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I'm also a fan of the Seventh Victim for it's proto-goth protagonist and it's ending.
After the Lewton discussion here, I remembered that GF bought the boxed set after we rented Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and enjoyed them. We watched The Seventh Victim last night. Was awesome and strange and creepy! I think we're doing another Lewton tonight. Woot!
For a moment there I was thinking Seventh Veil, but no.
Oh, James Mason.
::swoons::
You're just saying that cause he talks like God. (Irrelevant Izzard shoutout)
whoa. I just watched the trailer for Prince Caspian. whoa.
IOmovieN Harry has a spoileriffic review of Cloverfield over at AICN.
Folks – CLOVERFIELD is worth the obsession, worth the months I’ve had to put up with fans wondering what the hell it was – worth having to deal with reporters asking me what it was – and I didn’t know either. This is a towering movie. A complete reinvention of the disaster movie, the giant monster movie and even the love story. I absolutely love this film and the only thought I had when it was over was how I wanted to watch it 5 more times today.
Well, that's good to hear. I'm excited to see it opening night.
You're just saying that cause he talks like God. (Irrelevant Izzard shoutout)
Oh, Eddie Izzard! See, just imagine how happy this little James Mason (James Who? say most of her peers, disinterestedly) fangirl was, back in her late teens, the first time she saw Izzard start blathering on about James Mason. Love Eddie.
I certainly hope Cloverfield lives up to the hype. But I'm concerned about the reviewer's pick of best part of the movie being the same frizzy-headed stoner dude whose appearances in the latest commercials have me fervently hoping he becomes monster chow ASAP.
I haven't seen the trailer, but TJ Miller is pretty great, in general.
Finally saw Eastern Promises and wow, was that good, my only complaint is that it ended.
Right now, to save myself from watching the football game downstairs, I popped in Xanadu which is just as awesome as I remembered it (except for forgetting about the cartoon musical sequence, which made me cringe at first and then it ended up being quite good) and now I'm pissed that the ONJ/GK number was not on the soundtrack. Bastards.
Oh, The Eighties, how embarassing and wonderful you were.
I cringed my way through Logan's Run, thankful that Dennis was asleep most of the time. This morning it was in its little sleeve waiting to go back to Netflix so I'm guessing he preferred his nap to the actual film.