Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

I'm not happy

Trailer here

Originally Posted by flippyshark

It kind of looks like a bone-headed remake of Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Anyway, how ghastly - plus that trailer is rife with all the cliche whooshes, quick edits and canned hyper-chorus music that makes me roll my eyes and decide not to attend SO MANY MOVIES! Are you trailer editors listening? I've been ranting about this for years now! Cut that shyt out!

I have to agree. I do not buy for a second that this is Holmes. My cheese is sad because I love both Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

I absolutely loved The Wrestler. I grew up watching WWF so my standards were pretty high on that end. I was tickled at the terminology and the inside peek at how they pull it off (however inaccurate or fictionalized, I wouldn't know, but it's the closest we'll get.) I bet the reason they did not get ANY past wrestlers on board (and those guys are attention whores, making it extra surprising) was simply because they were honest about the faking. I also had a wake-up moment when he cut himself because I'd seen plenty of blood in the ring but always thought it was fake blood. Really realistic fake blood...but now I know what I was really watching and it's changed my perspective quite a bit.

Everything else was fantastic too, very realistic, and damn, Marisa Tomei is now the ultimate MILF. I hope I look half as good at her age.

[Alex]

I haven't seen The Wrestler yet but if you found the behind-the-scenes aspect interesting I really recommend checking out Beyond the Mat, a 1999 documentary that kind of covers the same ground.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

I haven't seen The Wrestler yet but if you found the behind-the-scenes aspect interesting I really recommend checking out Beyond the Mat, a 1999 documentary that kind of covers the same ground.

Thanks, added to my queue.

I've seen a movie, nay, an Oscar nominated film, that you haven't seen?

[Alex]

Apparently. The Wrestler was poorly timed for me so I didn't see it in theaters and then I'd crammed in so much "heavy" viewing that I was kind of worn out.

I did move the DVD to the top of my queue but it has now been several months since I last watched a DVD instead of streaming. Plus I've already seen Marisa Tomei's breasts once this year (she's a stripper I assume she's naked at some point, could be wrong) so I don't want to overdo it.

[innerSpaceman]

Saw the Sherlock Holmes trailer BIG at the Chinese last night before T4, and agree I cannot buy Downey, Jr. as Holmes at all ... at least from the trailer. But those are covers by which I never judge the books.

I walked out on the trailer for Harry Potter because it looked like it was going to show every image in the movie. Hate that.


Terminator 4 was really good, though. I was surprised.

[Alex]

You're the first person I've heard really go for it (T4), but Lani wants to see it so I'll overcome my Bale dislike and go see it.

Hope to be happily surprised.

[innerSpaceman]

The friends I saw it with all liked it, but we all liked T3, too. That was widely panned.


This movie's, so far, getting only mid-30's on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't get it. I liked it WAY better than that.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Okay interesting. I kinda liked T3 also, so that makes me want to see this one now.

[Snowflake]

I'm looking forward to seeing UP nest weekend. Looks cute and different.

I caught Frost/Nixon last night on DVD and was very surprised how well I liked it. Langella was channelling Nixon (ew) so well I forgot he wasn't Nixon. Michael Sheen (whom I normally like) was not channeling Frost, more like Austin Powers. Nonetheless, always nice to see Oliver Platt and is is me or is Kevin Bacon just very good at being kinda creepy? The big surprise was Patty McCormack as Pat Nixon, I had to look her up because was she really the same Patty McCormack from The Bad Seed, yes, she was. It may have been mentioned before but I missed it and was surprised. I think Toby Jones needed larger glasses for Swifty Lazar. I missed the Rance Howard cameo.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Terminator 4 was really good, though. I was surprised.

I'd said I would be seeing it because of Lani and hoped to be pleasantly surprised. The result:

To start out by saying something good: McG failed to descend to the level of craptitude he achieved with Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

To follow up with something bad: McG is a blight on humanity for which one day we'll all be judged harshly. If he is the creation of a benevolent god his purpose must be only to elevate our regard for the crappiest of Michael Bay crap.

Perhaps it could have been different, when the story was away from John Connor (and the increasingly laughable Christian Bale) it actually showed some tremors of life and coherence.

Also, SkyNet is the apparently the stupidest sentient computer ever presented on film and that includes Keanu Reeves.