Had tremendous fun at the Paramount in Oakland last night (a huge, beautiful art deco movie palace that shows classics and cult movies on Fridays). Javachik and I saw Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. So much fun. There was the Wurlitzer organ beforehand (last night they played Oscar-winning songs from the 1930s to the 70s) and a raffle with a Dec-o-win wheel. Also, old newsreels and cartoons before the show. I'm sorry it took me so long to get out there and see something, even though it's right at the BART station and super convenient.
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
'The Killer In Me'
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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.
megan walker - Mar 06, 2010 7:04:36 am PST #7088 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2010 7:24:42 am PST #7089 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Where is it? I've never been there either.
Jon B. - Mar 06, 2010 7:26:44 am PST #7090 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Aww, a bunch of us went there with Hec & JZ the night before (?) their wedding. Such a fun time, and I can't even remember what the movie was.
Jon B. - Mar 06, 2010 7:27:24 am PST #7091 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
P-C: [link]
Tom Scola - Mar 06, 2010 7:28:15 am PST #7092 of 30000
hwæt
I can't even remember what the movie was.
Viva Las Vegas.
Jesse - Mar 06, 2010 7:36:59 am PST #7093 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was going to say -- even I've been there, and I live on the other side of the country!
JZ - Mar 06, 2010 8:08:06 am PST #7094 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Paramount is spectacular.
ION, about forty minutes ago rottentomatoes.com led me to a review of Alice in Wonderland that contains a huge honking spoiler for the end (or, maybe, a huge honking spoiler for the resolution of the framing story? Anyhow, an Alice-in-this-world spoiler). And it's so weird and improbable and fraught with ginormous potential for lots and lots of brain-hurty problems that even forty minutes later I keep shaking my head and saying, bzuh? Whafuck? Surely, no?
I really want to want to be able to see it, but the spoiler sounds like the kind of thing that would make me throw up my hands and stalk away like Giles fleeing from Xander's monstrous stupidity.
msbelle - Mar 06, 2010 3:12:07 pm PST #7095 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have a framed poster of the paramount I got on the pre-wedding visit. I love it.
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2010 4:04:32 pm PST #7096 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And tickets are only $5?? I must check to see whether they're playing anything I want to see. Next up is Captain Blood.
Juliebird - Mar 06, 2010 4:40:43 pm PST #7097 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Wound down with Surrogates with the fam. Really enjoyed it, cared about who the characters were behind the artifice. Tickled by a movie that had a very valid reason to be populated by very pretty people.