It always bugs in theater movies when they show actors reheasing in full costume on a finished set.
This bothers me more than is reasonable, I think because I feel that people who make movies and tv should actually know a little about theatre, since it is related. Or at least more than they can be expected to know about law or medicine. I mean, they don't even have to research. Anyone who has been in a high school or even grammar school play knows that you don't have costumes and sets spring full formed in to being for rehearsals. See also when actors audition in costume. Crazy!
Just watched
I am Legend.
Really really liked it. And not just for the sheer hotness of Will Smith, although - man. Man. That is some salty goodness right there. Still, shallow and obvious fervour aside, I thought it was a cracking film. Made me jump, made me cry, seemed to me to make the right story-telling choices. It rocked.
from a recent internal email about the rash of vomitings, "It seems all the raves about Cloverfield truly being an experience rather than a movie have held true, whether that’s as positive a review as it might sound remains to be judged."
It made close to $18 million on Friday. It's doing pretty well as a movie experience!
I was worried that the big theater we saw it in* was about 2/3 empty, but the friend I went with told me it's just that people have mostly stopped going to it for fear of all the gangs hanging around.
Gee, thanks for letting me in on that info after picking that particular multiplex to go to!
- Seriously, this one theater occupies the whole top floor of the cinema by itself, and has an Imax-sized screen. The monster was almost life-size!
Well now I'm glad we're not showing Cloverfield. So far other theatres have had several complaints of nausea and I just got my first report of an actual puking.
A coworker at the bookstore gave it a big thumbs up, but also reported vomit sightings (actually, almost stepping-ins) at the theater.
So I just watched
Lady in the Water.
The opening prologue went on really long, and it ended up being almost completely irrelevant. Then the movie was boring for about half an hour or more. I was wondering whether it was really worth my time to sit through the movie.
Then it got interesting. Then it got
really
interesting.
Then it got silly. And it was cool, interesting, silly, interesting, and then silly again.
Plus, there's all this awkward meta stuff that I would love if it were done well. I mean, he names the narf
Story,
for crying out loud, but the commentary on narrative seems completely arbitrary and almost self-mocking.
While I didn't hate it, I appreciate the concept and wish it had been better. M. Night was trying to make a fairy tale for adults, but I'll take
Pan's Labyrinth
instead.
Laga! That blues bar is in my hometown! That's pretty much the only reason I might see that movie is to see Shreveport. Though I understand it's supposed to be set soemwhere else.
Also, wasn't Jilli supposed to see Sweeny tonight?
