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what can i say? has anybody else seen it? do you want to explain the end to me? why were there suddenly multiples of her? did the drugs kill him? why did the very end have to be so incredily hokey patokey? was he dead all along? how fucking cool was snow (jeremy davies again)? why would she want to stay with him? he was kind of an asshole. what the hell kind of visitor was the black woman having? was it even human? i know no one will have any hard evidence on that, because we never saw it, but guesses?

technically i liked it. i liked the cinematography of it. i disliked the dialogue for the most part unless it was snow that was chatting. because his flippancy and gesturing were creepy fantastic. but other than his ass george clooney was irrelevant to me. and natasha mcelhone has really nice hair but… well and nice eyes. they take up her whole face almost! it’s pretty sweet.

the website is pretty cool. i learned for example that it’s based on a previous movie, solyaris and here i thought steven soderburgh had more indie film integrity than to copy. apparently i was way wrong.

was not all that good. i just didn’t care about the characters that much. they were all way too neurotic. and the youngest daughter was just irritating.

if only the movie could have been cut down to being ONLY jake gyllenhaal and catherine keener it would have been better. admittedly it also would have then been “the good girl” they practically had the same conversation in the car about going to a hotel in both movies even. wierd typecasting of gyllenhaal, i have to say. well not wierd per se, because i bet women of all ages will want to have sex with him all the time, but maybe more wierd on his part to play the same thing twice.

emily mortimer other than being freakishly shallow was really good. and other than being bitchy catherine keener was really good. and other than playing the same part, albeit less darkly brooding, jake gyllenhaal was really good.

heh. and that is my take on neurotic and controlling.

so i just watched CQ, roman coppola’s directorial debut. it’s really good. the thing that is the most amazing about it, is the combination of two different movies that are being made within the fim itself. there’s the dragonfly movie, and there’s paul’s movie 69/70. the methodology of 60’s camp sci-fi and new wave french cinema in order to illustrate the complexities of film-making in general is well done. the editing is flawless, and the multiple storylines are well orchestrated in order to produce a seamless whole.

you know how you can rave about the beauty and stylistic purity of the virgin suicides by sofia? well in a different way you can say the same kinds of things about her brother’s movie. it amazes me how a brother and sister can make movies that are so obviously drawing from the same kind of background in film appreciation while at the same time produce two completely disparate movies.

jeremy davies ability to look introspective and act quietly is the perfect foil to the over the top allure of angela lindvall as dragonfly and billy zane as mr. e. not to mention depardieu, schwartzman, massimo ghini, and giancarlo giannini. angela lindvall’s transformations from dragonfly the seductress to valentine the earthy sweet hippie is also impressive for a model turned actress in her first movie. although if you watch the dragonfly alternate version of paul’s with her commentary she is so godawful juvenile. but apparently she had a baby boy last february. how scary is that? i don’t think 22/23 year olds should be having babies when they themselves still speak like 2nd graders.

the special features on the dvd are wide-ranging. there’s video documentaries by sofia, his mom, and some other filmmakers. there’s a commentary, there’s a live music concert of mellow (speaking of which air is WAY better than mellow, but they’re both kind of the same thing. another point in the sibling connection i think.) there’s like 5 featurettes too which were fun to watch.

i put it on my amazon wishlist, yes i liked it that much. =)

not 2 as in they’re making another movie, but 2 as in THEY’RE MAKING A TV SPINOFF.

“In the works for Rita Wilson: Exec producing a half-hour series based on “Wedding” to debut midseason on CBS.”

it’s even going to star nia vardalos from the movie. this is fucked up. will this damn movie never just go away and leave me in peace?

yeah i don’t know why i take it so personally either. i think i’m just irritated by how they keep taking movies i want to see out of the dome the day before i’m going to go see them in order to put big fat fuck movie back in. maybe i should spray some windex on my heart to soothe it’s achey breakey.

they found the funny! they found the funny! oh man this movie was so good. and i was so happy that it made me laugh this time.

let’s be honest here the first harry potter movie kind of sucked ass. they were trying so hard to do everything that was in the book that they kind of forgot to have any fun with it. or experiment with slightly different angles on it or anything. and so it was boring and long and even vaguely poorly filmed what with the whole inability to change light effects gradually thus giving people migraines in the theatre. but this one, oh man. i laughed so much more. considering i laughed maybe once the first time and although maybe i was laughing a lot in this one at inappropriate times. such as when lucias malfoy tells Harry that he’ll meet a “sticky end.” and my mind flashed to this report i heard on the radio last week about a truck that overturned that was carrying glue and how the clean-up crew was attempting to remove the glue from the highway and i was like, “sticky! harry potter! glue! sticky! hwee hwee eee heee!” you see what i’m saying? totally inappropriate and possibly unrelated. but whatever it was still so much better.

even though their voices are kind of changing and they do look a little old to be 12 year olds, (i mean, look how young they were in the first one! crap!. and possibly they’re shifting the ron-Hermoine (and just look at her! she’s so cute!) hook up to a harry-hermoine hook up. that’s just my opinion, mind. (well and also erica’s) but you know how in the books the implication between ron and hermoine’s interactions is that they really like each other too much whereas her and harry can be a bit more open because they’re just friends? well in the movie at the end when she goes to hug harry and ron. her hug with a harry is a trifle TOO much. it goes on just a little too long and the joy in their faces while they get to hug is a little bit more than just friends. besides that at the beginning when she finds him in diagon alley and you expect them to hug but she doesn’t? it seemed like the hesitent tension was there between them. i don’t know. it was odd. and you’ve got to kind of wonder since we know j.k. rowling has written the last chapter of the seventh book and thus the ending for each character is clear, you’ve got to wonder, right, whether they know already in the filming process what’s going to happen since she is giving advice on set for certain things too. i mean…she already told hagrid what happens to him.

my brain totally works overtime at the movies doesn’t it? ah well.

some parts of course were just gross. but they all did a really good job i thought. although watching harris sometimes was kind of sad, and near the end i was pretty sure that some of the angles they were doing and way they were filming his final scene with harry were due to the fact that they had to hide that it was some stand in actor and not really richard harris anymore.

on the whole though my opinion: harry potter 2 is super 8 great and i want to see it again already!

p.s. i forgot to mention that kennth branagh as gilderoy lockheart was really a huge hammy goodness too.

this entire movie i was sitting there panicking over eminem. like i was honestly WORRIED about him. it was amazing. i mean…let’s be honest here i’m not the hugest fan. i don’t own any cd’s. i don’t listen to rap anyway. but that boy can act. holy shit. and the amazing thing about it was that at times you wondered if it was acting or if it was him. what with all the real-life type connections they were trying to draw. it was wierd. what got to me was how….hurt he always looked. and hopeful and afraid of rejection, terribly afraid. and i was so scared that he would be rejected and i was so nervous when he had to do the battle things that he would lose or choke up again. i was curious if his fear in the movie was fear of the what his character was going through or what he in real-life would go thru when this movie came out. does he live in a state of trepidition more than one would reasonably assume if all one knew was his lyrics? or do his lyrics reflect this too? i wouldn’t know not really having made a study of them.

my point, i guess, is that 8 mile was really good. HE was really really good. and even if you don’t like him, maybe you should see it because it’s hard at least not to feel something for him while watching this.

and britney murphy’s really good too and kim basinger. and the little girl that played his sister (?).

i finally managed to get my entire netflix rental history and now every movie i’ve ever gotten from them is there in the sidetitle bar. it makes me happy to have a running history of what i’ve rented from them. and now if you’re thinking of trying netflix, or thinking about one of those movies or whatever, you can ask me, if you want, if it was any good. or something. and for those of you who have dvd players and do not have netflix (although i don’t think i know any one like that) you should seriously consider getting it. because it is the best thing EVER.