tivo eye on it.
It's light but has genuine thrills and twists and everybody looks fantastic and it's shot in '63 so it has that Mad Men look.
You can find the trailer for The Prize here.
I'll mention another upcoming TCM film that I'm set to record: The Doughgirls. This is a very frothy comedy from the 40s starring Ann Sheridan (Scrappy's doppelganger), Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman and Eve Arden. Stellar cast, obviously, but I note it for the fashion conscious as it has some swank looking vintage fashion and some of the most elaborate hairdos from that decade.
Scroll down here and you can catch the trailer.
megan walker - Jan 26, 2010 7:29:10 pm PST #6323 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It stars Paul Newman, Diane Baker
My doppelganger!
DavidS - Jan 26, 2010 7:42:04 pm PST #6324 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My doppelganger!
Exactly so.
She also plays the Very Smart Senator who is mother to the kidnapped girl in Silence of the Lambs.
megan walker - Jan 26, 2010 7:52:12 pm PST #6325 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also, House's mom.
ION, Dark Victory was way lamer than I remembered. Jezebel remains as awesome as ever.
tommyrot - Jan 27, 2010 6:10:01 am PST #6326 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.
REALLY, FOX, A PLANET OF THE APES REBOOT?
You’d think that after they got a respected director like Tim Burton and an all-star cast to remake Planet of the Apes once already and it still ending up kinda sucking, that they’d be content to let sleeping classics lie. But this is Hollywood, so Fox is digging up its corpse for sexy time, as per usual.
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Frank’s Apes script, code-named Caesar, showed how genetic experiments on apes led to their evolutionary eclipse of humans. “Caesar” refers to the genetically altered leader of the simian rebellion, so dubbed because the ape was capable of grand strategic thinking on par with Julius Caesar (whose own surname means “hairy” in Latin). The “Caesar” code name also foreshadowed the script’s plot: Just as the actual Julius Caesar set Rome on the path to the Roman Empire, the experimental ape’s escape sets in motion his fellow hirsute hominids’ (wait for it … ) guerrilla war and subsequent dominance.