What Swanky Things are you Watching?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

What always struck me as funny was the old lanky man with the hat that dances to the 'Dueling Banjoes' at the beginning. What a freak!


This movie branded the south (and Ned Beatty) forever. (!!!)

It certainly did. God, poor Ned Beatty. What a brave role for him to do at that time, I think. And really hard to watch. I kept thinking, "This...this isn't happening. What...what's going? He's not..Oh, he is. God. Well, this is certainly taking a...oh...Ned...Ned, poor Ned."

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

It certainly did. God, poor Ned Beatty. What a brave role for him to do at that time, I think. And really hard to watch. I kept thinking, "This...this isn't happening. What...what's going? He's not..Oh, he is. God. Well, this is certainly taking a...oh...Ned...Ned, poor Ned."

I think it was on The Daily Show that Burt Reynolds said the actor, that was raping Ned Beatty's character, told the cating director that he had no problem with the scene. The actor said he had done things that people nowdays would consider much worse than that.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I think it was on The Daily Show that Burt Reynolds said the actor, that was raping Ned Beatty's character, told the cating director that he had no problem with the scene. The actor said he had done things that people nowdays would consider much worse than that.

Wait. Wait. Was he an actor who was confessing to having done worse things in other movies?

Or an actual hick who was admitting to a casting director that he'd done worse things in real life.

Oh...PLEASE tell me it isn't the second option. God.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Wait. Wait. Was he an actor who was confessing to having done worse things in other movies?

Or an actual hick who was admitting to a casting director that he'd done worse things in real life.

Oh...PLEASE tell me it isn't the second option. God.

It is the second option.
Seemingly against someone's will.

[€uroMeinke]

Last night we saw Dangerous Liasons 1960, Roger Vadim's take on this story set in hip 1950's France. The settings were definately swanky, from Parisian cocktail parties to Shagesque alpine chalets. Best of all was a sound track provided by Thelonious Monk - could it be any swankier? Definately a film for these boards.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

We just watched "The Village" and "Open Water". I enjoyed the former, didn't like the latter. I think it would be best to not explain why though, as I would have to give away too much of the movies and people might not appreciate that.

[Stan4dSteph]

I just saw A Very Long Engagement this weekend. Most excellent. Great love story, great war movie, great mystery.

[UvaGirl]

I watched The Prince & Me on DVD last night. It was okay - not awful, not so good either. I like Julia Stiles, which was the main reason I'd been wanting to see it.

[Claire]

I had an Oscar day at the movies yesterday (we're having an Oscar party again, so my friends and I decided to make sure we see all the movies/roles that are contenders).....

We started with Sideways....already had seen it, but I was with a group who hadn't. I just freaking love this movie. I can't put my finger on why...but I just think it's beautiful. And real.

On to.....Hotel Rwanda. We had to sit in the second row as we were running from the first movie. The seating sucked, but the movie was incredible. So many twists and turns and ups and downs. I thought that Sophie Okonedo as Don Cheadle's wife was amazing. She made me bawl. She had some really intense scenes. And I always love Don Cheadle. Always.

Then to Finding Neverland. I hadn't seen it, and I didn't really care if I ever did.....I was very whateverish about it. But then I saw it and loved it. I had tears in my eyes the entire film because I knew where it was leading.....ugh. Johnny Depp with a Scottish accent......sigh.

Finally, we ended our very long day with A Very Long Engagement. I saw it about a month ago and it was so beautiful...I was happy to see it again. The first time I saw it, I was so concerned with reading and making sure I had it all, then yesterday, I got to relax and take it all in. Gorgeous. Except for the crowd of teens next to us, who kept asking questions the whole time.

Next:

Bad Education (this is my pick, my must-see!)
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby


I'll skip:

Ray
The Aviator

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

It certainly did. God, poor Ned Beatty. What a brave role for him to do at that time, I think. And really hard to watch. I kept thinking, "This...this isn't happening. What...what's going? He's not..Oh, he is. God. Well, this is certainly taking a...oh...Ned...Ned, poor Ned."

The time I tried to watch this movie, it was this scene that turned my stomach. Man/woman, man/man, it doesn't matter. It is violent. I could never get how people could make cracks about 'squealing like a pig'.

Anywho...

Claire, I thought of you when I was watching the last movie the Hubster rented. 'Coronado'. Has anyone seen this? Well, the main character is named Claire. It is a cute movie.

I also enjoyed 'Garden State'. 'The Village' I enjoyed but it messed with me. Some of the characters I thought were not done well.

'Forgotten' was fun because we had only seen the previews and not heard anything else about it. We kept guessing what was going to happen. That was fun. I guess that also means it didn't keep us enough involved that we were talking...

If I can watch it before he takes it back, 'Cellular' {any good?} and 'Catwoman'.