MattyC made his pick at 1:49am, Ro picked at 4:50pm...15 hours, 1 minute later.
VANFLAMESFAN's pick was a make-up for an asskicking, so it shouldn't reset the clock.
Aha! I was foolishly mistaken by the 9 something AM timestamp on Van's post. I fail at the interwebs . Either way, still lazy and will find a movie tomorrow.
For the next choice for the B-List Celebs we are proud to select in the category of Drama, Lost in Translation.
This review from IMDB sums this movie up very well. It is not your usual over done dramatic movie, it was done very well. The chemistry between an old Bill Murray and young Scarlett Johansson was so great.
He's doing a commercial, parlaying his fifteen minutes of movie stardom. She's just graduated from college, recently married, and tagged along with her husband, a photographer on assignment. He's married with children, but he's never home. She's supporting her husband, but has no idea what she wants to do with her own life. Both are searching for the meaning of their lives, looking at the situation from different points of view. A person's lifetime is filled with self examination. Why am I here? What am I doing? Is this as good as it gets? The plot of this movie is the plot of life. You have a beginning. You're in the middle, and your story hasn't ended yet (in some cases, it won't end even after your death). Bob and Charlotte find each other fulfilling certain needs. Charlotte needs Bob's attention and humor, and Bob needs someone he can talk to (Bob "talks" with his wife, but they are not really talking). Bob helps Charlotte by answering her questions regarding life and direction, while Charlotte helps Bob by reminding him how much he loves his children and his wife. The love between the two characters is not one of lust but rather one of emotional and psychological need. Plotless, pointless, and boring? Only if you want all your stories packaged nicely with pretty paper and pretty ribbons. To me, the movie is like the shabu shabu sushi restaurant. What you get out of it depends on how much you put into it. The meaning of our lives, the purpose, the dreams (both dashed and realized), and the expectations forced upon us by others. "Translation" means to explain in simple terms. How do you "translate" what life is? What is it supposed to be about? Different answers for different people at different times in their lives. "Lost In Translation" indeed and it has nothing to do with pronouncing hard R's.
Phenominal movie Superflyer. Absolutely phenominal.
Agreed!
I LOVE Lost In Translation but had no room left for it on my team after taking The Life Aquatic and Adaptation as my wildcards. It was tough trying to pick just two of those (I had a few others I was considering also).
But yeah, what a beautiful movie. Bill Murray is simply amazing in it. Great pick, glad to see it was chosen!
loved Bill Murray's performance, the movie was a bit slow for me, tho.
How he didn't walk away with the Oscar, I'll never know. He may have been playing himself in that movie, but Sofia Coppola wrote that screenplay specifically for him. If Bill Murray wasn't in the movie, there was no movie.
as per imdb.com:
- Sofia Coppola wrote the lead role specifically for Bill Murray, and later said that if Murray turned it down, she wouldn't have done the movie.
- In 1999, Bill Murray replaced his talent agency with an automated voice mailbox that can be reached with an 800 number he gives out sparingly. Sofia Coppola reportedly left hundreds of messages on Murray's mailbox before he finally called back to discuss her offer to cast him as the star.
- Sofia Coppola wasn't sure if Bill Murray was actually going to show up for the film, going by only, according to Coppola, a verbal confirmation. It was on the first day of filming, that Murray showed up.
Absolutely amazing setting, story, and characters. Sure, a little on the slow side, and really didn't resolve anything in the end, but a great escape from my little world, into something that could be slightly relatable.
EDIT: Sean Penn won in 2004 for Mystic River, a movie I have not seen. Also nominated, Jude Law for Cold Mountain, Ben Kingsley for House Of Sand and Fog, and Johnny Depp for Pirates: Curse of the Black Pearl.
Phenominal movie Superflyer. Absolutely phenominal.
I remember watching this movie for the first time and at the end just going wow......
It was not one of those movies that just blow you away but it is one that at the end you just sit there and go "Wow that was a good movie"
Hey guys,
Am driving back from out of town this aft so feel free to skip me in the pursuit of keeping the picks going, I can always make my selection later on when home (and the game is over of course....LOL!).
Cheers,
JG
Hey guys,
Am driving back from out of town this aft so feel free to skip me in the pursuit of keeping the picks going, I can always make my selection later on when home (and the game is over of course....LOL!).
Cheers,
JG
Thanks for letting us know! In that case, Itse, Doozwimp, and HalifaxDrunk are up.
And yeah, Lost in Translation was very good. I'm not yet sold on Sophia Coppela as a writer and director, but this was wonderful storytelling.
Let me join the chorus of affection for LiT. It's one of my favorite movies too. If I hadn't been following the strategy that I am, I would have chosen this a long, long time ago.
It's funny how so many people just don't care for this movie though. To address this, I find the quote from Roger Ebert's review to be a better response than anything I could think of---
"a film is not about what it's about, it's about how it's about it."
I've not seen Lost in Translation. I own it, but haven't watched it. Everytime I put it in to watch, I am just not in the mood and I lose interest immediately. Not sure why I haven't managed to stick with watching it. Odd.
A bit later than planned, but That's What She Said would like to select with our 2nd Wildcard slot the John Cusack comedy, Grosse Pointe Blank.
What can I say about this movie? It speaks to people on so many levels:
- superficially, it's just a great comedy with good writing, an excellent cast and a fab soundtrack
- then there's the deeper level that speaks of not being able to go home again/turn back time to the innocence of our youth that is worn away as we get older
- plus there's the added question of good vs evil and whether what you do defines who you are or is it just something you do with no implication to character
I can't really say alot more about GPB aside from it's one of my fave Cusack movies (and actually involves most of the acting Cusack clan) and has been since it was released back in 1997.
Cusack plays Martin Blank - a professional hitman - who has a job to do in Detroit at the same time as his 10yr high school reunion is taking place. He goes home but realizes things have changed and so has he.
The Trailer
Martin sees his shrink....
Martin & Grocer have breakfast
Getting ready for the reunion
Some fun quotes from IMDB: Marcella: You know, when you started getting invited to your ten year high school reunion, time is catching up. Martin Q. Blank: Are you talking about a sense of my own mortality or a fear of death? Marcella: Well, I never really thought about it quite like that. Martin Q. Blank: Did you go to yours? Marcella: Yes, I did. It was just as if everyone had swelled.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Debi: Everybody's coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say? Leave your livestock alone.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Marty: I'm a professional killer. Paul: Do you have to do postgraduate work for that?
. Either way, still lazy and will find a movie tomorrow.
