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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
BelAir:
--- Quote from: SunShadow on May 31, 2008, 01:00:55 am ---Show was entertaining, but not anxious to see the film.
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late to the party I know, but that's how I feel about it. Fine to watch little hour long vignettes, but no way for a 2 hour movie-type story line.
BelAir:
--- Quote from: southendmd on June 02, 2008, 09:47:16 pm ---Oh, Karl, how sad. Should have left "bizarre" enough alone.
I, too, love Donnie Darko. In fact, there was a stage play version of it here in Cambridge, MA last fall. It was brilliant. I went with a few friends on Halloween. Chris Cooper was in the audience (he lives near here). There's one degree of separation from Jake (Jarhead).
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Chris Cooper was in Jarhead? Wasn't he also Jake's dad in October Sky? Who played Donnie's dad?
Ellemeno:
I was looking forward to seeing Sex and the City, because I had a nostalgic spot for it - when my daughter was a newborn, several people asked if we had named her after one of the characters in the show. We hadn't, but it got me curious, so I rented Year One, Disc One from Netflix, and for the next several weeks, alone with my baby, sleep deprived walking and rocking in the middle of the night, with spit up on my shoulder, I watched all six seasons, vicariously tripping around Manhattan with my imaginary friends. So they got me through a rough spot, and I was grateful.
But the other night, I felt lonely after seeing Sex and the City with three other women. Lonely, because they only gushed about how wonderful it was, and none of them seemed to want to hear my tentative attempts at discussing the emptiness of Handbags and Huge Walk-in Closets as Gods.
And I'll tell you another part that stretched suspension of disbelief to the breaking point. When Anthony sees Stanford at a big event and grabs him, says "Thank God you're here," and plants a big kiss on his lips. In the series, Anthony loathed Stanford, so what happened?
Yes, the movie was fun and cute, and even touching and somewhat redemptive, but holy mother.
southendmd:
--- Quote from: BelAir on June 06, 2008, 02:09:55 am ---Chris Cooper was in Jarhead? Wasn't he also Jake's dad in October Sky? Who played Donnie's dad?
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Hi BelAir,
Chris Cooper played Lt. Colonel Kazinski in Jarhead. A small part, but he says something ridiculous like "I felt it move" after the marines cheer.
Yes, he played John Hickam in October Sky.
For more BBM connections, he was Colonel Harry Burwell in The Patriot, and was July Johnson in Lonesome Dove!
Donnie Darko's dad was played by Holmes Osborne.
Thank you, IMDb!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
LOVE Chris Cooper--
--and he played the ultimate Chris Cooper rôle as 'Conklin' in The Bourne Identity (uncredited in The Bourne Supremacy, and continued to echo malignly in The Bourne Ultimatum).
ibid., op. cit. IMDb!
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