The Movie Thread

[princessofcairo]

The Secret of Kells

(That last one is a foreign film no one has seen or heard of)

I saw it last year. In the Trinity College bookstore (that's where they sent us after the tour of the book).

[princessofcairo]

It's official: Avatar has outgrossed Titanic, domestically (it's already done so globally).

http://movies.ign.com/articles/106/1066296p1.html

I love the fact that Avatar fanatics are being referred to derisively as "Avatards" (Will Palin be upset about that too?)

I never cease to be amazed that gross receipts are still the barometer of a movie's popularity, even though the cost of movie tickets is continually being increased, making any talk of gross receipts  irrelevant. The only number that should matter is the number of tickets sold. I read last week that the average ticket price when Titanic was released was something like $4 and change, while now it's somewhere in the $7 range (both figures seem low to me, too). Add to that the fact that a lot of people are seeing the 3-D version of Avatar which tacks a couple more dollars onto the admission cost and it's likely that about half as many people have seen Avatar as saw Titanic. And yet the movie industry is rarely called out on this.

Just goes to show it really *is* all about the Benjamins (yeah!).

[Gazoo]

The Secret of Kells

(That last one is a foreign film no one has seen or heard of)

Shoot - I hoped it was a retelling of the R. Kelly story.

[princessofcairo]

The Secret of Kells

(That last one is a foreign film no one has seen or heard of)

Shoot - I hoped it was a retelling of the R. Kelly story.

Well, that would hardly be a secret!

[RGMike]

The Secret of Kells

(That last one is a foreign film no one has seen or heard of)

Shoot - I hoped it was a retelling of the R. Kelly story.

Well, that would hardly be a secret!

besides, it's been done

[RGMike]

Especially for the princess: it's the Magnificent Montage of Marvelous Meryl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRM8gHkpp20&feature=player_embedded

[RGMike]

So, just how bad is Valentine's Day?

The NY Times: "This might not be the Titanic of romantic comedies (it’s tugboat size), but it’s a disaster: cynically made, barely directed, terribly written."

NY Post: "Less funny or romantic than your average colonoscopy, this cringe-inducing bore provides dubious employment for four Oscar winners, two nominees and a raft of TV performers"

EW: "How you feel about Valentine's Day may depend on how you feel when someone really, really cute -- and someone you're really, really fond of -- gives you a nasty box of cheap chocolate on Valentine's Day, picked up at the corner Rite Aid and delivered with the price tag still attached."

So of course Mick LaSalle liked it!

[princessofcairo]

Especially for the princess: it's the Magnificent Montage of Marvelous Meryl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRM8gHkpp20&feature=player_embedded

Boy, you sure know the way to a girl's heart!

[RGMike]

Spend the weekend catching up with the last Oscar nominees I hadn't seen yet:

Crazy Heart:  Liked it a lot. Bridges is of course wonderful, and I thought the songs were terrific. Quite amazing considering it was made for CMT, whose previous film resume consists of a couple of crappy Toby Keith movies.

The White Ribbon: Wow -- very very... German. At least 2 critics described it as Village of the Damned if it had been directed by Ingmar Bergman. Stark and disturbing.

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus: Typical Terry Gilliam weirdness. And kind of a mess, but an entertaining one.

[princessofcairo]

The White Ribbon: Wow -- very very... German. At least 2 critics described it as Village of the Damned if it had been directed by Ingmar Bergman. Stark and disturbing.

That's a great description.

[RGMike]

The White Ribbon: Wow -- very very... German. At least 2 critics described it as Village of the Damned if it had been directed by Ingmar Bergman. Stark and disturbing.

That's a great description.

"You're thinking of... a brick wall!"

[RGMike]

without googling, identify this exchange (movie and actors, please):

WOMAN: "Well, since this may be your last night on Earth, let's go back to my room and make love."

MAN: "Oh, nice idea! I'll bring the soy sauce!"

[princessofcairo]

without googling, identify this exchange (movie and actors, please):

WOMAN: "Well, since this may be your last night on Earth, let's go back to my room and make love."

MAN: "Oh, nice idea! I'll bring the soy sauce!"

I don't know, but it reeks of Brendan Fraser.

[Tinka Cat]

without googling, identify this exchange (movie and actors, please):

WOMAN: "Well, since this may be your last night on Earth, let's go back to my room and make love."

MAN: "Oh, nice idea! I'll bring the soy sauce!"

Gary Shandling in that movie he did?

[ggould]

without googling, identify this exchange (movie and actors, please):

WOMAN: "Well, since this may be your last night on Earth, let's go back to my room and make love."

MAN: "Oh, nice idea! I'll bring the soy sauce!"

I knew I didn't know it, so I googled.  I haven't seen this movie; should I rent it?  It looks funny, and has lots of Russian lit jokes, which are right up my alley, being a former Russian Studies major.