two days until the release of the first kim richards movie in seventeen years. naturally, i'm excited, and unless you hate america, you should be too.

make sure and see it again and again and again. and did you pick up your copy of the 2-dvd "devil dog: the hound of hell" like i told you? buy some for your friends as well. KR needs your financial help. her LA ranch home is only 6000 square feet, modest by beverly hills standards, and her daughters are reduced to having to wreck paris hilton's BMWs because they evidently can't afford fancy cars of their own.

won't you please help?

www.moanmovie.com

actually, if we assume the first screening will be around 11 am friday EST, we're at t minus 49 hours. synchronize your watches.

Kim Richards in a theatrical release movie with big stars.  It's been long overdue, but when will she get a starring role again? 

signs are unclear, check again later.1

apparently she does a good job in it so maybe she'll get offered more roles. particularly if you picket the theater!

I am a big Sam Jackson fan, so I might just go out and see it.

it's supposed to have lots of good music in it. and christina ricci is pretty much 90% naked for the whole thing.

as for more roles for kim richards, it's a sad fact that once women hit their 40s it gets raelly hard for them to get roles. sad but true.

my math comes up with T minus 39 hours. all systems go.

Not sure what to think of this film...kinda thought that after Snakes on a Plane, Sam L would stay away from any movie with "Snake" in the title. ::)

Just what is the reason that Christina Ricci is running around in her underwear anyway (no complaining mind you) just trying to figure out what this film is really about...

Only thing I've been able to tell is that the soundtrack is killer, solid blues and old deep south r&B...

the idea is apparently that christina ricci's character is a kinda white trash nymphomaniac because her mom (who kim richards plays, as kinda an evil villain, which i think is gonna be supercool! evil kim, yeah...) is all negligent and her dad or somebody used to molest her. and so she goes to a party, gets all wasted and bangs everybody in sight, ends up getting taken advantage of and beaten up, and sam jackson's character, who has this whole sordid past that i think involved him killing an ex-wife or something, decides to basically capture christina ricci but so he can try to save her soul by playing her music to give her spirit something to connect to other than self-abuse.

it's gotten mixed reviews but i'm optimistic -- i think the director made the movie deliberately kinda off-the-hook weird because he wants to turn off people who wouldn't get it anyway. movies are often best when they're weird, and kim richards herself has been in some really weird, campy, culty stuff, so it fits pretty good.

T minus 38 hours and 31 minutes.

Not sure what to think of this film...kinda thought that after Snakes on a Plane, Sam L would stay away from any movie with "Snake" in the title. ::)

And what, pray tell, is wrong with "Snakes On A Plane"? You have violence, a plot, and Samuel L. Jackson kicking all kinds of ass. What more do you need?

Oh yeah, I want to see this movie. And you know there is going to be all kinds of hell breaking loose because a Black man has a White woman in chains. :P

yeah, a part of it is playing with the whole black-man/white-woman thing. the "black snake moan" thing kinda is obviously about that, but it's also in blues lore like having a spell of total despair. i was reading up on the whole backstory, it DOES sound hella interesting.

Too bad it's in such a crappy looking film.

T minus 37 hours 37 minutes. (!) i forgot.

Too bad it's in such a crappy looking film.
better than that damn portrait of dorian gray movie she was in! only kim richards flick even *I* can't sit through.

T minus, erm, 37 hours 21 minutes. no major problems or delays to report.

26 hours, 36 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

35!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure what to think of this film...kinda thought that after Snakes on a Plane, Sam L would stay away from any movie with "Snake" in the title. ::)

Just what is the reason that Christina Ricci is running around in her underwear anyway (no complaining mind you) just trying to figure out what this film is really about...

Only thing I've been able to tell is that the soundtrack is killer, solid blues and old deep south r&B...


I kind of liked Snakes On A Plane.

I kind of liked Snakes On A Plane.


That movie was frickin' great.

i liked snakes on a plane.

so....


18 hours and 57 minutes. i think.

oo! oo! oo! oo!

15 hours and counting.

steady as she goes.

15 hours and counting.

steady as she goes.


If you weren't clearly retarded, you'd almost be adorkable.

If you weren't clearly retarded, you'd almost be adorkable.
you're just angry because you only love death, misery, and nazis.

you're just angry because you only love death, misery, and nazis.


Isn't black snake moan about Nazi death squads brutally bludgeoning miserable poles with snakes?

what are they going to call the porn version of that movie, i wonder? it's sorta just... there already.

i assumed it was a working title and they'd change it. but, hmm. whatever.

14 hours and 15 minutes.

12 hours and 26 minutes.

what are they going to call the porn version of that movie, i wonder? it's sorta just... there already.

i assumed it was a working title and they'd change it. but, hmm. whatever.

14 hours and 15 minutes.


Black Snake Grown?

Black Snake Grown?
that's pretty good!

oops. forgot.

10 hours 41 minutes.

dag, not long at all!

ONE HOUR AND FORTY-EIGHT MINUTES.

ONE HOUR AND FORTY-EIGHT MINUTES.


ONE HOUR AND FORTY FIVE MINUTES!!!

ONE HOUR AND FORTY FIVE MINUTES!!!
that's the spirit.

AN HOUR AND A HALF!

that's the spirit.

AN HOUR AND A HALF!


28 minutes... I think.

28 minutes... I think.


...until he has to change his pants?

:D

...until he has to change his pants?

:D


I believe the countdown was over about 45 minutes ago.. so.. ya know.. he obviously had to change in a hurry.

I believe the countdown was over about 45 minutes ago.. so.. ya know.. he obviously had to change in a hurry.
actually i had to work.

You did see the movie, right?

You did see the movie, right?
no, not till tonight.

no, not till tonight.


Oh.  For some reason I thought you were counting down to when you'd actually be at the theater to watch it.

Oh.  For some reason I thought you were counting down to when you'd actually be at the theater to watch it.


Same here.

I'm pretty dissapointed.

can't fight The Man. i mentioned maybe getting a couple hours off this afternoon but no go, it's a big push today and all weekend. ain't it always the way?

reviews in the washington post were good though. cept anna horaday whatever her name is started giving away the ending, i stopped reading just in time. wtf.

can't fight The Man. i mentioned maybe getting a couple hours off this afternoon but no go, it's a big push today and all weekend. ain't it always the way?

reviews in the washington post were good though. cept anna horaday whatever her name is started giving away the ending, i stopped reading just in time. wtf.


She should be fired for such a transgression!  The nerve!

can't fight The Man. i mentioned maybe getting a couple hours off this afternoon but no go, it's a big push today and all weekend. ain't it always the way?

reviews in the washington post were good though. cept anna horaday whatever her name is started giving away the ending, i stopped reading just in time. wtf.


Big push eh. PPPpphhh, who you bustin on now Nark?

She should be fired for such a transgression!  The nerve!
it was a good review, though (i mean, well-written), they should just put a warning on the top if she's gonna talk about the ending.

i think i'll catch the 10:30 tonight. get a nice buzz on and take the metro to ballston. a local who also digs KR is gonna maybe come see it with me again on sunday eve. (amber! you rock!) but it's messed up i gotta work through the first weekend i've had to work through in months and of course it's BSM weekend.

Big push eh. PPPpphhh, who you bustin on now Nark?
i'm not at liberty to discuss that.

i'm not at liberty to discuss that.


I'm glad I invested in those power flush toilets.

all right, i'm kickin' back a couple millers and then in about a half hour i'm stepping out to check out some enormous big-screen tia. i hope i live.

it.

was.

so.........


WONDERFUL.

(i_idiotically_tried_to_break_the_rules_by_using_profanity)' multiplex i saw it in, and people clapped at the end. when do people do that? it's so messy and weird and passionate and smart and bizarre and awesome. and i swear i'd be saying that even if they cut all kim richards' scenes out of it. i'd be pissed but i'd still like it. she gets a really small part, like 2 minutes tops, but it's all pivotal, and... krak, totally out of the park. she's the sheesh. period.

samuel jackson is great as always, although his fake-me-out guitar playing could use some work. it's close, but you could tell he wasn't actually playing. whatever though, i'm obviously a hardcore guitar schlubb, if it weren't for guitar i'd wither up and die. it LOOKS like he's playing but it's not close enough to convince a player. which is hard as hell to do.

thing that stunned me? christina ricci was... absolutely stellar. i was shocked. everybody's all... oh, she runs around in her underwear! it's so hot! and she does, for about the first half hour and it's totally... not hot. it's really sad, she's this poor pathetic kid who's so messed up she can't even keep her pants on and the movie totally plays it that way, right? she's very big-eyed and sad and totally absorbs the camera, i was stunned at how good she was, because to be honest with you, i never thought she was that talented.

and another really bright spot, there's this kid who plays... christina ricci's boyfriend goes off to iraq and this kid plays his best friend, who makes a play for christina ricci after he ships out, and he makes a play for her and when she cuts on his size he beats her up... totally evil, and whoever this dude is, awesome actor. definite bright spot. "how do you think i know where everything in her house is?" that's his big line, when you see it, you'll know what i mean.

okay.

bad stuff.

justin timberlake... he's real pretty, and you can tell he wants to be an actor, and he's probably better than I'd be in the role, but... he's not an actor. he tries and he almost makes it, but... no dice. he looks weird and uncomfortable and it's just not there. and there's this preacher dude who's AWFUL and he gets lots of screen time, and you get a sense he's the uncle of somebody in the casting department or something, he's also somebody who just should be doing something other than being in movies, yeah?

and there are parts that are just embarrassingly weird and bad, particularly in the beginning when they're spelling out the premise of the movie, which is, as you know, absurd, right? like, i'm getting upset cuz the audience is laughing at the wrong parts and i'm all, no! no! give it a chance! but i think the director did this on purpose, he's trying to alienate the people who wouldn't get it anyway, and setting up the people who can, teaching them the language that they're gonna eventually have to know to get the message of the movie, which is that people are effed up in ways that there isn't any ordinary way to describe. like, all the characters in the movie, the main characters, are good people dragging so much crap around with them that they're basically all caught up in unhealthy cycles -- christina with her acting out her childhood sexual abuse, justin timberlake's character gets the sweats whenever he runs into anything stressful, and sam jackson's character went through this hardcore marital dilemma way back and he carries all this hurt around with him... and that's what the movie's about, is these three characters converging and trying to play their various pathologies off one another to find a way to help themselves and help one another, so to really do that justice you have to show them acting like basket cases (like, um, so many of us on this board do... yours truly included...) so... you have to set people up for some bad wackiness basically, to spell that stuff out. and people who just wanna be cool all the time, they're not gonna get it.

oh man. it was so so good.

Glad to hear you had a good time and that you enjoyed it.  I had a feeling you would.

I've been looking forward to this one.

cant wait. nothin like some good old blues music and girls in chains.

cant wait. nothin like some good old blues music and girls in chains.
weird thing is, i've been saying this for years. so naturally i'm astonished at the coincidence.

looks like i might not be seeing it again till tuesday. i gotta go to work AGAIN and then there's some talk of going to a roller derby in pennsylvania. :o

i can't believe people clapped at the end. they were laughing at it all the way through and then at the end, they clapped. i think that pretty much summed this flick up. sloppy as hell and loaded with passion. just the way i like em!

weird.  i like when people clap. it reminds me why i went to a theater instead of sitting in front of the tv.


chains and cut off t-shirt. who doesn't look good i n that?

when the passenger was rereleased in theaters last year i tried to start a round of applause at the end of it but no one joined me and i felt stupid. :(

i was SO stoked when people clapped. laugh at a movie all the way through and then applaud for it at the end... that's just so beautiful, man. really. i love it when audiences don't suck.

when the passenger was rereleased in theaters last year i tried to start a round of applause at the end of it but no one joined me and i felt stupid. :(

i was SO stoked when people clapped. laugh at a movie all the way through and then applaud for it at the end... that's just so beautiful, man. really. i love it when audiences don't suck.


When they re-released star wars I convinced several people to boo and cheer and appropriate moments.

When I saw 'Hannibal' in the theatres, after it was over, the audience was clapping.  I still wonder if they clapped because it was a masterpiece, or because it was finally over.  lol

What's the point of clapping after a movie is finished?  It's not like the actors can jump out of the screen, and take bows, well unless maybe you're watching 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' or 'Last Action Hero' :D

'Last Action Hero'


That really happened.

That really happened.


Then gimme that golden ticket, so I can jump into that lesbian kiss scene in that new Heather Graham movie :D

so crappy snowy cold-ass night here but i couldn't sit in the house any more so i went off to see it again... theater was totally empty! they played it just for me. there was hardly anybody in ANY of the theaters, actually. cuz the roads are so slippery.

anyway... even better the second time. i even warmed to justin timberlake a bit (although i DID just typo "justin timberlack."  ;D i just think there woulda been better people to put in that role.)

it's so good (this time i typoed "it's so god"), i'm hoping it goes to the cinema 'n' drafthouse so we can go in a big group and drink lots of beer. i'm thinking ... cult phenomenon.