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Do you mean Dudley Do-Right, Bun? Because, he's the one that would be doing the derring do, while Snidely would be getting foiled again. :)
Larry wrote: "Curses."But not in front of Tony Dungy. It hurts his little eardrums.
Jan wrote: "Try Dancer in the Dark with Bjork. It was ethereal and very touching. ."
That movie made me weep.
We saw "You Again" yesterday. Good cast, overcooked plot. Thoroughly mediocre.
Barb wrote: "Sarah Pi wrote: "Jan wrote: "Try Dancer in the Dark with Bjork. It was ethereal and very touching. ."
That movie made me weep."
Weep? Just weep? I was a mess ... refuse to ever watch it ..."
Agreed. I will never ever watch it again.
Rhys Ifan is a riot! LOVE him.
I like scruffy and weird though. Don't tell my husband, he might take that the wrong way. :)
Sarah Pi wrote: "Jan wrote: "
Try Dancer in the Dark with Bjork. It was ethereal and very touching. ."
That movie made me weep.
We saw "You Again" yesterday. Good cast, overcooked plot. Thoroughly mediocre."
I'm not so much with the weeping. I want to laugh, or have great effects. Weeping I won't do unless I don't know that's what it is before I watch it. I have to be tricked. If I know, it's out. Like The Notebook...everyone raved, but I knew it was just a tear jerker so I won't watch it.
Try Dancer in the Dark with Bjork. It was ethereal and very touching. ."
That movie made me weep.
We saw "You Again" yesterday. Good cast, overcooked plot. Thoroughly mediocre."
I'm not so much with the weeping. I want to laugh, or have great effects. Weeping I won't do unless I don't know that's what it is before I watch it. I have to be tricked. If I know, it's out. Like The Notebook...everyone raved, but I knew it was just a tear jerker so I won't watch it.
Yeah, all I knew about Dancer in the Dark when I saw it was that Bjork was in a musical and it was getting great reviews. Sometimes I think reviewers give really dark movies automatic good grades. "It upset me, so it must be good."
I'm confused as to why the producers changed the title of Let The Right One In to Let Me In for the American market. Anyone?I've seen a couple commercials/trailers for the film, and they're marketing it, in the thirty second bits, as a pretty simple horror film. The longer form trailer is better.
http://www.youtube.com/user/overturef...
I'll probably still see it, but I might wait until the video comes out.
I've heard that it's pretty much identical to the original, but without subtitles.I hate the name change. Let the Right One In conveys something entirely different than Let Me In.
Time to bump that book to the top of my reading list.
Sarah Pi wrote: "I've heard that it's pretty much identical to the original, but without subtitles.I hate the name change. Let the Right One In conveys something entirely different than Let Me In."
Exactly...and I don't understand the purpose of switching at all...
Especially since Let the Right One In is a lyric too.
Okay, I'm so not loving this book...the pedophile stuff is really creeping me out.
That fades away quite quickly... to be replaced by a zombie. But the zombie isn't a paedophile, he has too many other problems to distract him. Stick with it!
having read the book, wonders what in goddamn hell Paul is talking about
The guy the kid bashes to bits, all night long, then he turns into a kind of horrible undead thing. I'm calling that a zombie. If you don't remember that scene you must have read Let The Wrong One In, a similar book with no zombie stylings. People get them mixed up all the time.
Ah, got it, Paul...I didn't connect him with zombies. I thought he was just a...half-formed vampire or something. I can see his zombie-qualities, though...
Sometimes when I look in the mirror I can see mine too.
finally watched KickAss and that was a good movie!
Watched Get Him to the Greek and it was not. I thought Russell Brand's character was fantastic in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but a whole movie of him with Vomit-Action Jonah Hill as his sidekick was just gross.
We watched a movie called Dirty Pretty Things this past Sunday. It was very, very good!Also watched Carriers, which I should've known was gonna be pretty lame 'cause Piper Perabo is in it, and Iron Man 2 (fun).
Whoo, Piper Perabo is pretty, in a way I find hard to describe.
A true WTF. How about that! Disney has conned good ol' Sam Raimi (speaking of Spider Twinkz movies!) into directing their upcoming Wizard of Oz picture, Oz: The Great and Powerful. The story, about a young Kansan woman incarcerated at a violent supermax prison, will be written for the screen by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole), and the movie miiiight star Robert Downey Jr. as the wizard. But who will play Dorothy? Emma Stone? Nah. I vote for Glee's Chris Colfer. Though then you get into weird Kurt-in-prison territory and then it's just sad slash fiction that I've dreamt up in my miserable, booze-addled brain. Honk. Clank.
http://gawker.com/5657394/we-are-one-...
I think this sounds terrible! And in the comments someone said there's a rumor that Lea Michele from Glee is lobbying hard to play Dorothy. I dunno. I don't understand why RDJ or Raimi are touching this.
I'll have to keep an open mind, since those 2 do have some integrity. I thought, anyway.
Oh and here's the trailer for The Tempest:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HIf4...
I'm definitely seeing this in the theater stoned. heh
Maybe Raimi conned Disney into letting him do it?The Tempest looks INSANE. But why isn't Russell Brand Caliban?
I watched a very mediocre movie called It's Complicated, featuring a love triangle between Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Jack Donaghy. It left me with kitchenlust and gardenlust but not much else. Oh, and it convinced me that Hunter Parrish (the son, also from Weeds) SHOULD NOT play Peeta in the Hunger Games.
We went and watched It's Kind of a Funny Story this weekend. It was an excellent movie, and Zach Galifianakis can play a serious role.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804497/
That did look interesting, but I'm glad to get a personal recommendation.We watched Big Night on Netflix instant play last night. I was hungry when we started, and way hungrier by the time it was over.
watched a DVD of a Lifetime show on Georgia O'Keeffe. the following review says it all: http://scandalouswoman.blogspot.com/2...
I'd never watch a movie without reading what Mr. Cranky wrote about it. His reviews make me laugh out loud, more than I can say for most comedies.
We saw Secretariat last night. I went in with low expectations - a Disnefied Seabiscuit - but consequently found it much better than I expected. Diane Lane was very good, they managed to hide the differences between the horses playing Secretariat better than most movies, and the races were exciting. I liked that they used the real footage for one of them.
Do you think Diane Lane is going to be hot when she's, lot, 80? Because she's still way smokin'.I haven't seen, uh, any movies lately, I should add.
What I realized during that movie was that she had the look of an old school movie star. I think elegance transcends age.I read an interview where she said that all she wants is the Anjelica Huston role from The Grifters. She sees that as the golden standard for a (forgive me) "woman of a certain age."
Seabiscuit got a rave review from Ebert, although he knows the author of the book it's based on. I want to see it, but first, I'm going to see Red on Sunday.
Oh! Big Red was Secretariat, Sarah Pi? I never knew that!
Both Secretariat and Man O' War were nicknamed Big Red, fifty years apart. It's a pretty common nickname, but those are the two famous ones. Man O'War
This horse has always been my personal favorite.I was at the track for the San Marcos (paragraph 3) and the San Antonio (paragraph 4). Holy shit, what a magnificent animal!
That's when my dad instituted a new rule in his gambling: Always bet on the grey.
Here's some video, too.
Amazing!
Huh. I've never been stumped at horse trivia before, but I'm not familiar with Vigors. I guess because he was west coast and didn't win any of the classics. I'll watch that race when I get home!
He didn't win much as a youngster. He hit his stride late, both in life and on the track. His big successes came after age 5, when most "stars" are out to stud.
Those are always cool horses to watch, since they get a chance to develop a career, rather than quickly being retired to stud (a phenomenon that is mostly Secretariat's fault). It's unusual for them to race a colt that long if he has any sort of promise at stud; it's usually the geldings who are raced later.
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Also saw Elegy with Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. Hated it. But if you really need to see PC's breasts, this is the movie for you.
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My wife's preparing for another one of her yearly garage sales and this one is FINALLY on its way to the curb, thank God. But the twins figured they'd give it one more spin just to see me twitch.
Just when you thought the big guy couldn't get any more annoying, he reappears here with a whole new cast of wide-eyed stage brats entirely consumed with finding the star for the community Christmas tree. Along the way, your senses are numbed by an array of perky holiday songs sung by perky holiday kids in whose dictionaries the word "overacting" apparently doesn't appear, Barney spewing a constant barrage of pithy, brilliant truths, merry-yet-creepy, nails-on-chalkboard chuckles, and the inevitable appearances of twin-lap-dogs-of-Satan Baby Bop and B.J.
Despite Barney's former status as some sort of toddler deity at my house, my dream is still to one day set him on fire.
My wife's preparing for another one of her yearly garage sales and this one is FINALLY on its way to the curb, thank God. But the twins figured they'd give it one more spin just to see me twitch.
Just when you thought the big guy couldn't get any more annoying, he reappears here with a whole new cast of wide-eyed stage brats entirely consumed with finding the star for the community Christmas tree. Along the way, your senses are numbed by an array of perky holiday songs sung by perky holiday kids in whose dictionaries the word "overacting" apparently doesn't appear, Barney spewing a constant barrage of pithy, brilliant truths, merry-yet-creepy, nails-on-chalkboard chuckles, and the inevitable appearances of twin-lap-dogs-of-Satan Baby Bop and B.J.
Despite Barney's former status as some sort of toddler deity at my house, my dream is still to one day set him on fire.
Barny has always creeped me out, but he's not as completely fucking whiny as Caiiou or whatever his name. I would forbid my child from hanging out with Caiiou.
I hate Barney. Clark, I support you!
We saw Bottle Shock last night. I was disappointed. The constant music was distracting -- and at times the dialog was contrived. The Sonoma County scenery was fantastic, though. It was cool seeing the Sonoma square as a stand-in for Napa 35 years ago.
I just saw Red and loved it - great soundtrack, great actors. It's based on a DC graphic novel (i.e. comic book) about retired CIA operatives, and RED stands for "Retired: Extremely Dangerous." One of these retired operatives, Bruce Willis, is suddenly targeted to be killed, and gee, he wants to know why. He has lots of equally dangerous friends he can call on for help, including Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and best of all, John Malkovich.
Tons of gunfire in this movie, not much blood. It's all about the visual style - think comic book panels, with great music. Literally mounds of spent bullet casings are left behind in some of the scenes. Maybe a bit longer than it needed to be, but hey, you've got John Malkovich being crazy, and I never get tired of that.
Now, I like Bruce Willis fine, but if you don't, don't go see this.
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I just saw Red and loved it - great soundtrack, great actors. It's based on a DC graphic novel (i.e. comic book) about retired CIA operatives, and RED stands for "Retired: Extremely Dangerous." ..."
sounds really good.
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