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[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I'm still resisting joining Netflix, too. I don't need another monthly fee.

[RandomAnthony]

I really really really want to see Hellboy 2, but I haven't watched my other two Netflix movies yet.

I like Netflix but there is pressure to watch more movies to make the best use of the fee.

[RandomAnthony]

Today is Anne Hathaway's 26th birthday.

Moment of silence, please.

Thank you, universe.

Carry on.

[shellyindallas]

Wow, Gary. re: Apatow films, we are on completely opposite pages. Generally, I can't stand his romantic comedies for men. But I loved Pineapple Express. That shit was hilarious! It was perfectly cast. Unlike his other movies 99% of the jokes weren't based on sexism and homophobia. And it expressed buddy love in a completely sincere, thoughtful and open way. In fact, I think I'm going to buy it today! (Is it available on DVD yet?)

[[deleted user]]

Gary, you are SO right about Life Aquatic though. It finally reveals Wes Anderson as a pretentious, talentless man hiding behind art direction. (You didn't say that last bit, but you should've.)

[RandomAnthony]

I thought Pineapple Express had some good parts...but it was crazy violent, as I think we talked about before....which took away some of the funny.

[Gåry!]

Yeah, normally, Pineapple Express would be exactly the kind of thing I'd enjoy stomach pain from laughing so much... but - for whatever reason - it just didn't work for me.

Maybe I was expecting too much due to all of the adulation... maybe I should give it another shot now that my expectations have been lowered.

[[deleted user]]

I thought that movie had promise, and I loved the other Apatows. I just thought it was stupid. I remember sitting there stone-faced and sometimes embarrassed for humanity. I don't know. Sometimes, it's your mood? I can't say for sure, but I thought that the movie was dumb.

I also didn't like Life Aquatic. I love Rushmore, forever, though.

[Meen]

maybe I should give it another shot now that my expectations have been lowered

Everything's better with lowered expectations!

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

The only Wes Anderson movie I've really liked was The Royal Tenenbaums.
Hellboy II was good. I could have used a few fewer fight scenes, but that's just me.

[[deleted user]]

I saw Hellboy II last night. I could have use a few more fight scenes, but I liked it, too.

[[deleted user]]

Jonathan Demme's latest, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, is an awful good movie. To my thinking, he's not equaled one of his earliest efforts, MELVYN AND HOWARD, but this one was small and quiet, which is when he's at his best. I believe a few Oscar nominations will come out of it. And as for the Fellini stuff, I really enjoyed LE NOTE DE CABIRIA, or THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, or something like that. It wasn't self-indulgent, which, as someone noted above, he can be. We have a three year old, so movies are pretty few and far between right now. My wife and I also saw THE LAST MONGOL, which was about Ghengis Khan, the early years. We liked it a lot.

[RandomAnthony]

I really want to see Rachel's Getting Married, Erik....and not just because Mrs. Hathaway is gorgeous. I heard she's great in the film as well.

[[deleted user]]

So with this new Twilight movie coming out it made me wonder. I have never read any of these books, so not sure what the movie is about, and probably won't go to see it. My questions is this do you like to read a book before watching a movie, watch a movie and then go read the book or just read the book and never watch the movie. I watched the Bourne movies and will never go read the books. I read the DaVinci Code then watched the movie and was disappointed. Just wondered what you guys do?

As an aside to RA to use a golfing term in regards to Mrs. Hathaway. A stiff putter, nuff said.

[Michelle]

I try to read the book first, but I have found that sometimes I like the movie better if I haven't read the book first. Otherwise, I just pick the movie apart and notice all of the things they did/didn't do in the book.

[[deleted user]]

Yea I guess that was what I was saying. Most times the book and movie are better seperate.

[Meen]

For me, whichever one I do first inevitably affects my experience of the other. And depending on how many times I've seen the movie or read the book before I do the other, the effect can be irreversible. The Color Purple is the best example for me. I fell in love with the movie in high school long before I even knew who Alice Walker was (MS public schools). I saw it so many times I can do the dialogue from it. By the time I read the book (some time after I got sober, so it's gotta be in this century) I had permanent pictures of Celie as Whoopie Goldberg, Margaret Avery as Shug Avery, Oprah as Sofia, etc. I am reading Dracula right now and it's been a struggle to get Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder out of my head. On the other hand, if I read the book first, I am usually disappointed in the movie b/c so much of the nuance of the characters is inevitably gone.

[[deleted user]]

If only they could hook a machine up to the mind to record the pictures and characters as we see them when we read. My movies would all be R rated at best, but I'd like em.

[Sally, la reina]

One of my favorite things to theorize upon is when there are multiple movies made from the same literary basis. I find it fascinating how we continually find flaws with the visual representation, and then again fascinating when we begin to hold an "original" adaptation up as an ideal.

[[deleted user]]

I'm throwing a change of topic out here: I saw Clint Eastwood's new film last night, The Changeling, with Angelina Jolie. It was excellent. Heatrending, horrorifying, well-acted, and Angelina's lips looked bigger than usual. That may be because the rest of her body has shrunk to the size of a pin. But I digress. The moral of the story--I thought it was a great film. Anyone else seen it?

[Sally, la reina]

Oh, I'd like to see that. I like where Clint has gone in his old age. He is so cantankerous!

[[deleted user]]

And, once again, he composed the score for the film. The man is a genius.

[Sally, la reina]

Next week we are going to see W. I can't wait. Josh Brolin!

[RandomAnthony]

I finished Hellboy 2 this morning. I thought it was pretty good, better than I expected.

And I thought Selma Blair was great, although my wife says she's a crappy actress. Hm. I have to think about that a bit.

[Dave]

I think she's pretty good on Kath and Kim.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I liked Selma Blair in Hellboy II, but I thought she could have used more dialog, and more to do than just be cute and angry (which she did very well).

[Chloe]

I think she's a crappy actress, but I still love watching her in films. She's always the same role, but fortunately it's a role I like watching her in.

[Gåry!]

I think she's a decent actress... she's good for those darker, indie-girl type roles. She's a good character actor but most likely won't carry a significant project unless it's a "Girl, Interrupted" kind of role.

And hey, she was married to a Zappa for a while... that's gotta count for something. ;)

[Lisa]

I just saw Quantum of Solace at the second-run theatre. I'd like to point out that, partly by choice and partly by chance, I've never seen a James Bond flick from beginning to end.

And my record still stands. I'm on call this weekend, and I was paged about an hour into the movie, and had to step out to spend 20 minutes on the phone with a parent of one of my clients.

At best, the movie had some visually interesting moments. Overall, it was ridiculously convoluted and I couldn't follow it, and that was exacerbated by every fight/blowup/car chase/whatever excitement scene being broken up into disjointed camera shots of about a third of a second all sequenced together for several minutes at a time.

[[deleted user]]

I had heard that it wasn't near as good as Daniel Craig's first Bond movie. This one is supposedly a lot darker than any of the Bond movies. I will probably watch it, but probably at a matinee, as I don't think it will be worth a full price ticket.

[shellyindallas]

I have a total girl crush on Selma Blair. I love her on Kath and Kim, too.

I heard the latest Bond was super dark, as dark as the latest Batman movie. And there's no love interest--he's just bemoaning the loss of his love from the last one? I dunno. Sounds kinda Bourne Ultimatum, or was the second one Supremacy?

[RandomAnthony]

My wife loves the Bourne Ultimatum movies. I fool myself into thinking that Matt Damon isn't a factor.

I rented Tropic Thunder today. I'm definitely dropping Netflix...I'm not using it enough.

[[deleted user]]

Late to the game, but late last week I watched Attack of the Clones. I think that movie was written and directed as a Down's Syndrome summer camp project. It does for science fiction what Showgirls did for Kyle MacLachlan's film career.

(Jango Fett? You've gotta be fucking kidding me.)

[[deleted user]]

No, MacLachlan's strong chin has been in nary a Lynch since... what? His cameo in Fire Walk With Me?

Let me add, however, that Showgirls did a helluva lot for my appreciation of Gina Gershon, if not for her acting career.

[[deleted user]]

Donnie Boy, if you haven't seen it, check out the French film Demonlover (directed by Olivier Assayas), with Gina Gershon, Chloe Sevigny, and Connie Nielsen. It's essentially a thriller about pornographic Japanese anime and snuff films. Good stuff.

[Dave]

Extended. Hee hee.

[Michelle]

I've never seen The Brown Bunny.

[Sally, la reina]

I saw Rachel Getting Married last night. It is not really worth all the derision its getting in the reviews page lately, but then again, Steel Magnolias it is not. Just knowing what is about would clue anyone in to the lack of feel good factor.
I didn't even recognize Deborah Winger as the mother, and her role is what made going to the movie acceptable.
As I expected, it pissed me off, hit close to home, and deeply depressed me for the rest of the night. Perhaps that means it fulfilled the director's intentions.

I hate movies about dysfunctional families. It's somewhat like airing dirty laundry in public under the guise of "creative expression" or some bull. Similar to that book about Spectacular Work of Underestimated Genius. I wanted to kick that kid in the face.

[RandomAnthony]

Yeah, Sally has a point. Most "family dysfunction" movie suck. I need to think on this.

I might watch "Tropic Thunder" tonight.

[[deleted user]]

About a Boy is definitely a movie to avoid if you don't like dysfunctional family movies, but of course it all ends up OK in the end.

[Michelle]

I love those types of movies, but I wish I didn't.

Who can actually say they have a "functional" family anyway?

I watched Fanny and Alexander last night. It was both sad and lovely.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I loved Fanny and Alexander because of the ghosts. Which, admittedly, were PART of the dysfunctional family...

[Gåry!]

Eagle Vs Shark.
Stars Jemaine Clement & Loren Horsley but the real star is the quirky and poignant wisp of a story.

Fans of Flight of the Conchords should enjoy it greatly. It's got just that kind of odd, somehow sweetly mean humor that comes from a sort of innocence.

I couldn't help but think of Napoleon Dynamite as a Kiwi (except with generous doses of melancholy thrown in for good measure); Welcome to the Dollhouse comes to mind as well.

[Heidi]

Gary, EVS is one of my fave movies. I gave it a high recommendation in MiniAm a while back and a few other watched it.

I went th see Twilight on Friday night with a friend of mine. I'm not ashamed. And I wasn't disappointed. In fact, I liked it. Lots.

[RandomAnthony]

I just finished watching Hancock. I must admit the film was decent. I wasn't expecting much.

[Sally, la reina]

Holy! NO WAY! I just finished watching Hancock too! And I loved it! Kind of want to watch it again, right now.

RA, I got the package today - some kick ass tunes in there! Thanks, friend!

[Cyril]

No WAI! I just finished watching Hancock, too! This can not be a coincidence.

I liked it, but have never been impressed by Charlize Theron's acting.

[Sally, la reina]

I'm just completely mesmerized by her. Totally gay for that one.

Also, I'm pretty into Will Smith, too, so the whole thing was like mental porn. I love comic stories, can't get enough.

[RandomAnthony]

Oh, crap, Sallers, I'll send you a description of what's on the discs...my bad.

Yeah, I thought the movie was pretty good. My oldest and I watched it together...he's smart enough for PG-13 and he thinks it's cool he gets to stay up late. Then my wife ended up watching the movie, too, and all of us liked it. Will Smith did a remarkably good job...I agree, Sally, a smart, underrated comic book movie...

[RandomAnthony]

I saw "Wanted" with Angelina Jolie last night.

She got paid for that? I know she's gorgeous and all, but her performance in that film is the definition of "phoned in"...glad I got the film from the library for free.