Just caught A Single Man before coming home to watch the Oscars. Colin Firth was wonderful and I want to live in that house!
Another movie I caught in between was Children of Men. What a heartbreaking movie!
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
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quester - Mar 07, 2010 4:04:53 pm PST #7123 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Scrappy - Mar 07, 2010 7:52:20 pm PST #7124 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I loved both of those films, quester.
Burrell - Mar 07, 2010 8:20:34 pm PST #7125 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thanks for the rec, Pete. I'll go netflix it.
I am running away from Natter so I can shower before bed. Can catch up on the Oscars later.
Kathy A - Mar 07, 2010 8:40:12 pm PST #7126 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin
Lovelovelove that movie! Alan Arkin is sooooo evilicious as Harry Roat, Jr., and Richard Crenna is also terrifically smarmy.
And early feature-film Disney did use a lot of live-action film to base their animation on, especially for their human characters. IIRC, there were a few actresses that were used in the live-action film who later did voice work for another film.
megan walker - Mar 07, 2010 9:09:12 pm PST #7127 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Lovelovelove that movie! Alan Arkin is sooooo evilicious as Harry Roat, Jr., and Richard Crenna is also terrifically smarmy.
I forgot to mention that the little girl in the movie was in the audience so that added a bit of fun as everyone would clap and cheer at her key moments.
flea - Mar 08, 2010 2:50:29 am PST #7128 of 30000
information libertarian
We own & love the 2003 Peter Pan, too. The kids love it too.
Polter-Cow - Mar 08, 2010 8:29:40 am PST #7129 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Alice in Wonderland made $116 million. The second-place movie made $13.5 million.
DavidS - Mar 08, 2010 8:33:06 am PST #7130 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If Alice keeps making money they'll probably have to do a sequel. Or turn Tim Burton loose on all of our childhood favorites as he squelches them under his increasingly more banal vision.
I think we can safely assume that the Velveteen Rabbit will be a stripe-suited ninja in 2012, heralding the end of the world.
Daisy Jane - Mar 08, 2010 8:34:20 am PST #7131 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I still wanna see it. There was an interesting review in the Dallas Observer that looked at it from a feminist place. [link]
Jessica - Mar 08, 2010 8:57:11 am PST #7132 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think the film presents itself as a feminist text, but on close reading I don't think it passes. Alice rarely displays any real agency - for the most part she simply does what she's told. The White Queen gives lip service to the idea that Alice has to make her own choices, but the choice she offers her is "You can either do what I tell you or all your friends will die. Up to you, though! No pressure! TOTALLY YOUR CALL WHETHER OR NOT EVERYONE DIES."
In the one scene where she acutally does make a choice, she chooses to rescue the Hatter. Which, yay for having the damsel rescue the father-figure I guess, but OTOH, the one single time in the entire film where the title character thinks for herself, and it's about a man.
And for a Tim Burton film, I was pretty pissed off that the happy ending boiled down to conventionally pretty blonde girl of explicitly normal size wins, weirdo goth misfits disenfranchised forever. REALLY, TIM? REALLY???