tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post113073518198192098..comments2024-02-23T05:17:08.682-05:00Comments on The Film Freak Central Blog: Notes from the TrenchesBill Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131154835571568362005-11-04T20:40:00.000-05:002005-11-04T20:40:00.000-05:00Seriously - is every third comment by the author o...Seriously - is every third comment by the author of the original post? Oh, maybe not quite the right ratio ... walter_chaw only posts 16 times in the first 65 comments. Plenty, nonetheless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131148269701345832005-11-04T18:51:00.000-05:002005-11-04T18:51:00.000-05:00And then Young campaigned hard and publicly to be ...And then Young campaigned hard and publicly to be Catwoman in Batman Returns! I think she even showed up on Oprah (or some commensurate show) wearing a homemade Catwoman outfit to try and make the point. <BR/><BR/>Maybe the whole Basinger-Peters thing is explained on some DVD commentary track ... although perhaps not, since directors seldom like to acknowledge the influence of producers on their Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131141094018489612005-11-04T16:51:00.000-05:002005-11-04T16:51:00.000-05:00If memory serves correct--wasn't Sean Young actual...If memory serves correct--wasn't Sean Young actually cast then replaced with Basinger when she broke her arm? Why I know this, I don't know.<BR/><BR/>I do like Sean Young tho'...more for her kookiness than her acting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131135646463678922005-11-04T15:20:00.000-05:002005-11-04T15:20:00.000-05:00Yeah, although the idea of a blond fetish makes se...Yeah, although the idea of a blond fetish makes sense to me, I was originally thinking of the nigh-impossible female body type that recurs in Burton -- wasp-waisted, bullet-bra proportions. See Vampira in <I>Ed Wood</I>, the Martian Seducto-Girl in <I>Mars Attacks!</I> ... I'm sure there are others, almost always played by Lisa Marie. And now HBC in <I>Corpse</I> -- the transformation is completeJefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131124489938056302005-11-04T12:14:00.000-05:002005-11-04T12:14:00.000-05:00Don't forget Catwoman.Don't forget Catwoman.Andrew Bemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097037829531087694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131092704472623112005-11-04T03:25:00.000-05:002005-11-04T03:25:00.000-05:00A lot of the old Hitchcock in Burton, I suspect. W...A <I>lot</I> of the old Hitchcock in Burton, I suspect. Winona Ryder used to tell a story about how Burton's body language totally changed around her on <I>Edward Scissorhands</I> when she was wearing the blonde wig, which started out as a dress-up lark and became the look for her character. He's got that same platinum fetish; just look at Kim Basinger in <I>Batman</I>, the love interests in <I>Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131074414114181792005-11-03T22:20:00.000-05:002005-11-03T22:20:00.000-05:00Walter: Methinks Helena must have an open mind tow...Walter: Methinks Helena must have an open mind toward corseting if she wants to keep her relationship strong.<BR/><BR/>I meant to say something earlier about Breillat's <I>Romance</I> -- it's the only film of hers I've seen, but to me it's a sexploitation update on <I>Bell de jour</I>. She's aping/satirizing/paying homage to Buñuel's film, carrying forward the statements the older movie makes Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131072774671376542005-11-03T21:52:00.000-05:002005-11-03T21:52:00.000-05:00Jefferson:Hilarious observation (and true) about B...Jefferson:<BR/>Hilarious observation (and true) about Burton's Lisa Marie fixation. A little o' the ol' Hitchcock in that guy, I tell you. He'll have my loyalty, though, for laughing like a loon on his commentary track for <I>Sleepy Hollow</I> when the horseman goes back and gets the kid under the floorboards.Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131060019066402372005-11-03T18:20:00.000-05:002005-11-03T18:20:00.000-05:00Capt:I find Breillat's frankness to be sort of exh...Capt:<BR/>I find Breillat's frankness to be sort of exhilarating. <I>Romance</I> is like a sledgehammer all of anger and bile - and <I>Fat Girl</I> reminded me a lot of Yeats' "Leda and the Swan". I like how I feel watching her stuff: indicted and uncomfortable. She doesn't have my point of view (I think you make an interesting point in that respect) but she does have <I>a</I> point of view. Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131042708000345672005-11-03T13:31:00.000-05:002005-11-03T13:31:00.000-05:00As for Breillat, I really liked Romance, an authen...As for Breillat, I really liked <I>Romance</I>, an authentically daring film. But I was let down by <I>Fat Girl</I> - I was expecting more than it delivered, and after an elusive first hour, the ending is strangely matter-of-fact. My favorite of Breillat's so far is <I>Sex is Comedy</I>, a really underrated movie where the director does a far better job of dissecting herself than Woody Allen or Andrew Bemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097037829531087694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1131042467273324002005-11-03T13:27:00.000-05:002005-11-03T13:27:00.000-05:00Though I see, in re-reading, that the implication ...<I>Though I see, in re-reading, that the implication is inescapable. Hope you'll accept my apology for the bad turns of phrase.</I><BR/><BR/>Don't worry, I didn't take it to heart at all, I just figured you would certainly enjoy the irony (it's a trap I've fallen in countless times, and I try to laugh at it). <BR/><BR/>Chad: If you don't like Salinger, than I can't fault you at all for not buyingAndrew Bemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097037829531087694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130997707965326712005-11-03T01:01:00.000-05:002005-11-03T01:01:00.000-05:00* by "it" I meant "Almost Famous"* by "it" I meant "Almost Famous"Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130997574577747492005-11-03T00:59:00.000-05:002005-11-03T00:59:00.000-05:00Haven't seen it. I like Cameron Crowe, guilty plea...Haven't seen it. I like Cameron Crowe, guilty pleasure you may call him. I guess I remember him better than he is. Saw it again lately with devil on one shoulder and walter on the other. They both wouldn't shut up during the movie. At the end I realised, yes, it is flawed, but there are some films that you see at the right time in your life and it sticks with you. Now I can see through all the Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130995173952724872005-11-03T00:19:00.000-05:002005-11-03T00:19:00.000-05:00Chicken Little: the great Joan Cusack, typecast as...Chicken Little: <I>the great Joan Cusack, typecast as the ugly-duckling best pal even in animation</I><BR/><BR/>Funny, I just saw Corpse Bride for the first time the other day, and was amazed at how Tim Burton had used animation to turn Helena Bonham Carter into Lisa Marie. That man's mind is right up there on the screen. I wonder if Helena likes what she sees?Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130991058762313462005-11-02T23:10:00.000-05:002005-11-02T23:10:00.000-05:00I feel that kid's films are as bad as they've ever...I feel that kid's films are as bad as they've ever been, only in different ways- my favorite children's movie growing up, probably "The Chipmunks Movie", fluidly animated with songs catchy as hell, and the kind of appalling racial stereotyping that puts Breakfast at Tiffany's to shame (although, I'm not sure how the Eurotrash couple fits into it all, if it compounds of alleviates the sin). <BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130987308696617212005-11-02T22:08:00.000-05:002005-11-02T22:08:00.000-05:00Great review of Chicken Little, btw. Hey, tell me ...Great review of <I>Chicken Little</I>, btw. Hey, tell me about Catherine Breillat - I've seen <I>Romance</I> and <I>Fat Girl</I> and found both of them pretty appalling - both exploitative, demeaning and untrue, featuring breaking free of oppression via going out and being more oppressed through graphic sexual awakening and being degraded? I could be misreading, but I've always thought of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130986889815964972005-11-02T22:01:00.000-05:002005-11-02T22:01:00.000-05:00That reminds me of a great film in the American Be...That reminds me of a great film in the <I>American Beauty</I> mold, Paul Brickman's <I>Men Don't Leave</I>. I think it has more integrity than almost any to mythologize nuclear-family quirk, and I'm frustrated it isn't out on DVD.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130983715874076712005-11-02T21:08:00.000-05:002005-11-02T21:08:00.000-05:00Yeah, I was kidding about UHF. How underrated can ...Yeah, I was kidding about <I>UHF</I>. How underrated can you get? <BR/><BR/>It has Fran Drescher in it, and it still manages to be funny. That there is what you call greatness! <BR/><BR/>I also love Al's commentary on the DVD.JG Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880088540166440777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130983592450701302005-11-02T21:06:00.000-05:002005-11-02T21:06:00.000-05:00We did get our hands on Spirited Away and enjoyed ...We did get our hands on <I>Spirited Away</I> and enjoyed it greatly. <BR/><BR/>I'll make a note of those other titles.JG Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880088540166440777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130980251368948782005-11-02T20:10:00.000-05:002005-11-02T20:10:00.000-05:00Miyazaki is great.Miyazaki is great.Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130976278485261442005-11-02T19:04:00.000-05:002005-11-02T19:04:00.000-05:00By the way, S-Jeff - have you and your boy rented ...By the way, S-Jeff - have you and your boy rented Miyazaki's <I>My Neighbor Totoro</I>? He may be too old for it (best for kids probably between 4-9), but I saw it for the first time when I was about 26 or so and I wept like a cold drink on a hot day. <I>Princess Mononoke</I> is grand (though there are a few lost arms here and there, and lots of pigs' blood) - and there's always <I>Spirited Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130976098508307212005-11-02T19:01:00.000-05:002005-11-02T19:01:00.000-05:00S-Jeff:I'm wholly sympathetic with that take - hav...S-Jeff:<BR/>I'm wholly sympathetic with that take - having a kid makes you soft for certain subject materials. The wife and I almost had to turn off Lodge Kerrigan's <I>Keane</I> because it deals with a lost child. I can get some distance if I know about it beforehand, but if it blindsides me, I reel. Still have trouble with animal cruelty in a flick - just can't wash them liberal hands clean.Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130975345918626722005-11-02T18:49:00.000-05:002005-11-02T18:49:00.000-05:00I liked Selma Blair in Storytelling, but I couldn'...I liked Selma Blair in <I>Storytelling</I>, but I couldn't handle the whole rationale for the film. <BR/><BR/>It's entire existence is because Sam Mendes criticized Solondz? <BR/><BR/>I just can't rally around that.JG Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880088540166440777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130975184986503862005-11-02T18:46:00.000-05:002005-11-02T18:46:00.000-05:00Walter, I love it when you pan movies, in general,...Walter, I love it when you pan movies, in general, but it's so depressing when its a supposed "family film" that gets the deserved ire. <BR/><BR/>There's rarely anything worth taking my son to go see. The advertisement, errrr article, in Time got me excited that the Disney film would be good. <BR/><BR/>But, hey, why take him to <I>Chicken Little</I> when we could just rent <I>Happiness</I>...JG Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880088540166440777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1130974902139805982005-11-02T18:41:00.000-05:002005-11-02T18:41:00.000-05:00I'm sure Elizabethtown is not a peice of shit in a...I'm sure Elizabethtown is not a peice of shit in a world where Hillary Duff films exist. It's where you hold your standards and what pushes your buttons. I'm sure there are people who relate to "maid in manhattan" too. Fuck ! I got one right at my home (my mom). Doesn't mean that it desrves any respect from me for it. There is no difference between all that hollywood trite and these "indie" filmsHollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.com