Last (x) movies you saw

Thompson was great, yes. She woulda worked in this version too.

Saw more movies in the theater during the last couple of weeks than I attended during all of last year, thanks to the bf's co-workers making cheap night a regular thing.

The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1955) 8/10
Walkabout (Roeg, 1971) 8/10
The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann, 2013) 5/10
This is the End (Rogen and Goldberg, 2013) 4/10
Skyfall (Mendes, 2012) 8/10
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986) 9/10
Man of Steel (Snyder, 2013) 2/10
The Grey (Carnahan, 2012) 7/10
Nine to Five (Higgins, 1980) 3/10
Erin Brockovich (Soderbergh, 2000) 6/10

Ferris the only rewatch, though I watched Walkabout twice.

how was watching walkabout twice

Better the second time when you don't need to worry so much about what has happened/is happening/will happen and you can just soak in the weird, hazy atmosphere of the thing instead.

Erin Brockovich sure holds up well.

walkabout is so gorgeous

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986) 9/10

― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Sunday, June 23, 2013 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Erin Brockovich sure holds up well.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 24, 2013 8:36 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Avoided it all these years cause I thought it looked boring when it was new and that whole "3 is the number of kids I have, [etc.]" speech that was always shown in clips annoyed me (I still don't find all of the instances of her telling people off in the film all that charming, though I love Finney's throwing it back at her at the end). Surprised at how entertaining I found the film, though; probably should have given it a 7/10 instead.

Nine to Five (Higgins, 1980) 3/10

wrong

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986) 9/10

― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Sunday, June 23, 2013 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

― the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Monday, June 24, 2013 2:32 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The real REAL Dr Morbius ain't gonna like this.

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Yeah, I realize that I'm in the minority here, but I just didn't like it at all. Seemed like a textbook case on how to misuse a great cast and a (then, especially) hot button issue with so much dumb slapstick. Not that I'm anti-slapstick (see my Ferris rating above), but this was really clunky and unfunny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73GwyEyXps

I say "atta girl" a lot.

Is there anything else in Dolly's cinematic oeuvre worth looking at?

I thought Erin Brockovich > Traffic back then, and I think Erin Brockovich > Traffic still today.

Is there anything else in Dolly's cinematic oeuvre worth looking at?

Steel Magnolias.

If you don't like 9 to 5 I doubt you'd like The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas but I like that one too.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986) 9/10
Man of Steel (Snyder, 2013) 2/10

well I should def see Man of Steel!

Nine to Five does suck tho. Maybe two good scenes.

You have two good scenes

not bad for an amateur

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Tokyo Story
Performance

ie things my wife wouldn't want to sit through

I thought Erin Brockovich > Traffic back then, and I think Erin Brockovich > Traffic still today.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, June 24, 2013 2:57 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed.

cosign

all the non-Benicio del Toro parts of Traffic are kind of terrible

exactly.

I thought Erin Brockovich > Traffic back then, and I think Erin Brockovich > Traffic still today.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.)

you old so and so!

at the time preferring EB was like saying you preferred En Vogue to Radiohead.

but I do

exactly!

gays in falling-for-Julia's-2000-teeth shockah

plus, damn, Finney and Roberts work so well together. If this was the early eighties they'd be given a shitty CBS sitcom.

I'm not gay!

Finney was p much doing a Southern Lou Grant

that's praise, right?

And the problem is ... ?

lol xp

"Oh bite my ass, Krispy Kreme!"

I liked EB, mostly, but sighed wearily when Julia started nodding and smiling while listening to some helpless woman about 2/3 of the way through. Candyass sentiment is why American movies don't do politics.

No, candyass sentiment is the only thing that allows American movies to do politics.

I've been called a lot of things but never loving gay icons (speaking of, where does it say that Julia Roberts is a gay icon?).

I liked EB, mostly, but sighed wearily when Julia started nodding and smiling while listening to some helpless woman about 2/3 of the way through

OK how was this scene not "political" (especially with Marg Helgenberger's restraint helping)?

I'll get back to you someday, as I haven't seen it in 12+ years.

Or realistically, maybe not.

i saw erin brockovich when it came out, the theater was filled with gay dudes hooting in delight at julia's outfits

gawd

Same gay dudes were hooting at Benicio Del Toro playing gay in Traffic's bar scene.

anyone seen Against All Odds, the forgotten eighties remake of Out of the Past? The commentary track by James Woods, Jeff Bridges, and Taylor Hackford is amazing: an exegesis on L.A. real estate, Woods and Bridges' reminisces, what it was like in Paramount to finance a movie when Don Simpson and Michael Eisner were in charge. Quite worth the time.

that sounds great

wow yeah

It makes up for Rachel Ward's defiant unsexiness.

But god Jeff Bridges never looked better. His Thin White Duke phase.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5256/5540078793_1af9070e3e.jpg

The great Phil Collins ballad you know. The rest of the soundtrack: top drawer Stevie Nicks, Kid Creole (performing live in the film!), Peter Gabriel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_All_Odds_%28soundtrack%29

as eighties thriller hokum it's much beter than To Live and Die in L.A..