Lounge of Tomorrow - Miscellaneous Movie Musings

I'm sorry, I lauged so hard at that moment. My son watched that movie with me, and when the child was yelling, he was sitting there saying, Wipe your own butt, you're five!!!

Otherwise, we both enjoyed this movie. Though I had a hard time explaining to my son why the reigning champ was being such "a baby".

On another note, I watched Keeping Mum this weekend.
Maggie Smith is funny. really funny.

I didnt know Rowan Atkinson could play a straight role.

And that movie was totally not what I expected, but I still loved it.
And thats just wierd for a movie with a body count.

innerSpaceman

03-10-2008 11:23 AM

The sex scenes in Lust, Caution are just WHOA. Especially the first one. Sigh, I long to "imitate" that scene. Brutal hotness extraordinaire.

Ugh, sorry you were meh about Across the Universe, GC. I liked it a lot better the second time when I wasn't watching it as a "story," but merely as an operetta of Beatles numbers linked by the flimsiest plot that was cobbled together to fit the songs, and not the other way around.

cirquelover

03-11-2008 10:14 AM

We went and saw College Road Trip, which the boy loved as we knew he would. Raven is just cute and sweet. I love that she doesn't have to be stick thin to be a pretty role model.

We also saw Martian Child. It was slow moving but a touching story. The little boy was cute and it was fun to see the Cusack's playing brother and sister.

Moonliner

03-11-2008 10:23 AM

We passed a bit of a milestone. I took the kid to his first R-Rated movie: The Bank Job.

He liked it. I was less impressed.

Alex	03-11-2008 10:30 AM

Of course he liked it, there were naked boobies within the first 20 seconds.

Really, for many years that's all it took for me to consider a movie to be a classic.

Strangler Lewis

03-11-2008 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 197887)

We passed a bit of a milestone. I took the kid to his first R-Rated movie: The Bank Job.

He liked it. I was less impressed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 197893)

Of course he liked it, there were naked boobies within the first 20 seconds.

Really, for many years that's all it took for me to consider a movie to be a classic.

In the same vein, I happened to catch the unrated version of American Pie: Beta House on TV the other night. I'd say it was the first vaguely mainstream movie I've seen featuring full frontal nudity involving a fully weed-whacked crotch (or whatever it is the girls do to themselves these days). Didn't look like I was watching a naked woman. I almost had to run out to rent a copy of Porky's to reorient myself.

But if I was 14, I know my head would have exploded.

LSPoorEeyorick

03-11-2008 01:35 PM

So I've already stated here that I loved Persepolis.

I do not love the Studio Briefing news service which populates IMDb, among other things. Their headline: "French Animated Film Banned in Iraq." Their story:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Studio Briefing

The award-winning French animated film Persepolis has been banned in Lebanon, a country with strong cultural ties to France. Daily Variety commented today (Tuesday) that Lebanese authorities acted in order to avoid offending pro-Iranian members of the Lebanese opposition, which includes Hezbollah. Last year the Bangkok Film Festival banned the movie, which had been scheduled to open the festival, after officials at the Iranian embassy protested. The film concerns a young girl's experiences growing up in Iran at the time of the Islamic revolution in 1979. It won the jury prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Sorry, Lebanon /= Iraq.

JWBear

03-11-2008 10:02 PM

We watched The Trouble With harry tonight. I had forgotten how good that movie is. So sweetly twisted.

Eliza Hodgkins 1812

03-11-2008 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 197559)

The moral of Lust, Caution is

Spoiler:

Those were hot scenes, and I'm not sure that was all acting.

CoasterMatt

03-11-2008 10:21 PM

My reaction to Across the Universe was a bit better than meh.

There are two sequences I love - I Want You (She's So Heavy) and Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - I've watched the I Want You sequence 6 or 7 times now, and it's just too cool.

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