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Chris - 2005-04-06 11:19:29
They filmed a scene from that movie on my street. It took them all night, and was a shot of Julia R knocking at a door on a rainy windswept night. I found it laughable that before the shot they sweep the entire area, and then brought in a bag of leaves that they scattered across the door step. Brooklyn leaves wouldnt do. Despite all that I cannot bring myself to watch
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Baby Party - 2005-04-06 12:27:20
I ran across it the other day while surfing channels. Julia Roberts was pissed about something, and a huge vein was bulging out of her forehead. It disgusted me, so I kept clicking. A half hour later I cycled back. The bulging vein was gone, but she was lecturing her students in such a smug, self-satisfied manner that I could not bear to watch. I've watched (and cried over) worse movies though, so don't feel bad.
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Joe - 2005-04-06 14:38:15
More Wiccan throwdown.
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My Friend Wicca - 2005-04-06 14:43:40
Wow, everybody's hatin' on Raven! She's the Ashlee Simpson of the Pagan underworld.
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Bob - 2005-04-06 14:54:09
I watched all of "Lost in Translation" last night and had much the same reaction, sans crying. And it wasn't even that the strings were showing;; it was more like the ropes were cheering themselves. It even put me in mind of "Buckaroo Banzai", and I hope that your movie at least didn't do THAT. And it sure reminded me why I try to avoid Hollywood movies. (Not that I'm prejudiced;; I enjoyed "White Men Can't Jump", and probably a few things since then.) But harking back to another Hollywood button-pusher we discussed here recently, (that had more going for it than "Lost in Translation"), seems I was wrong about one (other) thing when disscussing "Million Dollar Baby". A female college teacher competing in a Golden Gloves competition in Denver last Saturday, wearing headgear, not only was knocked unconscious by a woman's punch, but was killed by it (though the latter was a first in a sanctioned event). But her opponent, since she wasn't part of Hollywood's idea of boxing, did say: "I didn't want to hurt her. I feel very badly about that... I feel horrible about how it ended. You don't go in there with the idea I want to hurt this person."
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Paula - 2005-04-06 15:30:56
Ugh, how awful about the boxer. Here's more.
I was not a fan of L.i.T, either.
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chris - 2005-04-06 16:14:16
Having had many business trips to Asia over the last few years I appreciated L.I.T. for its setting. It captured the sureal feel that comes from the combo of jetlag, culture shock, and being 12 hours out of sync from your home base. The scene of him swimming with the older ladies doing jumping jacks was very similar to an experiance I had in Korea. The relationship was forced and manipulative.
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2fs - 2005-04-07 00:03:49
My nit to pick is: "Silver Ravenwolf"? Great Jumpin' Goddess...parents these days and the wacky things they name their kids...
--Chartreuse Monkeygoat
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Chartreuse Monkeygoat - 2005-04-07 00:04:39
My nit to pick is: "Silver Ravenwolf"? Great Jumpin' Goddess...parents these days and the wacky things they name their kids...
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The 500 Fs of Bartholomew Cubbins - 2005-04-07 00:06:42
Weird...not that my first post *did* go through, but that I apparently lost nearly an hour of time in the ten seconds between the two posts. Gotta go check for evidence of rectal probes or little chips in the back of my neck or something.
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