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For those of us chatting with Deadwood friends about other movies and things of that ilk.
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Sep 6, 2008 6:32 AM
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Just got back from seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey in Cinerama. Fucking awesome. There was even an intermission! And cutie Canoe was there (dinna)...
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You know, I could just watch The Apartment every day of my life.
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Sep 2, 2008 8:09 PM
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> > R.I.P. Don LaFontaine
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> > LaFontaine did voiceovers for movie trailers.
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> > > http://cbs2.com/local/LaFontaine.voiceover.died.2.8081
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> > 04.html" target="_blank">RIP
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> He was actually seen for a change in a Geico
> commercial about a year ago.
> Too bad, he was only 68.
Movie trailers just won't be the same. I put a link to a piece he did about his work over on Comics.
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Sep 2, 2008 8:06 PM
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> R.I.P. Don LaFontaine
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> LaFontaine did voiceovers for movie trailers.
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> RIP
He was actually seen for a change in a Geico commercial about a year ago.
Too bad, he was only 68.
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Sep 2, 2008 7:56 PM
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R.I.P. Don LaFontaine
LaFontaine did voiceovers for movie trailers.
RIP
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Aug 29, 2008 12:35 PM
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> Ahhhh. I preferred Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman.
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> Watched In Bruges last night, and was thoroughly
> entertained, even though I could guess what was
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> I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they
> will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop
> telling the truth about them.
> -Adlai Stevenson
Wasn't it funny? Colin Farrell surprised me again.
Good film.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.-Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
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Ahhhh. I preferred Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman.
Watched In Bruges last night, and was thoroughly entertained, even though I could guess what was coming.
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Aug 29, 2008 10:21 AM
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> > As for Bat Babes me heart batdances yet for
> Vicky
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> I know so little about comic books.
Vicky Vale was Kim Basinger's role in the original Batman movie.
She made that sexy MTV Batman video with tiny Prince humping her long leg like a crazed viagra ridden purple poodle...
It was created at Prince's Minn ha ha Purple Palace Recording Studio hideout....
Leading to Howard Stern to later ask Alex the Bloviator Baldwin on air if he minded that Prince poked Kim...which pissed Alex off to which Stern said well at least Prince must have a small wee wee as he is only about 5 foot...which didn't make Alex feel any better
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Aug 28, 2008 10:01 PM
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"Out of the Past" anyone?...Mitchum at his Mitchum-est...
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Aug 28, 2008 9:29 PM
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> It's why I like Mitchum so much. He knew it was just
> a job. But so did Ledger.
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Mmmy favorite...MMMitchum!
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Aug 28, 2008 9:23 PM
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> Ledger was good playing Loki but methinks tis a bunch
> of self absorbed actors that are pontificating about
> it contributing to his death.
And those who like to think that most actors are tortured artistes rather than just meat who just recite what's on the page. Writers are more often the tortured artistes, and even they're just often meat.
> Perhaps they want to make their trade, or their
> method skills, appear as potentially deadly as a Fire
> Jumper, Crabber, Combat marine, Bush pilot or
> whatever...self importance swallowing their frontal
> lobes.
It's why I like Mitchum so much. He knew it was just a job. But so did Ledger.
> Keef said what happen best and it ain't method, but
> sure is an old way to checkout...
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> "Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your
> medicine
> Well heres another goodbye to another good friend"
Ayup. Just one thing too many when your defenses are down...
> Anyway I saw Bat at the Max and it was alright but it
> was long and seemed long, and was abit too plot
> twisty and blow it uppy for me...
Not twisty enough for me. I was watching Heist again on TV the other day. Now THAT'S a fucking convoluted story, and well done. Best line - Danny deVito's character, after being shot: "don't you want to hear my last words?" and Hackman saying "I just did." BLAM!
> As for Bat Babes me heart batdances yet for Vicky
> Vale...
I know so little about comic books.
> Watched Vantage Point and after a promising initial
> 20 minutes or so descended into deep
> dumbness....while slaughtering most of the Prez's
> Secret Service detail easily.
Yeah, I figured out what was happening very early on. And it was annoying because it wasn't really from whoever's vantage point - there were always things that the supposed protagonist-of-the-moment couldn't possibly have seen.
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Aug 28, 2008 9:02 PM
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I liked 21, Boonie, and I'm going to see Burn After REading as soon as it comes out.
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Aug 28, 2008 8:51 PM
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> But, even if I didn't know that Ledger's death had
> everything to do with his tendencies to jump in with
> both feet on the uber-party circuit, and nothing to
> do with becoming his roles, there is no way that,
> even as a Method actor, this role would have fucked
> up his head so much to have contributed one iota to
> his death. He was having a laugh. There was nothing
> in the role to warrant depressive behavior.
Ledger was good playing Loki but methinks tis a bunch of self absorbed actors that are pontificating about it contributing to his death.
Perhaps they want to make their trade, or their method skills, appear as potentially deadly as a Fire Jumper, Crabber, Combat marine, Bush pilot or whatever...self importance swallowing their frontal lobes.
Keef said what happen best and it ain't method, but sure is an old way to checkout...
"Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine
Well heres another goodbye to another good friend"
Anyway I saw Bat at the Max and it was alright but it was long and seemed long, and was abit too plot twisty and blow it uppy for me...
As for Bat Babes me heart batdances yet for Vicky Vale...
"Stop the press"
"Stop the press, who is that?"
"Vicky Vale"
"Vicky Vale"
Watched Vantage Point and after a promising initial 20 minutes or so descended into deep dumbness....while slaughtering most of the Prez's Secret Service detail easily.
And You Kill Me which had a good cast, some funny moments, and some nice San Fran scenery but seemed to lack a way to wind up the movie...but hell a few funny moments, a nice cast, and good scenery ain't a bad way to travel through life...
Have a gambling trifecta The Grand, 21, and Deal waiting...but the Demos are on and Football has started.
Any scoop on the Coen penned Burn After reading?
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Aug 28, 2008 8:05 PM
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Uh. Batman spoilers, if there's anyone else on the planet 'sides me that hasn't seen it by now.
Went to the early morning IMAX screening of the Batman movie today. Nice seeing it in big-o-vision with a minimum amount of mouthbreathers surrounding me.
Some of the VFX could have been better, the Batcycle was lame. Putting the new "Batcave" in a giant empty warehouse room was a genius save at set design budget. Put the dollars where it really counts.
But man, Harvey Dent's CG makeup job at the end was pretty fucking phenomenal, except for a little bit of tetchy lighting on the teeth in a few shots.
My eyeballs had issues with the focus on all the ECUs of the Joker, I really felt for the focus puller. It's a thankless task, especially when you have an actor whose character is full of head jerks and other tics and twitches.
Heath Ledger was good, it's tough being limited to doing a caricature, but I couldn't help thinking that he was treading a path that Beetlejuice and Hannibal Lector had blazed before him. I saw nothing in his acting that made him stand out any more than, say, Aaron Eckhart or Gary Oldman.
Maggie Gyllenhaal was a vast, vast improvement over ol' chipmunk cheeks (I didn't realize it was the same character, I thought she'd just been written out), although it would've been nice to have seen Katie Holmes get blown up. As in BOOM, not IMAX.
It was long, and it FELT long, for a rambling, circuitous story with lots of actionus interruptus. We're all set up for a world o' bleakness and pain in the next one, though.
Best bit? Joker walking away from the hospital in the nurse's outfit.
But, even if I didn't know that Ledger's death had everything to do with his tendencies to jump in with both feet on the uber-party circuit, and nothing to do with becoming his roles, there is no way that, even as a Method actor, this role would have fucked up his head so much to have contributed one iota to his death. He was having a laugh. There was nothing in the role to warrant depressive behavior.
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Aug 23, 2008 11:36 PM
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I finally got around to renting There Will Be Blood. I don't see what all the shouting was about. Really.
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