Blog Directory ID: 1772
Blog URL: http://centerseat.blogspot.com
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Blog Description: I'm a young woman living in the Twin Cities, MN. My personal and professional life is really not that interesting... I'm here because I'm passionate about the movies, and hoping I can share that passion with others who feel the same way
Blog Category: Movies and Film Blogs
Blog Owner: Nayana Anthony
Blog Added: February 28, 2008 11:09:05 PM
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friends won't let friends see... bangkok dangerous
Top 5 reasons to skip this one...5. That title. Ugh. I can't even type it without a little bile coming up.
4. Have you seen Nic Cage's hair in this one? It's like Billy Mitchell's Jesus hair got together with Tom Hanks' Da Vinci Code mop and made sweet, sweet hair love. In a big puddle of jerry curl.
3. Apparently the Thai movie on which it's based wasn't that good either.
2. They won't screen it for critics. Always a bad sign.
1. This trailer.
hamlet 2
Truthfully, if Hamlet 2 had come out two months ago, or two months from now, I (and many others) probably would have waited for the DVD. But fortunately for Steve Coogan's quirky little film, it's out in late August/early September, aka Where Bad Movies Go To Die. Seriously, my other choices this weekend included Disaster Movie, The House Bunny, and Babylon A.D. Yeah. I went for the goofy indie flick.The basic premise of Hamlet 2 is that a God-awful out-of-work actor becomes a God-awful acting teacher who tries to save his school's drama program with a God-awful original play, a sequel to Shakespeare's classic work. Hey, remember how pretty much everyone dies at the end of Hamlet? Not a big deal. Hamlet 2 has a time machine. Which explains the cameos by Jesus Christ and Albert Einstein.
Sounds awful, right? The movie itself is ok; I did chuckle here and there. Supporting performances by Catherine Keener and David Arquette were delicious, although they were drowned out by Steve Coogan's scenery chewing. But to be honest, I wasn't really sold until we finally got to see some of that atrocious play (which, in my opinion, is actually pretty freaking awesome.)
Oh yeah, and Elizabeth Shue plays herself. Exquisitely.
link luvin'
As a blogger, I know how important link luvin' is. I always appreciate it when I get some link love from my favorite fellow bloggers, so now I've added another new way for you to be linked from this site. Blogger has launched a new feature called "Following". It's just a way to make it public that you read this blog on a regular basis. Blogger will even let you import your blogs from Google Reader (though the feature is a bit new, and spotty right now.)Anyway, if you'd like to follow me, click here, and your lovely little icon will appear on my sidebar. As of 9:30 a.m. CDT, I've got no followers. And I know you guys are out there. So let's get this lovefest started, shall we?
hackers are people too
Are they?Of course they are. They're people, like any brand of geeks. Kind of like movie geeks, really.
Hackers Are People Too is actually a documentary produced by hackers; it premiered at this year's DefCon in Las Vegas.
As I'm not very familiar with that particular subculture, the movie appealed to the Discovery Channel in me. It was interesting... and educational... but perhaps a hazard of a movie produced by its subject is that it came off as a little self-serving. I'm thinking the goal of the film was to humanize hackers to the general public, but in all honesty, hackers would probably enjoy it more than any other group of people.
Still, it's fairly interesting, and less than an hour. If you swing that way, you can get it for $10 here.
friends won't let friends see... babylon a.d.
I hadn't heard much about this action/adventure/sci-fi/ *yawn*/thriller until reading this post by Fox over at Lazy Eye Theatre... not good.It's generally a really bad sign if both the director and the lead actor of a movie brutally trash it during promotion season. Bad, bad sign.
you've got mail from the shop around the corner
I've known David Bishop for about a year and a half. He is officially one of my favorite "Internet people". He also, by virtue of his impeccable (read: similar to my) taste in movies, is one of the three or so people on the planet who can be called my Movie Muse. About 90% of his recommendations make it onto my Netflix queue.It was at David's suggestion that I rented The Shop Around the Corner, a 1940 film starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. I've been a fan of You've Got Mail since it first came out, and The Shop Around the Corner is the chief inspiration (along with AOL, I guess) for You've Got Mail.
Both films center around a man and woman who correspond with each other as mystery pen pals, and who coincidentally know (and hate) one another in real life. Of course, eventually the jig is up, they discover the identity of the other, and fall madly in love.
Yeah. This could never, ever happen. So why do I like the idea so much?
Aside from these basic plot points, the two movies really aren't that similar. Really, how could they be? One is set in a leather goods shop in 1940's Budapest while the other is set in New York City, half a decade later, with the disembodied voice of America Online ("You've got mail!") as the third lead character.
Let's start with The Shop Around the Corner. Like I said, I enjoy the basic premise, unrealistic as it may be. But somehow Stewart and Sullavan never muster enough chemistry to convince the viewer that they like each other after all. It just seems clunky, abrupt, and absolutely un-romantic. Even the subplot of an affair with the boss' wife comes off as superfluous and, frankly, boring.
In You've Got Mail, on the other hand, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan knock it out of the park. Come on, we all knew they were fantastic every time they share screen space. I've loved them in everything they've done. (What's that? Even Joe vs. the Volcano, you ask? Especially Joe vs. the Volcano.) I think the plot could be crafted by Mary Higgins Clark, and these two would still sell it. I should point out, though that this script was very well crafted. The dialogue is superb (remember Tom Hanks' character relating every life problem to something from The Godfather?)--and in the subplot department: Meg Ryan's little shop being driven out of business by Tom Hanks' Barnes & Noble-esque leviathan was topical and touching.
All that having been said, it is a little distracting watching the workings of the Internet circa 1999, but that was inevitable given how heavily the film relied on a fleeting technological gimmick.
So this is why I let David influence me so much. The Shop Around the Corner was not nearly as entertaining as my pick, You've Got Mail, but I'm really glad I saw it. My appreciation of this fluffy little romantic comedy is greatly enhanced by having seen its predecessor.
Next up on the Netflix queue, at David's (and Nathaniel's) urging: Memento.
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