Monthly Archives: October 2010
Movie Quote of the Day – All Dogs Go To Heaven, 1989 (dir. Don Bluth)
Anne-Marie: Charlie, will I ever see you again?
Charlie: Sure you will, kid. You know goodbyes aren’t forever.
Anne-Marie: Then goodbye, Charlie. I love you.
Charlie: Yep… I love you too.
Movie Quote of the Day – Trainspotting, 1996 (dir. Danny Boyle)
Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?
Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s SHITE being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!
New Posters For “Made in Dagenham” and “For Colored Girls”
I love Sally Hawkins and pretty much everyone else in Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham and For Colored Girls is perhaps the only Tyler Perry film I’ve ever actually wanted to see.
Movie Quote of the Day – Raising Helen, 2004 (dir. Garry Marshall)
Audrey Davis: Aunt Jenny? What are you doing here? How did you find me?
Jenny Portman: You have ten seconds to get your things together and get in the car.
Jenny Portman: Stay! Ten -…
Audrey Davis: You’re not my mother, if you haven’t noticed!
Jenny Portman: No! But I love you very much, and I will be your worst nightmare if you don’t get in that car now! Seven, six…
BZ: But we’re not ready to go yet.
Jenny Portman: Oh, you’re not ready? Well… Well, are you ready for this?
[Jenny who is pregnant motions to her stomach]
Jenny Portman: I don’t think so. Are you ready to be a parent? I don’t think so!
Jenny Portman: [to Audrey] Four, three…
Audrey Davis: Are you happy? You’ve just ruined my entire life!
Jenny Portman: Well, we’ll fix it later! Two…
[back to BZ]
Jenny Portman: You!
BZ: Chill out, Mommy.
Jenny Portman: Hey!
BZ: It’s all good.
Jenny Portman: Don’t you talk to me like that!
BZ: It’s just a prom.
Jenny Portman: You listen to me. If you ever so much as blink in her direction again, I can and will bury you so far in the ground that the heat from the earth’s core will incinerate your sorry ass! Do you understand me?
BZ: Yes, ma’am.
Jenny Portman: By the way, you’re not a bad person, but this is very bad behavior. Very bad behavior.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rebel Without A Cause, 1955 (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Frank Stark: We give you love and affection, don’t we? Well, then what is it? Was it because we went to that party? Well, you know what kind of drunken brawls those kind of parties turn into. It’s not a place for kids.
Mrs. Carol Stark: A minute ago, you said you didn’t care if he drinks.
Mrs. Stark, Jim’s grandmother: He said a little drink.
Jim Stark: You’re tearing me apart!
Mrs. Carol Stark: What?
Jim Stark: You, you say one thing, he says another, and everybody changes back again!
Mrs. Carol Stark: That’s a fine way to behave!
Mrs. Stark, Jim’s grandmother: Well, you know who he takes after.
State of the Race – Is It Too Early To Start Predicting?
Yeah, a little. If predictions made in October were right last year Meryl Streep would have walked away with her third Oscar earlier this year instead of Sandra Bullock. However, it’s still fun to throw out predictions now and see how much they change over the next few months, as more films are released and reviews come out and buzz builds and buzz dies. There have been some really great discussions going on over at Awards Daily, and I was hoping I could get some discussions going with my readership here as well.
My predictions for the four acting categories after the cut.
Auteur of the Week: Steven Spielberg (1 of 4)
First off may I say that I love Steven Spielberg and I can only think of one of his films that I absolutely did not like, the rest I love to pieces. Second, I’m going to be spending the next four weeks worth of Auteur of the Week discussing Spielberg’s filmography. Thirdly, I’ve seen all but one of his films – A.I.: Artificial Intelligence – but I will get it watched before I get to that part of his filmography, I swear. I know some people who do not like Spielberg at all or who like certain films of his and not others. I think that’s a good thing, to be universally liked would be boring. Part of what I love so much about Spielberg is the diversity of his filmography – you’ll find everything from literary adaptations to dramas to action to sci-fi to biopic and back again. I’m only going to talk about the films he has directed, not the films he’s produced. It would take far more than four weeks if we included Spielberg the producer in the mix. I hope you enjoy this trip through his filmography.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005 (dir. Shane Black)
Gay Perry: My $2000 ceramic Vektor my mother got me as a special gift. You threw in the lake next to the car. What happens when they drag the lake? You think they’ll find my pistol. Jesus. Look up “idiot” in the dictionary. You know what you’ll find?
Harry Lockhart A picture of me?
Gay Perry: No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!
Movie Quote of the Day – Mortal Kombat, 1995 (dir. Paul W.S. Anderson)
Rayden: The fate of billions will depend upon you. [maniacal laughter]
[beat]
Rayden: Sorry.
New Poster For “The Fighter”
I love Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, so I’m pretty much sold on this movie sight-unseen.
The Fighter is directed by David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees) and is due in theaters on December 10th.
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