[anna k]

I liked The Ten. It was irreverent and silly, and I especially liked the stories involving Winona Ryder, Gretchen Mol, Liev Schreiber, and the Rhino segment. I liked that Winona was more wild and weird and funny, Gretchen has become a better actress, Liev's very good at being deadpan and silly at the same time, and I interviewed the director David Wain for my zine once.

[designermedusa]

I saw 2 Days in Paris tonight, and it was really funny. The audience was laughing so much you couldn't hear some of the dialogue. I really didn't think it was going to have so many comedic scenes. I have never cared for Adam Goldberg, but he was so good in this film.

[Jaymi]

sukouyant - lol..then I guess I better go see it! Maybe I'll treat myself to it this weekend.

Snow - I saw little children and thought the same thing as you...started out like an offbeat love story and turned into something pretty creepy. But overall I liked it - very interesting!

[girltrouble]

oh, yeah, bunny, people love or hate c's crash. i think it hits those same melodramatic notes a douglas sirk film does but for utterly different reasons...to me it's like a bizarre, kinky romance novel, really, i can't get enough of it...i find it terribly, terribly erotic, but i'm kinky like that.... i could watch that movie a kazillion times, but the first time i didn't know what to make of it... but that was one of the most memorable critic's screenings i've attended...lol... they were awfully squirmy....

and snow, you're thinking of another film named crash. this one stars kink charecter actor supreme, james spader, holly hunter, and rosanna arquette.
as for brick, i loved it, some here hated it....

but speaking of love or hate movies, how about, "happiness" by todd solenz, or "magnolia" by what's his head....?

[snow white]

was Crash that movie w/ all the intersecting plot lines? i've been avoiding it, it looks like a gimick mascerading as something very "deep". same thing with that Butterfly Effect movie w/ ashton kutcher. along the same vein though, has anyone seen Brick?

[bunnyb]

I loathe Crash and think the book is the biggest load of crap I've ever read (I had to study it); it put me off watching any other Cronenberg films.

[anna k]

I liked Crash too, and when the film of the same name came out in 2005, I kept getting it confused with the Cronenberg movie.

[girltrouble]

i didn't really find spider that hard to follow, actually... i hate to say this, especially about chronenberg, since he used to be one of my favorites... but i found it a bit predictable. i loved the mis-en-scene-- very claustrophobic, and the big metal monstrosity in the back ground was delightful. ralph is awesome (he can do no wrong in my book because of strange days),but i prefer mid career chronenberg. i liked a history of violence a lot, but i prefer the videodrome thru crash era. he's pretty much left the body horror genre, for the more mundane violent commentary films. sigh... i adore crash....but i'm kinky like that.

speaking of kinky:

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i loved u, me and everybody. it was heartbreaking, which says it all in a film.

[chachaheels]

Well, now I'm even more determined to see it, Anarch. I wouldn't say your dependence on the commentary means you're slow on the uptake, no way. Cronenberg definitely has his own vision, and I'd have liked him to tell me a lot more about all his movies because there is always quite a lot going on in them. He used to scare me senseless when I was younger but as I grow older I'm finding his way of seeing the world is very similar to my own, for reasons I didn't even "see" in his work when I was younger. Anyway, I'm paying the exorbitant late charge at the library (they're underfunded anyway) so I can have a close look on your recommendation.

I just can't have John Travolta in the same mental space as the one I've allotted to Divine. So I just can't watch the remake of Hairspray. On the other hand, I suppose I should be grateful for the small blessings: they could have remade Female Trouble, with Travolta playing Divine's role in that.

[anarch]

I saw Spider on DVD. I found it a little difficult to follow, but liked it. Then I watched the director's commentary, which pointed out tons of details that I hadn't noticed and that made it much easier to see what was going on. So then I had to re-watch the movie again & decided I loved it. Miranda Richardson is of course fabulous. (Of course there's the issue of, if the commentary's necessary to make the message clear, perhaps the movie was too obscure? on the other hand maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, in needing its message spelled out.)

Dark, though. I think I read somewhere that it's like a counterweight to the relatively positive A Beautiful Mind.

[chachaheels]

I like Me and You and Everyone We Know too. I like the actors very much, but also the way much of what seemed to be a little frightening or creepy was defused with innocence. I didn't know anything about Miranda July before that movie, and now I think she's quite amazing.

I still have a Cronenberg movie I signed out which must go back today, but time has naturally become pretty scarce around here. The only time I turn on the TV now is to put the sleep timer on it so I can fall asleep after about 15 minutes of Letterman. I'd like to see it, but who knows? It's Cronenberg's Spider, with Ralph Fiennes. Anyone seen it?

I don't think Anne Hathaway is the only Disney trapped actress or actor out there. She was really great in Brokeback Mountain, and she certainly held her own with Meryl Streep...but this whole Princess nonesense and even the Gerundive Jane movie: I really wish that if Disney were going to monopolize the entertainment industry they could hire some decent writers and filmmakers. They seem to make the same 3 films over and over again, and it bores the fack out of me.

[snow white]

i haven't seen becoming jane, snowy. it would be nice if anne hathway would go through a disney detox or something, she could be a great actor methinks.

she was pretty excellent in "the devil wears prada" (and really hott, not overly toothy), but ya, a disney detox would be great.

i just saw Little Children, at first i loved it, theeen i thought it got a little creepy. but over all, it's something worth seeing.

Hairspray sounds good, i just love seeing christopher walken on screen. i have a thing for that man

[sukouyant]

Jaymi said: I STILL have to see Hairspray - want to see it but Travolta in drag just isn't that appealing to me.

He actually did it really well -- I forgot he was a man.

[Jaymi]

OOOOO!!! I just saw 2 Day In Paris this weekend and LOVED it. (So much that I wrote a review of it for Girlistic Magazine's upcoming issue (which is out Saturday!!)). It's so awesome and I totally recommend everyone go see it this weekend. It helps, of course, that I'm gearing up for a trip to France in the not-too-distant-future and it got me in the mood to spiff up my French.

Plus in the previews, there were two movies I want to see - The Kite Runner (LOVED the book and the movie looks like it does justice to the book) and the new documentary about the environment with Leo DeCaprio. They both look great.

I haven't seen Becoming Jane, and can't place why it sounds familiar - I'll have to look it up.

Went and saw Knocked Up, and wished I didn't pay money to see it...

I STILL have to see Hairspray - want to see it but Travolta in drag just isn't that appealing to me.

And the Bourne Ultimatum was great. I wished the plot were a little more involved, but it was great. I watched Identity and Supremacy the week before to get all caught up.

[princess_dander]

I just watched Me and You and Everyone We Know for the second time and I liked it much better the this time around. I still feel like I can't relate to the charaters as people, but can relate to thier emotions and why they did the things they did in the film. I really loved the theme of how people need or don't need each other, but besides this, I didn't feel the film had a strong plot. The acting was amazing and I loved the scene about the goldfish on top of the cars. Has any one else seen this film?

[sukouyant]

wha? why are release dates so long off where you are bunnyb? sadly i'll have nothing deep to add to Pedro Almodovar conversations. shallowville!

i haven't seen becoming jane, snowy. it would be nice if anne hathway would go through a disney detox or something, she could be a great actor methinks.

[snow white]

has anyone seen becoming jane? i love classic-type movies but i'm gonna hold out for the reveiws on this one. i just don't quite trust that toothy anne hathaway...

[bunnyb]

I am so tired of the delayed releases here: Stardust, Superbad and Penelope don't open here until October .

Knocked Up is opening this weekend so going to see that.

I'm planning a marathon of Pedro Almodovar films shortly so will report once I've indulged; would be interested in discussing them and know there are some BUSTie fans.

[sassygrrl]

Stardust was my anti-depressant for the weekend. I'm going to see Superbad and Death at a Funeral (hey, it's got one of the guys from Firefly in it) next weekend.

[knorl05]

yeah my little bro told me to go watch superbad, said it was hilarious off the wall type humor.

i just watched jesus camp last night, as well as parts of an inconvenient truth. both very informative and eye opening. in jesus camp this fundie preacher lady said something along the lines of, "this movement has got to have some extreme liberals shaking in their boots". that bugged me. on the personal level, i could care less what she and her people are practicing. on the political level, i dont agree with her intentions. i believe she is hoping that this movement will indoctrinate children to be evangelicals and that the future of our government will be saturated with fundamentalist christians, thus marrying church and state... i may be naive, but i dont see america turning into something that negates its very foundation. people dont seem to realize that freedom is not the problem. but i could be wrong... maybe the future of america is not a pretty one because there are people who think that more control will produce more favorable results. i just think people have unrealistic expectations of what they believe life and freedom are supposed to be about.... but that's just my liberal minded opinion.

i also want to see death at a funeral. oh and penelope.