Other Wednesday stuff
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yendiElayna's on a school camping trip, so we had the house to ourselves last night. So ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong and I naturally went out and caught an R-rated movie. We saw Sideways, which Nick at Chud.com described as a "Dick Flick," basically a chick flick for guys. Not surprisingly, we loved it. Of course, I'm a huge Thomas Hayden Church fan (he starred in my favorite superhero movie, The Specials, and in one of the first great series Fox fucked over, Ned and Stacy), a huge Sandra Oh fan (I'm pretty sure I am the entire Arli$$ fan club), and a huge Alexander Payne fan. So I'm not shocked. It's a buddy picture, two extremely dysfunctional guys off to spend a week in Wine Country, where Things Happen. Just a damned fine flick, helped by the wonderful performance of Virginia Madsen (of whom I was not a fan until this movie). Who knew this would be the year in which both Madsen sibs would give scene-stealing performances? Definitely a film worth seeing, regardless of what sort of anatomy you possess. If you've got friends who are wine snobs, it's even better.
After getting home, we watched the first fully-telegraphed episode of Jeopardy (hey, we'll book the guy on a talk show that night, and maybe we'll go back to starting to announce how many days he's been on!), and I then caught the remake of How to Make a Monster. I really wanted to like this. I adore Colleen Camp, I've had a crush on Clea Duvall for years, and I've long been a fan of Jason Marsden's voice acting, and I've just become a fan of Stephen Culp thanks to Desperate Housewives. Plus George Huang used to be a damned fine director. But although this movie has moments (the best of which are given to Tyler Mayne and to the guy who was Francis's best friend at the military school on Malcolm in the Middle), it's just not that good. Bad f/x (surprising from Creature Features, a company owned by Camp and Stan Winston), bad monster, annoying ending. Worth catching on Tivo, but not worth owning.
shadesong is sick this morning, so I did the mad dash for the bus (took the 33 instead of the 30, misestimated the walking time, and caught it just as it pulled up), read a crappy magazine (I snagged a free subscription to Hollywood Life, which is ten pages of the old Movieline mag merged with tons of People-lite content.
Work beckons.
shadesong and I naturally went out and caught an R-rated movie. We saw Sideways, which Nick at Chud.com described as a "Dick Flick," basically a chick flick for guys. Not surprisingly, we loved it. Of course, I'm a huge Thomas Hayden Church fan (he starred in my favorite superhero movie, The Specials, and in one of the first great series Fox fucked over, Ned and Stacy), a huge Sandra Oh fan (I'm pretty sure I am the entire Arli$$ fan club), and a huge Alexander Payne fan. So I'm not shocked. It's a buddy picture, two extremely dysfunctional guys off to spend a week in Wine Country, where Things Happen. Just a damned fine flick, helped by the wonderful performance of Virginia Madsen (of whom I was not a fan until this movie). Who knew this would be the year in which both Madsen sibs would give scene-stealing performances? Definitely a film worth seeing, regardless of what sort of anatomy you possess. If you've got friends who are wine snobs, it's even better.After getting home, we watched the first fully-telegraphed episode of Jeopardy (hey, we'll book the guy on a talk show that night, and maybe we'll go back to starting to announce how many days he's been on!), and I then caught the remake of How to Make a Monster. I really wanted to like this. I adore Colleen Camp, I've had a crush on Clea Duvall for years, and I've long been a fan of Jason Marsden's voice acting, and I've just become a fan of Stephen Culp thanks to Desperate Housewives. Plus George Huang used to be a damned fine director. But although this movie has moments (the best of which are given to Tyler Mayne and to the guy who was Francis's best friend at the military school on Malcolm in the Middle), it's just not that good. Bad f/x (surprising from Creature Features, a company owned by Camp and Stan Winston), bad monster, annoying ending. Worth catching on Tivo, but not worth owning.
shadesong is sick this morning, so I did the mad dash for the bus (took the 33 instead of the 30, misestimated the walking time, and caught it just as it pulled up), read a crappy magazine (I snagged a free subscription to Hollywood Life, which is ten pages of the old Movieline mag merged with tons of People-lite content.Work beckons.
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Date: 2004-12-01 06:39 am (UTC)hollywood life on the other hand is like premiere edited by paris hilton. i still have a stack of old movielines, and i miss the snark.
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Date: 2004-12-01 06:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-12-01 10:07 am (UTC)"Are you chewing gum?!"
Date: 2004-12-01 10:03 am (UTC)How can you say The Specials is your favorite super-hero movie in the same year that saw the release of Spider-Man 2, X-Men 2 and The Incredibles?
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Date: 2004-12-01 10:06 am (UTC)As for The Specials, it's the superhero movie that's stood up to the most rewatching. X2 (last year, btw) is great, but has lost a bit of its shine upon rewatching. S2 and The Incredibles are too new for me to stand back and say they stand the test of time. I suspect they will. But it's reading those "100 best movies of all-time" lists and seeing anything from the last three years on it. All-time requires a certain amount of distance. Think of the grace period for the MLB Hall of Fame for an example.
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Date: 2004-12-01 05:43 pm (UTC)Michael Boatman may play a great gay guy, but working side by side with Urich and Turner he created magic. Sandra Oh is an oh so hottie too...
and I'm not a sports fan.