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[Sally, la reina]

Ugh, she's good here? I really don't care for her much.

[Vanessa]

I thought she was and I don't, either.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Maggie was good in Crazy Heart, I agree.

[Sally, la reina]

Allright, we watched Julie & Julia Thursday night and I really liked it. It was different than the book, in some ways better and other ways the book was better, but good! Entertaining and funny and just fluffy enough. I'm glad I watched it and I'm glad Amy Adams was in it.

[Félix]

I really enjoyed the way Amy played that part. Meryl was an amazingly brilliant Julia.

[Joy]

I agree but will Meryl get the Oscar rather than Sandra Bullock? Anyone see Blind Side?

[Youndyc]

Just watched an older movie tonight - The Good Shepherd, with Matt Damon. Interesting. Overly long, they needed to do a bit more editing, but very interesting. I recommend it - with the forewarning that it is more than 2.5 hours long.

[Sally, la reina]

I thought she was nominated last year? Is she in it for this year? oh shit, she probably will over Bullock. People love Streep.

I actually fast forwarded some of her scenes. She kind of bugged me in Mamma Mia! too. Just too much. And I really don't think she's attractive, so I didn't buy her role in that much.

[Her]

"She kind of bugged me in Mamma Mia! too. Just too much. And I really don't think she's attractive, so I didn't buy her role in that much. "

Probably why I didn't watch it. Not to mention, musicals give me motion sickness.

[Her]

I know it's "old", but Punch-Drunk Love was really good for an Adam Sandler movie.

[RandomAnthony]

I thought Punch Drunk Love was good, too.

[Joy]

Watched Mike Judge's "Extract" last night. While it's not as good as Office Space, I did enjoy it. Jason Bateman is very likable and Ben Affleck was a riot.

[Sally, la reina]

Jason Bateman is just great. He's like Tom Selleck, or a nice wine - just getting better and better with age.

[Félix]

Movie night in the community room. Tonight it's "Tell No One," a French thriller.

Taking a bottle of wine just in case ....

[Sally, la reina]

You could put that wine in your Nalgene, Larry...

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "You could put that wine in your Nalgene, Larry..."

No need. We're allowed to drink openly.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I watched the DVD of District 9 last week, and really enjoyed it. I was expecting a much more serious movie than the SF/medical thriller with alien body parts playing a significant role I ended up watching.
It was funny! And bloody! And grungy! And wow was there a lot of blowing stuff up!
I rooted for the aliens. :)

[Sarah]

Me too, Jackie. I saw a review of "The Road" that said "The Road was a great book, but if you want a great movie about a father and son struggling to survive, see District 9."


I watched Adam this weekend, which was funny and sweet, and did a really nice job depicting Asperger's Syndrome.

[Félix]

Tell No One was interesting. Quite an intricate plot to follow with subtitles. Kristen Scott Thomas was in it speaking French. It was a long picture (2.5 hrs) but enjoyable.

We need some more comfortable furniture in the community room, though. Even the wine didn't help that.

[Her]

how does "Alice in wonderland" look like?

[Youndyc]

I saw Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief this weekend. It was entertaining.

[Heidi]

I watched two great movies this past weekend -

Two Days in Paris and Flashbacks of a Fool (GAH!!! Daniel Craig is HOT in that one!)

I still have Flashbacks of a Fool - I plan to watch it a few more times before returning it to the library. LADIES AND MEN OF TC - YOU MUST WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!

I've already watched Two Days in Paris twice - I laughed heartily both times - especially at the balloon pics. :)

I also watched Anamorph and Passengers this past week - they were alright.

Next on my list to watch:

Year One
Saawariya
Savage Grace
Undertaking Betty

Any of you seen any of those yet? Curious to know what you think of them... DON'T TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS, though. :) KTHX, BAI.

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Year One is flat-out AWFUL. You'll hate yourself for watching it. So bad, I didn't bother to finish it.

[Sarah]

I hated Year One too. Zu is a lover of cheesy comedies, so I have watched a lot of dumb stuff, but even she hated Year One. And I guess I expected more, between the cast and the Reitman influence. It felt like it wanted to be a Mel Brooks movie, but that Mel Brooks movie has already been written.

[Sally, la reina]

Just home from seeing It's Complicated with Grandma.

My favorite line in the movie? "I like a lot of sperm." Oh my stars, loller galore.

[Youndyc]

Saw Sunshine Cleaning tonight - it was interesting. Very much in keeping with Little Miss Sunshine.

[Sally, la reina]

I liked that movie a lot. Was it by the same producer/director/writer as LMS?

[Sally, la reina]

We just watched Adventureland. I was underwhelmed. Amusing, but not entertaining. Ryan Reynolds is over-rated.

[Joy]

I hope The Hurt Locker gets Best Picture tonight!

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "We just watched Adventureland. I was underwhelmed. Amusing, but not entertaining. Ryan Reynolds is over-rated."

I loved the soundtrack.

[Cambridge]

Joy, I just watched Hurt Locker last night and although I haven't seen all the nominees ....... but WHAT A MOVIE!!! Not sure what I had expected but definitely not the range of emotions that I did have...... and to think that they made the movie with no names and on a shoe string budget......... TRULY AMAZING..... A very worthy picture!!!

[Mary]

We watched Pandorum last night. It was....kind of boring, actually. I dozed off for a few minutes at any rate. My husband liked it but I kept making mental comparisons to Event Horizon for some reason and it didn't measure up.

[Sally, la reina]

I just saw a preview for Extract. I can't wait.

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This well-paced, shot-on-video voyeurfest follows Youth Brigade and Social Distortion on their first cross-country tour and provides a valuable and entertaining chronicle of an all-ages, D.I.Y. music environment that is all but extinct.

It begins with the crew converting an old school bus for the trip and making other vital preparations like shaving their heads and dyeing their hair. Maintaining an outrageous appearance was serious business back in those heady days. As Social Distortion leader Mike Ness notes with a superior air, "Most guys don't know how to wear makeup."

In between concert segments, the young travelers find kindred spirits at a Calgary punk house (complete with backyard skate ramp), where they are offered lodging and ominous-looking pots of chili, weather numerous mechanical problems with the bus, get stiffed by promoters, and pay a visit to Washington, D.C., scene deity Ian MacKaye at his day job scooping Haagen Dazs ice cream.

The gung-ho spirit weakens when some crew members catch the next Greyhound home, daunted by the prospects of spending the night on the streets of Detroit after plans for lodging fall through, and finally the ailing bus (and tour) grinds to a halt amid flaring tempers. Youth Brigade's Scott Stern declares the trip a financial disaster but a moral victory but if nothing else, it makes for a great way to spend 83 minutes.

[RandomAnthony]

Sally wrote: "I just saw a preview for Extract. I can't wait."

For what? It's already out.

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Thirty-two years on, I've seen this one more than enough times to commit the entire script to memory, but I decided to roll it out to my three kids - all major Ramones fans at the tender ages of 9, 9 and 12 - as part of an all-bruddahs weekend at Casa Paull.

A twisted mix of low-budget, 1950's juvenile delinquent movies and 1960's beach comedies, many of the gags in "Rock 'N' Roll High School" haven’t aged very gracefully, but the scenes which include the band are pure cinematic gold. Clint Howard, as the wheeling, dealing, campus huckster Eaglebauer and ex-Warhol Factory diva Mary Woronov, as the evil Principal Togar, are worth tuning in for as well.

Other than the Ramones' timeless militant uniforms of leather jackets, torn jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers, the fashions on display here, at a time when punk was overlapping disco, are often painful to look at, a virtual landslide of satin jackets, spandex, horizontal stripes, and feathered-back hair. There’s something vaguely unsettling about kids in wide-collared, open-neck shirts and flared jeans bopping to the lock groove and slam of the Ramones. What the hell were we thinking?

Highlights, besides the hopped-up concert footage (filmed in front of an enthusiastic audience), include the Ramones pulling up to a concert venue in an old Cadillac (license plate "NY-Gabba-Gabba-Hey") driven by Rodney Bingenheimer singing "I Just Want To Have Something To Do," #1 Ramones fan Riff Randall (the ever-annoying P.J. Soles) sparking a joint and hallucinating that the band are in her bedroom (Joey and Johnny), shower (Dee Dee), and backyard (Marky), serenading her with "I Want You Around," and the final scene in which the Ramones play the title track while the high school explodes behind them in a piece of perfectly-staged incendiary directing by Arkush.

[Sally, la reina]

RandomAnthony wrote: "For what? It's already out."

For it to move up in my queue, silly!

[Sarah]

We saw the new Alice in Wonderland last night, in 3D but not IMAX. It was ok.

My observations:
1)The 3D didn't actually matter at all. It didn't do many of the cool you're-in-the-picture things at all.

2)The design and Wonderlandiness were oddly lacking for a Burton film. There were a couple of cool sets, but it was just kind of bleak for the most part. One of the best things about a Tim Burton movie is usually the sets, but this felt uninspired.

3)The girl who played Alice was great. Helena Bonham Carter was perfect. Johnny Depp was just weird with his fey Rob Roy imitation. Crispin Glover always creeps me out - good choice there. The walking overbite who played the fiance looked like he stepped out of Wallace & Grommit. I don't get why they bothered hiring Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry and all if they were going to use them in such boring ways.

4)I get that maybe the plot wasn't satisfying enough, but why graft every CGI fantasy movie of the last ten years onto it?

I think my expectations were set too high by the initial stills that were released, and the idea of setting Tim Burton loose in Wonderland. It was pleasant enough, but was oddly bland.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I saw Alice over the weekend, just in 3-D, no IMAX. I am so over IMAX, it doesn't seem to add anything but an opportunity for distortion. Agreed that the 3-D didn't matter at all. I guess they can charge more for it.

I thought it was okay, too. Not great, not terrible. They turned it into a standard hero quest story, and my friend Kim's daughter Lily really was inspired by it. But I'm not 8, so I was a little less charmed by the simplification of the story.

I liked all the quirky characters, especially Depp, who manages to make even the weirdest characters appealing. I also liked the dormouse, but thought, along with Sarah, that Alan Rickman as the caterpillar was sadly underused.

I found Alice herself a bit flat, and young for her age. She was nice enough, but didn't seem to be fully engaged, maybe because the character thinks she's just dreaming. Again, I felt like they were skewing the movie toward younger viewers, who could relate to this younger Alice better.

I liked the costuming a lot, and I liked the fun they had with Alice outgrowing or outshrinking her dresses, and getting something new to wear. I especially liked how they had the Hatter make her a dress from her old one, off camera with just some snipping noises. Ha!

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Agreed on Crazy Heart, Misha. Great performance, slow movie. It was okay, a bit predictable.
I was glad it wasn't as bleak as The Wrestler last year.

[Sally, la reina]

It's interesting all this talk about Alice being for younger viewers. I really thought that Burton was consistently geared for adults.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Ah, but this was Disney Burton, Sally.

[Sally, la reina]

I ... whaaaa? It was? Huh.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Yep, Disney approached Burton about doing a new Alice. Weird, huh?

Although, Nightmare Before Christmas was Disney, too.

[Sarah]

I forgot to say that while I was at the movie theater, I came face to face with a giant cutout of the new American version of Death at a Funeral. I still can't figure out the compulsion to remake recent movies that were already awesome. What could you possibly achieve?
The Chris Rock-Tracey Morgan thing makes me think it's going to be too over the top, and the director is the guy who remade the Wicker Man, which doesn't really instill any confidence as far as I'm concerned.

[Sarah]

Haven't they already tanked, though? The American version of Absolutely Fabulous, the American version of Life on Mars, the American version of Coupling...
Queer as Folk and the Office are the successes I can think of.

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"The Runaways" film trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbctJ2...

Hmmm... Hollywood just co-opted another chunk of my high-school years, a time when my friends and I challenged ourselves to be named in the yearbook as “most likely to be found dead in his hotel room.”

Visually, it looks like they got it pretty much right, especially whoever's playing band svengali Kim Fowley - one of the biggest d'bags in the history of pop music. But something about seeing Dakota Fanning as Cherie Curie flopping around on stage in a corset leaves me feeling, uh, slightly unclean.

[Robin]

Get your geek on - Tron:Legacy is here! Check out the full trailer.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...

[RandomAnthony]

Wow, that looks pretty cool, thanks, Robin...I like how they worked in the old arcade video game machines. And isn't that the woman who plays Thirteen on House? Ahem, she has my attention...

[janine]

i loved life on mars! the british version of course.