Did you recognise familiar landscapes ?

I liked it a lot too. Especially the scene with Gollum.

Concerning the backstory, it is typical of Tolkien's material : layer upon layer of stories going back to the creation of the world. I love it because it gives an incredible sense of reality to that universe, knowing that there is a consistent past as well as events going on simultaneously in other places.
This is in my opinion the strength of the previous trilogy compared to, for example, the Star Wars universe. In the first 3 films, some backstory was left unexplained, which gave a sense of mystery and triggered the viewers' imagination. The last 3 (episode 1 to 3) flattened everything out and destroyed all that depth.

Inglorious Basterds was on tv last night. I hadn't seen it since it was on the cinema and really enjoyed watching it again, even if it isn't my favourite Tarantino movie.

I'm looking forward to seeing Christoph Waltz again in Django Unchained.

I would also like to say that Deathproof is underrated.

Christoph Waltz is such a great actor! Django will not disappoint.

Jack Reacher was awesome, by the way. Not buying it, but definitely renting it for some movie night someday with my co-workers.

Agreed, it took me ages to get through that one.

5 minutes and 26 seconds. That's how long it takes QT's name to appear on screen as the writer of True Romance. No wonder I never associated him with the movie. I don't remember much about it. I'll check in after I finish it.

What about Dennis Hopper? He was awesome in that.

Ain't seen it.

I always confuse Christopher Walken's name with Harvey Keitel's for some reason so I checked imdb just to make sure I was talking about the right person and Val Kilmer is in it???? I had no idea. Wow.

I have the major hots for Christian Slater (between the years of 1988 and 1994. He looks like crap now).

Tuffy, it's really good.

Heathers is one of my favorite movies.

Not too familiar with the landscapes, but I think it was mostly shot down south where I havn't spent much time. But the general look of the landscapes have a familiar feel.

On reflection, I think you're right about the backstories and history of middle earth, It does make for a more in depth movie in a lot of ways.

The new Star Wars movies confuse the hell out of me.

Ok. True Romance was a good movie. It may even be better than good Christopher Walken's scene was my favorite part.

But it just didn't speak to me like the others did. I didn't find Clarence all that likable.

I'm watching Brokeback Mountain and this movie breaks my heart. The short story it's based on tears me to pieces (it is seriously the saddest thing I ever read...that loss and longing...oh my God, my heart & soul).

I watched Santos Contra los Zombies today.

I didn't know it was based on a story?

I heard of the story because I read somewhere that the author was extremely digusted by the sexy brokeback fanfiction people send her all the time.

And why didn't anyone tell me how funny 21 Jump Street is?

Finally had a moment and the inclination to do this. Thank you for your continued patience.

And now...

Dark Tuffy Rising

BOOM!

I'm somewhere in that vague area there. Completely unseeable. The heat from the explosion was much more intense than I was expecting. Note also that all the people to the right of the circle are CGI. Neat. CGI people are more expensive but don't tend to blister when exposed to high heat.

This three second shot required the most takes of the whole day. Like maybe twenty. As the gun-toting terrorist comes running through the archway we're supposed to duck back down and cower in fear. After X-number of takes, I stopped moving out of my seat altogether. It was August, we were sitting in the sun wearing winter clothes, and I hurt all-the-fuck-over. Because of my recalcitrance you can clearly see me. Or the back of my head anyway. (FUCK.) To the right of my head is my hand resting casually on the head of my cane. I think I even had my feet up on the seat in front of me by this time. This was at the end of a very long day.

At this point, everyone you see who is not in the foreground is as digitally-enhanced as the big hole in the stadium.

And then we go to...

One of the first shots of the day. There were a lot of closer shots of this scene where the scientist has his head twisted off but in all of them I seem to be either "just off-screen to the right" or "behind Bane's huge bald head."

One of the amusing thing about Bane's monologue in the stadium was that Tom Hardy (who portrayed Bane) was actually miked up through the PA so we could all hear him. However, as his dialogue was going to be redubbed later, he mostly improvised the goofiest things he could think of to say.

So, that's me in Magnus Rex. Overall, kinda disappointing but fed and paid is fed and paid.

When I get the DVD for my next feature - titled "Not The Wallflower Movie" - I'll post screencaps of that as well.

Oh, that was easy....

Yeah, it's in an Annie Proulx anthology. I found it online if you're interested.

Brokeback Mountain

So reading this when I get the chance. Thanks, Alecia! (Thanks for asking, Amber!)

We're going to see This Is 40 this weekend. I want to see Django but it's 2 hours and 45 minutes and it's hard enough to convince the girl to see my movies when they're less than 2 hours. I'll make her watch it next weekend though.

Watched 40 minutes of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels at the restaurant today, while the other two girls were talking or simply not minding me and my classmate. I'm gonna have to watch the rest tomorrow, this time on my own.

It's Guy Ritchie's best (and a good film!)

I could tell, I like it so far. (I sound like I'm talking about a book, so lame.)

Tuffy, that is way too cool.

Sssshhh! You wanna get sued? He plays "The Mentor"

Val Kilmer was great in that role. Though the mentor's existence was actually the biggest reason I didn't root for Clarence.

Oh wow. That went right over my head.

not gnna say it.

You seem quite concerned. Or maybe baffled and hungry. Well done.

I haven't seen either of those movies.

Your posts also reminded me of something from when I was a kid, because my brain makes weird connections I guess, when I was the subject for an artist to do the illustrations in a young adult book/story/novel. I never got a copy. I haven't thought of that in years and years.

Oh. Thanks. I will read it likely.

I think I'd have enjoyed Snatch a lot more if I'd been able to understand the accents. I don't normally have an issue with that, but I couldn't hardly understand anything being said.

It was a little rough my first time through. If you watch the movie with subtitles on, the scene where they're going over the rules for the dog/rabbit bet just comes up as question marks.

The accents in Lock, Stock were way harder to understand.

I'm with Hattie on this one. Lock, Stock was the superior of the two for me.

FWAa-Haha *snrk* Haha *cough* *twitch* a-HEM

*cough*

Heh

*tears*

I <3 you, Alecia.

If it had been anyone but Alecia, there would have been no humor there.

I was literally crying.

I was playing "Concerned Parent", so there you go.

I guess I must have come across hungry too. During lunch hour, the Director of Photography came into the extras holding pen and set a huge plate of calamari over linguini in front of me saying, "You gotta try this; it's awesome!" The 299 other people in the room eating Subway glared at me for the rest of the break.

No one saw the second one.

Did you eat it?

You may have deserved those glares!

Of course I did!

I love me some calamari.

Not true. I have no problem with LS&2SB, but Snatch I had to watch with subtitles.

I much prefer Lock Stock, I could never get into Snatch.

The whole point in this is that I watched half of it with my classmate, and it's THE movie that Andrei always told me to watch. In your face, bitch!

Suck it, guy!

I gotta stop coming into this thread for a while.