quote:Téméraire is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic," Jackson laughs. "I can't wait to see Napoleonic battles fought with a squadron of dragons. That's what I go to the movies for."
*wanking gesture*
Is there anything to look forward to at the cinema this autumn?
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I'm thinking of going to see Helen Mirren being the Queen. Well, I am going to see Helen Mirren being the Queen, because my Mum is making me take her.
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There's a movie coming out based on the book 'Our Band Could Be Your Life', about the 80s/90s US punk and indie scene. It's a... Rockumentary, if you will... about Minor Threat, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, The Circle Jerks, Minutemen, Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, etc;
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Black Dahlia out on Friday based on James Ellroy's second best (after The Big Nowhere) book. Most of Ellroy's books are better than anything else that's ever been written, so the film should be worth a look. Directed by Brian De Palma isn't exactly a copper bottomed seal of approval but he's capable of brilliance (Carlito's Way and... er... that bit in Mission IMpossible where they abseil into the vault) when the mood takes him. Hopefully he'll provide the technical savvy and the source material will provide the plot and character. Advance word is good; probably the only film I've been really looking forward to for the past 12 months.
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I'm curious about Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette'. I reckon that might be worth a cinema visit (I think it's out at the end of October). Scoresese is also shooting a remake of the ace 'Infernal Affairs' - so that should be great in theory (if he ever finishes it!).
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Went to see The Black Dahlia yesterday and was kind of disappointed. I knew in my heart of hearts that it probably wasn't going to be as good as L.A. Confidential, but I really wanted it to be.
So. The bad news is that it's not awesomely brilliant. Josh Hartnett does a decent job with Bucky Bleichert, but he's simply not a strong enough actor to carry the entire film. If you look at Dahlia's greatest precessors - films like Chinatown and The Big Sleep - you're talking about leading men like Jack Nicholson and Humphrey Bogart. Josh Hartnett is hardly in the same league, and the movie suffers as a result. Also the pacing is a bit off. The story requires that a portion of the start of the film is spent with everything going fantastically well for the main characters, which means the first 20 minutes or so are a bit dramaless. And the ending gets kind of fucked up due to one of the most ridiculous acting performances ever captured on film. I can't even begin to describe it, but it belongs to the same league of super-over acting as the guy in the leather trenchcoat in Battle Royale II.
The good news: The movie looks fantastic. It's really beautifully filmed, and there are some incredible shots including a genuinely breathtaking moment involving Aaron Eckhardt's face dominating the foreground as he smokes outside, while Josh Hartnett carries on a conversation way, way towards the back of the house. It's a great moment that fits stylistically and thematically. There are other great moments too: a crazy riot, a fantastic boxing match. The casting videos that the Dahlia made before her death are appropriately pathetic and the details of her demise are haunting enough that you can believe that the investigators are getting sucked in to hideous depths from which they can't recover. It's just not all great, unfortunately. I think in the end I really badly wanted it to be as brilliant as the book .
The trailer for The Departed looked brilliant though. I think I'll hold off seeing Internal Affairs until I've seen the Scorsese version.
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Saw the trailer for Blonde in front of Severance, looks very promising.
I will be seeing Children of Men, and I'm quite up for The Queen, but mostly I'm trying not to get myself in too much of a lather over the prospect of new Fascist Spain set Guillermo Del Toro fantasy opus Pan's Labyrinth.
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Saw Borat last night. It translates pretty well from small to big screen. I hate to say it, but it works. The beginning, set in his home village, is brilliant. Horribly stereotypes of course, but very very witty. The America stuff is a series of vignittes similar to the tv show (perhaps scenes from it - don't know, don't watch it), tied together with a roadtrip to LA plot. There were moments where I found myself laughing out loud. The audience - and mostly they didn't look like imbeciles - clapped and cheered several times during the movie. For whole sections I'd have my hand over my mouth, gasping / cringeing at Borat's latest stunt. My main problem: what was real and what was staged? Most of it is acted, I am sure. Which is a pity.
Anyway, as someone that doesn't much like Sascha Baron Cohen's stuff (especially Ali G), I give this 7/10.
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Tonight I am going to watch 'Keane', which promises to be miserable and distressing. If I don't rush straight from the NFT into the Thames then I might report back tomorrow. But here are my predicted keywords: "Heart breaking", "stunning central performance", "cool, restrained direction", "sensitive". As you may have guessed, it is not about the violent Manchester United football player of the same name.
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It's a Hollywood remake of Infernal Affairs...
Hmpf. That's what I have to sat about The Departed. I was all excited about it, but did he give Infernal Affairs ANY credit whatsoever? Nope.
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I also just got back from seeing The Departed. It truly is the motherfuckiing good shit. 4 and a half Garys. Only missed the 5 for being slightly too long so I sat for the last 45 minutes with legs crossed wishing I hadn't had the Bucket-'o-Diet-Coke.
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Watched Akira and City of the Living Dead, both of which I've seen before. Both good in their own way. I heard Kermode talking about The Departed, and decided against it, having already seen Infernal Affairs plenty of times.
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A fascinating update there. In other media news, I bought Metroid 2 for the Gamecube and had a go last night, getting as far as just past the first boss. While doing this, I also listened to the new Adam and Joe Coke music podcasts. On saturday I downloaded and listened to a fair bit of Necro,who has got to the most pervy rapper alive.
as well as The Bladerunner Soundtrack, an Ed Bogas soundtrack, and went down memory lane with some of those 'mash up' things that I did a years or so ago. I also watched two episodes of the Brittas Empire on Bravo, and watched Extras and Adult Swim on Teleport Replay. And I had a few rounds on a Mario themed Reversi against Louise using our DS Lites while at the launderette, and she beat me every time.
I'm becoming slightly obssessed with some of the Adult Swim stuff, namely Sealab 2021 and Tom Goes To the Mayor.
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You reached over with your hand and knocked my Jap over
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Consumed: 2 x glasses white wine 1 x beer - fosters (can) slice of chocolate cake roast dinner pringles BBq flavour (approx 7) lemon cake 2 slices rice crispies (multivitamin) with soya milk (so good chilled) BLT sandwhich Mango frappe Organic Musli, soya milk Fajitas x 3 Mini jaffa cakes x 6
Highs: Halo 2 went up three levels (now level 19) Finished "The Game" by Neil Strauss Met with large group of friends - sociable
Lows: Shopping Centre failure to buy anything Failed attempt at sex with partner Masturbated to sky xxx phonesex channel with the sound off. Failed to kiss female friends on cheek and overcome intimacy issues. Failed to identify alpha male of group Failed to become alpha male of group
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that's quite a lot of eating there, not. I attempted to deep fry some quid last night. I was suspicious of the recipe suggesting that I could simply 'coat the squid in flour' and then drop into the oil. As I suspected, the flour just fell off, sank to the bottom of the pan, and burned. It created a huge thick cloud of smoke that soaked into every piece of clothing that wasn't shut away. I said to Louise just before I put it in, I said "Surely I should have made some batter rather than just using flour!?". I used a self raising flour/cornflour mix that I bought as Tempura flour, but it didn't help. Anyway, as a result, I reek of burned oil today. The squid was okay, but kind of tasteless and tough.
Other things I ate were a stir fry, some kind of sushi hand roll cornet from Wasabi, and a flame grilled meat in a bun thingy from a kebab shop by the launderette. Also had some pringles, which left me feeling sick and ashamed. And I drank around 10 bottles of beer and 3 pints over the course of the weekend.
Sorry to hear about your wank / alpha male thing, not. The best thing to do is just cut contact with all other men. Then you're always alpha male.
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You reached over with your hand and knocked my Jap over
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That was over the course of a weekend so not too much really. I'm going to have to eat some more japanese food soon. I really really have a yearning for some terriyaki chicken and beef cooked on a teppan table. I'd like to have some sushi with it but I have only eaten california rolls, which, I think are salmon. Which is not really very adventurous is it?
Sorry to hear about your wank / alpha male thing, not. The best thing to do is just cut contact with all other men. Then you're always alpha male.
Not necessarily. You might still be a beta male, or worse, and everybody would know it, and whenever an alpha male walked past, just to go to the bar to get some more pints, maybe scratching his ballsac as he goes, swaggering a bit, all the ladies around you would be sneaking glances at him, thinking 'now there's an alpha. Why are we stuck with this delta piece of shit? Life's so unfair.' Sorry about this.
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california rolls don't necessarily have anything in them except the (dressed) rice. at home i make them with cucumber or avocado, but you can pop anything you want in there really - prawn, crab stick, etc.
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