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I'm a big Aronofsky fan and I hated that movie.The wife keeps pushing for The Whale, but I think I can continue to stave that one off.
I'm a big Aronofsky fan and I hated that movie.The wife keeps pushing for The Whale, but I think I can continue to stave that one off.
Most of Aronofsky's movies have all of the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face.
Saw Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood (1959) this evening. Dick Miller is a loser named Walter Paisley who busses tables at a beatnik bar. He wants to be an artist and get the beatnik girl he's had his eye on to notice him but he has no discernable talent. He finds his muse when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers it in sculptor's clay. The beatniks all find the piece fascinating (if a little ghoulish) and Walter finds himself murdering people (first by accident and eventually on purpose) to create sculptures of people in their death throes in order to impress his new friends and make money. As one might expect, it spirals and eventually Walter is caught and hangs himself.
Fun, workman-like little movie (barely over an hour long) that takes the piss out of the beatniks but could easily be applied to all self-important artistes, art collectors and pretty much everyone in that scene. As with most Corman movies, it was made on an absolute shoestring (it has like 3 sets and the violence largely happens off-screen) but the sculptures are actually pretty good/creeoy looking and the dark comedy moments largely hit. Some of the characters are a little broad but it makes sense within context and Dick Miller plays a good pathetic (if somewhat likeable) loser who just wants to be accepted. He's not much different from Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors but that's not particularly surprising given the movies share a writer, a director, several sets and much of the same cast. Gotta love Corman... would squeeze every last drop of toothpaste out of the tube.
nuh uhUr stupid
I've had a thing for Anne Hathaway since I was in eighth grade when The Princess Diaries came out. She's had a helluva career since then and has aged like fine wine.
She’s one of the most beautiful women in the world.
The Prestige is Nolan's best movie.