If you watch TTRL as a nature documentary rather than a war movie, it's better.
Jayne: 'Cause I don't know these folks. Don't much care to. Mal: They're whores. Jayne: I'm in.
'Heart Of Gold'
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Volans - Feb 04, 2008 12:00:37 pm PST #3836 of 10000
move out and draw fire
SailAweigh - Feb 04, 2008 12:16:00 pm PST #3837 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Is TTRL one with Mel Gibson in it? If so, that's why I won't watch. He and Tom Cruise are on my "avoid at all costs" list.
I saw Kinky Boots this weekend. Absolutely loved Chiwetal Ejiofor as Lola. Dude can sing!
Sue - Feb 04, 2008 6:21:39 pm PST #3838 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I love The Thin Red Line (as I love all Malick movies). Just bought it on DVD.
Corwood is me. Except that I've had it on DVD for a couple of years.
Is TTRL one with Mel Gibson in it?
If he's in it, it's an insignificant cameo. I don't think he is. The only truly egregiuos cameo in it is John Travolta, and he's there for a minute maybe.
ETA: Gibson's not in it.
Cashmere - Feb 04, 2008 7:29:52 pm PST #3839 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Mel Gibson's Vietnam movie is When We Were Soldiers and it is a really good movie--not a big, three-hour time suck like TTRL.
SailAweigh - Feb 05, 2008 7:06:41 am PST #3840 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
When We Were Soldiers
That's the one to avoid, then. I might give TTRL a shot. I'm trying to expand my choices now that I have Netflix. I don't feel that guilty spending the chump change it costs to rent anymore on a potential loser.
erikaj - Feb 05, 2008 8:00:29 am PST #3841 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
well, yeah, because it's prepaid, right?
JZ - Feb 05, 2008 8:11:40 am PST #3842 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
On a completely different war-movie note, I have to ask if anyone else saw 1927's Wings last night on TCM. Not only was it an amazing film with incredible aerial sequences, and not only did Clara Bow kick all kinds of ass with a tremendous performance, but it had the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie. A tender, mournful, genuinely moving and wrenching and utterly slashtastic death scene (right after this moment, when I groaned, "Oh, just kiss him already!", he kissed him already -- according to Wikipedia, the first known M/M kiss on film ever, anywhere). Slashier and more tender than that one Sam/Frodo near-death near-embrace, possibly slashier and more tender than anything in Brokeback Mountain, where there wasn't even any sub to the text.
I'm now incredibly curious about whether that scene pinged reviewers or audiences in 1927 at all, but my Google-fu for 8-decade-old film crit is apparently lacking.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:14:15 am PST #3843 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2008 8:17:06 am PST #3844 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"This movie needs way more gay"
Indeed.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:19:02 am PST #3845 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did you read the alt-text?
i wanted more MANLY ADVENTURE NARRATIVE and less WEAK ROMANCE WITH ILSA where the breen censorship code at the time forbade depicting a woman leaving her husband for another man anyway! we already know you will stay with your husband, ilsa! can we cut back rapid-fire quips between the captain and rick now please