I enjoyed The Proposal, but Sandy Bullock and Ryan Reynolds pretty much hit my weak romcom spots.
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
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§ ita § - May 11, 2010 4:53:50 pm PDT #8292 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aims - May 11, 2010 4:56:53 pm PDT #8293 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah, it's hard not to like naked Ryan Reynolds. And I do love them both. Plus! Added Craig T Nelson and dirty Betty White!
Cashmere - May 11, 2010 5:51:02 pm PDT #8294 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Aims said "hard" and "Ryan Reynolds" in the same sentence.
DavidS - May 11, 2010 5:51:30 pm PDT #8295 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have to pimp my favorite movie blog again, Die Die Danger Kill. He covers all sorts of odd genre movies from various international sources. It's Jungle Week so he's doing Tarzan knockoffs from India, Egypt, Mexico...
Scroll down on this link to see his animal star for this movie. It will make you laugh and/or make a sad, piteous noise. JZ did both. You have to scroll past the monkeys in blue lame.
Cashmere - May 11, 2010 5:54:40 pm PDT #8296 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
DH is thrilled because our copy of The Hustler special edition DVD came today. He's watching it right now.
DavidS - May 11, 2010 6:00:11 pm PDT #8297 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DH is thrilled because our copy of The Hustler special edition DVD came today. He's watching it right now.
I love that movie so much. Gave me a crush on Piper Laurie which has never receded. I saw it at the Strand, one of those old movie palaces which had done time as a porn theater that (in SF) existed on Market Street. (They would have been on Hollywood or Time Square back in the day.)
Cashmere - May 11, 2010 6:04:24 pm PDT #8298 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
It's DH #1 favorite. I never get tired of watching it. I'd love to see it on the big screen.
DavidS - May 11, 2010 6:08:38 pm PDT #8299 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's an amazing movie. So cool and desperate and broken and sexy.
Connie Neil - May 12, 2010 7:18:41 am PDT #8300 of 30000
brillig
Saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus last night. I quite like Terry Gilliam movies, he has very spicy brains, but I'm not sure I liked this one. I may have not been in a proper mindspace to appreciate a Gilliam-esque story of despair and what triumph can be retrieved from a twisted world. Self-destructive people and those who bring their own calamities upon themselves don't entertain me. But it did look gorgeous.
Did Gilliam do The Fisher King? Because there are similarities with the scenes where the protagonist follows the woman through an oblivious crowd.
It took me a while to pick up on the other actors playing Heath Ledger's character. All of a sudden I went, "Wait, that's Captain Jack Sparrow! Johnny Depp wasn't there before. Boy, this guy does a dead-on Captain Jack impression." I don't pick up on faces, but I do pick up on voices.
Sean K - May 12, 2010 7:30:57 am PDT #8301 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Did Gilliam do The Fisher King?
Yes.