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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Snavel del Snuit on June 02, 2007, 04:30:51 pm ---Has anybody seen Black Snake Moan? It's getting mixed reviews here, so I am not sure if we should go and see it.... :-\
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My best friend is a feminist and she loved it considering its strange premise.
--- Quote ---I wonder why? I wonder why actors hardly ever come to premieres in Holland. Amsterdam is a pretty cool city, right? :-\
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Dunno, too small an audience I suppose. Doing promotion junkets is tiring for the actors, so they just hit the bigger markets.
Meryl:
I got to see a preview of "Hairspray" last night and had the best time! I haven't seen the stage show, so I was not familiar with the music, which is a spot on recreation of those 1960's tunes popular when I was in junior high and high school. The adorable cast simply kept singing and dancing practically nonstop, and although the plot deals with serious stuff like racism and stereotypes, it was handled so adroitly and with such a light touch that it didn't get bogged down like it might have.
The girl they found to play Tracey, Nikki Blonsky, is just right--irrepressibly good-natured, full of life and of course plump, and she sings and dances beautifully. As her parents, John Travolta and Christopher Walken are an utter hoot. Michelle Pfeiffer does a great job as the villainous ex-beauty queen, and the small roles are perfect cameos: Jerry Stiller as the cheesy owner of a shop for big girls, Queen Latifah as a soulful record shop owner, and Allison Janney as an evangelical terror of a mom. John Waters and Ricki Lake, the writer and star of the original movie, made quick (and appropriate) appearances, too.
It was so energizing, what with one catchy number after another, that I went in feeling tired and sleepy and came out wanting to dance down the street! Go see it when you need a pick-me-up. ;D
oilgun:
I just bought the uncut version of Factory Girl, and really enjoyed it. I didn't see the theatrical version so I can't compare the two but I thought this one was quite good.
Sienna Miller, who really didn't impress me in Casanova, was a revelation as poor little rich girl Edie Sedgwick but I absolutely LOVED Guy Pearce as a child-like petulant Warhol. He completely disappears in the role and is a joy to watch. His performance rivals that of PSH's as Capote, it's that good. A lot of people didn't like Hayden Christiansen as "the folk singer" but I thought it was uncanny how much he looked and sounded like Dylan.
Anyway, I pronounce it an underrated gem, lol!
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: oilgun on July 30, 2007, 12:28:52 pm ---I just bought the uncut version of Factory Girl, and really enjoyed it. I didn't see the theatrical version so I can't compare the two but I thought this one was quite good.
Sienna Miller, who really didn't impress me in Casanova, was a revelation as poor little rich girl Edie Sedgwick but I absolutely LOVED Guy Pearce as a child-like petulant Warhol. He completely disappears in the role and is a joy to watch. His performance rivals that of PSH's as Capote, it's that good. A lot of people didn't like Hayden Christiansen as "the folk singer" but I thought it was uncanny how much he looked and sounded like Dylan.
Anyway, I pronounce it an underrated gem, lol!
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I want to see both "Factory Girl" and "Casanova" as I seemed to have missed both in the theaters. Guy Pearce disappears so much in the character that I didn't recognize him. At first, I thought Warhol was being placed by James Marsden!
shortfiction:
I'm off to Blockbuster tomorrow to see what I can find, but mostly I watch Netflix movies. I'm going through the Black Adder series and I also bought all four seasons of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, as I am a fan of eccentric, absurdist, wacky British humor.
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