Miscellaneous Movie Musings

innerSpaceman · 08-16-2006, 10:16 PM

Well, I Netflixed The Libertine and I want those two hours of my life back.

Now I know why it was in theaters for all of ten minutes. Johnny Depp, John Malcovich, Samantha Morton .... what were such talented people thinking??????

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Oooooh, a film we were talking about briefly - omg, so 12 pages ago in this thread - - is coming out on DVD after all. The Girl Can't Help It, the Jayne Mansfield, early rock'n'roll classic!! I'm so happy.

Of course, it's part of a set, so I have to buy Rock Hunter and some other movie I've never even heard of just to get Girl Can't Help It, but it will be worth it.

And heck, I had to buy all the Airport movies just to get the first one.

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Speaking of disaster movies involving airplanes .... I saw World Trade Center tonight. I'll have more to muse about it later ... but my initial reaction is 'meh.'

There was nothing particularly wrong with it, but it certainly didn't hit me emotionally. I was very moved and upset and emotional in reaction to United 93 earlier this year, but the Oliver Stone movie left me pretty dry. It's not simply that a subject matter calling out for OliverStonisms ironically had none .... it's that, even on its own terms of a very focused story of 2 of the merely 20 WTC survivors, it just wasn't very involving or emotional or upsetting.

Feh.

08-16-2006, 10:16 PM	#11
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Well, I Netflixed The Libertine and I want those two hours of my life back. Now I know why it was in theaters for all of ten minutes. Johnny Depp, John Malcovich, Samantha Morton .... what were such talented people thinking?????? * * * * * Oooooh, a film we were talking about briefly - omg, so 12 pages ago in this thread - - is coming out on DVD after all. The Girl Can't Help It, the Jayne Mansfield, early rock'n'roll classic!! I'm so happy. Of course, it's part of a set, so I have to buy Rock Hunter and some other movie I've never even heard of just to get Girl Can't Help It, but it will be worth it. And heck, I had to buy all the Airport movies just to get the first one. * * * * * Speaking of disaster movies involving airplanes .... I saw World Trade Center tonight. I'll have more to muse about it later ... but my initial reaction is 'meh.' There was nothing particularly wrong with it, but it certainly didn't hit me emotionally. I was very moved and upset and emotional in reaction to United 93 earlier this year, but the Oliver Stone movie left me pretty dry. It's not simply that a subject matter calling out for OliverStonisms ironically had none .... it's that, even on its own terms of a very focused story of 2 of the merely 20 WTC survivors, it just wasn't very involving or emotional or upsetting. Feh.
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