Religious hate at the theater!

[Imran Siddiqui]

I got better.

[Dinner]

For some bizarre reason I've chosen to self-identify with bridge trolls. Please, people, don't see the Three Billy Goats Gruff movie!

You are a bridge troll and the goats are far better than you.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Not that you do, either.

[molly bloom]

I got better.

You make it sound as though you knew what the intent of the curse was.


Perhaps it was to make you appear like the worst kind of advertisement for credulous, ignorant born again Christianity....

[Aeson]

At least he watches good movies

[molly bloom]

At least he watches good movies

I've just watched 'The Fall Of The Roman Empire' (2 dvd edition). Last night I watched 'Play Misty For Me' and the bonus features dvd of 'Picnic At Hanging Rock'. Yesterday afternoon I watched 'Los Olvidados'.

Saturday I watched the Israeli version of 'The Debt', 'Broken Noses', 'Awakening', 'The Fog', 'Eden Lake' & 'Fashion Victims'. Tonight I plan to watch
'Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages' and the director's cut of 'Picnic At Hanging Rock'.

I do hope you approve of some of them...

[Aeson]

I don't approve of any of that as it seems you spend way too much time watching movies. Also, I highly doubt The Rock starred in any of them.

I would say that your post is evidence that you aren't a habitual googler though ...

[lolzman161]

God damn. I thought RottenTomatoes went against this sort of thing (at least the critics).

[Al B. Sure!]

I met Harrison Ford. He was filming a movie at the hotel I used to work at. I got on the elevator and he got on next to me with me not even realizing it was him until a drunken wedding reveler boarded and attempted to take a picture with Ford. He turned to me and said, "What do you do here?" "I'm not security but I can handle him for you" and I led the idiot out of the elevator.

[Aeson]

It's not very nice of you to call Harrison Ford an idiot

[DaShi]

He has a reputation for being an ass.

[kentonio]

Albie?

[Main_Brain]

Dear Hollywood,
stop "reimagining" German Tales.

Thanks, the Germans.

[Elok]

You're just afraid they'll eventually work their way down to The Jew in the Thorns. Or The Children Who Played at Slaughter.

[molly bloom]

I don't approve of any of that as it seems you spend way too much time watching movies.

Au contraire, mon frère - I don't own a television so no time is spent wasted watching that, and I've read in the past week and a half 'City Of Fortune' (about the growth of Venice as a commercial and maritime power), 'The Laughing Policeman'- Swedish detective novel, one of a series of ten by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, 'Woken Furies' modern s.f. by Richard Morgan, John Le Carre's 'Smiley Trilogy', 'Surrealism' by Uwe M. Schneede and 'China Mountain Zhang' slightly older s.f. by Maureen McHugh... and a few back issues of 'History Today' and 'Record Collector' .

It's been snowing and rather cold, so indoors has seemed very attractive.

Also, I highly doubt The Rock starred in any of them.

There may have been a couple of roles he could have suited- there's a rotten plank in a hut in 'Eden Lake' and an ornamental bush in 'The Awakening'...

I would say that your post is evidence that you aren't a habitual googler though ...

Not quite sure what you mean...

I've just been seriously interested in films for quite some time- we used to have excellent series of films on BBC2 in the 60s and 70s, and even on Channel 4. Japanese cinema, Chabrol, Swedish cinema, silent films.... now there's 'reality' television and 'The X Factor'. Ugh.

Channel 5 to its credit once showed 'Across 110th Street' and 'Remember My Name'- and as the latter has a soundtrack by Alberta Hunter and is directed by Alan Rudolph that's a big two thumbs up from me. Also it features Geraldine Chaplin, Alfre Woodard and Antony Perkins and Jeff Goldblum, so yay again.

Dear Hollywood,
stop "reimagining" German Tales.

I watched 'Heimat' between Christmas and New Year. I'd forgotten how very good it was. Imagine a Hollywood version....

Also 'Fashion Victims' was a German film, and the clothes salesman/rep. is the same actor (Edgar Selge) who plays 'The Surgeon Of Birkenau' in the Israeli version of 'The Debt', which felt quite strange... Can it be very long before there's a Hollywood version of 'Downfall', 'The Lives Of Others', 'The Baader Meinhof Complex'.... ?

Albie?

That's not a reputation, it's a vocation.