acting!
went and saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith the other night. some of the dialogue and delivery was just excruciating. we arrived fairly late, so we had to sit in the front row and fight motion sickness the whole time. we laughed a lot (the pointing and laughing kind, not the sympathetic kind). i agree with kat that Natalie Portman may not be much of an actress, but there was a scene featuring McGregor and Portman after which i felt, "gee, it was nice to see some legitimate acting in a two hour and twenty minute movie." when McGregor cuts Hayden Christensen's limbs off, i knew it was really one actor critiquing another's performance.
sometimes you're flipping channels, and exactly the movie you want to see is on. late one night last week i found Donnie Darko in my surfing. i really enjoy that movie. it appeals to that suppressed sense i have that there is something creepy and disturbing, possibly malevolent lurking just outside my field of view. it's threatening and fatalistic, full of apprehension about doom that can't be avoided. plus, i like the cover of Mad World that plays over the end credits. :)
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sometimes you're flipping channels, and exactly the movie you want to see is on. late one night last week i found Donnie Darko in my surfing. i really enjoy that movie. it appeals to that suppressed sense i have that there is something creepy and disturbing, possibly malevolent lurking just outside my field of view. it's threatening and fatalistic, full of apprehension about doom that can't be avoided. plus, i like the cover of Mad World that plays over the end credits. :)
more new stuff on please listen.
posted by Jack Rational at 1:34 PM
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the evil emperor rocked! (had the one compelling speech in the whole thing & chewed the scenery like a madman, which he was) although my favorite part was (of course) the homoerotic subtext (but we've already talked about that)
hooray! someone posted a comment before michigan j. frog! :)
yes, Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine was a good choice. i think you should have at least one person in your film that knows how to deliver a line. again, the beatdown he gives Samuel L. Jackson is really about the conflict between two schools of acting. :)
suppressed? well, perhaps not, when you read some of what's here. but this is a little more honest than the face i present to most of the world...
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