Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Just finished watching Slaughterhouse-Five. Love the book but boy what a rotten movie.

[€uroMeinke]

Awwww - I love that Movie (and the book)

[Alex]

Well, for me none of the power of the book came through in the movie and it just looked like a bunch of random nonsense with Valerie Perrine's boobs thrown in to distract you.

[€uroMeinke]

heh - yeah

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I watched Cinema Paradiso last night- what a wonderful movie.

Awww... yes, indeed. (I actually came down the aisle to the beautiful Morricone score!)

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Awww... yes, indeed. (I actually came down the aisle to the beautiful Morricone score!)

If you get the chance, watch it in HD - they've done a beautiful job with the transfer, and it's the 1989 version, not the "director's cut/re-edit" thing that just about ruins the movie.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Saw Finding Kraftland this evening over at DTD's AMC theatre. Kraft was there and what a spaztic guy, though he wasn't the type of spaz that annoys but one that brings you into his world. The film was alot more of that I thought it would be - it was touching and very funny, but also very self-endulgant. It was alot of - "I have money and I blow it on anything I want and it makes me happy." Which is fine but it really shined a nice spotlight on my own looserness, which wasn't the nicest feeling to have.

It was funny to see Stacy from the WDW Top 10 programs that are piped into the hotels - she made an apearance at the screening.

If for nothing beyond the Disney geek factor, I think it should be viewed.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I watched Cinema Paradiso last night- what a wonderful movie.

Cinema Paradiso is totally in my top ten favorite films of all-time. I even love the extended version. It explains a certain unresolved relationship that is hugely prominent in the first half of the theatrical version and then disappears completely in the second half.

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

Saw Finding Kraftland this evening over at DTD's AMC theatre. Kraft was there...

Bornieo and I disagree a little about Finding Kraftland. I enjoyed it immensely. And meeting Kraft in person was a hoot. Yes, the man has money, but if I had the money he had I would be doing the same things he did and buying some of the things he did. (And I know for a fact that CoasterMatt would be traveling around the world riding every single roller coaster ever made just like Kraft and his son did if he had the cha-ching to do it.) I found the movie to be less about his collections and more about him and his family. His relationship with his son is just wonderful. And it's a tear-jerker, too.
On top of everything else, I won a bobble head figure of Kraft and his son. He asked, 'Who's the big laughing guy in this section' meaning our section. I pointed at Mark. But he gave the bobble head to me, anyway. I think it had something to do with my tear stained face. Yes, I was moved. Movies move me. Yay! I'm going to keep the bobble head to remind me to find more joy in life.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

On top of everything else, I won a bobble head figure of Kraft and his son. He asked, 'Who's the big laughing guy in this section' meaning our section. I pointed at Mark. But he gave the bobble head to me, anyway. I think it had something to do with my tear stained face. Yes, I was moved. Movies move me. Yay! I'm going to keep the bobble head to remind me to find more joy in life.

and I didn't fight you for it. You need it more than I.

[Alex]

Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder are both good action oriented comedies. Not great but plenty fun.