I went to see Shutter Island today. Not Scorcese's best effort ever, but still enjoyable, even though I guessed at the big twist about 10 minutes in.
Plus, the locations were gorgeous, in a decayed gothic-industrial sort of way.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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Anne W. - Feb 21, 2010 4:20:11 pm PST #6884 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2010 4:26:10 pm PST #6885 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
WTF is John Cusak doing in Hot Tub Time Machine?!?
It's his baby. He's a producer, plus they went forward with very little script so there's a lot of improvising.
Yeah, it's pretty much all his fault.
quester - Feb 21, 2010 4:29:35 pm PST #6886 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Oh John, what have you become?
Amy - Feb 21, 2010 4:30:43 pm PST #6887 of 30000
Because books.
Ugh. I saw the trailer for that and just blinked.
Anne, I guessed the twist in the book, although I couldn't figure out all the details. And Lehane sold me on it by the very end, so I'm hoping the movie does the same.
Sue - Feb 21, 2010 4:31:43 pm PST #6888 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I thought msbelle was joking when she mentioned that in Natter. WTF?
Laga - Feb 21, 2010 4:35:05 pm PST #6889 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I've seen it three times and it gets funnier every time, maybe because I know now that Jason Segel really did have a girl break up with him when he was naked, and he started working on the Dracula musical a while ago.
Boy were you guys right about The Haunting. I was annoyed by some of the sound choices and I found Eleanor's narration a bit heavy handed at times but that's the scariest movie we've watched since we started this ghost kick. When the door started breathing I had to go get the cat for comfort. I do wonder- are we supposed to think Theo is a lesbian? edit... after reading imdb I guess it's supposed to be obvious Theo is coming on to Eleanor. I wonder why I wasn't sure.
megan walker - Feb 21, 2010 6:01:12 pm PST #6890 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Just came back from a showing of the Oscar-nominated animated shorts (plus "Partly Cloudy", "Runaway", and "The Kinematographe"). That was fun.
Wallace & Gromit were as fun as ever, but I really loved "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" from Ireland. "Logorama" was brilliant.
Polter-Cow - Feb 21, 2010 9:48:37 pm PST #6891 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Just saw Paranormal Activity. It had a slow build, and it was creepy and intense at times, but it wasn't the scariest movie ever or anything. The ending was great, though, and way better than the alternate or original endings. Good call, Spielberg.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 22, 2010 2:52:31 am PST #6892 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh John, what have you become?
Revisiting his "Savage" Steve youth, maybe.
Scrappy - Feb 22, 2010 7:21:06 am PST #6893 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I also saw Shutter Island. I loved the performances and the look of the film is AMAZING, but the script just didn't grab me at all.