I'm not sure why I'm posting this but it's movie related.
For background noise, I put Little Miss Sunshine in while I was on the laptop. And the scene where Olive goes to comfort Duane on the side of the hill, with the bus in the back ground.... I lost it. I just started bawling. Not sure why. The depression, I guess. It just reminded me of my little sis and me. She used to have them big 'ol glasses and cowboy boots. I guess I'm just a sad little man.
lol!

Went to a matinee of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus yesterday. I'm surprised that there's almost zero advertising for the film that is a real return to form for Terry Gilliam after the badly reviewed Tideland and the just plain bad Brothers Grimm. Without giving the plot away (I recommend you go into this movie cold), I was particularly struck by just how good an actor Heath Ledger was. After his death, his role was completed by three of his friends, which actually works for the most part. My one regret was that during a particularly good scene played by one of his peers, all I could think about was that Ledger should have played it. Sad.

I had heard about the film a while ago, completely forgotten about it, then suddenly in the last couple of weeks started seeing some promos again. I was super excited as it really did look like Gilliam of old.

So happy to hear it's good, but it seems we won't be seeing this one until DVD as it's only in limited release (ArcLight Hollywood, and AMC Santa Monica). :(

What a great line-up to end the year! TCM's movie list for New Year's Eve is:

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Marnie
Shadow of a Doubt
Psycho
Vertigo
Rear Window
and 5 of the Thin Man movies.

:)

GC - you're such a sweet softie.

Aw NINE last night - A couple really good performances and some well done dramatic moments but it was a bit of a mess storywise - Daniel Day-Lewis was horrible in this with a really fake accent. The music/songs were all over the place and confusing mostly due to the actors trying to use accents in the songs.

I know it.
:D

Sometimes I'll pop in a sad movie (or any movie that will be emotional for me) just so I can get a good cry out of it. One of my therapists in the past said it was me reminding myself that I'm alive. I think she was right.
:)

That is a great lineup!

Have you seen Fellini's 8 1/2? Narrative is decidedly a secondary consideration in that classic, so that may carry over into the musical adaptation as well. I've never seen NINE on stage, but the movie looks colorful enough from the trailer. It's really a lost cause trying to make a film based on such an iconic film (and B'way play) and try to come up with something distinctive, so my expectations for this are muted.

Sherlock Holmes wasn't horrible (and I'm not bothered by the buffed up Holmes as it isn't nearly so present in the movie as in the trailers; and the books do refer to Holmes being a quite accomplished pugilist in a time when there was no such thing as boxing gloves) but it was too long and not very interesting in terms of the central mystery. An awful lot of time was spent setting up the sequel.

A Single Man - I was simultaneously bored by the movie and captivated by Colin Firth's performance.