I couldn't even stay awake for Mulholland Drive. I tried several times.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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Sophia Brooks - Dec 30, 2009 7:05:32 am PST #5860 of 30000
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§ ita § - Dec 30, 2009 7:06:29 am PST #5861 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stayed awake. I didn't see the point.
DavidS - Dec 30, 2009 7:24:16 am PST #5862 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love Mulholland Drive! Love the look, love the story, love the performances. It's one of my favorite anti-Hollywood movies - up there with Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink, In a Lonely Place and The Bad and the Beautiful. The story [spoiler] which is mostly a fantasy by a suicidal woman who got dumped by her female lover evokes the danger and appeal of Hollywood's illusion-making.
I even love all the stuff with the director (the actor who played him went on to write Tropical Thunder), especially the creepy Cowboy.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 30, 2009 7:33:10 am PST #5863 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Per usual wrt to Lynch (Lost Highway excepted), I agree with Hec.
Mullholland Drive always makes me wonder where they were going to go with the series if it had been picked up. I suspect nowhere as interesting as where the movie went.
Daisy Jane - Dec 30, 2009 7:49:13 am PST #5864 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
"Taken" is such a bad movie. I mean damn. It's a shame that's at the top. It was as bad or worse than "Righteous Kill."
Really? I loved it. I had never had a crush on Liam Nisson until that movie. Also, it had tons of HSQ moments for me.
Amy - Dec 30, 2009 8:09:06 am PST #5865 of 30000
Because books.
I thought Taken was ridiculous. The boys here love the action, but for me, the setup was so absurd. "Hi, let me drop anvil after anvil the possible danger to my daughter so the (stupid) viewers will know what's happening when it happens exactly the way I said it could." I couldn't get past that.
Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2009 8:15:23 am PST #5866 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I watched Taken the other night. Did they ever show what happened to the other girl the daughter was with when they were taken? Did I miss something?
Also, was it really necessary for Liam to kill all those people? Couldn't he have just winged a few more of them? Also, re: my question above, couldn't Liam have saved a few more victims who weren't his daughter? It seemed kind of cold to just leave them all behind.
msbelle - Dec 30, 2009 8:16:43 am PST #5867 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
With all the best of and decade lists around I started trying to think of movies in the 2000s that stayed with me (in no order):
Tsotsi
Billy Elliot
Brokeback Mountain
Memoirs of a Geisha
Amelie
Cold Mountain
The first Bourne
Where the Wild Things Are
Momento
Away from her
The Incredibles
Amy - Dec 30, 2009 8:19:08 am PST #5868 of 30000
Because books.
I actually stopped paying attention halfway through, Tom. No clue.
Cashmere - Dec 30, 2009 8:23:19 am PST #5869 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Tom, Liam Neeson's character found her in the 2nd brothel--handcuffed to a bed, dead from a drug overdose.
I enjoyed the movie. Yeah, there were anvils but the action was well done. I hated the daughter but I thought it was interesting that all three brothels were identical in scheme--with doors/curtains in labrythian setups and the girls drugged out of their minds. They just got fancier the more money the guys were spending.
I saw a GREAT interview with Liam Neeson that made me love him--someone asked him about how difficult it was doing the fight scenes for a man of his "advanced age." He said the fight scenes and stunts weren't difficult at all--it was the running! LN's a smoker so he was really tired after they made him run after all those perps.