What Swanky Things are you Watching?

[MouseWife]

Hubster and I saw 'Million Dollar Baby' Tuesday night.

I have to agree, not what I had expected. I'd seen Hillary Swank on 'Ellen' but I didn't really pay attention to what the movie was about, besides the boxing that is.

Oh, so good. We talked about it all of the way home and in the morning we started up again.

I now want to see 'Aviator' so that I can judge them both. I love Leo DiCaprio but I won't just give him my nod. I need to compare the two. But, I don't know if they are indeed comparable.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Deliverance

"Don't you think he has a pretty mouth?"

Man, I just love this movie. The banjo playing inbred kid is by far the spookiest aspect of the film. And I do love a sad, suffering Jon V. Plus, Burt Reynolds and his crossbow of masculinity. Too funny.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Deliverance

"Don't you think he has a pretty mouth?"

Man, I just love this movie. The banjo playing inbred kid is by far the spookiest aspect of the film. And I do love a sad, suffering Jon V. Plus, Burt Reynolds and his crossbow of masculinity. Too funny.

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. (!!!)

[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.

[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'.

[€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.