You mean Jeff Bridges.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

One of those times where you're with a couple friends, and only one of you really wants to watch this movie, but the other two aren't going to make a fuss, so you just sit and watch it, sort of groaning. Then you "joke" about how you're not enjoying it, and the friend who brought the DVD laughs with you but still isn't going to turn it off, so you end up watching the whole thing, thinking, "Well, maybe it will get better," but it doesn't.
So then you watch some Arrested Development, and it sorta washes out the bad taste. Sorta.

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+1 for Affliction and Tideland, both kind of rough to watch, but good films.

I like anime, not Sailor Moon/Naruto junk, but the good stuff, Miyazaki, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, FLCL, Lain, etc. Paprika is a visual thrill ride, I lost track of the narrative amid the blurring of dream and reality, but I'm glad I caught it on a big screen.

The local art museum screened TRON this week, such a fine film, still looks great after all these years.

It's been awhile but last night we finally watched the Netflix film that has been here over a month -- Kinky Boots. Sigh.  Halfway through I was ready to quit but stuck it out through its predictable ending.  Well, it was "based on a true story."  As they say.  And they used the actual shoe factory from the true story as a location. 

Seems to me that the transvestite, cross-dresser theme with the endearing, misunderstood, social misfit who is eventually fully accepted by the country bumpkin/unsophisticates as the wonderful guy/gal he truly is, has played inself out. You're a better man than I am, Simon-Lola. Ha!  He even called himself "Lola."  L-O-L-A.

Oh well, it was not a complete waste of time.  The "making of" extra was pretty good.  But I'm a little sorry we didn't watch Pan's Labyrinth or The Queen, both of which are also here waiting to be viewed. Or any of the past 6 seasons of The Sopranos either. Just thought I should get that Kinky Boots DVD back to Netflix in case someone out there is dying to watch it.  

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Blood Simple

Really good but it could have developed Frances McDormands character a little earlier. Gonna watch Barton Fink now, never seen it before. I bought the Coen Bros. collection hence the watching the their movies. 

has anyone checked out the king with william hurt & laura harring? I wanna check it out tonight, good choice on blood simple OutLaw, I love that film!

In the last day or so:

Mirrormask -- I liked it a lot and will probably buy it someday, though it did lose focus a little near the end, I think.  I liked the line Gaiman quotes from a Sony exec: "It's like Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast... on acid... for kids..."

Gosford Park -- I wanted to watch it again immediately.  Richard E Grant's role was a bit of a throwaway, but it was nice to see him there anyway.  Everyone in it was great.  I can't tell if Ryan Philippe was acting or not, though.

Hollywoodland -- the effects of Ben Affleck in From Here to Eternity were laughably bad, and the overall production looked a little Canadian, but Affleck, Adrien Brody, and Diane Lane are all terrific leads and carry the film past any occasional weaknesses.

Gosford Park was okay...still makes me a trifled miffed since it was nominated for best picture over Mulholland Drive...but Helen Mirren and Emily Watson made the film worth wading through mediocre performances by all the other supposed good actors like Kristen Scott Thomas and Michael Gambon...I did like Maggie Smith a lot in this one, although it is hard to say anything bad about her.

Hollywoodland - Agreed. If it were not for the 3 fine performaces, I would have turned it off halfway through.

Barton Fink - Susan and I will tell you it is their best film.

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

And I will tell you YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT, DONNIE!

Okay. Fine. I've never properly watched it, so I'll rent it tonight.

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Barton Fink is not only the Coen Brothers best to date (I'm not giving up hope quite yet...) but is one of the top ten on my list anyway.  In fact so much do I love that film that I have adapted a Barton Finkism as my email signature this year.

It just doesn't seem to me that Los Angeles is the place to lead the life of mind.
 

Truer words were occasionally spoken. 

It's just a perfect little film and it's got that Barton Fink feeling in spades! 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

No Country For Old Men. It definitely looks different from The Ladykillers. I bet if their Vietnam(?) movie with Brad Pitt had worked out, we wouldn't have had to suffer through their last two remakes.

Here's the trailer. 

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The trailer looks a little on the grim and seedy side for my tastes.  Feels like Blood Simple meets Lone Star.  But I will give them their deserved benefit of a doubt and hope it's a good 'un even if it is an adapted screenplay from one of Oprah's favorite novelists.  Hey, I enjoyed her recommended book, The Deep End of the Ocean.  Good cast.  But it looks like it is without the zany quality of Barton Fink of The Big Lebowski.  I'm waiting patiently. 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

The Cormac MacCarthy book it was based on was pretty grim and seedy, so you can probably bet it will be.  I loved the book, though.

-cg

It's good to see that we all agree that the Coen Brothers have pretty much sucked ass through a straw lately. O Brother Where Art There? was there last "gem". I need to give the Man Who Wasn't There a second viewing. And by the way, I love it when Susan quotes Barton Fink...

"Physician heal thyself. Try doing that with no fu**ing head."     

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

 I love all that stuff too... aside from Akira, I didn't get that.... Finally, someone else who has seen Serial Experiments Lain!... that was a terriffic show. I love Tron too, it would be great to see it on the big screen.

So I finished Kidnapped... last four eps were good, but not quite as good as the first few. Still, just the fact that they managed to wrap it up in a satisfying way gives it plenty of bonus points... Madchen got to do a lot more in episode 9 , David Patrick Kelly also appeared, and Linus Roache finally got to do something. Fun show. Right after that I went back to X-files, just starting up season 6. I didn't think too much of the season 5 finale, The End; too many loose ends, but I loved the movie, and I like The End better now that I've seen the S6 premiere, The Beginning. Brilliant episode... manages to reconcile the various plot strands from The End and the movie that had nothing to do with each other, and pull them into a tight, exciting story. Triangle was a brilliant episode... I hadn't seen it in a long time. Brilliant camera work, especially the scene where Scully's frantically trying to get information in the FBI building. I'll get back to actual movie's tonight with Talk To Her.

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Talk To Her:

Solid, interesting film is certainly worth watching, but I still don't get the Almodovar craze. This and Volver were interesting and enjoyable but not particularly deep or moving, and both suffer from long stretches of times where the tone becomes oddly bland... Almodovar is a very assured director, but the story didn't really go very far in this film and they threw the most interesting character (I'm talking about the bullfighter) out of the film far too early. The performances are excellent, and the film is visually amazing at times. The silent film sequence was bizarre, hilarious, and somehow creepy at the same time.

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

The Player

Alright, here's the movie (you're gonna love this): It's a satire, see, but it's also a thriller. It's like... Psycho meets Strangelove. You've got a bunch of stars- Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg- and a load of cameos. So many that it takes the audience a second to figure out who's playing a character and who's playing themselves (in one scene: Andie McDowell is herself, Dean Stockwell is a character). You have mirrored story lines, you see, so movies in the movie reflect the movie outside the other movies-- really heady stuff, the film buffs and the eggheads are gonna love it! But it's got a lot of crossover appeal, too. For one thing, there's a happy ending! An ironic happy ending, but that's like the best of both worlds!

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