Last movie you watched......

It does if you're sitting strangely, can't "rearrange."

 

I watched Best in Show and half of Secretary tonight. I've already seen each more than once, so I guess there's not really a point here. But I love both.

 

Just watched Precious this past weekend. I've now seen all ten of the Best Pic noms from the Oscars.

I rank them:

The Hurt Locker
District 9
Inglorious Basterds
Up in the Air
Avatar
An Education
Precious
Up
A Serious Man















The Blind Side

 

I know what you're saying, HC, and that may be where the story was, but it got completely lost in all of the bland description of the landscape.

"A blackened doll. A charred shopping cart. The cold wind."

It went on like that endlessly. It was a laundry list of nouns and adjectives, occasionally spattered with one- and two-word sentences of "dialogue" between the boy and his father.

Sorry, I just don't buy "The cold wind." as a sentence just because of the name on the book jacket. I really feel like if the author's name was something like Andrew Greenwalt, no one would have thought this book was worth anything. The whole book seemed awfully pretentious to me.

The writing was as lifeless as the landscape, which may well have been the point, but it left me dying to see a verb.

 

Fred Williard describing the action brings tears to my eyes.

 

McCarthy's lack of quotation marks drives me insane.

But, this is a movie thread, so I digress.

 

Went to see The A-Team today and totally loved it. About what you'd expect from a good, old-fashioned action shoot 'em up. And, as a big fan of the TV series, I got into the re-imagining of the characters.

 

Buck Laughlin: Now that looks like a fast dog. Is that faster than a greyhound?
Trevor Beckwith: Uhh... I can't really say...
Buck Laughlin: If you put them in a race, who would come in first? You know if you had a little jockey on them ...

 

Buck Laughlin: I told my proctologist, "you can take me out to dinner once in a while."
Trevor Beckwith: Yes, I remember, you told that joke last year.

BTW in case you didn't know, Buck Laughlin is based on Joe Garagiola, and word is that Garagiola was not happy with Willard's homage.

 

30 minutes of Karate Kid. Unfortunately, a nice young couple brought their infant, who cried loudly about 75% of the time I was there. The other 25% of the time, their toddler was talking loudly and making noise. There was another baby on the other side of the theater that only cried about 25% of the time, so that was nice. I got my money back and left.

 

For you, PofO:

 

Thanks. That was the worst movie experience I've had since "Ali" where the guy sitting behind me's wife had to wake him up so he could answer his phone, which had been ringing on and off for the past few minutes. The man answers and commences a conversation, "Hello?... hello?... oh, hey... asleep... asleep... ASLEEP!... nah, at the movie... Ali..." and so on.

There were also the kids at that flick who were cutting up the whole time, trying to be loud, who, when Ali meets Malcolm X the first time and they have a solemn conversation, one yells, "Dang! His face look like a skillet!" (the other kid laughs). Then from the other side of the theater, "Y'all need to take y'all asses to church, that's what you need to do!"

What Malcolm and Ali said to one another? Couldn't tell you.