w/b. mr. silencio. Glad you liked Boxing Helena

I just watched Palindromes. Solondz's most bizarre yet.

The Simpsons Movie

Just like other people told you, what you've seen for the past six or seven years on the show is what you get here. Only spruced up with a Hans Zimmer score and After Effects.
I laughed often, but they were shallow laughs.

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Mary Whitehouse was evil.  It was probably her fault my hamster died when I was a child.  She went so far with censorship that true artists were being persecuted for works of beauty.

As for the second part, it was closer to 2003.  *cough*  Alledgedly.  You could get hold of hardcore stuff, but if you've ever seen a film where Brits are buying "under the counter" porn, that would be how we got hold of it.  And the police would prosecute if they found you owned hardcore porn.  It's hard to believe it took us until 2003 to make it legal.  Not with the way we carry on in this country. 

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

All right, get ready to laugh because yesterday I watched....

Transformers - I thought it was very entertaining, incredible effects, obligatory love story, good humour (and I don't mean the ice cream) and was true to the original story as best as I recall since I really wasn't into the toon as a young Smokey. A groovy, summer blockbuster romp.    

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

You're so insensitive, Booth.  Don't you realize everyone has AIDS AIDS AIDS?  Guess you just don't care.

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

The Golden Compass

The ice bears were cool.

Ambitious effort combining Harry Potter with Animal Planet, borrowing tone from Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and Dune. Daniel Craig is more believable as Lord Asriel than as James Bond, and Nicole Kidman is in top form. The controversial anti-Catholic message is so diluted that it seems unlikely to offend anyone. The target audience is a younger crowd, but the film may have a hard time recouping its production costs. The ending is not quite satisfying, as you realize that you've really just sat through a two hour commercial for the sequel.

No Country for Old Men was AWESOME!!!  But then again my favorite non-Lynch movie of all time had Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson in it, too, so I'm biased.

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

Kiss Me Again

B-grade slop about a university teacher who considers cheating on his wife with a student, but instead talks his wife into a 3-some-type relationship.  Actually only made it 2/3 through before my brain gave up out of sheer boredom and put me into a coma-like sleep.  My wife kept watching though and said it just didn't get any better...

Guinevere  

Sheryl Lee didn't get naked!!!

The Golden Compass:

Given the reviews I expected this to be disappointing, but I still wanted to see it for the almost completely perfect cast (I love the characters and doubt I could've cast this thing as well), especially Nicole Kidman, who I've thought should play Mrs Coulter since I first read the book five years ago. Dakota Blue Richards was amazing, she completely brought one of my favorite characters to life. But I was very surprised to find that they'd gotten a great deal right, and much of the film matched by imagination of the book. The first half went way too fast, but the second half (well it didn't really slow down, but the pace of this part of the book is fast as well) is nearly perfect. They rendered the panserbjorne (ice bears... they only called them by their proper name once in the film) better than I could have imagined, when looking at them I didn't think in the back of my head they weren't actually real, as I've done with nearly every CGI extensive film except for Lord of the Rings.. So overall I really liked it, and was reasonably content. But there were many flaws, and a couple of them were huge. 1. The ending: The book has a fantastic finale, a really satisfying climax that completely wraps up that chapter of the story, but still ends on a huge cliffhanger. And for some totally inexplicable reason, they completely cut that out of the film. No it didn't serve the film well in any sense, it just cut out the conclusion of the story. The movie just ended undramatically, people who had never read the books knew something was way off. Not to mention they were constantly foreshadowing it, and setting it up, and they have clips from those scenes in the trailers. 2. Dodging the religion issue: I don't know what the hell they're going to do in the next two films, but they called the Catholic Church the Magistereum (ok, there is a group of church leaders called this in the books) and God the Authority (they use this name in later novels, when it is explained that it is not actually God, or the Creator). It was totally unclear what the hell the Authority was supposed to be, they just threw the name out there. The whole Adam and Eve story was vaguely reduced to "A long time ago our ancestors disobeyed the Authority" (this is the only time the Authority is mentioned). Other things I didn't like was that the intellectual tone of the books was pretty much lost, the film was really obvious sometimes where the book was not, and the movie was way too short. Things just rushed by, explanations were too close together, and scenes were condensed to the point that they made no sense whatsoever. I hope there's a three hour directors cut somewhere, the film was just needlessly brief. They practically threw out a favorite character of mine, and reduced her to the Galadriel role (though she was well acted by the stunning Eva Green). And then the nitpicky stuff, like there was no blood in the bear fight, the world was too fantastic, reducing the connection to our own, the brief opening monologue was stupid and pointless, Lyra looked way too clean and well dressed, daemon was pronounced demon, they cut daemons away with an electric field thing instead of a blade, the score was crappy and generic. I imagine readers of the books like me got a lot more out of it, the film would probably not be nearly as emotional and fleshed out for those who hadn't read them. So basically better than I could have expected, but not as good as it should have been: it really should have been another epic on the level of Lord of the Rings. But you can't have everything; I highly look forward to The Subtle Knife film.

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

Where the Day Takes You

I can't believe I never say this one. Balthazar Getty, Kyle Machlachlan, Lara Flynn Boyle and a metric buttton of famous 90's stars.  Decent movie, could've done without all the Melissa Etheridge

Right now I'm watching Sheryl Lee and Grace Zabriskie in Dante's Way.

How does Judd Apatow factor into the Juno flick?

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Recent movie highlights:

Grace Zabriskie sings in Dante's Way, with Sheryl Lee in the audience.

Heather Graham sings in Gray Matters, and makes out with some convincing passion with Bridget Moynaham. Molly Shannon plays her best friend, just to keep the Twin Peaks theme going.

Dennis Hopper goes full-frontal in Carried Away and humps Gary Busey's daughter, played by that chick from Cry Baby- not Ricki Lake.  Okay, maybe Hopper's dingle was less of a highlight and more of a... yeah.  Let's just say I was less freaked out by Frank Booth.