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Subject: Melinda and Melinda and a few others

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Jimmy

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Date Posted: 17:29:13 10/18/07 Thu
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I think this is my new favorite Allen. He's able to draw on everything he's ever done and without repackaging it Kaufmanesque deliver something to our generation.

I wanna drill Radha Mitchell.

Wouldn't it have been cool if he got Andre to play opposite Wallace Shawn?

I have to admit the tragedy scenes don't play as well for me but that's only because I'm in a good mood; though, even when I'm in the shitter I still prefer a comedy to a tragedy. I see life the same way as Shawn's character does and could never indulge my sensibilities towards something so nihilistic--though if I did I'd still be making macabre cracks.

Allen is a bad little mother fucker. How depressed do you think he gets? Whew, I wouldn't want to go there. And a certain part of me is jealous of that. The depressed Melinda is living a life that hangs onto the fate of every new day. Sure, she's gonna get dragged around but she's also going to have those moments where fanatical joy will sweep her away.

The one with Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johnansen...SUCKED!!!

Here's some other flicks I'd seen before but recently watched again:

In Her Shoes-Hanson is a god! I hate chick flicks because they're usually crap but when there's a good one I'm hooked. And it's not like there's really even anything to look at in this. Diaz is ugly but she's a decent actress. I want to hate Toni Collette but that could be her appeal. She is always solid. MacLaine steals this fucker. It helps if you have a soft spot for old people.

The Black Dahlia-If I hadn't watched this back-to-back with the superior "Hollywoodland" I would have liked it more. I still think both Hartnett and Eckhart were miserably miscast but this is an amazing story that, like L.A. Confidential, captures a certain place and time; though unlike L.A. Confidential and like Hollwyoodland it focuses on the underbelly and never seeks to glamorize it even to serve as a cover. Nope, STRAIGHT into the underbelly. And I revel in it because watching Hartnett cry over the Dahlia making out with another chick or Eckhart storming out of the room in anger reminds one that this country used to have values that angered its sexually repressed men. Back then they'd kill the producers...today they put them in jail for tax evasion.

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Subject	Author	Date
In Her Shoes	Kylopod	20:55:26 10/18/07 Thu
Re: In Her Shoes -- Jimmy, 04:14:09 10/19/07 Fri Re: In Her Shoes -- Kylopod, 05:10:07 10/19/07 Fri Re: In Her Shoes -- Jimmy, 06:13:56 10/19/07 Fri Re: In Her Shoes -- Jimmy, 06:14:47 10/19/07 Fri