Movies

[meganlynn09]

So, the move into the new house is going okay.  Parents are getting really worried about time, but I'm not.

Who else knows the movie "The Cutting Edge"?  I just love and adore that movie.  It's hard to explain, it's hardly the BEST MOVIE EVAR.  But it's great.  Kind of like "America's Sweethearts", I love it, but it's not some great Oscar-winning movie.  

Anybody heard of the movie "Soapdish" with Kevin Kline(LOVE!) and Sally Field from 1991?  That is pretty much my favorite movie ever.  Along with "My Cousin Vinny".

I've been pretty "Doctor Who"-themed lately, but I was just watching "The Cutting Edge" and thought, I love movies.  Let me share that with my flist.

Has anybody seen "Nacho Libre"?  If you have, is it worth seeing because it looks funny to me and I really like Jack Black (who the hell else knew that he was MARRIED?).  So let me know if you have. 

Any movies that you like, share with me!  Give me some ideas of any movie I might be missing out on.


That's a great icon, yeah?  THAT'S THE SHOW EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH!  Why don't more people watch "Scrubs"?  Why didn't more people watch "Arrested Development"?  That show was awesome.  I miss "Scrubs" because it's on NBC.  I don't really watch that station.  I watch one show on ABC, none on CBS, once in a while NBC, FOX except they piss me the fuck off.  How the hell do you cancel a show when only FOUR episodes have been shown?  And you change the night and time they were on after two episodes without warning?!  Sorry, I'm still really bitter about "Wonderfalls", even though I have it on DVD now.  I watched UPN for "Veronica Mars", which could stand more viewers, but now I'll be watching CW for it.  I think "Gilmore Girls" is gone off my to-watch list.  When you completely kill my favorite character, I don't like you anymore.

I want "Battlestar Galactica" back now, even if they have ticked me off a lot bit.

Okay, that's enough for now.  I've got lots of icons to post later this week.  Or next week.  You can guess where they're from.  And I have to finish my "Satan Pit" review for "Doctor Who".  And I don't really want to discuss the last episode of "Doctor Who".  BTW, I pretended the episode eneded when it went to white there, at the end, before, well, you know what I'm talking about if you've seen the episode.

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[mlsky.livejournal.com]

I know the movie Cutting Edge. And yes...not Oscar material...but a really sweet fun movie to watch. I used to have it on tape but alas...the VCR finally ate it. I'll have to look for it on DVD. Yeah...good movie.

What type of movies do you like...looks like comedies? are favorites? Anything else? I'm more of a drama and/or action adventure person myself. Although I love musicals.

I'm with you...I want BSG back sooner rather than later. October?? Way too far away.

[meganlynn09.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like pretty much any type of movie except for horror or anything scary. Except, I love "Poltergeist". There are many musicals that I adore, dramas, I really like action adventure. Some romances are okay, but not too sappy, if you know what I mean?

My two fave favorite movies just happen to be comedies though.

OCTOBER!!! Although, from the sounds of it, it's still going to be split into two halves, and we'll get some kind of break between them, which doesn't seem fair!

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Soapdish! There's a blast from the past. If you like that, you might want to check out My Favorite Year. It's another behind-the-scenes, sweet, funny movie. It's one of my "heartwarming, when I'm in the mood for fun," movies, along with Without a Clue (Watson was the brains behind Sherlock Holmes, with Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine), and Wilder Napalm, a very weird but sweet little movie (written by one of the X-Files writers and directed by the guy who did Moonlighting and Medium). Have you ever seen Truly, Madly, Deeply?

[meganlynn09.livejournal.com]

FINALLY! Somebody knows of Soapdish! I haven't heard of the other movies you name, but I'll be sure to check them out.]

I haven't seen it, but I'm sure I've heard of Truly, Madly, Deeply.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Enjoying the new house? Conquered the stairs yet?

FINALLY! Somebody knows of Soapdish!

Kevin Kline and Whoopi Goldberg? How could I not watch that? I know WG made a lot of silly movies, but one of my other fond favourites is Jumping Jack Flash. I just love that last scene with Jonathan Pryce - speaking of whom, I did a little blurb on De-Lovely on my LJ after watching it last week while chatting to you about Kevin Kline. Here's an obscure Kevin Kline movie: have you seen Violets Are Blue?

Truly, Madly, Deeply is a wonderful movie (Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson, and Bill Paterson - you really can't lose with a cast like that). But it'll make you cry. I think the only thing I've ever cried as much for was Parting of the Ways!

[meganlynn09.livejournal.com]

The new house is wonderful, and the stairs are fine when I'm not carrying boxes up them.

Aw, I love Whoopi Goldberg. She's wonderful in that movie. But it has so many others as well. Violets Are Blue is new to me. It's funny, with my friends I always name movies that they don't know, now, on LJ, people name movies that I don't know and that's sad because I am a sad movie-knower. I know of too many movies for my own good.

I wouldn't be surprised if Truly, Madly, Deeply made me cry. I'm easy to get to in terms of emotions, I cry very easily when it comes to sad moments, especially death, if done right.

(Otherwise I don't take it as seriously, or laugh like I did at Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, although to be fair, I was young and had a huge crush on him and my friend and I were yelling at the screen for him to push Kate Winslet off the raft and put himself on, I've yet to figure out what was wrong with us)

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Violets Are Blue is new to me.

I remember almost nothing about it, but it's Kevin Kline and Sissy Spacek and takes place on a Carolina island. I just remember them lying on the beach!

It's funny, with my friends I always name movies that they don't know, now, on LJ, people name movies that I don't know and that's sad because I am a sad movie-knower. I know of too many movies for my own good.

Ah, there are always pockets of knowledge here and there, and LJ is a good place to tap into it. And lots of know-it-alls, like me ;-)

I wouldn't be surprised if Truly, Madly, Deeply made me cry. I'm easy to get to in terms of emotions, I cry very easily when it comes to sad moments, especially death, if done right.

The interesting thing about this is that it's about death - but Jamie's dead before the movie starts! It's about grieving and letting go. People compare it to Ghost (speaking of Whoopi), but frankly, it's so much more than that. And it's also sweet and funny, so it's not a total downer, like, say, Jude.

That's a cute story about Titanic. Not really a movie one can take very seriously at all, I think! It's not even one of my favourite James Cameron films; that would be The Terminator - or perhaps Piranha II: The Spawning! absolutely the best movie ever made about flying killer fish! I'm just kidding, but once you've seen a lot of JC films, you can really see that all his themes are already there, and he's got cracking leads in Trisha O'Neill and Lance Henriksen, even though their gender roles are completely flipped. And the opening sequence is exactly the same as Titanic 20 years earlier.

Although Titanic had one absolutely breathtaking scene. It's just a brief overcranked shot of Kate Winslet in her white dress running through the boiler room. That's just beautiful. Also, the scene of the ship "coming back to life" at the end was rather nice, if a bit predictable.

[meganlynn09.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything that involves Kevin Kline, I will watch.

It's always the aftermath of death that gets me, it really is hard to watch people deal and grieve and move on.

For Titanic, the only partt that moved me was when the showed the passengers that were going down with the ship, and than they showed the Captain, and it was heartbreaking because I just kept thinking, "This happened." That was the hardest part.

I don't think I've seen a lot of James Cameron films. I know of The Terminator, I'd have to since my dad loves it, but I love the second movie. It's the best of the three, for me.

I'm sad because all my icons are from TV shows. I have two from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and one from 10 Things I Hate About You, out of 100.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything that involves Kevin Kline, I will watch.

As I recall, it was a pretty standard romantic film, but very nicely acted, of course.

For Titanic, the only partt that moved me was when the showed the passengers that were going down with the ship, and than they showed the Captain, and it was heartbreaking because I just kept thinking, "This happened." That was the hardest part.

You've hit on exactly why I found the movie difficult. Although I understand the need to have characters to hang onto, the fact that Jack and Rose weren't real characters actually held me away from the story. I was much more moved by the older couple who didn't want to be parted, or the thought of all those people who wanted a better life who died.

This is my only movie icon, although I'd like one of Michael and Cameron from 10 Things doing their upbeat version of "We're screwed!", which is by far the best line from that movie.

[meganlynn09.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to watch 10 Things tonight. That movie is great, really entertaining, and you're right, one of the best lines in the film!

[ladyjoust.livejournal.com]

'Cutting Edge' is one of my full-out guilty pleasure movies (right around 'The Last Starfighter' and only slightly below the surprisingly sweet 'Drop Dead Fred')

As to movies you might be missing out on: 'Happy, Texas' is sharp, smart, and funny. And it has a fantastic cast which includes William H. Macy (always a good idea), Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn and Ally Walker (I like her a lot; she needs to get more work).

If you've never seen 'Into the West' (not the miniseries made last year - no, I mean the 1992 movie starring Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin and a couple of unknown kids). The US marketing was lame; they touted it as a kids' movie, which it isn't. The gist: a widower, once one of the Travelers, has left the road to raise his boys in a tenement. Through their grandfather, they find - and decide to keep - a fine white horse. In their flat. It's taken away from them, they steal it back... and ride of on an adventure - just like real cowboys! - into the West.

'Hellboy' is, to my mind, the most faithful comic book adaptation I've yet seen. Even if you've never read the comics, the movie stands on its own as a frankly beautiful story of love, evil, and redemption. And it's quite funny, too. And there are kitties*.


If you're cool with animation, I can not heap enough praise upon 'The Iron Giant.' I'm not sure what I was expecting when I first saw it (save that I was ill and, of a necessity, motionless upon my sofa, so anything that didn't further upset my troubled gastrointestinal system could immediately be classified as 'Good'), but this swept any preconceptions away. Lovely. Smart. Sweet. Heartbreaking (in a good way).


*I'm not sure why this is such a selling point for me. I mean, reading Pratchett, I found Death to be an interesting and richly developed character. Fine. Interesting. Then it is revealed he is fond of cats (not so happy when folks try to drown them by the sackful), and I fully adore the big black cloaked one.

[meganlynn09.livejournal.com]

YAY! Someone else knows and likes Drop Dead Fred! I have adored that movie forever, since I saw it when I was little.

Thanks for the movie recs, I'll be sure to look in on them. It's so wonderful to find new gems.

My dad really wanted to see Hellboy and I wasn't really going to, but I went with him and I was really surprised that I enjoyed it. It was good, and I'm glad that others liked it. Nice to hear they did well in comparison to the comics.

And yeah, completely agree about The Iron Giant. My dad and I love it.

Thanks for your lovely suggestions!