Movie talk

[bohemia]

Just got back from seeing Shorts and it was hysterical and adorable. I've seen like three Kat Dennings movies this week (The House Bunny and Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist are on cable TV now :DD). My life is a happy one. My dad and I keep having conversations about Tarantino and Rodriguez and the differences between the two and I think I might just make a picspam about my favorite things about the two. But that's for another time.

I also thought about Inglourious Basterds some more and I think it lands third in my Tarantino list. The list goes Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Death Proof. I haven't seen Jackie Brown and I don't count Four Rooms or that scene in Sin City (also, if we're counting writing-wise, True Romance comes before Inglourious Basterds and Natural Born Killers comes after Pulp Fiction.)

Every time I see the ads for this Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie coming out, I bristle. Everyone's clamoring about the Where The Wild Things Are movie, but that book was so short and so devoid of storyline (this is the story: Kid gets sent to bed without supper. Dreams about being the king of monsters. Wakes up) that you could develop the characters in any way and it would probably work. But Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs... that one had a story. It had characters and flashbacks and lessons to learn and I don't care if this is supposed to be a prequel movie. That's not the story in the book. But I don't think I know anyone who even heard of the book. I feel like making a vlog where I read the book but like, "Storytime with Lia" doesn't seem like a fascinating idea when you could just go buy the book if you cared that much.

As for a movie I am really excited for, this movie!! I'm one of the maybe ten people in the world who didn't like Arrested Development, so Michael Cera isn't a big draw usually, but I believe he's the only one who could pull this movie off.

Lia

Comments

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

haha, IT'S SO WEIRD because being two different movies is usually what makes me end up hating a movie (Vanilla Sky, Moulin Rouge in a way), but it just endears me more to From Dusk Til Dawn. I always think every convenience scene in every movie I watch is trying to be that one scene, it's so iconic to me. But yeah, the moment Salma Hayek pops up I'm all, "ANNNNND THAT'S HOW IT ENDS. GREAT MOVIE. YAYYYY."

Maybe if it's on my Blockbuster queue it'll force me to watch it faster. *does that*

[undersea.livejournal.com]

From Dusk Till Dawn is such a weird fucking movie and I love it. Sometimes I wonder what the rest of it would have been like if they had just carried on in the same manner as the first half, y'know? Like I wonder what sort of potential would have been there. We'll never know. :D

I do love it, I just can't figure out where to rank it on the Tarantino scale because he didn't direct it. If I include it, that means I have to include True Romance (and Natural Born Killers), and blah blah blah and it gets so complicated. XD

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I spend so much time trying to create an alternate ending to that movie. There's parts of the second half that I can totally be okay with (the random violence, and the bad effects are excused by the era it was made), but then the way the story ends isn't at all what the first part was leading up to and totally not what I was expecting and doesn't make sense! And no fanfiction I've come across has ever really solved that dilemma.

There's no way I can't included True Romance because I like his writing so much. But I had to be fair so I ended up making two lists, ha.

[undersea.livejournal.com]

I fucking love True Romance, and I really wish he'd had a chance to actually direct it. I'd love to see how it was SUPPOSED to be. :P

...You've found From Dusk Till Dawn fanfiction?! *hopes it's more than the few pieces she's found*

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

haha, I know. I hate when things like that happen. What If situations are not great when it comes to movies.

Yeah! I haven't read any in the longest time, but there's a section at fanfiction.net for it and every now and then something pops up on something like rareslash or beforeyouwrite but they're never any good. Although these came close.

[undersea.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU, YOU SEE MY ICON, THAT IS ME HUGGING YOU <3

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

LOL. Dude, I know, it's always so hard to find fanfiction for the super-small fandoms!

*HUGS BACK*