All Consuming : rampantglee

A story about "Raging Bull (Single Disc Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:05:34 GMT

I watched this with Casey. It was really dumb. I was totally creeped out by the protagonist’s relationship with his wife. She was wayyyy too young…

A story about "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:02:09 GMT

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

by Stanley Donen

I watched this today with Christine and Whitney. It was ridiculoussssss :)

A story about "L'auberge espagnole (Pot Luck)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:28:44 GMT

L'auberge espagnole (Pot Luck)

by Cédric Klapisch

This film captures the spirit of student travel abroad. I liked it a lot. And it was cool that I could recognize the places both in Paris and Barcelona and understand some of the French and most of the Spanish. Yay!

I watched this with Kate and Tine in Kate’s basement.

XAVIER: I’m French, Spanish, English, Danish. I’m not one, but many. I’m like Europe, I’m all that. I’m a real mess.

A story about "Brokedown Palace"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:10:51 GMT

Brokedown Palace

by Jonathan Kaplan

I watched this today oh the oxygen channel with my dad.
It has Claire Danes in it, and it’s about two best friends that get stuck in Thailand after they are detained with drugs in their bag. It was ambiguous in the end as to whether the girl that confessed did it or not… and I really liked that. Because it doesn’t really matter.

DOUG: You’re a scammer and you’re a manipulator. You think that I don’t know you? You are dead wrong. The only thing that has ever come out of your mouth is lies. Six years old… the paint… the paint all over your hands. All over our couch? ‘I didn’t do it.’ 16 years old with the beer cans in my car. ‘I didn’t do it.’ Let me hear you say it again, Alice. Come on! Let me hear you say it in here, huh? Come on, one for old times’ sake!
ALICE: [screaming] I didn’t do it!

A story about "Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:04:28 GMT

Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)

by Jason Reitman

Little Girl: My Mommy says smoking kills.
Nick Naylor: Oh, is your Mommy a doctor?
Little Girl: No.
Nick Naylor: A scientific researcher of some kind?
Little Girl: No.
Nick Naylor: Well then she’s hardly a credible expert, is she?

I liked this : ) Nick Naylor was quite convincing. If you put me in a room with him for 30 minutes, and I could probably be talked out of everything that I’ve believed in, ever. I wish I could argue like that.

I watched this with Casey and Sarah.

A story about "Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:03:27 GMT

Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)

by Ridley Scott

Batty: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

I like the idea of accelerated decrepitation. Reveling in your time. ‘The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long’ thing. I’m not sure that I would choose that, but it’s interesting to think about. Anyway, this movie clearly chose the second. Everything about it was dark. Even the screen was so dark that you couldn’t even see what was going on a lot of the time. And it was long.
I think I’d watch it again, though. Full of interesting ideas. I don’t even know what went on.

Harrison Ford was totally a robot.

I watched this with Christine and Whitney.

A story about "V for Vendetta (Two-Disc Special Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:58:53 GMT

V for Vendetta (Two-Disc Special Edition)

by James McTeigue

“V:as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

I was sleepy and exceptionally distracted when I watched this. I liked what I saw, though. There were definitely moments of greatness. Maybe I should watch it again.

I watched this with Casey.

A story about "Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:26:59 GMT

Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)

by Billy Wilder

Norma Desmond: And I promise you I’ll never desert you again because after ‘Salome’ we’ll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.

Regarding Norma Desmond, the phrase that comes to mind is ‘scary beyond all reason.’ But even though she’s totally crazy and she tries to commit suicide and so on, she’s very, very strong. It’s admirable… but not in a way that you’d want to imitate.

This really wasn’t a romance.

I watched this with Casey.

A story about "Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:03:55 GMT

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

Singing Princess Anneliese, Singing Erika: Free I close my eyes and feel myself fly a thousand miles away/I could take flight but would it be right/My conscience tells me stay
Singing Princess Anneliese: I’ll remain forever royal.
Singing Erika: I will pay my parents’ debt.
Singing Princess Anneliese, Singing Erika: Courage is doin the thing your heart well regrets.
Singing Princess Anneliese: But I’ll never stop believing.
Singing Erika: She can never stop my schemes.
Singing Princess Anneliese, Singing Erika: There’s more to living than gloves and gowns and threads and seams/ In my dreams/ I’ll be free

Inspirational? The animation got better than that last Barbie movie I watched. ^_

Now I need to watch that Faerie Tales Theatre one with Shelly Duval that I loved so much when I was little.

I watched this with Christine and Amy.

A story about "Bride and Prejudice"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:49:07 GMT

Bride and Prejudice

Lalita: Only you could say that you love me
and insult me at the same time.

It’s a million years long, but the dance numbers are ridiculous and amazing. Best one: no life without wife. Most ridiculous one: main characters are falling in love on a beach, gospel choir appears behind them, surfers run out of the water, lifeguards run down from their chairs, and they all SURROUND them and tell them “This is the way to love!”

I watched this with Christine and Amy.

A story about "If On a Winter's Night A Traveler"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:04:12 GMT

If On a Winter's Night A Traveler

by Italo Calvino

Reading is solitude. To you Ludmilla appears protected by the values of the open book like an oyster in its shell. The shadow of another man, probable, indeed certain, is if not erased, thrust off to one side. One reads alone, even in another’s presence. But what, then, are you looking for here? Would you like to penetrate her shell, insinuating yourself among the pages of the book she is reading? Or does the relationship between one Reader to the Other Reader remain that of two separate shells, which can communicate only through partial confrontations of two exclusive experiences? p.147

Casey loaned this book to me. I am in love with it.

A story about "Xanadu"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:40:14 GMT

Xanadu

by Robert Greenwald

Kira: Have you ever heard the expression “kissed by a muse”? Well, that’s what I am. I’m a muse.
Sonny: Well, I’m glad someone’s having a good time.
Kira: Oh, don’t make jokes; I’m serious.

This movie is effing weird. And FABULOUS. I really like it when they turn into cartoons and then they make a heart with the sparkles. Franchise glitz dealer!

I watched this with Christine and Whitney. And then Christine and Amanda.

A story about "SLC Punk"

nobody@allconsuming.net (rampantglee) — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:11:39 GMT

SLC Punk

Stevo: The circle goes like this: our redneck skirmishes are cheap perversions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy. This contradiction was becoming clear to me in the fall of ‘85. Even as early as my first party, “Why did I love to fight?” I framed it, but still, I don’t understand it. It goes against my beliefs as a true anarchist. But there it was. Competition, fighting, capitalism, government, THE SYSTEM. That’s what we did. It’s what we always did. Rednecks kicked the shit out of punks, punks kicked the shit out of mods, mods kicked the shit out of skinheads, skinheads took out the heavy metal guys, and the heavy metal guys beat the living shit out of new wavers and the new wavers did nothing. What was the point? Final summation? None.

This was dumb. Watching it makes my face hurt. Why are there so many needles and beatings? The ideas weren’t anything new, and the irony was stupid. I fell asleep, too.

I watched this with Christine, Amanda, and Whitney.