MOVIES THREAD

OOP: Did you get to see it yet? What did you think? It was #1 over the weekend by a mile.

 

Something came up on my end, so I didn't go when my wife took the little one today. My wife thought it was cute, but nothing special. My daughter loved it.

 

So my friend told me to check out this movie....and I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothing, but Paris Je T'amie kicks ass.
And unicorns.

 

Saw "The Mist" today. One of the better Stephen King adaptations (maybe Frank Darabont ((Shawshank, Green Mile)) should just make them all), genuinely suspenseful, and the studio has big ol' giant balls for allowing them to keep the original ending.

 

Arnold: Thanks for the good news about "The Mist!" Now if I can only find the time, perhaps I will indeed darken the doors of a cinema for the first time since 1998.

 

Unless everything I've read ... and everything I remember about the novella ... are wrong, that's NOT the original ending to the story.

And I'm not going to spoil it, other than to say I thought it sucked the life out of a pretty enjoyable movie.

 

broken flowers ... second time i've seen it. what' up witht the ending? the naked girl, lolita, is uber-cute. 3.25 stars cuz the soundtrack kicks ass.

reign over me ... it's ok. cheadle is pretty good, though. 2.5 stars out of 5.

the ex ... braff is actually decent for once. 2.5 stars.

 

Don't know how I felt about the new glasses, but gotta disagree about the movie. Thought that shit was good. Don't know if that has anything to do with never having seen a 3D movie before, but I liked it. So did the people I went with.

 

Death Proof by Tarantino. A bizarre effort but tremendous in the same breath. Kurt Russell is great as Stuntman Mike. The first vignette ends in pure chaos, and Tarantino'esque death. What is great about the first part of the movie is the 70's motif videography and cinematography: scratchedy and skippy and above all, gritty. Felt like I was in 1977 even though it was set in modern Austin. The second vignette, based in Lebanon, Tennessee, starts in black and white then switches over to color suavely, when one of the girls gets a sodee from the sodee machine. After that there is a fantastic girlie-convo-heavy diner scene. Good shit. Zoe Bell, who is a stunt double for, among others, Uma Thurman (hi, Idaho ) is great. Love her Kiwi accent; kept reminding me of this basketball player I covered in California so long ago. The nut action scene is some balls-to-the-wall'ism with Bell on the hood of a 1970 Charger full o' 440 horsepower. Scene/movie ends abruptly, but woman watching this no doubt will feel embiggened by the moment.

Tarantino really is a master craftsman. 4.5 stars out of 5.

 

I liked it the way I like the occasional Big Mac.

There's something being lost in the reality that you're not looking at flesh-and-blood actors. The renderings of Hopkins and Jolie are way off.

I'd tell the younguns to read the epic instead, but they'd have to do something punishable first.

 

death of a president ... trippy shit. seems so real. 4 stars out of 5.

 

jesus camp ... an hour into it now -- it's the most disturbing thing i have ever seen. we're going to see devastatinng effects of this sometime in the next 10 years.