Hec, I understand the importance of that, but I wish it wasn't based on such a hot mess of a movie. I kept laughing at the dramatic parts.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
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sj - Jan 01, 2017 5:10:09 am PST #498 of 3455
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Calli - Jan 01, 2017 5:54:47 am PST #499 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think ScarJo did a good job with what she was given in the movie. It's just, doing a good job with bewildering crap still leaves you with well acted bewildering crap. Still, it was kinda fun until I tried thinking about it. Damsel in distress levels up and takes out all the bad guys. With a nature documentary interspersing the action scenes. I'd rather watch Lucy a dozen times than anything by Oliver Stone once. Nixon cemented a Stone hate in my soul like you wouldn't believe.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 01, 2017 11:40:39 am PST #500 of 3455
"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 just tell myself that Johansson got the career boost from that steaming pile that she should have gotten from Under the Skin if more than a handful of people had seen it.
Zenkitty - Jan 01, 2017 2:42:55 pm PST #501 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Exactly that, Matt. I'm amazed more people weren't interested in Under the Skin. Between that and Lucy , I thought the reactions would be the other way 'round.
Scrappy - Jan 02, 2017 9:15:26 am PST #502 of 3455
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Loved Under the Skin.
EpicTangent - Jan 03, 2017 12:20:24 pm PST #503 of 3455
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I didn't enjoy Lala Land as much as I expected to, but I did enjoy it. My mother and I both agreed that Emma Stone's costumer was blind and/or a moron for 3/4 of what they dressed her in. It was actually distracting how bad she looked so much of the time (or my mom and I are just really superficial people?).
lisah - Jan 03, 2017 12:29:02 pm PST #504 of 3455
Punishingly Intricate
Huh, I thought Emma Stone looked pretty fab throughout. Now I have to go back and look!
Toddson - Jan 04, 2017 9:28:01 am PST #505 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Over the holidays I didn't have anything in particular to watch and came across the 1980s Flash Gordon - Sam Jones as Flash, Melody Anderson as Dale, Topol as Dr. Zarkov, Timothy Dalton as Barin, Brian Blessed as the king (?) of the hawkmen, Max Von Sydow as Ming. It was kind of cheesy fun. And Brian Blessed looked like he was having a BLAST - chomping scenery with gusto. Best line - one of the hawkmen was wounded and said, "they just winged me" (snerk).
Steph L. - Jan 04, 2017 9:29:51 am PST #506 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Dude, Flash Gordon is THE ACTUAL BEST. It's so fantastically campy.
Dana - Jan 04, 2017 9:30:06 am PST #507 of 3455
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Brian Blessed is everything in that movie.