I blame the Advil Sinus. I'm very high.
Yay drugs!
Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.
'Never Leave Me'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Sean K - Jul 15, 2010 11:36:12 am PDT #9929 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Daisy Jane - Jul 15, 2010 11:37:02 am PDT #9930 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The Glass of House and Sand
I am trying not to cry laughing at my desk. I would love a synopsis of this movie.
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2010 11:39:36 am PDT #9931 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Glass of House and Sand
I am trying not to cry laughing at my desk. I would love a synopsis of this movie.
I was just about to say: I would SO go see this movie!
Atropa - Jul 15, 2010 11:40:01 am PDT #9932 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Glass of House and Sand
I am trying not to cry laughing at my desk. I would love a synopsis of this movie.
It's a really fucked-up movie about a glassblower who has a nervous breakdown and tries to turn himself into replica of a Chihuly piece. The scene where he replaces his feet with glass spirals? Freaky.
Burrell - Jul 15, 2010 11:43:05 am PDT #9933 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Breaking the Waves is Bleaky McBleakerpants.
Bleak yes. Not really an action film, 'though. Or have we just moved on to bleak movies? I'm not against bleak necessarily.
It occurs to me that Pan's Labarynth was pretty bleak, and yet I loved it.
Oh but such a beautiful film! And so wonderfully realized.
Amy - Jul 15, 2010 11:43:34 am PDT #9934 of 30000
Because books.
The Glass of House and Sand
The funnniest part of that is that I knew what she was saying, but I couldn't parse the actual title.
tommyrot - Jul 15, 2010 12:43:15 pm PDT #9935 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From the IFC website: Put Julia Roberts On Hold: Seven Big-Name Movies That Have Yet to Reach Theaters or DVD
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With issues both economic and otherwise, there's a growing collection of films gathering dust, the latest possibly being the leftovers at Overture, where chief executives Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett resigned amidst speculation the company would be sold. It's made the fates of Matt Reeves' "Let Me In," the Edward Norton-Milla Jovovich prison drama "Stone" and Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut "Jack Goes Boating" uncertain, to say the least.
There's a good chance all will be released or find new homes, but whereas high-profile films were once immune from getting the cold shoulder, their relatively big price tags and limited appeal to niche audiences may mean they not even make it to Netflix. Here are a few that won't be coming to a theater near you anytime soon.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 15, 2010 12:47:24 pm PDT #9936 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think fairy-tale bleak is somehow more palatable than gritty realistic bleak. CTHD and Pan's Labyrinth both fall into the former category for me. (As do The Sixth Sense and Let the Right One In now that I think about it...)
I can enjoy them, whereas I have no desire whatsoever to see another Neil LaBute movie in my lifetime.
javachik - Jul 15, 2010 12:53:10 pm PDT #9937 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, Matt, bleak is way different than misanthropy!
DebetEsse - Jul 15, 2010 1:03:27 pm PDT #9938 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
A) I would totally go see the Glass of House and Sand.
B) That's the one with the moral of "open your fucking mail!" Right? B1) Todd was once in a play where a significant moral of the story was "break the tab on tapes you don't want someone to record over" This amused us a lot, especially since it was a pretty depressing play.
I agree with the Pan's Labyrinth assessment (that was actually going to be my example). What about (circling back to a previous "did you mean this?", only not) Children of Earth (Torchwood)? I thought that was up there on the bleak scale.