the soundtrack is good, alright. The Mogwai bits are very well merged with Mansell's compositions and the string quartet. The way it's mixed in with the movie is superbly done, too.
When the story comes to a crescendo the visuals and soundtrack together create a scene that was so impressing i can't even put words to it.

i'll need to check the cinema booklet, it might actually be next week the fountain opens here. i got this weeks update in my email, so i know its not this week.

amused to see that white noise 2 has opened. with nathan fallon from firefly and katee sachkoff thingy from battlestar - though i can't say i saw her in the trailer.

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Mozart and the Whale
I loved it. And not just because it (predictably) starred Josh Hartnett. It was an inspiring love story with a cute twist and I loved it. Look it up, it'll be a single title at your local rental store.

I watched most of that the other day and enjoyed it. I didn't get to see the ending tho. I liked the concept and the characters were pretty interesting too.

You should finish it, penguin. I promise you won't be disappointed.

I'm supposed to see Fritz Lang's Metropolise(1927),I know that's not spelled right. the other film I want to see is "scanners" or something based on the Philip K. Dick novel.

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"scanner darkly" i assume.

Oh, "A Scanner Darkly" was really good! You shouldn't have a problem finding it, it came to DVD last week. Keep in mind though, in most rental stores it'll be a single-title movie.

Caught "Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens" on PBS last night ... lots of great photos and archival video, with some disappointingly vanilla biographical information (her sister wrote and directed). At one point the documentary tells about Annie's move to SanFran, and how she lives in a crowded share-house with her room being a closet. Reminded me of Chevette at the Malibu house in AT'sP. Definitely worth watching just for the photos.

Pulse

A computer hacker gets in over his head, and the dead come through your computer.

I used to go rent movies just because they were direct to video. I don't know if this movie was intended for direct to video, or whether it got a theatrical release, but it had the feel of both.

It's pretty standard suspense/horror in the way the movie goes, but has just enough of a tilt to make me glad I rented it. I liked it. Probably no one else would.

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I'm supposed to see Fritz Lang's Metropolise(1927),I know that's not spelled right. the other film I want to see is "scanners" or something based on the Philip K. Dick novel.

Metropolis is so far ahead of it's time that we still may have not caught up.

The Fountain was perfect, although it displayed a significant lack of proper spaceships.

Deja Vu was mindblowing too, although thinking back about it, a lot of mindfuck is made moot by the ending.

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i guess you are talking about the american version, which was a big cinema release - tv's veronica mars in cinema role, with her pop star turning actress side kick, oh and there was an ex-lost cast member as well. remake of japanese version. which of course was better, didn't try to make as much "sense", but was more fun.

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Deja Vu was mindblowing too, although thinking back about it, a lot of mindfuck is made moot by the ending.

thing that struck me, was after man on fire and domino, he finally gets an excuse to cut loose, and keeps it tamer than those films. was good though. the light pen scene was particularly amusing!

My feeling was that the insane editing was actually justified by the story, this time.

~~~ Deja Vu was mindblowing too, although thinking back about it, a lot of mindfuck is made moot by the ending. ~~~

Like when Dorothy woke up and recognized all those characters standing around her bed?

ER season premiere. More trouble for everybody. Is Luka really okay? What's Sam going to do now?!!

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My feeling was that the insane editing was actually justified by the story, this time.

maybe thats why i didn't really notice that there was any insane editing.

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The Fountain was perfect, although it displayed a significant lack of proper spaceships.

Deja Vu was mindblowing too, although thinking back about it, a lot of mindfuck is made moot by the ending.

I so wanna see the Fountain!!! There was a screening of it during the film festival but it got sold out before the schedule leaflets were even distributed. :-(

I saw Deja Vu a month back. Good film but not something I'd call mindblowing... guess I'm too jaded.
On the other hand I don't have an editors eye like Arkan does.

Saw The Prestige last week. Utterly predictable. I saw every twist in it from the start. Duhhhhh
That was a bit disappointing coming from a Nolan film. I really expected him to use those twists better. Granted Bale's face is way too distinctive for me to miss under any disguise though. Same with Danton, I knew he was alive the first time the count was mentioned.

Tesla's sidestory was the only one that turned to the bizarre... plus the fact it was David Bowie!!! I totally geeked out over that. Was very surprised to recognize him on the screen.

I am pissed, I just decided to go see Children of Men and it is only playing at three theaters in the area, none of which are anywhere close to me and they only had two shows today all of which are already over. This movie just went to wide release yesterday. Is it really so critical that we get two showings per hour of Code Name: The Cleaner?

Saw The Queen today. Excellent. Helen Mirren is, as usual, impeccable, and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair is also very good. I think we were the only people in the theater to laugh at a line the Queen Mother says, having to do with Elizabeth II being part of an unbroken line going back 1000 years (certainly not as Kings and Queens of England, certainly. The Hanovers are German, after all!).

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Saw The Queen today. Excellent. Helen Mirren is, as usual, impeccable, and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair is also very good. I think we were the only people in the theater to laugh at a line the Queen Mother says, having to do with Elizabeth II being part of an unbroken line going back 1000 years (certainly not as Kings and Queens of England, certainly. The Hanovers are German, after all!).

AH! Royal family lineage humor! riotous!