I absolutely love Art and historical films so I couldn't wait to see this movie...which probably made me think it was a lot better than it was. :D

Anyone see Memoirs of a Geisha? Did you like it or hate it?

I have not seen that movie enough times yet, probably only 3-4 times.
I'd like to see it many times for the reason you mentioned. i'd start mentioning lines or situations but its pointless because there are hundreds and they're all funny.

I like good movies whether its artsy/historical types or smashem up action movies. Which is why I took a chance on the Pearl Earring movie. It wasn't bad. I probably need to see it a few more times. One thing i think they did well is to capture the dreariness of the time.

Have not been able to catch Memoirs of a Geisha yet. I have been looking for it on cable. Looks like it could be a compelling story.

I read the book, which was right on target from what I learned in Asian History in college of their lives.

My favorite quote from the book, which immediately made me think of horse racing is; "Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of"

oh god yes! when they went to cut their album? hysterical.

PRINCESS BRIDE!! LOVE that movie!

Boogie Nights is great. The exchanges at the pool party between John C Reilly and Mark Wahlberg are classic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, Scotty, is my favorite. He's hilarious.

Okay I can't resist one reference to one of my favorite lines in the movie.
How about when John C Reilly and Mark Wahlberg are at the studio trying to get the recording tapes without paying for them.

the producer gets fed up and says "Thats not an MP, thats a YP, your problem"

To which Reed Rothschild (John C Reilly) responds "Okay, now you're talking above my head. I don't know all of this industry jargon, MP, YP. All I know is that I can't get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That f**king heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don't own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they're waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like a$$holes, man. "

i like their action movie screen names, Brock Landers and Chest Rockwell.

You're the greatest Dix!

Let me guess....your nickname was Axel?

the man, the myth, the legend.

i'm seeing a decent screenplay or two just from your memoirs. no?

A Face In The Crowd
 

Just saw this for the first time in a few years and it's still a great, highly underseen movie.

Late 1950's Kazan film starring Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes," a singing hobo who is "discovered" and rises meteorically to great fame and fortune as he becomes an icon during the early days of Television. But fortunes change and Lonesome's fall is as dramatic as his rise.

Also with PAtricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa and Lee Remick.

This is one of those films that is critically acclaimed, yet was not popular at the box office. People just did not like seeing Andy Griffith playing a sociopath and also did not like a satirical movie about the power of early television.

Hooray for other people who liked "Punch Drunk Love!" I really liked that film. More so, I think, than a fellow in the theater when I saw it who obviously expected it to be a typical Adam Sandlers film. Listening to him at first laugh hysterically every time Sandlers opened his mouth, and then gradually fade out about halfway through the movie was almost as entertaining as the film.

And STS, props for "The Apartment!" One of my all-time favorite films.

I also really, really liked "Very Bad Things," which most of the country hated.

And, of course, "Ed Wood." To quote Martin Landau, the six people who saw it in the theater really liked it. Thank goodness for video.

Oh! And "Living in Oblivion!" Love that movie!

" Living in Oblivion " is an all-time great. I love that movie.

I didn't realize people didn't like " Very Bad Things ". I thought it was terrfic. It's Steven Frears....isn't it?

Larry Clark (dir. of Bully & Kids)
"Wassup Rockers" was a very tender story
of poor latino kids who skateboard in LA
excellent!

I remember I went to see "Smoke" and before the movie they ran a preview for "Living in Oblivion" and I laughed so hard I came back two days later to see it. Much better than "Smoke," though "Smoke" wasn't awful.

"Very Bad Things" got some very bad reviews, and two of my friends with whom I saw it, who are quite hip in all things entertainment, thought it was the worst movie they'd ever seen. Peter Berg directed it; Frears directed "Dirty Pretty Things."

(I'm not a movie savant; I had to google that.)