Things I have watched recently
Aug. 6th, 2008 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
very_improbable1) Rebel Without A Cause, which, no, I had not seen before; I have on numerous occasions tried to rent and watch it and various things kept happening to prevent my seeing it to the point that I had nearly become superstitious. Anyway, it's everything ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kumquatweekend said it was and I love it to pieces. Also it's a completely different movie from the one that we are led to imagine from its cultural status--and a much more interesting one, to boot. Pop-cultural osmosis, you have failed me. (Pop-cultural Moses failed me as well.)
2) The TV movie Not Only But Always... which I happened upon at Scarecrow Video. I think this may be a shippier work of television biopic than even The Two of Us, although I did not watch the latter all the way through. More than once I had to flail my arms at the screen and be all like, "Dear Channel Four: PLEASE STOP MAKING ME SHIP PETER COOK/DUDLEY MOORE. It is NOT APPROPRIATE SERIOUSLY."
3) I'm halfway through watching The Four Feathers, an underrated adventure movie with a young-and-hungry Heath Ledger (I'm pretty much cribbingtwistedchick's description, I think). But what I wanted to say is that there's one trailer on the DVD and it's for The Core, of all things, that ridiculous sci-fi movie with Aaron Eckhart! At least it looks ridiculous, I never saw it, but I almost want to now, just to enjoy Aaron Eckhart's evident ability to sell any preposterous-ass line with such determined sincerity. The CORE OF THE EARTH has STOPPED SPINNING, you guys. We have to go to the CORE of the EARTH with NUKYULAR WEAPONS. And whoever goes into the CORE...isn't going to make it OUT.
kumquatweekend said it was and I love it to pieces. Also it's a completely different movie from the one that we are led to imagine from its cultural status--and a much more interesting one, to boot. Pop-cultural osmosis, you have failed me. 2) The TV movie Not Only But Always... which I happened upon at Scarecrow Video. I think this may be a shippier work of television biopic than even The Two of Us, although I did not watch the latter all the way through. More than once I had to flail my arms at the screen and be all like, "Dear Channel Four: PLEASE STOP MAKING ME SHIP PETER COOK/DUDLEY MOORE. It is NOT APPROPRIATE SERIOUSLY."
3) I'm halfway through watching The Four Feathers, an underrated adventure movie with a young-and-hungry Heath Ledger (I'm pretty much cribbing
twistedchick's description, I think). But what I wanted to say is that there's one trailer on the DVD and it's for The Core, of all things, that ridiculous sci-fi movie with Aaron Eckhart! At least it looks ridiculous, I never saw it, but I almost want to now, just to enjoy Aaron Eckhart's evident ability to sell any preposterous-ass line with such determined sincerity. The CORE OF THE EARTH has STOPPED SPINNING, you guys. We have to go to the CORE of the EARTH with NUKYULAR WEAPONS. And whoever goes into the CORE...isn't going to make it OUT.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2008-08-14 08:00 am (UTC)I mean, did you SEE Not Only But Always? Like, I expected it to be a little unintentionally slashy because, you know, it's a biopic about a duo and their complicated whatnot, but I was not PREPARED.