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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Rebecca' (1940) Blu-r... · 0 replies · +9 points

I watched this for the third time a few weeks ago (catch the special feature too--watching several actresses screen test for the part makes Fontaine look like a slam dunk!) and was struck by the heroine's metamorphosis from floppy, unsure innocent to serene, dignified womanhood. And you could see that it was there all the time and that Maxim saw it as well. (Which is funny because on other watchings, I'd thought of Maxim as a bit of a prat--not so, this time.) I also love how the wardrobe choices magnificently underline all this!

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - What Shoulda Won? 2000... · 3 replies · +13 points

I can't bear Chocolat. It's as insufferably priggish, self-righteous and judgmental as the villain is supposed to be. And they totally ruined that girl from Ponette!

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - ‘Happy Feet Two’ R... · 0 replies · +8 points

Happy Feet 1 was one of the few (very few) movies that I have chucked in the trash. It's not that it's a heavy (HEAVY)-handed gay-fabulous Lady Gaga song of a film that bugged me so much as the portrayal of the religious elements (did the film-makers expect me not to notice that the lead penguin was a crabbed-looking dour Scot of the Presbyterian mold?) was so mean-spirited. Gah. I want to take that DVD out of the trash so I can run over it with my car.

Also, when the filmmakers take the time to make an allegorical movie, I don't want to be lectured about how 'it's just a kids movie'. No. It has a broader message. They put it there. And that's what I'm responding to--not the adorably drawn characters.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Brigitte Bardot's Terr... · 0 replies · +4 points

I love it when we get a Robert Avrech post! He has so many tales about vintage Hollywood that remind me of that Paul Harvey sign-off, "And now you know...the REST of the story".

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Trailer Talk: 'The Hun... · 0 replies · +4 points

Per your point #3: I think it helps if you think of Katniss as a kind of Spartacus and the Hunger Games as a sort of gladiator-esque diversion.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Trailer Talk: 'The Hun... · 0 replies · +7 points

SPOILERS FOR THE SERIES NOT JUST THE FIRST BOOK

Okay, can we talk? I totally agree with you. I loved the pacing and action scenes and all that but the end felt like a let down. I wrote a blog post <a href="http://(http://thearmyyouhave.blogspot.com/2010/09/mockingjay-wherein-i-reveal-spoilers.html)" target="_blank">(http://thearmyyouhave.blogspot.com/2010/09/mockingjay-wherein-i-reveal-spoilers.html) of which this is an excerpt:

"It took him 15 years to talk her into having children. Though she is a clearly heroic figure, this holding on to her fear and hate and insecurity seems high-maintenance to me. Yes, yes, she lets it go in the end (sort of) but I would have liked her character to arc more towards trust and a willingness to live life on Peeta's terms too--particularly as he seems to have a knack for it." and "For me, the 15 years thing was way too unacceptable. I felt it was a bit of a modern cop-out ('Children aren't allowed to have children!' or 'Quick! Nobody procreate before 32!') to get her to a more 'normal' age for having kids." (Nevermind making her have a 'normal' number of kids.)

If Katniss had been truly awesome, she'd have taken Peeta behind the woodpile and started making babies as fast as she could--a prego and life-giving Katniss would have been an unconventional and awesome repudiation of all that death.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - ABC Whitewashes Histor... · 0 replies · +6 points

That's just what I was thinking!

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - A Brief History of Dis... · 0 replies · +8 points

I just came back from there (vowing to never, ever take a 2-year-old again) and loved it but had to twice call into the lost-and-found/customer service area. Boy. What a rotten job. Those people were nothing short of wonderful to me and I had to listen to the terrible entitled abuse they got from the other patrons. That's the worst job in the Happiest Place on Earth.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pixar Releases Poster ... · 7 replies · +20 points

Women have been doing awesome things since the dawn of time--crossing plains, burying babies, forging civilization...So a movie about awesome chicks is okay with me. But why can't it feature women doing things that women did? Why does she have to go out and do a guy thing?

(P.S. And because bows actually do require quite a bit of strength to pull back (think of that classic end to The Odyssey), the more lethal ones (the only reason you'd operate a bow in Celtic Scotland) would possibly be more suited to a man--or at least a full grown woman.)

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pixar Releases Poster ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The 105 pound female lead beating a group of 250 pound thugs with her bare hands is a major pet peeve for me. I get that films are fantasy and things happen in them that don't happen in real life but when they do that I think, "Why didn't they just hire Russell Crowe and strap some boobs on him?"...and then I remember his moobs...

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