troy was fun! i like achilles. he's gay. can someone point me in the direction of screencaps/pictures?

okay, so, though i'm keeping track though my movies (whee!), i feel the urge to list here the movies i've seen over the past 2 days:

superstar: the karen carpenter story (dir.todd haynes, 1987)
amazing. student film made by the guy who went on to do velvet goldmine et al, superstar is a pseudo-documentary of karen carpenter's life done with barbie dolls. banned from being released due to several legal difficulties. a brilliant film.

tears of the black tiger (dir Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000)
this? is a thailand western. fecking brilliant, mate; the pastiche of the ultimate american western but set in the beautiful thailand country side, blended with thailand culture. amazing cinematography, a lot of fun and quite moving too. SEE IT.

the shining (dir. stanley kubrick, 1980)
so THAT'S where all those references in pop culture come from! eheheh. kubrick is kinda cool. he kinda has some themes he likes to bludgeon to death. yeah.

lolita (kubrik, 1962)
once again with the bludgeoning. yep.

troy (wolfgang peterson, 2004)
was FUN. a bit difficult getting into it early on, the filmmaking was not conducive to getting in there and relating to the characters. and i don't think that was deliberate, in this case. some good performances, though la la la i am NOT going to write achilles/patroclus even though THEIR LOVE IS ACTUALLY SO FUCKING CANON.

hulk (ang lee, 2003)
hector SMASH! had heard such bad reviews about this, but it wasn't half bad. granted, not as good as crouching tiger hidden dragon, but it's fucking HARD to be that good. anyway. i loved the cinematography in this, with the comic book medium. awesome.

in other news, saw the trailers for spider-man 2 and prisoner of azkaban eeeii SO EXCITING. omg! omg! i can't wait for either of them. especially spider man. I LOVE SPIDER MAN. I LOVE SAM RAIMI. asbndasDJKLFDCH

also went to borders and had a look at sin city (speaking of directors i love), but was strong and made myself save my borders voucher for when rotk extended comes out. so i read the day i swapped my dad for a goldfish instead. eeeii dave mckean/neil gaiman is my otp.

picked up some other dvds from out spectacularly craptacular video shop: the virgin suicides (wheee! 70s!zeke ahaha), chopper (HECTOR SMASH!), galaxy quest (Never Underestimate Fans), spy kids 2 (my husband omg!), gi jane (gettin jiggy wid viggy).

wheee movies! they're so much easier to watch while i'm knitting. i have difficulty submitting myself to one passive medium. MUST MULTITASK, DAMMIT. ah, internet. how you have ruined me.