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Some movies I'd like to see in theaters:
* 300 - subject matter is uninteresting to me (ancient Sparta fighting ancient Persia, *yawn*) but the cinematography looks amazing.  Well, it's inspired by Frank Miller (Sin City)'s comic book, so what do you expect?  Has that indescribable, half portrait-half digital look that you have to see to believe.  Plus it seems to take liberties with surrealism, which is always refreshing.  Besides, damn, I want a movie production of Ilium to look like this movie.  I don't think this would be as good on video. 
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - well duh, I mean I have to see it.  Not that it looks particularly good or anything, but I remember really liking this book.
* Haven - I'm taking a gamble on this one.  It's the ol' interconnected people becoming connected by violence thing that's very in for those well-respected edgy movie directors nowadays.  This one's set in the West Indies (paradise), and the overall tone looks a little different just because of that. 

Some movies I would be content renting:
* Breach - about the FBI and spies and stuff.  Maybe I'm a virgin when it comes to FBI movies, but this one, with a Phillip Glass soundtrack, looks pretty good, or serious, or something.  I'd only see it because of all the FBI stuff in my Musings of a Young World series.  If you watch the trailer you'll see that Ryan Phillipe looks like he'd make a good Rod (a young, blonde, almost-too-cherubic Rod), Chris Cooper looks like a great Monty Shields, and Laura Linney actually gives Jodie Foster a run for her money when it comes to the part of Chadbourne.  Well, it's a good trailer, what can I say.
* The Last Mimzy - weird mix of like... Shyamalan and Disney.  Something about kids with psychic telekinetic powers?  I don't know.  But the little girl looks like such a Lily, and you know, depending on the reviews, maybe. 
* Edmond - suburban guy goes into the "dark streets of the city" and goes psychotic, apparently.  It looks slightly bad but possibly worth a watch, and I mean possibly.  But the soundtrack sounded damn good, and if it plays like the soundtrack, then yes.

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

Y'know what's funny? Of those movies (or rather, their trailers), Edmond actually looked the most interesting to me. Ah, well. 300 does look pretty, though.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just want to see 300 because of the cinematography, b/c that kind of material = gag. Edmond really could go either way, but William H. Macy is a really good actor. He played the whiz kid in Magnolia, right?

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

Yeah (whiz kid), I love him. And Haven and Breach looked second-most interesting...maybe, it's really hard to tell from trailers. At first I thought 300 looked kind of shitty, but then there were masks and weird people and that girl with the side of her face messed up...