Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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I may be the only person in the world who watched Fight Club because Helena Bonham Carter was in it. (Early exposure to Lady Jane made me watch every movie HBC was in ever)
I do remember liking it, but I think I was annoyed by the "twist". I tend to hate "twists"
I also had trouble watching Memento and Mulholland Drive, and kept falling asleep, which is not good for those movies.
Kubrick also fucked up The Shining, imo. It looked good, and it was chilling, but it was not so much with the sense-making at the end, especially when the book's ending was nice and tight. He completely sacrificed story and character development for mood and cheap shocks.
Helena Bonham Carter is one of my favorite parts of Fight Club, Sophia. Her Marla was just perfect.
Whoa, look at me with the runaway italics. Oops.
I have had HBC issues since before day 1, but I never gave her a fair shake. Fight Club is where she bothered me the least, although I seem to be part of a fairly rare middle ground on that movie.
Young HBC was so china doll perfect, and so perfect in the costume dramas where she started, I've always loved her.
I think I overestimated her range, but I also love how batshit crazy she is now, and how willing she is to go with it. Her appearance on Craig Ferguson before Alice came out was made of beautiful wtf-ery.
I just gotta admire someone who can make a career out of having such totally jacked-up hair.
I've always loved her.
I went to school with her (she was the year above me), and I didn't really like her then, so it biased me on her movie career. Aside from that, I never got the Room With A View love. Though I think I should give it another try, with more distance from high school.
I had SUCH a thing for Freddy Honeychurch.
I went to school with her (she was the year above me)
I can see that coloring your perspective.
My biggest movie concern right now is getting to the theater Friday night to see The Losers before my head explodes with anticipation. Mostly to see JDM being hot and blowing shit up, true, but still: anticipation.
I started working on a list of 100 movies I loved from the last 20 years, but I'm getting pretty weary of it. Maybe I'll finish it out later, but it's bogged me down enough for the time being (and I'm only at 82).
Kubrick could have begun and ended with Dr. Strangelove and be hailed as a genius. It regularly trades places with Yojimbo, Bicycle Thief, and Network as my top movie of all time. But my top ten change places with eachtother based on my mood.