I Feel Myself at the movies!

Burlesque · 01-07-06 17:46:21

Get the tape first. Always get the tape first. There is this guy called Murphy, and he makes sure that when one has the player, the tape is out of stock. That's what he does. That's all he does, and he does it well.

Burlesque.

Burlesque · 01-07-06 21:53:05

Well, here I am, Siobhan! Get a move on!

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Siobhan · 02-07-06 00:18:17

Well, this isn't exactly a movie, but for those of you currently on-line, wer'e about 2/3 of the way through the live FINAL performance of the season of Priarie Home Companion. Meryl Streep is on and being hilarious. You can stream it at www.prairiehome.org. Enjoy!

kronocide · 02-07-06 00:19:40

Hollywood has such a way of capturing all the major aspects of American culture in a few lines of dialog. I'm currently watching (sort of) a movie on TV that just started.

Man (over phone): I'm worried about you. Do you have your gun in the glove compartment?
Woman: Yes. And don't worry, I'm a big girl.
Man: In all the right places!
Woman: *giggles* I love you.

Thanks, I'll have some grapes with that! (The name of the movie is Sweet Deception.)

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Oh, and by the way, for a longer exposition on the exact same subject matter (guns and big tits), see Sin City!

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Burlesque · 02-07-06 00:28:44

Oh yes, how very profound. American culture in a nutshell, both contentwise and intellectually. Still, Hollywood movies are like potato chips: they're not good for you and after you've had a lot of them you start to go sort of queasy, but there's still no way you can stop yourself until you've had every single one, even the pathetic crumbs at the bottom.

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kronocide · 02-07-06 00:29:32

lol, that is very true.

The_West_Wind · 02-07-06 00:31:57

Where do I start?

The Farscape series (I have all of them)
-Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
-Any comic to film adaptation by Marvel (that covers quite a few choices)
-A Clockwork Orange
-Fight Club
-LOTR Trilogy
-The Matrix Trilogy (even though I always seem to fall asleep during the freeway scene in Reloaded)
-The Star Wars series
-The Highlander series (but I will never accept Highlander 2 a part of the series - ever!)
-Aeon Flux (Animated and feature film)
The list goes on...

I'm not sure if this counts, but I would like to include a flashtoon series from Newgrounds.com called "Brackenwood", by Adam Philips.

Burlesque · 02-07-06 00:33:40

kronocide wrote:

lol, that is very true.

And tragic, in a sunny Californian, monosyllabic, non-Shakespearean way.

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Siobhan · 02-07-06 00:34:20

ooooh, and right now the Wailin Jennies (ha!) are singing a most glorious version of Jane Siberry's Calling All Angels. Some of you may know.... Jane S is one of the people I'd love to do IFM. so sexy. so perfect.

The_West_Wind · 02-07-06 00:38:01

For those of you in the forum who liked Fight Club, check out a movie called "The Machinist" staring Christian Bale (Batman Returns). He dropped so much weight for this role that you'll hardly recognise him.
The film follows the same storyline, somewhat. But it has its differences that will make it truely one strange film.

Burlesque · 02-07-06 00:42:14

Siobhan, I loved Meryl Streep in Angels in America, especially playing that ancient rabbi. That was incredible!

West Wind: Fight Club: check. Machinist: check. Great films. I partially agree with you on the Marvel adaptations, even though a couple of them have been reaaaalllly bad, such as The Hulk (one of my favourite comics when I was a kid) and Daredevil. Both Spider-Man films and the two X-Men films I've seen so far are virtually perfect, however.

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kronocide · 02-07-06 00:44:39

Why is it that Australia and New Zealand have so many outstanding actors and great movies? I find that they are often quite like Hollywood with brains. Just two examples, no wait, let's make it three, no four, that immediately come to mind:

Lantana (2001)
Wow! I loved this movie. Heck, I'll just copy my IMDB review:

This easily goes down as one of the best movies I have seen over the last several years. The acting is flawless (as is so often the case in Australian and New Zealand movies), the suspense and dynamics are extremely well executed, and the script remains one step ahead of you at all times. In addition to this, the subject matter is poignant and moving. Such a combination is rare, and pure enjoyment for those who find it.
There is one scene in particular, near the very end, that seriously blurred my vision. As with most everything else in the movie, I didn't see it coming.
Geoffrey Rush is one of my favorite actors, but here the whole cast delivers equally well. A must see. A must own!

The Quiet Earth (1985)
A not very well-known science fiction movie. Real, speculative, human, what-if science fiction. Bruno Lawrence is mesmerizing in the lead part. A true independent gem, in my mind.

The other two I had in mind, Shine and Once Were Warriors, are so familiar I don't need to go on about them. Geoffrey Rush is one of my favorite actors, all categories. Loved him in Elisabeth too.

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Siobhan · 02-07-06 00:46:13

TWW: adored fight club and have been looking fwd to the machinist (have rented it twice but it looks quite serious and i've always been in the mood for fun ie: SEXY xian bale not dachau insomniac xian bale). will get it soon.

Burl: Meryl in Angels in America was brilliant, yes. I saw Angels on Broadway when it first ran. You may be amused to hear that Cynthia Nixon (lonnng before Sex in the City) played the Mormon wife.

which of course meant that she walked around on stage in her lovely lacey bra and knickers for the good part of an hour, and she was blonde, and fair, and about 26 years old.

::sigh::

Siobhan · 02-07-06 00:48:20

krono -- you're so right. may i add to your list?

I adore Flirting. first film for Thandi Newton and two other great actors.
And Russell Crowe in that movie about the guy and his father; can't recall the title.

Burlesque · 02-07-06 00:49:20

The Quiet Earth is brilliant. I particularly like the part where Lawrence starts losing it and makes himself out to be some sort of an emperor with cardboard subjects. An extremely well written and well acted film.

Have you seen Rush in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers? At one point or another he plays all the parts in that film, just like one could imagine that Sellers himself would have done.

Hugh Jackman and, I think, Guy Pearce are two other good actors from the antipodes. And Hugo Weaving! How could I almost forget Hugo Weaving?

Cynthia Nixon in bra and panties on stage. Oh, what a painfully drab and sleep inducing production that must have been .

Burlesque.

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Elfman · 02-07-06 00:55:01

I have a very soft, patriotic spot for good, typicaly English films. The ensemble playing is always first class.

Truly, Madly, Deeply
84 Charring Cross Road
The Winslow boy (the latest one with Anthony Hopkins).
The remains of the day
Gosford Park
Little Voice
Iris
Shakespeare in love

Elfman

kronocide · 02-07-06 00:59:11

Siobhan, thanks, I haven't seen Flirting but will look for it.

I feel the need to again praise Geoffrey Rush. Is he the most versatile actor ever? Look at him in Shine, Quills(!), Pirates of the Caribbean, Elisabeth, and, dare I say it... Mystery Men! ("Effreybody! To ze disco rrroom!")

Burlesque · 02-07-06 01:02:15

Couldn't agree with you more, Elf. The Remains of the Day is just breathtaking. I never get tired of that film. Truly, Madly, Deeply is also very good (and we know, of course, that several unnamed people here are fond of it for various suspect reasons). Waking Ned Devine is also one of those masterfully lowkey pieces, as is the delightful In the Bleak Midwinter (which was called something utterly stupid in the United States, I don't remember what).

It's a little funny, though, that you being from the north of England don't mention films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty, but the sensibilities of those are ... somewhat different, I would confess. I guess the good old Hammer films do nothing for you, 'ey, Elf? Peter Cushing? At all?

Burlesque.

Burlesque · 02-07-06 01:05:38

kronocide wrote:

Siobhan, thanks, I haven't seen Flirting but will look for it.
I feel the need to again praise Geoffrey Rush. Is he the most versatile actor ever? Look at him in Shine, Quills(!), Pirates of the Caribbean, Elisabeth, and, dare I say it... Mystery Men! ("Effreybody! To ze disco rrroom!")

Now I see! You have the same kind of thing for Geoffrey Rush that I have for Peter Cushing. Years ago, I came to terms with the fact that I see Cushing as a sort of father figure, however psychotic that may seem (especially in light of some of the parts he played) and I'm fine with that now. I'm not saying that you view Geoffrey Rush that way, just that there's a similarity in our enthusiasms.

Burlesque.

Siobhan · 02-07-06 01:09:35

I also am enthusiastic about Geoffrey Rush, but perhaps in some sense the way ::cough:: some of us feel about Alan R. It's his body, Mr Rush's I mean. Have you noticed? His face is all craggy and sun-beaten, and his chest and nether regions are all soft and downy.

kronocide · 02-07-06 01:10:21

I'll just join in the worship of The Remains of the Day. One of my top five or top three movies of all time.

Burlesque · 02-07-06 01:11:32

Uh no, Siobhan, I hadn't actually. Nether regions!?

By the way, aren't you supposed to be on a date or something? Perhaps with someone possessed of "soft, downy nether regions"?

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Siobhan · 02-07-06 01:13:13

speaking of great English films, well, where would one begin? But I'd like to start with one from the North, that lovely recent film, Kinky Boots. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll fall in love. and ANYONE who'd like to see the most delicious homage to Tim Curry-as-Frankenfurter will surely curl his/her toes at the sight of the heart rendingly-gifted and physically perfect Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola.

Elfman · 02-07-06 01:18:00

Burlesque wrote:

It's a little funny, though, that you being from the north of England don't mention films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty

Oh My god! BRASSED OFF!!!! How could I have forgotten!!! Pete Poselthwaite's speach in the Albert Hall at the end of that is one of my favourite speaches in cinema. It always has a very emotional effect on me coming from a Yorkshire mining village and being an ex colliery brass bander (tenor horn).

And yes I love the old Hammer horror films Burlesque. Particularly the Dracula series.

Elfman.

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Burlesque · 02-07-06 01:19:59

Here are a couple of forgotten 70's English films that I find of particular note: Blue Blood (with Oliver Reed) and Absolution (with Richard Burton). Both slightly kinky and decadent, with a nice, twisted mood to them.

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