tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post2674753315425771988..comments2024-03-07T18:38:58.284-08:00Comments on kidchamp dot net: laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-70612336149539116472009-01-23T00:11:18.000-08:002009-01-23T00:11:18.000-08:00Must sees:
Doubt (More interesting if you saw in o...Must sees:<br />Doubt (More interesting if you saw in on the boards, I did twice, once off-b'way, once on. I was after all, working for MTC. But it's a MUST SEE if you didn't see it on stage.)<br />Slumdog - but you've already seen it.<br /><br />We saw Revolutionary Road, I loved it because I'm obsessed with the central question, and Kate Winslet, as ever. But it screams GIVE ME A OSCAR, so yeah. David hated it.<br /><br />The Wrestler made me want to nap/die. I had to walk out at one point to avoid throwing up on the floor of the theatre. Awesome. Then afterwards I figured if life was this awful why live (ah,Aronofsky). David loved it.<br /><br />Milk - see it for the gays, but it screams for an Oscar (you can see where wedding rings were purchased outside the window of his camera store). <br /><br />Still to see:<br />Frost/Nixon (tomorrows date night. Very excited)<br />The Reader (read the book for my fav course in college on sociatal reaction to mass atrocities, very good read from that vantage point. And Kate! Naked!)<br /><br />And for hunches, Viola Davis in doubt. Little part one of the best roles I've seen all year. Heath Ledger, again one of the best all year and he's dead? A sure thing.<br /><br />Side notes: Happy Go Lucky - stab me in the eye. Wall-E? Should be best picture, what? Acadamy, what.megnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-67612465730434588072009-01-23T07:28:05.000-08:002009-01-23T07:28:05.000-08:00we will see doubt, but it gets a serious dishonora...we will see <i>doubt</i>, but it gets a serious dishonorable mention from me first. my neighbor is a SAG member and usually gets a few screeners pre-awards season each year (and passes said screeners on to us); economic climate being what it is, i was hoping for a few titles we hadn't yet seen. we got <i>the dark knight</i>, a fine movie i don't need to see again for a bit, and a big, DVD-shaped packet from <i>doubt</i> that turned out to be piles of cardboard hype and NO MOVIE (just a line about how we should go see it). WTF, guys? it would've been cheaper to send a disc. <i>boo</i>.<br /><br />we've been watching the frost/nixon interviews, and i predict that i'll think frank langella's seriously overacting (which, as joe notes, everyone does when they're playing nixon). actual nixon was crazy like a fox, but he played it pretty close to the vest, from what i've seen thus far. <br /><br />much as i love cockroaches, i'm not sure i can bring myself to see <i>wall-e</i>. then again, it's a rental at this point, so...when joe's at work? <br /><br />i think <i>doubt</i> and <i>milk</i> (the top of my list at the moment, steeped as we are in old san francisco politics; i'm still sad they never actualized that <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2000/09/14/MN92079.DTL&type=printable" rel="nofollow">pink cloud in milk plaza</a>) are first up this weekend.laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-21566422380729502062009-01-23T11:07:40.000-08:002009-01-23T11:07:40.000-08:00of the films listed, megan and i have only seen &q...of the films listed, megan and i have only seen "dark knight" (imax!) and "milk." for me, "milk" was a pretty straightforward biopic with very good acting, both penn and brolin. it hews pretty closely to "the life and times of harvey milk" documentary from 1984, so there weren't a lot of surprises, but it's still a solid movie.<br /><br />i'm going to have to dissent from meg's negative review of "happy-go-lucky." these kinds of somewhat twee films can age poorly (see "you and me and everyone we know"), but sally hawkins is almost chaplin-esque in her emoting (in a good way, for me at least). it says something that i enjoyed the film even while seeing it in a tiny theater with terrible acoustics - her accent made the film almost unintelligible for the first few minutes before i got used to it - but her facial expressions (mugging if you're being uncharitable) were amusing to me.<br /><br />and several of these movies just opened today in the providence area. looking forward to seeing "frost/nixon" and "the wrestler."jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-16214553182829098062009-01-23T13:58:18.000-08:002009-01-23T13:58:18.000-08:00more on screeners, from things i bought that i lov...<a href="http://thingsiboughtthatilove.com/2009/01/tiny-injustices/" rel="nofollow">more on screeners</a>, from <a href="http://thingsiboughtthatilove.com/" rel="nofollow">things i bought that i love</a>:<br /><br /><i>If you live in Hollywood, and are lucky enough to be in the Writers Guild or Screen Actors Guild, you get screeners. Screeners are DVDs of movies that you get in the mail that studios send you so you can vote for them for awards. All this is totally awesome, because you can be like Wait guys, we dont have to see Defiance at the Arclight, we can watch it for free at home. (p.s. Daniel Craig plays more Jews than any person Ive ever seen. Even Marc Feurstein is cast less as a Jew than this guy. I love it. ) Anyway, then you pop in the screener, which someone GAVE YOU so you hopefully can vote for it, and then before the movie starts, theres this long list of threats against you. Theyve encoded the disc and can trace it back to you, and can sue you for tons of money if you let it out of your sight. Next, you have to break the cd in half when youre finished with it. You have to violently destroy this cd or THEY WILL GET YOU INTO TROUBLE. Im sorry, you sent ME this DVD, right? I didnt ask for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas to be sent to my house, and now if someone steals it, youre going to sue me? Jesus Christ, you guys.</i>laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-65131192213616229432009-01-24T12:13:38.000-08:002009-01-24T12:13:38.000-08:00i admit to seeing a screener of "the wrestler...i admit to seeing a screener of "the wrestler". arclight really is expensive.baby jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-67245975360542206302009-01-24T13:22:01.000-08:002009-01-24T13:22:01.000-08:00Back to freshman "compare and contrast":...Back to freshman "compare and contrast": Rourke's wrestler whips De Niro's raging bull----, but Aronofsky can't hold a candle to Scorsese. A little less violence, a little more sophistication and scope allowed Rourke in character development, a little more refined sexuality, a little more artful visual and syntactic sense, and we might have had a real film. Still, like "Raging Bull," "The Wrestler" remains true: the man, the woman, the fight.anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-56501098601186053872009-01-26T10:14:51.000-08:002009-01-26T10:14:51.000-08:00Mmm. I love me some Arclight.
But really, and upd...Mmm. I love me some Arclight.<br /><br />But really, and update. We saw Frost/Nixon and quite enjoyed it. David "Better than expected! More a character study, and less a documentary." For once we agreed.<br /><br />I saw The Reader on my own, and enjoyed that as well. I read the novel for a course in college on how societies cope with the aftermath of mass atrocities, so I tend to think about the book from that perspective. I think in the end, the movie doesn't really push hard enough at the central question, and lets everyone off a too easily. That said, it attempts to tackle a really complicated question, and I give it points for that. Also, Kate is excellent (much better than in RR I thought) and I liked the kid. So worth seeing, and thought provoking at least. Though everyone who sees it should really read the book too, I think. It's a short easy read.<br /><br />Also, both movies had really good art direction and cinematography, and my design lover geeked out about it. Soothing on the eyeballs if not on the soul.<br /><br />Next up: movies I don't want to see very much, so hence, I will see at home for free.megnoreply@blogger.com