At first I though Mexican!Heston was Errol Flynn wearing too much makeup.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Laga - Dec 31, 2009 5:53:15 pm PST #5892 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
le nubian - Dec 31, 2009 7:42:27 pm PST #5893 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I just saw "Up in the Air." I enjoyed the film, but I'm a bit puzzled why critics raved about this movie. I thought the movie was okay, but not anything to write home about.
I was shocked at Vera Farmiga though. What has she done to her face? Yikes.
P.M. Marc - Dec 31, 2009 8:01:35 pm PST #5894 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Back from Holmes. Was entertained. Very much.
Typo Boy - Dec 31, 2009 10:39:28 pm PST #5895 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I enjoyed the film, but I'm a bit puzzled why critics raved about this movie. I thought the movie was okay, but not anything to write home about.
Well if you really hate romantic comedies where a lifetime of bad behavior is redeemed by falling for the the right person, this is sort of the perfect antidote. If the typical redemption romance were a person, this would be the film that leaves that person lying on the floor like a jigsaw puzzle with a bunch of pieces missing.
le nubian - Jan 01, 2010 6:24:27 am PST #5896 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ha! I actually don't prefer romantic comedies like that, but I guess I wasn't expecting this to be a romance movie so I became puzzled midway through.
sarameg - Jan 01, 2010 2:45:06 pm PST #5897 of 30000
I saw it less as a romantic movie than a relationships one. I really enjoyed all the character interactions, even as they turned out to be not quite as they seemed. But I'm also disposed to identifying a bit uncomfortably with some of starting-out Ryan's perspectives, so it made me squirm a bit.
Typo Boy - Jan 01, 2010 3:32:19 pm PST #5898 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I saw it less as a romantic movie than a relationships one.
Well yes, but
it used a heck of a lot of bad romantic comedy tropes: specifically doing all the things shitty people who are really nice guys at heart do in those to show that they are really nice guys deep down inside.
And unlike the Romantic comedies it doesn't work
sarameg - Jan 01, 2010 3:38:30 pm PST #5899 of 30000
I guess I just didn't see it as a romcom at all.
Scrappy - Jan 01, 2010 3:46:45 pm PST #5900 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It's a coming-of-age story. Interestingly, the guy coming-of-age starts off thinking that he has everything figured out and the thing he learns is that the life he carefully crafted for himself is not what he wants. He ends the film broken, which is very interesting for a Big movie.
sarameg - Jan 01, 2010 4:15:33 pm PST #5901 of 30000
What was interesting to me is that the viewer, his family, and Natalie, view him as broken from the get go. He's the only one who doesn't. And then, he comes to the realization too.
I guess that's why I squirmed, because I know I don't get the relationship thing, and am fine with that- romantic, that is. But I know that makes me the odd one out. He doesn't. And then gets slapped in the face with it when he tries.