Ten Random Thoughts About Movies

[disbelief11]

There's a lot of movie themed flotsam and jetsam in my brain right now. So, here's ten completely random and possibly inane thoughts I had.

Movies

1. Britney Spears looks like a cheap whore in Goldmember. 'Nuff said.

2. The trailer for Red Dragon, the new Hannibal Lecter flick, looked good to me. The movie stars all kinds of great people: Anthony Hopkins (of course), Edward Norton, Mary-Louise Parker, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ralph Fiennes, and Harvey Keitel.

3. K-19 was pretty damn depressing. 8 men died because the Soviets rushed the boat and crew out to sea without proper equipment or supplies. The men who stepped up and saved the crew of the sub and by extension, the rest of the world, were heroes. Too bad the Soviets wouldn't recognize them as such. And too bad that they were put in that situation in the first place by their impatient superiors.

4. I always cry in Disney animated movies. Lilo & Stitch being the latest example. But the silly little kid in me loves 'em anyway. Love the Pixar flicks too!

5. The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

6. I fell -- and fell hard -- for Mel Gibson when I saw him in Tim. It's one of his earliest films (1979) and one that not many people have seen, based on a novel by Colleen McCullough.

7. As a child, I was scared to death by The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

8. I realized I am a total geek this weekend when I squealed at the trailers for Star Trek: Nemesis (yay, bald Patrick Stewart!) and LoTR: The Two Towers (mm, Viggo and friends). Since both of these don't open until Nov/Dec of this year, I've got a while to wait.

9. Two other movies I thought were really great: Gods and Monsters with Brendan Fraser and Ian McKellan and Smoke with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt.

10. Autumn in New York is absolutely, hands down, the worst movie I have ever seen.

Comments

[mei-x.livejournal.com]

6. I fell -- and fell hard -- for Mel Gibson when I saw him in Tim. It's one of his earliest films (1979) and one that not many people have seen, based on a novel by Colleen McCullough.

I've seen Tim and read the book. The young Mel Gibson was a handsome thing to behold, wasn't he? And the story was very touching, I can see the parents' point of view as well as acknowledge Tim's right to have a normal life.

Smoke with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt.

Yeah, good movie.

Mei, I think I lurve you.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Squee! It's rare to meet people who have seen both Tim and Smoke. (And who loves all the 80's music too.) Yes, young Mel Gibson is a wonderous sight. Kilt-clad Mel isn't bad either in Braveheart.

[fleegull.livejournal.com]

5. The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies I have ever seen.


After seeing it, my Dad turned to me in the theater and said, "That was like the best movie I've ever seen." If you knew my dad you'd understand that for him, that's saying a lot.

You really should read the novella it's based on, if you haven't already. It's so rare that a movie so truly captures the source material perfectly.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Fleegull, when I saw that Shawshank was based on a story by Stephen King, I almost fell over. I'm not really a fan of his writing so I was mighty surprised. The story is indeed, fantastic, and that the movie came out so true to source is another awe-inspiring thing.

(sigh) what a great movie.

[anathema666.livejournal.com]

7. As a child, I was scared to death by The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

S'ok, you're not a total dork. When I was a child, I was terrified by the allegedly comedic movie "Murder By Death". Truman Capote scared the shit out of me, and he wasn't even really trying.

I'm still afraid of lisping, effeminate dwarves to this day.