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[trinityvixen]

I was upstate. Yes, I TiVo'd more movies, mother and I watched them. (And I'll probably head back up there again soon to finish the ones I haven't done yet. I need not to sleep or something to get through all of them.)

Lucky Number Slevin: Great dialogue and fun story does not mean I forgive this movie for making me hot for Josh Hartnett (wtf!).

Shooter: They could have made the full version of the fake trailer for Machete; they made the exact same movie with Mark Wahlberg instead.
(Bonus review! feiran was in the room the entire time for Shooter. I started to talk about the upcoming film version of Max Payne and how I think Mark Wahlberg will be good in it. feiran: "Who's Mark Wahlberg?")

Next: This is why you should never care about anything if you have superpowers, banging Jessica Biel notwithstanding.

John Carpenter's Village of the Damned: I'm sorry, but crazy homicidal alien psycho children aren't half as scary as Mark Hamill, Priest.

The Rules of Attraction: Dawson got it on with Boone; Jessica Biel will never be associated with 7th Heaven again; and not even hinting about Patrick Bateman could save this movie.

The Number 23: I thought it was a joke. It wasn't.
(Okay, that's two sentences.)

I missed getting to see The Invasion and Smokin' Aces because I accidentally TiVo'd them from the Spanish-language channel. Next time, Gadget! Oh, and The Faculty? Still fabulous.

Comments

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen many of these, but I do enjoy The faculty, and I agree with you re: John Carpenter's Village of the Damned! Smokin' Aces was not exactly what I expected it to be...

I just saw Say Anything for the first time last night (what a fun film it was!) and I kept thinking that the lead actress really looks a LOT like ivy03

We made the mistake of watching Hellboy 2 on Friday, though. OMFG.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Who's Mark Wahlberg? Did she miss the eighties?

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

feiran's comment reminds me of my late grandmother, a tiny woman (a shade under 5' tall) who would fall asleep at odd moments. She joined us to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark, spent 90 minutes slipping in and out of consciousness, and then, during a climatic battle scene, finally said something about the movie. "Oh, I get it now. Indiana Jones is the good guy!"

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

...but he went by a slightly different name then. ;)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The Faculty is yet another riff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (to the point that it's endlessly invoked in the film), but it's fun. I guess that makes up for missing The Invasion. As for Smokin' Aces--I have an entirely hormonal reason to watch it (his name is Ryan Reynolds), and everything else is surplus, so I'm sure I'll manage.

Never thought about the Ione Skye-ivy03 connection before, but I get what you're saying. Truly, Say Anything... can still break my heart and reassure me that humanity isn't doomed.

With Hellboy, I never go in for the story. The story is frequently stupid and pointless. I go for the character design and world-building. I like how despite the fact that none of these creatures have existed in mine or others' cultural consciousness (being new as they are), they feel authentic and old. It's something that Guillermo Del Toro is very good at--he and Miyazaki both. They manage to create entirely plausible creatures that could exist and inhabit their world and ours as if they always had. Very impressive in that way, at least.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

She recalled, after this embarrassing admission, that some show we'd watched about the Hottest Hotties of the 90s had Mark Wahlberg pretty high up on that list. (God help me, I think he was #1, but that's a rant for another day.) That's what she knew him from. ::rolls eyes::

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Which she didn't realize was the same person. I exclaimed, loudly, "You don't know who Marky Mark is!?" It turns out that she knows vaguely who Marky Mark is and who Mark Wahlberg is but she didn't know that they were the same person.

FAIL.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Her defense is that she wasn't watching the movie. I tease, but it's a fair point in that she's the only one I know who can literally osmose none of what's playing around her when she reads. I wish I were so skilled.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

Someone told me they actually are making Machete. I don't know any more about it though.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

I wish we had tivo!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Man, that would be awesome. Especially if they made it as part of the direct-to-dvd Grindhouse series.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No! IT SUCKS YOU IN. YOU NEVER CAN ESCAPE.