What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

**Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:45 pm**

Saw Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy & Shirley Jones last night.

**Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:19 pm**

The Edge, a hysterical movie with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins fighting off a "maneater" Grizzly, and I presume....each other.So funny, Baldwin is making fun of Hopkins pronunciation of lure, right now. And I don't think this is the movie where Hopkins is "black" because that "guy" already got eaten by the Grizzly.Alec Baldwin is mean, he twisted Nicole Kidmans ovaries in Malice.Mean!

**Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:17 pm**

The Departed

Ho hum. Is this worth watching again to find out what the hell happens in it? I spent half the time trying to remember the facial characteristics which distinguish Matt Damon from Leonardo De Caprio. Jack gives good Nicholson however. And who is that band on the soundtrack? Is it The Flogging Murphys?

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:49 am**

philipchevron wrote: ... I can't remember) and if Shakespeare were still around, he would certainly have attempted to use Diana Week to top his Jack Cade rebellion in Henry VI ....

Did you get to Richard III? I loved the play, never seen it before, never read it. I like the terrifying dark ones… This Richard seemed more charismatic and clownish than before… In Henry VI he was grotesque, wretched, disturbed, spitting, Continuing with earlier version woulf have given more substance to his serial killing, a more awkward, embittered figure -maybe. I saw pictures of Anthony Sher’s ‘bottled spider’ from afew years back that looked like something special. Philip if you didn’t catch it last summer, I recommend In Extremis by Howard Brenton @ the Globe coming back this summer.. About tyranny of christian fundamentalism, a heart stopping love story, dogma vs creative thought, the far right. One to see~!

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:00 am**

CM wrote:
philipchevron wrote: ... I can't remember) and if Shakespeare were still around, he would certainly have attempted to use Diana Week to top his Jack Cade rebellion in Henry VI ....

Did you get to Richard III? I loved the play, never seen it before, never read it. I like the terrifying dark ones… This Richard seemed more charismatic and clownish than before… In Henry VI he was grotesque, wretched, disturbed, spitting, Continuing with earlier version woulf have given more substance to his serial killing, a more awkward, embittered figure -maybe. I saw pictures of Anthony Sher’s ‘bottled spider’ from afew years back that looked like something special. Philip if you didn’t catch it last summer, I recommend In Extremis by Howard Brenton @ the Globe coming back this summer.. About tyranny of christian fundamentalism, a heart stopping love story, dogma vs creative thought, the far right. One to see~!

Yes I saw Dick 3 and just loved it. Jonathan Slinger fulfilled all the lavish expectations we had of him by the end of Henry 6 (3). I've seen numerous Richards, including Robert Lindsay (RSC) and Kenneth Branagh (Crucible Sheffield) but none was quite so visceral as Slinger. I love this History Cycle and I'm afraid I may even need to see it yet again from start to finish. I understand the RSC are to give us the "previous" cycle - Richard II, Henry IV (1), Henry IV (2) and Henry V next season. It would be great if they did all 8 plays in sequence at some point.

Thanks for the In Extremis tip. Your thumbs up, taken together with Dominic Dromgoole's rebuke that I missed it last year, assures I will get to it this time.

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:06 am**

Dropkick Murphys are all over the Departed Soundtrack.

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:07 am**

philofbelloni wrote:Dropkick Murphys are all over the Departed Soundtrack.

So that's what they sound like.

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:11 am**

philipchevron wrote:Matt Damon from Leonardo De Caprio.

Jack gives good Nicholson however.

"Matt....Damon!" - Team America:World Police

Hmm...really? Matt...Damon! is rather ugly.He "needs" his makeup.While DiCaprio has a "purty" face.
And DiCaprio can actually act. His work in What's Eating Gilbert Grape is stellar. Amazing job.The Aviator was not a personal favorite, but I liked DiCaprio in it.

I won't begrudge Scorcese his upcoming "Liz Taylor" moment though.Too bad he wasn't either fully honored or even acknowledged for:Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas or ,my favorite,The King of Comedy.

Tomorrow night, Homer J. Simpson gets his cable and beer supply cut off and has his own little Nicholson moment. All work and no play....

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:47 am**

It's so unfortunate that DiCaprio looks the way he does because it's made me avoid a many a good film (so I've heard) that he's starred in.

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:55 am**

Ioana wrote:It's so unfortunate that DiCaprio looks the way he does

I'm not sure I understand. You avoid his films because he's pretty?

He was good in This Boy's Life and Romeo+Juliet.And was AMAZING as Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.Also good in Gangs of New York and The Aviator.I'd have to rewatch The Basketball Diaries, I don't recall being thrilled, but I certainly wasn't the only Jim Carroll fan disappointed with that film.I also found him believable in The Beach, despite all the criticism of the film.

I'm all for "celebrity" bashing, see "Matt...Damon!" - but a bankable "star" who can actually ACT is unusual in Hollywood, so I protest.

I recall reading about DiCaprio phoning Marlon Brando, who berated him about looking like a girl, and then hung up on him.Maybe in a Brando biography?It looks like DiCaprio will be portraying Brando in an upcoming film. Now that will be a career defining role, if he pulls it off.

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:07 am**

any given sunday
circle of friends
the doors
notes on a scandal

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:47 am**

Zoolander

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:58 am**

firehazard wrote:Zoolander

An aquired taste.
It appears on t.v. monthly.I actually watched it last time and laughed at the gas station scene.I remember refusing to see this at the theater.Poolander! I read that Will Ferrell actually bleached his hair that way, that's funny! The most annoying movie since Dumb and Dumber.

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:01 am**

Frances wrote:
firehazard wrote:Zoolander

An aquired taste.

Actually I do find it funny... though it may be partly because of various personal associations it has.

Anyway, after that I watched Shrek (yet again).

**Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:40 pm**

philipchevron wrote:The Departed

Ho hum.

I agree. I saw it last night and really the best part was seeing Boston on the big screen. It's a city that doesn't seem to get much face time in major motion pictures.

I also need to recommend Children of Men which I think is truly exceptional and certainly worth your money.

Yours,

Nate

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