Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Um, Batman was made many years after Temple of Doom.


That doesn't make any less a piece of filth.

Pssst - I think she means the Adam West Batman

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, hahahahaha!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Spain + Penelope Cruiz + Scarlett Johansson + making out + directed by Woody Allen = most anticipated movie ever.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/13/...ina-barcelona/

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Spain + Penelope Cruiz + Scarlett Johansson + making out + directed by Woody Allen = most anticipated movie ever.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/13/...ina-barcelona/

Take out "Woody Allen" and I might agree with you. Actually, Cruz doesn't really do it for me, but I understand her appeal, at least.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I finally watched There Will Be Blood. After the first hour passed, I thought, "Why were so many of my friends disappointed? This is GREAT!" And then the next hour passed, and I thought, "Okay, it's starting to flounder a bit, but I'll keep heart and maybe he will rein it in during the 3rd act."

And then..... Well, honestly, it was like watching a brilliant mind deteriorate. I felt like I was actually watching a friend I love go mad towards the end of his life. I'm not talking about Plainview's deterioration, mind. I'm personifying the movie. I really do think it had a brilliant start. I was completely riveted, and then I was completely let down.

And that final scene? Some of the worst overacting I've seen from a truly gifted actor in a long time. As for Dano's performance, I wasn't keen on it for most of the picture, so was less disappointed when he too floundered in the last 15 minutes.

Ah, well. I still have Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love to turn to.

[innerSpaceman]

Well, when I watched it again ... I was suprised to realize IT'S A COMEDY.


Seriously, I laughed all the way through it. Not AT it. With it. The final scene when Plainview is an adle-brained, drunken old coot is only overacting if you don't see his behaviour when he's younger and more sane.

Every scene with him and Paul Dano is a laugh riot. The scene in the restaurant with his son and the guys from Union Oil has me in stitches. And the bowling scene finale is simply icing on an already preposterious character's cake (or milkshake, as the case may be).


Comedy, Comedy, Comedy .... looked at from that angle, There Will Be Blood is pure black gold ... and Daniel Day deserved the Oscar he got (before they were warned how he'd dress for the ceremony).

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I enjoyed the film's black humor, though I wouldn't categorize it as a comedy, or even a Black Comedy. There were scenes where I laughed, and I think I was meant to laugh.

But that doesn't change how I felt about the piece as a whole. If it's a masterpiece I've misunderstood I'm cool with that, and there's a someecard to back me up.

[Snowflake]

Love the card EH1812. Brilliant!

iSm, I got the humor, but I'm still meh on the movie. Overlong and over tedious. I did find the restairant scene funny.

[Alex]

Ugh.

Werner Herzog is going to remake Bad Lieutenant with Nic Cage in the Harvey Keitel role.

I'm not one to immediately reject remakes, but Bad Lieutenant?

[Stan4dSteph]

I really liked The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The extras on the DVD are very good as well.