'Touched'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
watching Terminator: Salvation. Man, I'd forgotten all the myriad ways I hated that movie, but I will not apologize for rewinding all of the scenes with Marcus. I actually love that I read so much hate for Sam Worthington, because that's just more for me! (Avatar doesn't do it, because his character only really becomes alive/gets a semblance of a personality when he's CGI).
Oh god, speaking of CGI, I am currently speeding past the Guvanator scene.
JZ, Larry Roberts' mother was mr. flea's next door neighbor when he was growing up in Cleveland. She was very proud of him and devastated by his death (I think he was her only child). She and mr. flea were actually surprisingly close for a women in her 80s and an unrelated teenage boy.
IOMovieN, Matilda and I are watching Lady and the Tramp again and marveling again (okay, the marveling is mostly me) at the nuanced and witty and endlessly pleasurable performance of Larry Roberts.
You know, it never ocurred to me that the voice actor wasn't someone famous, but I never bothered to check who it was. It was just such an instantly iconic voice.
The worst movies ever, from a poll in Empire magazine: [link]
The top 10 bad movies: 1. Batman and Robin; 2. Battlefield Earth; 3. The Love Guru; 4. Raise The Titanic; 5. Epic Movie; 6. Heaven's Gate; 7. Sex Lives Of The Potato Men; 8. The Happening; 9. Highlander II: The Quickening; 10. The Room.
Awww, I kinda' liked Sex Lives Of The Potato Men.
OK, I've never even heard of it....
Somebody's a skipper...
Larry Roberts' mother was mr. flea's next door neighbor when he was growing up in Cleveland. She was very proud of him and devastated by his death (I think he was her only child). She and mr. flea were actually surprisingly close for a women in her 80s and an unrelated teenage boy.
Oh, that's wonderful! And sad. And astonishing.
Hec and I were trying to piece together the gaps in his life story...all those years of great success onstage and all those tours with the USO, but completely invisible to the larger public because none of it was on film. Until that one spectacular role, and then he went back to Cleveland almost immediately, and never returned. Whatever the reason, I'm glad he was going back to a proud, loving mother.
I linked to this on LJ already, but for those who haven't come across yet: [link] Manohla Dargis from New York Times talks to Jezebel about difficulties women face in Hollywood, while hilariously dropping F-bombs all over the place. Heee. I like pissed-off Dargis quite a bit.
Man, that was awesome.
Huh. I just noticed the article was from Dec 14, 2009, not this week. Funny nobody had linked to it before. I was link-hopping from Slate's Oscar talk. (Wow, that guy on Slate really doesn't like An Education.)
Yeah...also, do you think she needs a "Lloyd"? Cause that's somebody whose abuse I'd take for a while.