Off topic maybe?

First, I bought a Zippo Lighter featuring the Beatles last night for the hell of it.

Later today I'm going to the home of a guy I work with and he's going to sell me a copy of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band on vinyl for pretty cheap from what I understand...


um...carry on.

Forgive me for bringing this thread back on topic... But has heard about 300 staring Gerard Butler? Mmmmmmm...

http://sunny.zandalea.biz/300/300.htm

Hubby and I had in our queue "Syriana" and "Munich." We watched them over the weekend, as it (the watching) seemed long overdue. The timing couldn't have been better (or worse) given the current meltdown in the Middle East. We feel an oppressive gloomyness that we haven't felt, since well, Sept. 2001. It's beyond despair...it's a sense of fatalism. I don't do this mood well. That and the black clouds overhead make my heart ache. People! Stop bombing each other!! :(

Ugh, what a double feature! :eek:
Now you need to watch something totally loony like 'It's a Mad Mad Mad World' or something...

I don't know if I am lookin forward to Lady in the Water or not. That being the soon to opening offering from Shyamalan.

I loved The 6th Sense. It is seriously the only movie I've ever seen that I had to rewatch immediately. I had to because I could not believe that he had really had no interaction with anyone except the boy. I just did not see it coming.

I even liked the much maligned Unbreakable. I loved Signs.

Then came The Village. I really wanted to like it. But I just didn't. I thought so much more could have been done with it. Not scary. Incredibly obvious.

So now comes the new one. So far reviews haven't been that good (OK, there are only five up on rottentomotoes with four not liking it). I want it to be good, but I'm doubting it.

Shyamalan still has enough credit with me that I'll give anything he produces a try. I loved both The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Signs was pretty good but The Village was horrible in pretty much every way.

Combine Shyamalan with Giamatti (and Bryce Howard who was the only good tihng about The Vilage) and I'm definitely there. But if this one sucks then his credit is up.

However, I think he is great in that he is definitely making the movies he wants to make and that is to be respected. That doesn't mean the movies he wants to make will always be movies anybody wants to see, but it is still respect worthy.

Although I loved 'The Sixth Sense', I haven't been crazy about Shyamalan's other stuff. I've been watching his name get more prominent in each film ad, watching him promote himself in Amex ads, etc. I can't help but think that he's more ego than anything else.
I have a feeling 'Lady in the Water' is going to leave me dry...

Then you're not listening to the right cover songs. I hated covers until I listed to "Coverville," a podcast that specializes in finding ingenious re-envisionings of (mostly) pop tunes. Richard Cheese, for instance, has some excellent ones. Jonathan Coulton's "Baby Got Back" is incredible.

Yeah, I can name 10 fantastic covers off the top of my head, and there's much much more where those came from.

Covers are not like sequels. Thousands of covers are fantastic, and it's one of the beauties of song that they can be adapted and performed in many wonderful ways ... some of which will do credit to the original version and others that, according to tastes, even surpass.


M. Night's got full faith and credit with me. The Village may not be his best, but I'm one who liked it very much. This puts him in a rare (um, party of one) film director category for me: I like every single one of his films.