'Dirty Girls'
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 first saw White Nights in the theater when it was released. I think it might have been the first time I remember seeing dancing on that level on the big screen.
Running Scared is a great Chicago film--I love both the car race on the L tracks and the big finale in the atrium at the State of Illinois building.
Hivemind: Do you think it's reasonable to expect that you can ask your box office cashier for "the Julia Roberts movie" and the cashier will know which movie you mean?
yes. there is only one of her movies out right now.
Yes. I would expect movie theater ticket people to be familiar with the movies currently playing: basic plot and any big-name stars involved.
But my expectations may be unrealistically high.
So I went back to see Coraline again before it went away, but this time in 2-D.
It's much, much more spectacular in 3-D. It's still a great movie, but the hyperreal intensity of the 3-D version is just absolutely transporting.
Three scenes in particular were much less in 2-D:
1. The first time they go to the garden.
2. When Coraline falls into the Other!Mother's web.
3. The Van Gogh starry night background when the lost souls escape.
But it wasn't just the tour-de-force set pieces that were less intense. The whole movie lost a lot of depth. The pairing of 3-D imagery with the actual, physical sets of stop-motion animation was used beautifully.
So. Still a great movie, but much more beautiful and intense in 3-D.
my expectations may be unrealistically high.
this is what I'm afraid of. Today my cashier said, "I don't read about the movies." Dude. You've been walking by the poster for a month.
If I were the cashier, it would be hysterical amnesia, and quite forgiveable, of course.
New Images from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
I wasn't excited about Ridley Scott's Robin Hood but I just heard Brian Helgeland did extensive script rewrites. I loved his Knight's Tale. I wonder if this will have a similar flavor.
Is that the one where the same actor is playing Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham?