Originally posted by MasterKiller
I bought my wife a day-spa package, so looks like I’ll be at home with the baby. No movies for me.
If you can play playstation with Ema in you lap, you can watch a DVD (albeit a quiet one!)
Oh, kudos for being the good husband.
She’s too big for that now. She reaches for the controller and doesn’t like to sit still. Nap time is my only salvation!
NETFLIX is dope… I love it always have a bunch of movies on hand.
Plus they have a bunch of standup dvds.. I love to watch standup.
Just finished Robin Williams Live on Broadway and Jerry Seinfeld, I’m Telling You for the Last Tim… both incredibly funny.
They have a few Kung fu movies I don’t have in my collection too.
Something’s Got to Give was good, but it got long, there were like 25 different endings, seemed they couldn’t pick, so they used all of them. Jack is great, Diane did a great job too, but like I said, I think the ending dragged (all of them).
I’m not planning on getting to the cinema, but I still haven’t watched any of the four discs I rented Tuesday that are due Sunday, so I’ve got my laziness cut out for me:
What I got: Swimfan, Confidence, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Hopscotch.
Confidence - meh.
More to come.
Hopscotch - an excellent 1980 movie starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson that manages to deftly weave together the romantic comedy and the globe-trotting political espionage thriller. The kind of movie that makes you glad you like movies.
Swimfan - So dull I turned it off after about a half hour. For what’s obviously supposed to be a sexy thriller, there’s precious little that sexy or thrilling.
“Kind Hearts and Coronets” is a black comedy from 1949 england. A distantly relative to a noble family swears to get revenge for his mother’s ignominous death, and murders his way to the Dukedom. Starring Alec Guiness as virtually every member of the D’Ascoyne family to come to a bitter, untimely end.
Funny, but in that polite, wry, understated way. Few belly laughs, plenty of ironic amusement.
I bough Shaolin Drunken Monk with Gordon Lui. Not the best KF flick put to celluloid, but certainly watchable.
I was feeling like a classic, so I rented Seven Samurai. Love that film.
I know what I’m renting next weekend. Lost in Translation and American Splendor are both going to be released on DVD next Tuesday (2/3/04).
Originally posted by MasterKiller
I know what I’m renting next weekend. Lost in Translation and American Splendor are both going to be released on DVD next Tuesday (2/3/04).
Excellent. I havent’ seen American Splendor yet.
BTW, and on topic, ROTK did well at the Golden Globes.
Always the bridesmaid.
Jackson may get an Oscar for best director because of all the hoopla, but I think there are too many good Non-Fantasy contenders for Best Picture this year, which marginalizes ROTK’s chances. Hollywood likes to use the Oscar to legitimize itself, so I bet they go for Mystic River or Cold Mountain.
I love “Seven Samurai” “American Splendor” and “Lost in Translation.”
I’ll also have 14-hour days four days a week for the next several months, and will therefore be cutting back drastically on my vidiocy.
Well, it’ll be worth it.
Originally posted by MasterKiller
[B]Always the bridesmaid.
Jackson may get an Oscar for best director because of all the hoopla, but I think there are too many good Non-Fantasy contenders for Best Picture this year, which marginalizes ROTK’s chances. Hollywood likes to use the Oscar to legitimize itself, so I bet they go for Mystic River or Cold Mountain. [/B]
I think Jackson will get the Oscar as a reward for all three which have legitimized fantasy as mainstream hollywood entertainment. Unfortunately that means all the horrid knock offs are coming!
I don’t know if it deserves best picture since it’s still one of three, but it has to be the front runner. I haven’t seen Mystic River yet.
Cold Mountain isn’t even in the running: http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,574422_10_0_,00.html
I think Jackson will get the Oscar as a reward for all three which have legitimized fantasy as mainstream hollywood entertainment.
I have a problem with giving a serial movie an Oscar for best movie when it is dependent on other movies to make it complete. ROTK would make no sense without the previous two, so it can’t be “Best Picture of the Year” as far as I’m concerned. If it can’t stand alone, it shouldn’t be nominated.
I have already seen knockoffs at the video store, but they are pure camp targeted at the LOTR fans. I doubt we will see too many copy-cats of LOTR (at least at the movies. TV is another matter) because in 3 years, there really hasn’t been too much pop culture impact beyond the already established LOTR geek culture. No movie cross-overs, or puns, or jokes. The story and characters aren’t easily understood or relatable to the average American audience. Hell, I haven’t even seen a pun on the Simpsons. South Park did an episode, but they always follow their own tastes and really don’t rely on pop trends for their story lines.
When Matrix came out, everyone was referecing it, even Shrek and Deuce Bigalow. Really, I think after this year, and after the final Super Extended Platinum Collectors Edition DVD set is released, I think everything will go back to normal and these movies will seem a lot less significant than they do now. Are they better than some previous Oscar winners? You bet. Are they in the top 100 of all time. I’m not convinced.
As far as the genre goes, I think Conan the Barbarian is a more significant film. It had a message about the human need for social relevance, and it had an obvious hero. Plus, the dialogue made sense. There have been many, many Conan knock-offs. Even Conan the Destoyer was a knock-off of the original.
I don’t think the market’s been flooded with knok off fantasy types as they new three movies were made at once. They’ll be some more cone down the pike soon. Especailly if Oscar smiles.
http://blithesea.net/bk/lotr_01.html
And you thought Gay Hobbits were a problem…
That disturbed me.
Anyway, I rented Love Liza with Philip Seymour Hoffman to watch this weekend. I almost got Owning Mahoney, too. I love him. My favorite part of Boogey Nights is him crying in the car after making a pass at Dirk Diggler. “I’m such a focking idiot…I’m such a focking idiot…I’m such a focking idiot…”
That’s realism, folks.
He is a helluvan actor. I even like him in movies I hate, like “Magnolia.” I think my favorite performances by him are (comic category) Brant in “The Big Lebowski” and (dramatic) the Freddie Miles in “The bunchadjectives Mr. Ripley.”
Didn’t he try out for the role of Ripley? That would have been interesting as he’s a great actor.