I went to see Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day yesterday and loved it. Frances McDormand and Amy Adams were both great in their roles. (I wasn't as thrilled by Lee Pace or any of the male actors, but they were relatively small parts of the film.) Shirley Henderson is remarkably convincing as a humorless and downright nasty person, despite most of the previous roles I've seen her in being goofily chipper.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 10, 2008 5:42:23 am PDT #4245 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
megan walker - Mar 10, 2008 7:28:28 am PDT #4246 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I went to see Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day yesterday and loved it.
Really? Because the trailers left me with no desire to see it, but it is playing at my local theater, so I almost went this past weekend.
sumi - Mar 10, 2008 9:11:43 am PDT #4247 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
USA Today has an image of the poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Polter-Cow - Mar 10, 2008 9:14:35 am PDT #4248 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Awwwwwwwwwww. Totally old-school.
Laga - Mar 10, 2008 9:16:02 am PDT #4249 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
we've been watching Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and I am getting so excited! When the trailer plays at work people clap for the theme tune.
sumi - Mar 11, 2008 5:24:19 am PDT #4250 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has started shooting again.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 11, 2008 5:36:13 am PDT #4251 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has started shooting again.
Excellent. Also nice to see that Tom Waits is in the cast. I can't remember if I've seen him in anything since Mystery Men.
Steph L. - Mar 11, 2008 6:49:19 pm PDT #4252 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Okay, so I just got around to seeing Atonement tonight.
I'm still mulling it over, but I have one question: when Robbie and the other 2 soldiers are making their way back, and Robbie sees all the dead girls laid out in the meadow, was that a hallucination on his part? Or were there really lots and lots of dead girls in school uniforms laid out in a meadow?
megan walker - Mar 11, 2008 8:24:47 pm PDT #4253 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
According to the NYorker review, that is a scene in the book, but with one dead girl, so I'd assume it was not supposed to be a hallucination.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2008 4:15:37 am PDT #4254 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well, at that point, we're in FictionLand anyway, so I think it's not so much a hallucination as a...I don't know. A literary device?
It's one of those moments that I think illustrates exactly why this movie was a valiant effort at adaptation, but fails on some very fundamental level to make the transition from page to screen. I can't remember the last time I spend so much of a movie thinking, "Wow, I bet that worked really well in the book," and so little thinking "Wow, this is working really well in this movie."