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ZODIAC at 100% on Rottentomatoes.com with five reviews...
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 04, 2007, 08:37:42 pm ---I agree with this review. I like pajiba a lot, too, Leslie. Again usually because they get the themes without giving too much away and because they usually agree with me. He was also dead on, by the way (and no pun intended), about how that lake scene would make a fine short subject.
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Barb, girlfriend...
When you and I finally get together, you can drink an Aqua Velva, I'll have an unoaked chardonnay and we will agree on everything....
L
Brokeback_Dev:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 04, 2007, 12:04:12 pm ---
Paul Avery (Robert Downey, Jr.) is the chain-smoking hard-drinking newspaper reporter who covered the story. Downey vibrates like a tuning fork, his offbeat rhythms responding to tones only he can hear. It is is heartbreaking to see the sensitivity that makes him a meticulous observer of the world he writes about begin to implode. The movie doesn't ask or answer whether the stress of being a possible target of Zodiac is what finally causes him to unravel or whether working on the story kept his fragile spirit together with a sense of purpose. It just shows us the toll that the story took on the man who happened to have the crime beat when the first letter came in.
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Paul Avery also snorted cocaine at the bar where he was drinking the aqua velvets with Graysmith. Its hard to catch him doing it as he used a spoon, popular back in the day. You see him snorting the coke from the spoon in the sequence after he and Graysmith move to the booth, the table littered with empty and half emptied glasses of aqua velva. Just my little side note
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: brokeback_dev on March 04, 2007, 09:40:29 pm ---Paul Avery also snorted cocaine at the bar where he was drinking the aqua velvets with Graysmith. Its hard to catch him doing it as he used a spoon, popular back in the day. You see him snorting the coke from the spoon in the sequence after he and Graysmith move to the booth, the table littered with empty and half emptied glasses of aqua velva. Just my little side note
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Thanks, Dev...little tidbits for my next viewing...
ednbarby:
I noticed that, too, Dev. But I didn't put two and two together that the Movie Mom missed it. Good call!
And yes, Leslie, I'll gladly drink the Aqua Velvas - vodka and Blue Curacao are my friends. Well, until they make me good and stupid. Ah, then they're still my friends.
Reminds me of a story. ;)
One time Ed and I went to Ruby Tuesday for a quick Saturday night dinner - a "power graze" as he called it at their salad bar. I was feeling peckish, so when the waiter came around and asked me if I'd like to try their special "Blue Whale Martini" while he was in the restroom, I said "Why not?" They brought me out this very blue drink in, I kid you not, a fish bowl. Umbrellas and fruit galore. Ed comes out just after he'd deposited it in front of me. We still talk about it.
(And it was goooooood, by the way.)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 04, 2007, 11:19:17 pm --- the waiter came around and asked me if I'd like to try their special "Blue Whale Martini" while he was in the restroom, I said "Why not?" They brought me out this very blue drink in, I kid you not, a fish bowl. Umbrellas and fruit galore. Ed comes out just after he'd deposited it in front of me. We still talk about it.
(And it was goooooood, by the way.)
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I forgot what the drink was - surprise surprise - but the Hula Hut in Austin on the river serves a drink that comes in a fishbowl as well. By the time my friend and I polished off half of it, we left the restaurant, stealing a platter of beans and my friend had stuck the fishbowl in her purse. When we got to the club, her ID was floating in it.
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