Whenever they serve grits with breakfast in our company cafeteria, I always think of this line from My Cousin Vinny. And I can't let this entry go by without linking to my favorite Vinny-Mona Lisa exchange.
On the topic of movies, I watched Run Lola Run the other day. What a cool movie: lots of action, suspense, and a cool techno soundtrack. I won't give away too much, but it's one of those films that shows you how the slightest change in your life can have a drastic effect on how things turn out (a similar concept was used in Sliding Doors, which was a romance, not an action movie). The title character's boyfriend gets mixed up with some gangster-types and she has 20 minutes to fix the situation. The movie takes off from there. The music, as I mentioned, was pretty cool, and it reminded me of a couple tracks on Georgio Moroder's Cat People soundtrack.
Cat People. Another cool movie of a totally different type. Über-creepy Malcolm McDowell, beautiful but totally lost and virginal Nastassja Kinski, an awesome New Orleans setting, and the occasional cheesed-off panther. Oh, and Ed Begley Jr. losing a battle with one of said panthers in a scene inspired by Sam Peckinpah. Neat stuff, but not for the squeamish on a couple levels. I was never a huge David Bowie fan, but this is where the original version of the song "Putting Out Fire" came from. The soundtrack is alternately moody and pulsing (although Amazon didn't include those samples), and "Irena's Theme" is one of my favorite haunting tunes of all time. I believe that this was the first movie I ever saw where I thought the music was so cool that I had to go out the next day and buy the soundtrack album.
It seems the ride ends here. Hope you enjoyed it.
Posted by jtl at May 25, 2004 09:13 AM