New column on what movies I'm anticipating this fall, and how rock critics are lame (you wouldn't think I could shoehorn that into a movie column, but watch me).
I agree with you about Cameron Crowe, I even kind of enjoyed Vanilla Sky too, if just for the pretty shots, great music, and the fact that Cameron Diaz gets pulverized. Oh, and Kurt Russell's cool. So I'm excited for Elizabethtown and trying not to pre-hate the Dunst.
I'm excited for Narnia. Looks purdy. I kind of perversely like the Narnia books because they're so damn fascist.
Oohh, I loved Cameron Diaz's performance in Sky. Actually, I like her in almost all of her real-acting parts, like that and Gangs of New York and Being John Malkovich.
(And I like the Charlie's Angels movies, too, but I'm a boy.)
Capote In Her Shoes Jarhead Rent Harry Potter and the frickin' Goblet of Fire The New World Brokeback Mountain The Chronicles of Narnia (LIAM NEESON IS ASLAN!) All the King's Men Memoirs of a Geisha
Woo hoo, fall movies! This is of course not counting the stuff I've already seen, like the peerless Good Night, and Good Luck.
Re: My top 10rockmaroonedAugust 4 2005, 16:21:46 UTC
I started with a top 20, which included Potter, Jarhead, and Goodnight/Good Luck (possibly also New World). I LOVED Confessons of a Dangerous Mind so I'm especially interested in the Clooney film (and the other one starring Clooney, Syriana). But too many freaking book adaptations! Even when I haven't read the book in question (which is often), I get tired of it.
I didn't realize that 8 of my 10 are book adaptations, but it doesn't bother me. I have three books on my desk to read before the movies come out. I enjoy adaptations a lot. And I do want to see Syriana also.
Re: My top 10aliwilliamsAugust 4 2005, 16:55:10 UTC
Word on Rent, Narnia, Potter. Capote sounds intriguing, never heard of In Her Shoes. The rest...eh, could take 'em or leave 'em. Especially Memoirs of a Geisha. Read it years ago and immediately forgot just about everything about it, so I obviously wasn't so engaged with the story.
Loved Brokeback Mountain and Annie Proulx in general, but I'm wary, especially considering the shitfest that was The Shipping News movie. Basically I think a faithful adaptation of the novella would be pretty and moody and dull, so I'm hoping they changed it somewhat.
The kids they cast in the Narnia movie seem a little too slack-jawed for my taste. Look closely and you'll want to shout, "Shut your mouth, you look like a hillbilly!"
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I'm excited for Narnia. Looks purdy. I kind of perversely like the Narnia books because they're so damn fascist.
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(And I like the Charlie's Angels movies, too, but I'm a boy.)
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Capote
In Her Shoes
Jarhead
Rent
Harry Potter and the frickin' Goblet of Fire
The New World
Brokeback Mountain
The Chronicles of Narnia (LIAM NEESON IS ASLAN!)
All the King's Men
Memoirs of a Geisha
Woo hoo, fall movies! This is of course not counting the stuff I've already seen, like the peerless Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Loved Brokeback Mountain and Annie Proulx in general, but I'm wary, especially considering the shitfest that was The Shipping News movie. Basically I think a faithful adaptation of the novella would be pretty and moody and dull, so I'm hoping they changed it somewhat.
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I'm down for Brokeback Mountain though. Mmmmmm.
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