'Shells'
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.
I said to Jilli that I wonder what kind of Alice movie the Beetlejuice-era Burton would have created. I suspect it would have been better because it would have at least honored the nonsensical nature of Wonderland
Or, you know, Terry Gilliam. Whatever his problems as a director, he wouldn't have conventionalized it. Everything I hear about Alice makes it sound like a Narnia movie with Burton-esque touches.
Jeremy Sumpter's Peter Pan!
love love love.
Did you know they had to rebuild the nursery window four times because he was growing like a weed during filming?
I think I'm already on record as loving that Peter Pan to a dangerous degree -- it wrecks me about as thoroughly (and cathartically) as Lilo & Stitch wrecks Jilli.
Though do avoid the IMDB user reviews -- somewhere in there is a remarkably wrongheaded asshat who gripes about the blandness of Jason Isaac and complains that everyone's always ignoring the perfect sublimity of Dustin Hoffman in the vastly superior Hook.
eta: Also, holy shit! Jeremy Sumpter is on FNL? That's exactly the last nudge I needed to get me over my don't-like-football-stories block and dig into the DVDs Perkins lent me so tragically long ago.
OMGNEWIRONMAN2TRAILERSOCOOOOOOL!!!!!
And yet it didn't need to double post, so I'll say it without ASSCAPS:
omg, new iron man 2 trailer so cool!!!!!!!
the blandness of Jason Isaac
These words do not make sense together. Asshat indeed.
I do think Hoffman (and Hoskins) WERE the best thing about Hook, but that's faint praise indeed.
new iron man 2 trailer so cool!!!!!!!
I am so totally psyched for this, it's unreal. Despite it having ScarJo and Gwyneth.
You know, I regret seeing the IM trailer. I'm gonna see the movie anyway, right? So if you can hold off, I say do it. Because it looks like it gives away the entire plot. (HOWEVER look for my friend the extra, who plays a Monaco police!)
bon bon, that was one of my biggest beefs with the format of the Oscars last night. In the past, they'd play one key scene from each Best Picture nominee; last night they basically played an extended trailer for each, and showed EVERY highlight. So I guess people really don't need to go pay and see those movies now. I started muting and turning away so that the movies I still want to see weren't completely ruined.
There's a bad guy! There's an ally! There's a mysterious character!
Now we know which one is which.
Admittedly, I know what I'm looking for from Iron Man 2, and the trailer teased me just right. I need more RDJ and Cheadle, stat. Blow. Shit. Up.