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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 12, 2008, 01:12:20 pm ---Anyone else seen Iron Man yet?
Will anyone still love me if I admit I've not only seen it, I've seen it twice? ::)
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I still love you, Barb! I saw it yesterday. I thought the plot was preposterous but Robert Downey Jr. was just fabulous. He really makes the movie (the other actors were fine, too).
So if my sons watch it again, I'll probably watch it twice, myself. And I'm looking forward to the sequel!
(Will YOU still love ME if I confess that Robert Downey Jr.'s was my favorite performance in Zodiac :-X ? Or are them fightin words?)
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: seriouscrayons on May 12, 2008, 01:41:07 pm ---(Will YOU still love ME if I confess that Robert Downey Jr.'s was my favorite performance in Zodiac :-X ? Or are them fightin words?)
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Now more than ever. :-*
<--- Adores Robert Downey Jr. (and loved him in Zodiac)
MaineWriter:
I haven't seen Iron Man but I agree, RD jr. was the best performance in Zodiac.
SFEnnisSF:
I would like to see "Before The Rains". I think this looks good. Yet another tale of forbidden love...
Opens this week (here in the Bay Area anyways...)
Trailer
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q37yxRpKzx0[/youtube]
Lynne:
I also *love* Robert Downey, Jr. He was very good in A SCANNER DARKLY also... 8)
Now that I've glommed seven seasons of BUFFY, five of ANGEL, SERENITY, FIREFLY, BONES... ::) ::), I am getting back to watching movies!
Here are the movies I've seen this week and briefly my opinion...
STREET KINGS - This was a very predictable action movie with cookie cutter police procedural characters...I was hoping it would be more like LA CONFIDENTIAL, but it just didn't hold up.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - I was disappointed in this for some reason but I want to read the book now. I liked how some of the violence occurring off-screen made it seem even more chilling to me. The ending, however, seemed in a sense to be contrived.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - I absolutely loved it...watched it twice even...Aaron Sorkin is a terrific screenwriter.
LIONS FOR LAMBS - I really liked it and I'm still thinking about it today. It was profoundly disturbing to me to watch the CNN-like news ticker scroll past. Meryl Streep's character had me believing in her to that point.
SWEENY TODD - Another absolute love. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are super fabulous. I kept putting this off because I wasn't 'in the mood for a musical'! My bad, because it was such a twisted story and was very intriguing to watch this horror musical unfold. I was so captivated I watched all the DVD extras too! Tim Burton is a genius.
Lynne
8)
In the queue for later this week: RENDITION!
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