Monday, January 10, 2005
the insider
okay. i just watched the insider, and yeah i know i'm a half-decade late, but still, people, i do *not* see why it was nominated for 7 academy awards! (and won none.) it's sort of like, you throw al pacino in a movie and somehow it's a given that it's gonna be up for multiple award nominations. whatever, no thanks.
but still i don't see how i could have missed at least hearing about this movie. (but then again, i didn't see the crying game till years after it was out and i was like, that is soooo totally a dude...do y'all mean to tell me you really didn't know?!) i did however miss out (on purpose) the whole russell crowe fad. but i gave this movie a chance because i just watched Proof of Life this weekend and it didn't suck. both Russell Crowe & Meg Ryan didn't bug the bejesus out of me, so i was gonna give russell crowe movies a chance, finally. i never even saw gladiator.
i did see romper stomper when it came out at the dobie (yes, years & years ago, when i was but a wee lass) and i loved it. i didn't realize that it was a young russell crowe at the time, not till later (and i did love him then, that character). but...but then russell crowe & his 40 ought knots whatEVER band were playing at stubb's and the whole meg ryan thing and i can't remember, but i just wrote him off at that time.
oh i see here, i was too busy watching the matrix and american beauty. and it was my birthday. (where was i in the year 2000 for my birthday??) well that makes sense. i usually only see a couple of award-nominated films a year, seriously. i probably won't have seen more than 2 that are nominated next month for best of '04. hurry & catch up!
so sunday morning i watched My Life without Me, starring Sarah Polley. and i really liked it, more than i thought i would. and i like sarah polley more than i thought i would. just now, on the insider, they had a preview for a movie Guinivere with her that looked good.
oh but my BIG movie news, is that UberShauna gave me a gift of two free months of NetFlix! now, i know you know i am all about local video stores (and independent films) but you can't look a gift horse in the mouth! i sat up sunday night, trying my damnedest to figure out what i was gonna rent, how many movies (shipped at 3 at a time) can i feasibly watch in two months? wanna watch me go? it might make you seasick. but my first delivery (due wed 1/12) is Dodgeball, Punch-Drunk Love, & Solaris (1972). dodgeball, well i just wanted to see it again. it really really made me laugh in the theater when i saw it one unemployed friday afternoon with my friend taminatrix. and punch-drunk love, i haven't seen yet. i believe it's based on a book, and i believe my sister said the book was good and that she was looking forward to seeing the movie (at the time it was coming out). unlike me, she probably reads a book a week, if not more. and Solaris. well...i'm on this mission to watch every original movie that was remade and then watch the remake. i really don't know what the intent of this research is, but plainly said, it's just research. so anyway Solaris was remade in 2002 by soderbergh and starring george clooney. so we'll see. the original is foreign, russian maybe? (i don't even know if they're the same premise.) anyway, if you are on netflix, you can now be my friend and we can share movie suggestions & reviews. you can find me by my other [realname] email address. but hurry! i'm only on NetFlix thru March 9! and then it's back to the library for me...
NetFlix is kinda cool. you can search by genres, and even subgenres within the genres. i've gotten a lot of classic horror and foreign films lined up, if anyone's interested in joining me. i'm trying to rotate my three-at-a-time as (1) happy/funny (2) serious/sad (3) classic/foreign/thriller, so i will always have one movie onhand to suit whatever mood i'm in.
tonight i checked out from the library:
The Insider
Tigerland
Smoke Signals
i hadn't seen any of these (just watched insider and not too terribly impressed). great story, though. everyone should stop smoking, though, starting NOW.
(i think a bldg alarm is going off behind my house. and it's loud. and it's 2am and i need some sleep)
but still i don't see how i could have missed at least hearing about this movie. (but then again, i didn't see the crying game till years after it was out and i was like, that is soooo totally a dude...do y'all mean to tell me you really didn't know?!) i did however miss out (on purpose) the whole russell crowe fad. but i gave this movie a chance because i just watched Proof of Life this weekend and it didn't suck. both Russell Crowe & Meg Ryan didn't bug the bejesus out of me, so i was gonna give russell crowe movies a chance, finally. i never even saw gladiator.
i did see romper stomper when it came out at the dobie (yes, years & years ago, when i was but a wee lass) and i loved it. i didn't realize that it was a young russell crowe at the time, not till later (and i did love him then, that character). but...but then russell crowe & his 40 ought knots whatEVER band were playing at stubb's and the whole meg ryan thing and i can't remember, but i just wrote him off at that time.
oh i see here, i was too busy watching the matrix and american beauty. and it was my birthday. (where was i in the year 2000 for my birthday??) well that makes sense. i usually only see a couple of award-nominated films a year, seriously. i probably won't have seen more than 2 that are nominated next month for best of '04. hurry & catch up!
so sunday morning i watched My Life without Me, starring Sarah Polley. and i really liked it, more than i thought i would. and i like sarah polley more than i thought i would. just now, on the insider, they had a preview for a movie Guinivere with her that looked good.
oh but my BIG movie news, is that UberShauna gave me a gift of two free months of NetFlix! now, i know you know i am all about local video stores (and independent films) but you can't look a gift horse in the mouth! i sat up sunday night, trying my damnedest to figure out what i was gonna rent, how many movies (shipped at 3 at a time) can i feasibly watch in two months? wanna watch me go? it might make you seasick. but my first delivery (due wed 1/12) is Dodgeball, Punch-Drunk Love, & Solaris (1972). dodgeball, well i just wanted to see it again. it really really made me laugh in the theater when i saw it one unemployed friday afternoon with my friend taminatrix. and punch-drunk love, i haven't seen yet. i believe it's based on a book, and i believe my sister said the book was good and that she was looking forward to seeing the movie (at the time it was coming out). unlike me, she probably reads a book a week, if not more. and Solaris. well...i'm on this mission to watch every original movie that was remade and then watch the remake. i really don't know what the intent of this research is, but plainly said, it's just research. so anyway Solaris was remade in 2002 by soderbergh and starring george clooney. so we'll see. the original is foreign, russian maybe? (i don't even know if they're the same premise.) anyway, if you are on netflix, you can now be my friend and we can share movie suggestions & reviews. you can find me by my other [realname] email address. but hurry! i'm only on NetFlix thru March 9! and then it's back to the library for me...
NetFlix is kinda cool. you can search by genres, and even subgenres within the genres. i've gotten a lot of classic horror and foreign films lined up, if anyone's interested in joining me. i'm trying to rotate my three-at-a-time as (1) happy/funny (2) serious/sad (3) classic/foreign/thriller, so i will always have one movie onhand to suit whatever mood i'm in.
tonight i checked out from the library:
The Insider
Tigerland
Smoke Signals
i hadn't seen any of these (just watched insider and not too terribly impressed). great story, though. everyone should stop smoking, though, starting NOW.
(i think a bldg alarm is going off behind my house. and it's loud. and it's 2am and i need some sleep)
