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I left the theater with a grin on my face... that rarely happens.  It was a movie constructed with predictable tropes in an unpredictable fashion.  It was the sort of mental noodling in which i regularly engage.  It was fun, it was gross, it was not especially deep but it didn't need to be.  It's a movie about nothing and about everything, about you and about everyone else but you, about bad poetry and Shania Twain.

If there were such a thing as the Susan Sarandon-Julianne Moore spectrum, and it were described by a parabola with its apex in France, you would find Isabelle Huppert there.  Lily Tomlin's costuming was marvelous.  The movie doesn't take itself too seriously, so if you go see it, neither should you.

Date: 2004-10-16 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palecur.livejournal.com
I hear good things about this film, indeed. I'll put it on the watch list. And YOU should go see Team America: World Police. Because it's funnier than South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Because it's funnier than any movie I can name offhand since Weekend at Bernie's. My throat is actually a wee bit sore from the laughing. It's that good. SEE IT and I will go see it with you.

Indeed

Date: 2004-10-16 11:11 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I saw Team America yesterday too and loved it :-) I liked the South Park movie better because the soundtrack lives on, whereas only a few select pieces of the soundtrack of Team America will have a future (I suggest "Everyone has AIDS", "America, Fuck Yeah", perhaps "Freedom's Not Free", but definitely not "I'm Ronery"). Go see it :-) It's extremely violent, brutally racist, completely sexist and even more heterosexist, it would be rated X immediately if it wasn't for the fact that the characters are dolls, and it makes fun of the movie "Pearl Harbor". We thought there would be throngs of crowds but there weren't: no lines, two-thirds empty theater.

Thib ;-)

Re: Indeed

Date: 2004-10-16 12:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sanspoof.livejournal.com
Ronery has no future? Poor Rone!

Date: 2004-10-16 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erikred.livejournal.com
Yes, yes, welcome back, now write your piece for YORL!

Date: 2004-10-16 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
I may be unreasonably repelled from "Huckabee's" by the apocalyptic quantity of ads for it on Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaking of apocalyptic, "Shaun of the Dead" is really good. As romantic zombie comedies go, it was not as gory as "Braindead" aka "Dead Alive", but that is a statement that applies to all movies other than "Braindead" aka "Dead Alive".

Date: 2004-10-16 09:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
It certainly seems overexposed in that sense... i run into ads for it everywhere, and i don't really think it's a movie with quite that wide an appeal.

SotD looked quite good in the preview. I should take the missus for sure. But i still haven't seen "Garden State" or "Sky Captain".

Date: 2004-10-16 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-memory.livejournal.com
You just liked it because there was an Echevarria in it!

Date: 2004-10-16 09:44 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (monterey)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
Heh, and Kim mocked me today because i forgot to mention it in my review. I was laughing my ass off during her story.

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