Movies I'm hoping to see
Jul. 15th, 2004 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeI just got my paycheck, so I'm feeling a bit generous with myself; could have something to do with the fact that "the Frenchman" (i.e., my supervisor, who bears a wierd resemblence to a very young Lambert Wilson) said he'd give me a couple extra nights next week. So... I'm planning to go see "I, Robot" when it comes out tomorrow. I just have to check on Yahoo! Movies for showtimes (Ain't that a great site?), and then plan my bus route around it.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this one: just from the previews I've seen, it looks like a combination of "Minority Report" and "A.I.": The art design looks a LOT like "Minority..." and the robot characters look oddly like the Specialists from the last scenes of "A.I."... and, for that matter, like B1-66-ER, the robot murderer from "The Animatrix: Second Renaissence, Part 1". (::SHIVERS!::)
I'm watching "Without a Trace" on TV with my mom last week, and this ad for "Late Night with David Letterman" came on, and there's this clip of David Letterman talking with Will Smith (who plays the robo-phobic detective in "I, Robot"): David Letterman's rattling on and on, and Will Smith cuts in: "Can I ask you somethin'? ...How come you haven't asked me anything about 'I, Robot'?" I've seen Will Smith in the really funny "Men in Black" movies (the ultimate sci-fi comedies... well, after "Galaxy Quest"), and I know he was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Muhammed Ali in a recent film based on Ali's life story, but seeing him in a serious science fiction movie is going to be interesting to say the least. I'm sure he can pull it off.
I'm ambivalent about "Catwoman" (coming out next week). I used to like Halle Berry, but since she got the Oscar a couple years ago, she seems to have gotten extremely snotty. She refused to repeat the part of Storm in the projected "X-Men 3" because she claimed that she got less lines in "X-Men" and "X-Men 2" put together than in whatever-it-was she got the Academy Award for. But there again... Lambert the French Sex God is playing opposite her in "Catwoman", so *that's* enough to make me think again; plus, Benjamin Bratt, who used to be on "Law & Order" has a part in it.
Hm... Halle was playing opposite a French actor, plus I think the director is French as well... and since the French have elevated snootiness to an artform, maybe between the two of 'em, Lambert and the director took Halle down a few pegs!
I'm really looking forward to seeing this one: just from the previews I've seen, it looks like a combination of "Minority Report" and "A.I.": The art design looks a LOT like "Minority..." and the robot characters look oddly like the Specialists from the last scenes of "A.I."... and, for that matter, like B1-66-ER, the robot murderer from "The Animatrix: Second Renaissence, Part 1". (::SHIVERS!::)
I'm watching "Without a Trace" on TV with my mom last week, and this ad for "Late Night with David Letterman" came on, and there's this clip of David Letterman talking with Will Smith (who plays the robo-phobic detective in "I, Robot"): David Letterman's rattling on and on, and Will Smith cuts in: "Can I ask you somethin'? ...How come you haven't asked me anything about 'I, Robot'?" I've seen Will Smith in the really funny "Men in Black" movies (the ultimate sci-fi comedies... well, after "Galaxy Quest"), and I know he was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Muhammed Ali in a recent film based on Ali's life story, but seeing him in a serious science fiction movie is going to be interesting to say the least. I'm sure he can pull it off.
I'm ambivalent about "Catwoman" (coming out next week). I used to like Halle Berry, but since she got the Oscar a couple years ago, she seems to have gotten extremely snotty. She refused to repeat the part of Storm in the projected "X-Men 3" because she claimed that she got less lines in "X-Men" and "X-Men 2" put together than in whatever-it-was she got the Academy Award for. But there again... Lambert the French Sex God is playing opposite her in "Catwoman", so *that's* enough to make me think again; plus, Benjamin Bratt, who used to be on "Law & Order" has a part in it.
Hm... Halle was playing opposite a French actor, plus I think the director is French as well... and since the French have elevated snootiness to an artform, maybe between the two of 'em, Lambert and the director took Halle down a few pegs!