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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
BelAir:
http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collections/gallery/906/#photo10
Top 10 Historically Inaccurate Movies
oops! I better stop taking history lessons from the movies.... Interesting to me how many Mel Gibson films are on the list...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Elle on July 19, 2008, 11:05:46 pm ---About the "homo" remarks in Hitchcock. I'm not sure I'll do a good job verbalizing why I thought it was actually quite funny when he said them, but I'll try, which feels risky, because if I don't do a good job, I risk alienating beloved men here.
Okay, so, in the beginning, Hitchcock is basically a scruffy, dirty, drunk or hungover mess.
--- End quote ---
Whoa! I read this and thought, Hunh?? There's a movie in which Alfred Hitchcock is a scruffy, dirty, drunk and hungover mess, as well as a homophobe??!
Then I figured out whom you meant. And yeah, that's how I saw it, too.
--- Quote from: ednbarby on July 20, 2008, 08:40:20 am ---Tam, I think the comparison of the two movies is inevitable because they came out almost at the same time.
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And they are both set in Europe around the turn of the last century. And both have two-word titles involving "the" followed by a noun. I saw and liked both of them, and sometimes get momentarily confused myself.
Last week, really wanting to see TDK but already having committed myself to seeing it with my husband over the weekend (which we did), I went to Mama Mia. It was light and fluffy to the point of ridiculousness, even stupidity.
But a week later, I'm still humming the songs.
MaineWriter:
Like you, Katherine, a week later I am still humming the Mamma Mia! songs. That was a great bit of summer entertainment...silly, harmless, laugh outloud funny, with good looking 3/4s naked men leaping out of the ocean at strategic moments. What more could you want from a flick?
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Meryl:
I saw "Journey to the Center of the Earth" today in 3D. Talk about harmless fun--if I had kids I'd take them to it in a minute. Not too long, lots of fun tricks with the 3D and lots of scary critters. Brendan Fraser is the perfect actor for it--cute, hot, and doesn't take himself seriously at all. They made going to the center of the earth and back seem like a vacation--only one that happened to be like an amusement park ride gone amok. ;D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
I saw a wonderful, funny and poignant black-and-white indie movie last night, a "disastrous, Misanthrope-seeks-Misanthrope-first-date-via-Craigslist-on-New-Year's-Eve-in-L.A. movie" (you know the kind, right??)--
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989000/
The writer-director and the two stars were there for a Q&A afterwards--these are terrifically talented kids, all originally from Texas, living in L.A.--the movie was filmed in something like eight days, but it has a polish and a knowingness and texture; it is a light, profound, silly and sophomoric, subtle and ageless movie that is lightyears above--far above--the usual drek--
Anyway--
Here's the trailer--it's cute, but doesn't even begin to give you the real idea (how could it?)--one of the lines is "I look like a rodeo clown," which is not at all Brokeback, but it's silly and fun--
In Search of a Midnight Kiss - Trailer (2:23)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7a-XW6zQF4&feature=related[/youtube]
--and go here: http://www.ifcfilms.com/
It may never come to your theater, but it might--and if not, try and give it a go on Netflix--
:)
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