MOVIES THREAD

Obviously they had the dog die to generate sympathy for the character, which is fine. But you can tug at the heart strings without putting the audience through an unpleasant experience. To me, it was needlessly graphic and drawn out.

My position: torture and maim all the people you want, but don't mess with animals. I know a lot of people feel the same, and I'm just surprised movie execs aren't more sensitive to that.

 

I wholeheartedly concur, Arnold.

 

How in the world did we miss Neve Campbell really hating her clothes -- in I Really Hate My Job??

NSFW: http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22i%20really%20hate%20my%20job%22%20neve&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

 

Very nice.

 

I can never watch I Am Legend with my mother cause she would hate it for that one scene. She takes it to an extreme she would probably hate Will Smith for having to do it. I thought the scene made sense, because at some point in the film, they were going to have to show how the loneliness got to the main character. But it was still hard to watch.

 

I nursed a hangover with "Australia." As an old mentor used to say, "So beautiful it makes me sick."

Going to see "Milk" tomorrow. Peter Travers' review was glowing.

 

I saw Quiz Show (released in 1994) today. Robert Redford directed it and it's really a great expose about the 1950s quiz show Twenty One. Highly recommend it, some terrific acting and a fine script.

 

That's a damn fine piece of cinema. Grand stuff.

 

I really want to see Milk.

 

I saw Australia yesterday....I honestly couldn't tell if the script was supposed to be so cliched, and they were going meta on the whole thing, or if it was just really, really, really poorly written.

Good-looking in parts, though. I don't think I've ever seen a Baz Luhrman film.

 

I watched P.S. I Love You last night. Shockingly enough, it was pretty good. I was amazed. Some very funny, laugh-out-loud lines. "I'm exhausted." "Well, yeah, what are you doing - two shows a night?"
It got a little dusty during the funeral/wake scene, but otherwise I didnt cry. Now I won't have to burn my man card.
I did think it was a tad long, clocking in at 2 hours.

 

Different strokes..... I thought, especially with that guy laying his accent extra thick in the voice-over.... that that was one of the worst movies I have seen in the past year.