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[lauralh]

Watched Catch Me If You Can and Underworld last night. The former was delightful, the latter, not. So i'm not one of those Leo haters - I never thought he was so cute but I thought he was a good actor forever. And he just kind of sucks you in to his world. Movie was kind of reminiscent of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, except without the fancy camerawork. That's fine. I wasn't all that keen on the fifty-million flashback structure, either... it worked for Adaptation but that's because all the time changes involved different characters. But yeah I enjoyed it thoroughly, not the least because Tom Hanks was actually playing a funny character. I forgot how funny that kid can be.

I was thoroughly disappointed in Underworld though. I mean, sure it had a thin plot and no character development, but neither did Vampire Hunter D right? I can put up with that shit if the vampires are cool enough. And sadly, these vampires were not cool in the least. I mean they didn't kill people. At all. And therefore needed no charm, and therefore let it slide away. At first I thought the not killing people thing was new, but they mentioned towards the end that the coven mainly ate livestock and such back in the day. And so they've pretty much been not killing people for a couple centuries at the least. Clearly enough time to degrade into uncharming uncool assclowns.

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[velvet.livejournal.com]

If by "awesome" you mean "Danny Boyle's worst [feature] movie." Granted, that's not saying much, 'cause Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary and 28 Days Later totally rocked my boat, but still. And yeah, it was an amusing direction, but direction doesn't always = result, and, and, but GAWD, that part just made me want to throw a shoe through the tv set. AUGH.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

i liked the movie because i've done a lot of travelling and hate americans abroad, basically.

[velvet.livejournal.com]

I haven't done much traveling (never been off the continent), but I disdain most americans even in america, so I can't imagine I'd enjoy them very much abroad, fouling up my vacation, their very presence a reminder of my reviled nation of origin.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

yeah the vile thing is that mostly they just act the same way abroad as they do at home. So they stand out a lot more. A lot of people are unhappy with Prague b/c of the "americanization" of it. So yeah, I really related to the movie on that level, trying to find unspoiled places. Although my experience was more concerned with trying to find authenticism in native countries and such. a cute example: in rural St. Ignatius (where The Mission was filmed) in northern Argentina, we stayed in a hostel run by an elderly German woman and her daughter. (I had to hold back on the Nazi jokes and all.)

[bythesea.livejournal.com]

if by holding back you mean answering really loudly to why do they all have blond hair? with : "Because they are Nazis!!"