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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.
What about Full Metal Jacket?
2001, Full Metal Jacket, Strangelove, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange. And while I find it flawed, I still love The Shining.
I cannot get on the Kubrick hate train.
I never say Fight Club because before I saw it, someone was telling me about how the twist of the movie had been leaked and it was pretty crazy, and I said, thinking of the stupidest twist I could think of, "What? Brad Pitt's character is really part of Edward Norton's split personality?" That kind of killed my desire to ever see it.
I just saw Runaways. I want to like it, but it bothered me deeply that the only character who was at all interesting, and was given all the best lines, was their male manager. The rest of the Runaways were barely present in the movie--they didn't even rate a where are they now--but the manager did. I would have much rather seen more about the other band members than the mostly filler stuff about Cherie Currie's family. And all the "woo-woo I'm so high and it's so rock and roll" visual effects got boring really fast.
On the plus side, the look was great, and the actors were all good. Dakota Fanning wasn't recognizable as her former child star self.