Ever since having a baby, we've noticed how kids in movies never seem to cry much except for when required to for dramatic effect. This great movie was no exception.
OK...I'm back on the project after a break of a few weeks to watch some movies. Saw this new James Bond a few weeks back. I didn't come away with much, but it was pretty fun to watch. Got sketches for a bunch of new stuff, including Grindhouse + Children of Men. Just saw Volver tonight which was great...just got to figure out what to do.
Took me a little while to get to this one, a movie documenting The Pixies 2004 reunion tour. The whole thing has this pervasive sadness...sad on the bus, quiet before shows, the drummer drinking after his dad dies. The music numbers just aren't fun when they come on. I'm a big fan of The Pixies and saw them on this tour, at what I think was the last show, and it was pretty fun, though we were way in the back up in the 3rd balcony, which isn't really the best way to see a band. Regardless, I felt a lot more joy on the stage than you see throughout this whole film...seems like they edited it to be a more dramatic "film" than a concert movie, at it sucks the life out of it.
So here's Purple Rain featuring Prince on his modified '83 Honda Silverwing. Apollonia has jumped in the "wrong river" as usual, but so have Wendy, Lisa, Jerome, Morris, and that fat club owner. Sorry Milton, no room for the member of Prince's band inexplicably dressed as a surgeon while the rest rock the New Romantic look. Not so far off from the little sketch from a few days back. Thanks Stef for the idea of throwing in the boys along with the girls.
Horror night took a turn for the worse on Sunday with Tim's selection of "Roadhouse". This mostly tame fighting movie has a pretty ghastly finale, in which Swayze rips out a guys throat (which I've tried to capture here.)
