04:53 PM
Movies Movie descriptions

Best description of Mel's movie I've seen so far:

[God], the one who told Mel Gibson to make a snuff film about the time God Jr. got nailed to a tree

from Briantology in the midst of a monologue about how much he hates tornadoes (he's definitely living in the wrong state).

11:54 PM
Movies the Big Screen updated

I've added my review of Signs at Ramblings from the Big Screen... There are some spoilers but they're hidden, so no rude surprises.

04:41 PM
Movies Movie Stars and Cellphones

I used to like Catherine Zeta-Jones, really I did, she surprised me in that mediocre movie with Sean Connery and I kept an eye out for her after that and I liked her alot, she wore classy dresses at awards and she's Welsh and all that.

But the damn cellphone commercial killed off all that. I now have absolutely no interest in seeing Chicago because she's in it. It completely boggles my mind that the cellphone company went from entertaining, lively and inviting Jamie Lee Curtis commercials to making Catherine Zeta-Jones be rude and obnoxious to all of America. I *liked* the Jamie Lee Curtis commercials, I didn't even fast forward them, they were amusing and funny. What on earth makes them think that having a celebrity be rude and arrogant will make me want to buy their cellphones and use their service?

Sheesh. Now her voice just grates on my nerves so much I can't stand the thought of ever seeing her in a movie again.

Commercials killed the movie star.

Side note: Richard Gere was so stunned about winning a Golden Globe for Chicago and he said he didn't even want to do the movie to begin with. I swear that man's best movies are always the ones he didn't want to do or did only for the money, he said similar things about Pretty Woman, American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman. The movies he *wants* to do are usually awful, he needs to be George and do the opposite of whatever he wants to do! :)

07:56 PM
Movies I love musicals!

I love musicals and cinderella stories and escapist entertainment that distracts me from real life! No matter how many times I've seen it, and I've seen it a lot, used to watch it every year on TV when I was a kid and bought the tape when it came out and it's still wonderful. I had a crush on Christopher Plummer when I was kid. :)

06:37 PM
Movies Life in Black and White

I find myself mostly uninterested in Christmas, for various reasons I'm just not in the mood. We're not doing presents this year cause my stepdad's broke, not broke like really no money or food, but he's a doctor and most of his patients are on medicaid and the government held on to a big check he should have gotten so they don't have any extra cash now and don't want to run up credit card bills till they get that check (probably in January), so we skipped presents except for Gabby, my niece who's five, kids get presents no matter what. And I don't mind, I prefer not having that stress of what to get people and I really do just like spending time with family. I'd already told mom last February that I didn't want presents for my birthday (which is January) anymore, I just wanted to go out to dinner with family, nothing fancy, just time together.

So I've been watching black and white movies for the last few days, staying away from holiday stuff. I love TCM, I love old movies, partly for the fantasy of all these perfect families and lives where everything works out and good always triumphs and partly just cause I like 40's and 50's stuff, I like looking at the sets and costumes and for good or bad, the big studios did produce some great movies with great actors. I love catching an old movie and seeing an early performance of someone who went on to be a star. And the great character actors like Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner is terrific and a wonderful understated performance from Bette Davis.

Awhile back I happened on an early movie of Joan Crawford's before she got those eyebrows and that mouth and became Mommie Dearest, I only recognized her by her very distinctive voice. The movie was called Our Blushing Brides, oddly enough because it's about four shopgirls and only one of them ends up married, it's an early version of Where the Boys Are (set in a department store instead of Florida), with Joan in Dolores Hart's part of the tough sensible girl and Anita Page in Yvette Mimieux's role as the tragic ingenue.

08:45 PM
Movies Hobbitsesss!

The cats are all blissed out, they overdosed on the catnip things I brought home today and they're stretched out in front of the space heater baking themselves, all is right with their world.

And I am settling in next to them to watch the extended version of LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring! I found the only VHS version of it at Blockbuster and I have both tapes in the double deck vcr so I don't have to get up to change them, Sam appears to be settled in for the evening so hopefully he won't make me get up to let him in and out and in and out and I have a cup of coffee and I'm still stuffed from Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and I'm not looking at email or answering the phone for the next 3 1/2 hours!

01:10 AM
Fandom· Internet· Movies· Rants & Whines The Movies! and jerks

We're going to the movies! My brother and me, to see Signs tomorrow, well today now. I haven't been in a few months and I wanted to see this one when it came out in August. I love the movies, something about sitting in a big dark theatre with the big screen and faces 30 feet tall, there's nothing like it at home.

Change of topic: Whaddya wanna bet that I get flamed by the idiot who keeps posting pics to a listowner technical help list? He started doing these massive crosspostings on 9/11. I let three of them (with large multiple attachments) go past and finally I asked the listowner on list *politely* if this was acceptable. The listowner said it really wasn't, that the list was for technical stuff, announcements about problems with the mailing lists or questions about them, not general chat. The idiot replied to my post that he sent them by mistake (three times? yeah right) and that maybe *I* really needed them.

Now he's started again, posting another pic to the list tonight along with another bunch of lists and I *politely* asked him not to do that again, pointing out that it is off topic and not appropriate and that some list members have problems with attachments and asking that he be considerate of them. I'm sure he'll flame me, he probably figures I'm some prude who doesn't like pics of naked men (which is what he posted). Hah! He probably doesn't know that I run slash archives all over the place.

05:30 PM
Movies Whaddya gonna do now?

You're Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity and wicked Barbara Stanwyck has just asked you to run an insurance scam and help her murder her husband, whaddya gonna do now? Go to Disney World? Nahhhh! You're going bowling! "I had to clear my head so I bowled a few lines..." ROTFL! I've seen this movie before and it's pretty good but I never noticed that one before! Bowling...

09:52 AM
Movies· Observatorium Sleep with dreams

I did dream, all sorts of weird stuff, one dream where I was a kid, 10 or 11 and other kids were picking on me, chasing me and I was upset, nothing real, not kids I used to know or anything, just this random being a kid and other kids picking on me, even the surrounding landscape wasn't anything I knew, just random surburbia.

And then I dreamt about X-Men. I've only seen the movie, never read the comics at all but I dreamt about Remy who I only know from snips here and there of fanfiction with him before I hit the delete key. I've picked up that he's Cajun? Creole? Something New Orleans with lots of "cheri" and "darlin" kind of Louisiana southern accent. I dreamt that he had longish black hair, olive complexion and was wearing this red satin cowboy shirt with western embroidery, a little fringe and tight black jeans, talking in that Louisiana southern accent and he was a vampire! Which totally doesn't fit the X-Men but in the dream it did.

05:49 PM
Movies· TV Career Turns

Wow, James Franco's really taken off since he was on Freaks and Geeks! From there to Spider-man and now to City by the Sea with Robert DeNiro. Good for him, he was excellent in Freaks and Geeks and in Spider-man too.

11:50 AM
Internet· Movies Black & White

Spam, spam, spam, I hate spam! But anti-spam people who see only black and white in all things, not just spam are just as difficult to deal with.

I'm watching an old 1940's movie with Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray, what an unlikely couple of newlyweds but it works pretty well. The whole plot is rather thin and of course they'll make it out of Nazi Germany but it's not bad, nice fluff in places and Joan Crawford before she became nothing but those eyebrows is really quite good and pretty.