I didn't let it happen without a fight.

I'm glad you didn't, but truly sorry you lost the battle my your eyes recover quickly

I'm hoping that the image of Jennifer Garner singing Love is a Battlefield into a hairbrush with a bunch of 13 year old girls leaves my mind soon enough.

Mine as well now.

I'm sure the mere thought is a lot easier to get rid of than the actual sight.

your right, cause at some point for no reason at all, it's just going to just pop in there. wow, I'd start researching electro shock treatments

Get me an estimate too, please.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing left to do is watch/read Austen. I just re-read her entire canon and watched the corresponding movies. Oh how I love them!

Also, I actually quite liked the new Phantom of the Opera as well, Bubblewrap! Funny because I absolutely HATE the musical (I guess that's what happens when you read and LOVE the book!) but for some reason the movie wasn't bad.

BTW, I too am a sucker for an English accent! (or Scottish or Irish for that matter) Next time you meet a Scotsman, ask him to say "murder." It confuses them, makes you look like a freak, but I promise you it's the coolest sounding word EVER and totally worth it.

I thought I had found my soulmate until:

I thought the musical was 100 times better than the movie.
At least the singers were a lot better.
Muffy, where did you see the play?



Anyway...

I watched A Beautiful Mind yesterday and the day before for the first time.
Yes, I had to watch it twice.

I was dazed and confused. I LOVED IT!
But, for some reason, I could stop sobbing the first time I watched it.
Probably because Russell was so adorable and convincing and you just felt soo bad for him and happy that jennifer connelly was with him to help.

I think it definitely deserved to win best picture, but I also think that Crowe should have won.

I want to watch it again!

You do realize that Patrick Wilson (who played Raoul in the movie) is a Broadway actor...

I am a huge musical fan- so I really want to go to New York and see some Broadway plays. I've only seen 1 off Broadway when I was 10.

I saw it nine times when it played in San Francisco in the 90's. Yes, I'm just that sad.

The best show I ever saw live was "Phantom of the Opera" live at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis....the movie version was less than stellar.

I've been meaning to watch "A Beautiful Mind" I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Anyone like "Red Eye?"

Not sad at all.

I saw it in New York and was blown away
I thought the acting was fine in the movie, but it just doesn't do the play justice.
The Phantom's voice in the movie was horrible compared to the The Phantom in the play.

And yes, I realize it was Gerard Butler. My new favorite man....

I love Red Eye.

Very good movie.

Cillian Murphy is brilliantly horrible. I love him!

Yeah- there were some parts in the movie where his voice wasn't that great. But I guess I really can't blame him since he said he hadn't any formal training for singing. At any rate- I would love to see the Broadway play too.

Has anyone else here seen the 1927 version of The Phantom of the Opera- I love it. I've also read the original book- which is really good.

I saw Red Eye 3 times in the theatre and was the very first person in my town to get the DVD. Awesome acting between the characters. Plus you can't beat a better combo than Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams.

Exactly.

So, you should check out A Beautiful Mind, you will not be dissappointed. In fact, you will be riveted, as I was.

P.S. Love the Sig. LOST RULES!

Consider it done! And thank you .

Anybody else love A Beautiful Mind?

I do. I love that movie. I think Russel Crowe is incredible- he's one of those few actors that can completely change himself for a role. Just look at him in The Insider. He was almost unrecognizable.

(Oh, and Christopher Plummer is in it, as well. One of the last incredible classic actors around.)

That was an amazing film. Do you know John Nash "outgrew" his schizophrenia and went on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Unfortunately his son inherited his father's disorder, and has it pretty bad.

Yes he wins the prize at the end of the movie.

I agree,
Russell Crowe is definitely one of the best actors ever around. I loved him in Cinderella Man.

I just have to offer up this movie suggestion. It's one of the best films I'd seen in quite awhile. It's very cute. Little Manhattan I really need to buy it- but if you can rent it, definitely do!

Opps! Can you tell it's been awhile since I've seen the movie?

I stayed up and watched Black christmas..that was so bad. I haven't watched Quills yet. Maybe tonite.

Last week of being a Tax Widow. I rented "For Your Consideration" (finally!) and "Stranger Than Fiction" to get me through the long night with my insomniac baby.

Quills was wonderful. Anything with Joaquin Phoenix and Kate Winslet is going to be good. Did anyone see the Kate Winslet movie Jude? I loved it until the ending when I wanted to pierce my eyes out. I won't give it away, but has anyone else seen it?

I'm so sorry! I do like musicals, just not that one. I was disillusioned when it was so vastly different from the book -- it was my first experience with a book to musical/movie adaptation, and it made me sad. Plus, neither Michael Crawford nor Sarah Brightman ever really did it for me. I do own the soundtrack to both versions if that makes you feel any better. . . Also, I WILL say that the Raol in the musical/movie is MUCH more manly than the book.

Back to movies, I was thinking that Peter Jackson should take a stab at adapting the original book to a movie. I think he'd be able to get the proper balance of emotion/suspense . . .

So, speaking of Russel Crowe, I absolutely ADORE Master and Commander! Well, I have quite a thing for nautical films, so it's inevitable, but he's SO good in that!

Also, speaking of Quills, I haven't seen it, but I had the opportunity to see the costumes in LA, and they were absolutely stunning. There was one particular mans ensemble (I presume they belonged to the Marquis de Sade) had lines from his writings scrawled all over it with dye meant to look like blood. Adequately creepy.

And just so I can feel like I've (sort of) contributed to the topic and not just replied to people, I've just finished watching the Jeeves and Wooster series. While not techincally a movie, I can't help but mention how amazing Hugh Laurie is. Compare his Wooster with Dr. House for example, or his Prince George in Black Adder with Mr. Palmer from Sense and Sensibility almost completely unrecognizable.

" . . . the lesser of two weavels . . . "


ACK! A Jeeves and Wooster fan! Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are absolutely hysterical in the series. Of course P.D. Woodehouse's writing . . . . brilliant. My husband and I enjoyed watching these when they first came out in the late '90's so much that we named our dog Wooster, (we picked the right name BTW, he definitely needs someone else to do the thinking for him, ).

I do understand what you mean- I see the musical and the book as almost two entirely separate entities. I will pretend I didn't read the Brightman/Crawford comment, though. (Although I am not a fan of Crawford in general, I always enjoyed him as The Phantom.)

I love Hugh Laurie, too. I don't watch House (eww! Blood!), but I think he's amazing. If I ever want to fall out of my chair laughing, all I have to do is watch the episode of Black Adder Goes Forth, "Corporal Punishment", where he represents Adder at trial!

Indeed! I am newly addicted. . . I wish they'd release a soundtrack with all the songs Hugh Laurie (and even Stephen Fry occasionally) sings! My absolute favorite though:
Wooster: "Hi de hi de hi de hi."
Jeeves: "Hi de hi de hi de hi, sir."

My new favorite way to greet relatives is: "What ho, blood relation!"

I'm glad I didn't lose you as a friend over this.



Ha ha ha! I LOVE that -- er, episode? My favorite line is after Black Adder pushes down William Shakespeare (played by the ever lovable Colin Firth) saying, "that's for Ken Branagh's four hour version of Hamlet." To which Shakespeare responds, "Who is Ken Branagh?" And naturally, Black Adder says, "I'll tell him you said that. I'm sure he'll be very hurt."

Speaking of Shakespeare, what is your favorite adaptation of a Shakespeare play on film? I don't know that I have a favorite but I really, really, really love Twelfth Night; or What you Will with Helena Bonham-Carter, Imogen Stubbs, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, etc.. It's fabulous, and I blatantly used it to get my sister "into" Shakespeare. *evil laugh*

For future reference, if you mention the name Colin Firth, everything after it becomes "Wha wha wha wha wha wha wha...."
I Love that scene with Adder and Shakespeare!

I've mentioned it on this thread before, but my favorite adaptation is Much Ado About Nothing. It's quite cut down, but they managed to keep the tone of the play and Emma Thompson and Kenneth Brannagh are perfect. I can never get enough of it. So many great LOL lines:

(In reference to someone's singing) "If a dog had howled thus they'd have hanged him."

"I bid you against my will to come into dinner.....there's a double meaning in that."

"No, the world must be peopled!"

"When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."

That is a really good movie. I haven't seen it in a few years- but from what I remember I really liked it


I'd have to say my favorite is the 1993 version of Much Ado About Nothing. I love that movie. I also really enjoyed the 1996 version of Hamlet. I took British literature last year and we spent 9 weeks on Shakespeare. When we would finish a play we sometimes got to see a movie, if it was a good adaptation.

Russell Crowe.

My favorite Russell Crowe movie is definitely Cinderella Man. I was astonished and so into that movie. Beautifully crafted.
A close second is my recent addiction, A Beautiful Mind and I don't think I need to explain why.
Of course, Gladiator is one heck of a movie and Russell made it what it is today.
A Good Year, his most recent film wasn't that bad. I mean, it was incredibly slow, but sometimes I enjoy that kind of movie.

Russell Crowe is amazing. Period. Now arguements allowed.

No arguments from this quarter! I love that man!

Back when he was lesser known, my friends and I had a Russel Crowe Fest (we frequently do this with our fav. actors, actually.) during which we watched five of his movies including:

The Silver Brumby
For the Moment
The Quick and the Dead
Virtuosity
L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential was absolutely the best, but I recommend watching the others too. It's interesting seeing him develop as an actor. He's definitely the best thing about the first four movies in that list. Ha ha! (He sings in For the Moment, which is lovely, of course. . .)

You're right, L.A. Confidential was an excellent movie, Russel Crowe, Kevin Spacey, James Cromwell and many others in a smart, hard hitting, gritty crime drama. I always watch it when it comes on tv in reruns. The Quick and the Dead though, my God but that movie sucked. It sucked out loud. It sucked so hard that light could not escape it's pull and an event horizon formed around it. That movie sucked like a billion Hoovers. It was really, really, really bad.

L.A. Confidential is one of my favorite movies. The writing, casting, acting were incredible. Rollo Tomassi!

I'll be sure to avoid The Quick and the Dead. It sounds painful. I had the same reaction to Se7en, though I'm sure someone out there liked it. I tried to leave the theatre, but a demon sat on my lap and forced me to watch the whole thing.

Finally this afternoon I'll be watching Little Women(Liz Taylor edition) and hopefully have time to watch Stranger than Fiction.

LA Confidential is one of my favorites. I think I'll watch it when I have my life back after finals.

I am working my way, very slowly through another old favorite - All About Eve. That moving is so amazing - a really interesting look at one person trying to absorb the identity of another, with interesting bits about perception and knowledge of the self. Oh yeah, and Bette Davis, great costumes and George Sanders' awesome voice.

So I'm not really into new animated movie a lot (there are some exceptions though) but I would just like to recommend the movie Hoodwinked. I saw it awhile back but it's hilarious (and it has a few Thin Man references in it too )

i'm on my 2nd Dell phone hold my kids love this movie and they watched it twice this weekend.





p.s. i hate hold!

I hope they get back to you soon- and that you get your computer fixed. I had to call the people at Compact Presario when we first got our last computer- and I was on hold for forever

Thought I would just add this in, since it's the movie thread (via officetally from USA Today)




First look: Would you believe a 'Smart' spy spoof?

The new Get Smart movie has to contend with two big changes from the original 1965 TV show: the fall of communism and the rise of feminism.
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are at work on the remake as spymasters Maxwell Smart and Agent 99, taking over for the late Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, now 75. The movie is set for release in June 2008.

Director Peter Segal (50 First Dates, Tommy Boy) says the challenge was figuring out a way to update a silly Cold War comedy for the world after 9/11, finding things to laugh at in the face of global fear.

"We try to show the disconnect between government agencies as we saw right after 9/11 when the CIA and FBI weren't really communicating," Segal says. "We wanted to make sure we were politically satirical."

The anarchy group known as KAOS is back for more foiling, and the mockery tends to stay closer to bureaucratic bungling.

"Obviously, Max works for CONTROL, and there's a lot of infighting within Washington over who's responsible for which parts of the world," Segal says.

The story focuses on KAOS' blackmailing the United States by threatening to give away launch codes for nuclear bombs that are in the hands of bad guys.

"Max has to figure out where the bombs are and stop them, ultimately saving the world," Segal says.

Meanwhile, the iconic shoe-phone and Cone of Silence make their return.

Carell's Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine co-star Alan Arkin takes on the role of CONTROL's Chief, a gruff straight man originally played by the late Edward Platt.

The film updates the relationship between the two heroes, telling an origin story of how Smart became an agent and met 99. In this version, she is the veteran spy who takes the newcomer under her wing.

"In the TV show, she was the woman who stood firmly behind her man," Segal says. When Smart failed to live up to his name, Feldon's character tended to giggle it away with an eye roll and an "Oh, Max!"

"That's a little dated for today," Segal says. "99 is a little more kick-(butt) and tougher, more emancipated. She's more the female James Bond, teaching him the ropes."

Though I like Anne Hathaway- I wasn't crazy about her being cast as 99. But I'll still go to see this movie- that's for sure

So you're not recommending it then . . . .?

LA Confidential . . . . . fantastic. Even with Kim Basinger.

I loved that show when I was a kid! (on Nick at Night) Isn't Anne Hathaway a bit young for Steve Carrell, though?

As a man Steve Carrell's age, I saw 'NOPE!!'

I would see Get Smart, but the whole tv shows being turned into movies hasn't always worked so well. *fingers crossed this one is good*

Has anyone seen the remake of Othello? I kinda liked it.

And L.A Confindential-best part is kevin spaceys death. I love kevin I have a huge crush on the man. But his death was one of the best ever.

Glad to know it's not just me.