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I'd see this movie. Hell yeah. An "Ocean's 11" style comedy caper flick with a whole lot of talented folks in it.
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so, i went out and saw "tuxedo" (the new jackie chan flick) with deguspice and then had dinner with him and quietann. and tuxedo was big silly fun.

but the weird thing was dinner, which was at a place almost right behind the movie theater named "macaroni grill" except there was no macaroni on the menu. but i had a staggering deja vu incident when i was in the parking lot. because the building placement, general all-around environs, parking lot layout, and a bunch of other stuff reminded me so very very much of the olive garden in bellevue.

it was a weird time/space warp feeling.

okay, XXX was exactly what i wanted it to be. such big stupid fun!

claudia and i hid in air conditioning tonite.

"blue crush" was *exactly* what i expected and wanted it to be (besides just totally air conditioned). i'm so pleased.

"signs" ... well, i think he had one great movie in him, and while he can still create mood wonderfully, the film as a whole didn't rock my world.

so, i went and saw "don't ask don't tell" at the coolidge corner theater. and the movie was weird and silly and ultimately frustrating because with someone just a bit funnier working on it the entire film could've left me unable to breathe from laughing so hard. but it kept being "lightning bug" and not "lightning".

however, the guy sitting behind and to the left of me had a laugh that sounded *JUST* *LIKE*

jbsegal's laugh.

the brattle is having a "femme fatale" series on mondays right now. this week it was "the killers" and "double indemnity".

i love the almost kabuki-like ritual of tough-talking dialogue in those movies. the rich texture of black and white and the shadings as people move in and out of pools of light. and oh yes, edith head gives good costume. :)

see the film, but don't read this before you see the film.
( spoilers ahoy! no really i give it all away. )

unexpectedly, "mullholland drive" is the most normal film i've seen in the past few days.

i just got back from the brattle theater where i saw the happiness of the katakuris which is a musical (!!!) about a family who run a guest house and people keep dying around them, and dead or alive which is a crime flick about chinese gangs and the yakuza and cops. except with clowns and bestiality and troma levels of gross-out and 10 minutes of groovy stylized violence at the beginning and 10 minutes of progressively freakier fucked up violence (but not in the way you expecte it, no really) at the end.

whoah.

http://www.dharmabum.ca/movies/mulholland.html has an intersting essay about mullholland drive.

and yes, chimpy, i was doped to the gills on soma when i watched it last night. which just added to the "wait, what was that?" feeling.

so, claudia and i watched mullholland drive last night.

aside from the excellence of seeing naomi "jet girl" watts engaging in tawdry nookie with larua harring, it does seem as though lynch said "okay, i can't use this tv pilot as a tv pilot so let's take all the weirdness that might've happened in a full season of tv and pack it into the rest of the film to get it up to release length."

i mean, what was that film about, anyways?

claudia_ and i *finally* saw Kissing Jessica Stein.

what an adorable little romance. i really enjoyed it. claudia nailed it, i think, when she noted that it wasn't so much about jessica's sexuality as it was about jessica being neurotic. the sexuality aspect is just how she's being neurotic. the film also did a good job of capturing the fluidity of sexuality for many folks.

and my goodness, tovah feldshuh was outstanding as jessica's mother.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars!

It is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21 inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. Our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock -- all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

i like to watch Network every few years. i'm always amazed at how well it holds up.

Current Mood: mad as hell, not gonna take it

okay. "spiderman" ruled.
yay sam raimi!

saw "panic room" with kjc the other night. i liked it. it wasn't *great*, but it was a good solid thriller that was remarkably grounded in reality (my main gripe was that propane gas sinks, instead of rises like they showed) as far as these sorts of movies go. plus, jodie foster played a great strong resourceful woman.

tonite, spiderman with a bunch of folks.

i am fixing a skirt, re-watching the barn/picnic dance number in "seven brides for seven brothers" (definitely one of the coolest and most classic movie musicals ever made).

okay, "moulin rouge" earned the costume award, but art direction? buh! and "memento" got robbed for screenplay. ("gosford park" was nice, but really, it was just an entire season of "upstairs downstairs" packed into a feature length film compared to "memento")

but hey! halle berry and denzel washington! all good! although now i'm thinking about the "black acting school" skit in "hollywood shuffle"

this is one of those evenings that reminds me why i love living out here.

claudia and i had dinner at bertucci's and it was tasty, and then i browsed around million year picnic for a while, window-shopped at wordsworth, and then saw donnie darko at the brattle with about 15 friends.

also, i am a horrible disease.

Take the High Yield Killing Method Test Now!!

Current Mood: content

what a wonderful lazy weekend! not much in the way of productivity, but there was homemade pizza and movies and catching up on "six feet under" in preparation for the season premiere and lots of loafing and cuddling.

life is good.

Current Mood: content

watched "miss congeniality". sandra bullock is cute when she kicks ass. aside from that, it's a typical sort of "ugly duckling" story. but fun. i expected stupid silly fun, and i got stupid silly fun.

Current Mood: tipsy

okay, today i need to finish scrubbing the excess grout off of a chunk of the bathroom wall (i've been repairing grout in sections). then i need to bake some cookies for a potluck i'm going to on monday. i'm thinking trilobite cookies, except with nutella instead of jam in the middle. but i couldn't find any little eye dot type stuff at the store i went to, so i'll probably just give them lots of eyes by shaking small non-pareils onto their little chocolate carapaces.

what the heck am i talking about? trilobite cookies: http://www.georgehart.com/trilobites/trilobite.html

*then* i need to clean up the house a bit and get ready for some folks coming over tonight to drink booze, eat cheese fondue (must remember to use much less wine this time), and watch VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. (cheese and cheese! get it?)

tomorrow i head off to sf27 movie marathon. but that's tomorrow and this is today and there's a bunch of stuff to do between now and then.

but before any of that, i really really need to shower.

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Entries tagged with movie

THERE SHOULD BE A MOVIE, AND IT SHOULD BE A COMEDY

weird deja vu

XXX

flix

voice doubles

i heart the brattle

minority report

unexpectedly

oh! okay! that's what it's about.

lynchian goodness

kissing jessica stein

"network"

flix part II

flix - part I

ah, domesticity

yeah, fuck that oscar guy.

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wonderful lazy weekend