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Lazario wrote:SPOILER
& ADULT LANGUAGE Alert.

PeterPanfan wrote:Well, I was thinking of the scene on the steps when she was like, "Have fun in Florida." Haha, but yes, her character had many layers, including being a disturbing young woman.

She probably had more going on in the book. All we saw was the disturbing side. Remember her eyes in the doorway when we first see her? The glazed look in her eyes in the ice cream parlor? And "have fun in Florida" was tragic and sad. Maybe even moreso than her dead body hanging from the ceiling.

Cordy_Biddle wrote:Oh, I love Girl, Interrupted. So many choice lines and exceptional performances. I try to watch it at least once every six months. Don't point your finger at crazy people!

Hey! Some advice, just: don't point your fuckin' finger at crazy people!

My best friend's favorite was:

"I want my fucking clothes!!"
"Than you'll have to eat something. Won't you?"

I agree with everything you've said, Laz. Also, why was she so obsessed with chicken?

Office Space - HILARIOUS! Ron Livingston was great, as was Jennifer Aniston. And the guy that played Milton had me rolling on the floor!

PeterPanfan wrote:I agree with everything you've said, Laz. Also, why was she so obsessed with chicken?

Not quite sure. One thing is, she was really happy that it was delivered and that no one else in the place could get it. Her father's rotisserie chicken. And since it was delivered, she was able to eat it in her room with no one else watching. And I think the reason she never threw away the bones and all that was that Valerie and the staff didn't seem to know that she was eating the chickens and getting them. That's one of the reasons she didn't let anyone in her room.

PeterPanfan wrote:
I agree with everything you've said, Laz. Also, why was she so obsessed with chicken?

Not quite sure. One thing is, she was really happy that it was delivered and that no one else in the place could get it. Her father's rotisserie chicken. And since it was delivered, she was able to eat it in her room with no one else watching. And I think the reason she never threw away the bones and all that was that Valerie and the staff didn't seem to know that she was eating the chickens and getting them. That's one of the reasons she didn't let anyone in her room.

Oh, I love the part with Daisy's "eat-in chicken".

Feeling really under the weather at the moment (the beginnings of a 'flu), so cuddled up last night with some comforting programming from my childhood:


Heidi (Goodtimes)

Lovely anime version of the children's novel. What I think is especially clever is that Heidi actually ages around three or four years in the middle of the story--something I don't think is included in any other version.


Princess Collection (Festival of Family Classics)

I love the old episodes from Rankin/Bass' "Festival of Family Classics". This disc has four episodes; but I only watched "Cinderella" last night.

Rock Star - I didn't really like this. It felt like a follow up attempt at Almost Famous, which I loved. Jennifer Anistan was alright, but I expected more from Mark Wahlberg.

Dumbo - Good film. Not great.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Great performance by Gregory Peck. Good cliff notes version of the book.

zackisthewalrus wrote:
To Kill a Mockingbird - Great performance by Gregory Peck. Good cliff notes version of the book.

Is that what it was used for?

Garden State - I LOVED it! Definitely one of my favorite films now. Fantastic performances by Zach Braff and Natalie Portman. Zach Braff reminds me of a younger Jerry Seinfeld.

PeterPanfan wrote:

zackisthewalrus wrote:
To Kill a Mockingbird - Great performance by Gregory Peck. Good cliff notes version of the book.

Is that what it was used for?

No, I read the book. I was just commenting that they didn't use everything in the book, but what they used was true to the book.

Gran Torino-good film. Nice performance by Clint Eastwood.

In Search of the Castaways
Probably Hayley Mills' least-regarded and remembered Disney film; but it's also one of my favourites. She gives a thoughtful and spunky performance as Mary Grant, out on a mission to save her missing sea-captain father after a note in a bottle is discovered.

^^ I had no idea Disney made a movie adaptation of The Children of Captain Grant! I really want to see that now.

Cordy_Biddle wrote:Oh, I love the part with Daisy's "eat-in chicken".

Me too. And it drove one of the girls crazy. I think it was Jolie's character, Lisa.

There was also the part in the ice cream shop - "it's just called a peppermint!"

Cordy_Biddle wrote:
Oh, I love the part with Daisy's "eat-in chicken".

Me too. And it drove one of the girls crazy. I think it was Jolie's character, Lisa.

There was also the part in the ice cream shop - "it's just called a peppermint!"

Mooky wrote:^^ I had no idea Disney made a movie adaptation of The Children of Captain Grant! I really want to see that now.

It's worth at least one watch. Not Hayley Mills best performance, not Robert Stevenson's best directorial duty, not Disney's best Verne adaptation, and it doesn't have the Sherman Brothers best score, but it's an entertaining adventure story all in all.

Still laid low with the 'flu, so I had a bit of a movie marathon last night...


The Parent Trap (1998)
I hadn't seen this for ages, so thought I'd give it a new spin. Didn't realize just how sad it would make me to see dear Natasha Richardon on the screen, looking so beautiful--she should still be with us. I also love all the cute in-jokes to the original movie. And I smiled when Elaine Hendrix asks the twins to hand her the Evian bottle--a precursor to another classic Hendrix character in "Superstar".


Being Julia
This DVD has been in my sales pile for a couple of years but no-one bought it, so I figured I might as well hang onto it....glad I did! An excellent period comedy with Annette Bening giving a marvellous performance as a 1930s stage actress, who plans delicous revenge on a starlet out to steal her limelight.

I also watched the horror movie Dolls and the Tina Fey comedy Baby Mama again.

The secret of Nimh 1982





Boy, was I impressed with this movie when I first saw it in the cinema! I thought "That's the kind of animated feature I'm longing to see from Disney" (The 80's for me was a rather unremarkable decade for Disney with animated movies which were 'Just oke but nothing really special')
I hadn't seen the movie for ages, and I was happy to find it was available to buy on DVD for a budget price.

Unfortunately, it shows why the DVD is so cheap: the movie is grainy and full of speckles.
Nevertheless I again enjoyed watching this movie - I had forgotten lot of the content - which doesn't shy away from scary scenes (a creepy spider squashed by an owl and rats fighting to death) The story is good, much better anyway I think than that other Don Bluth movie Anastasia that is so popular, but I personally find a mess.

By way of recommendation the DVD cover reads: "from the makers of Anastasia" Maybe they should also put a recommendation on the Anastasia DVD such as "From the makers of Secret of Nimh".

Howl's Moving Castle - Although not as good as My Neighbor Totoro or Spirited Away, it was still great.

7.5/10

I watched about twenty episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd. Believe me, that wasted close to the same amount of time as a movie does.

He tries much too hard, and my sibling, who is now living with me, imitates him.

Save me!

Avaitor wrote:

Mooky wrote:^^ I had no idea Disney made a movie adaptation of The Children of Captain Grant! I really want to see that now.

It's worth at least one watch. Not Hayley Mills best performance, not Robert Stevenson's best directorial duty, not Disney's best Verne adaptation, and it doesn't have the Sherman Brothers best score, but it's an entertaining adventure story all in all.

Thanks for the info! I love the book to pieces, so I'll be sure to check the movie out.

Fight Club

When I first watched it, I thought it was brilliant. Now that I've watched it for the second time, I realize that it isn't any good after you've found out "the twist" the first time you watched. Then it becomes painfully clear that this film is trying so hard to be meaningful and thought-provoking and mature, when it's really not, but just a macho-story which celebrates avoiding responsibility and blaming your own mistakes on 'society'.