sally's plugging corner
fucking pay attention because you won't see these things get their due very often
Jim Henson's Storyteller
twenty minutes of fantasic action, fantabulous writing... anthony minghella, who wrote/directed the English Patient wrote these scripts, based on old folk tales. john hurt IS the storyteller - brilliant, engrossing. Unfortunately, only four episodes (!!!) are readily available to purchase, three of which are really good. In fact 'Sapsorrow' is my absolute favorite episode, 'Soldier and Death' a close second and 'Luck Child' a close third. 'A Story Short' sucks. >:P I wish they had put 'Fearnot' on that tape instead. Chances are, you aren't able to see the 5 or 9 other episodes they did, can't remember exactly how many. ah well. sucks to be you.
Cemetery Man
rupert everett zombie movie. muchos atmosphere, v. stylized. fuckin' weird. best part?? rupert everett, of fucking course!!!!! his character is so *bored*! he's not some heroic, cowboy zombie killer, he just works in the damn cemetery. he reads the fucking phone book for entertainment! gnaghi, his igor-like sidekick, is inspired. i love that guy. i love this movie. the violence is soooooooo gratuitous. see it.
Interview With the Vampire
kiss my ass. i love this movie. tom cruise and brad pitt are brilliant. BRILLIANT i tell you, brilliant!! i *completely believe* their characters. their love story is sweet and beautiful and exciting, and then you have kirsten dunst bringing seriousness and respectability... every fucking character in this movie is wonderful. antonio banderas is wonderful. even the wig. especially the accent. ah, antonio banderas... he's a fucking comedic genius, underappreciated shit. oh yeah - the ending! i love it. fuck everyone who doesn't. they've never read the following books.
Wuthering Heights
beautiful movie. really fucked up and delightful in an extremely sadistic way. example - isabella loves heathcliff, the misunderstood object of her family's ridicule. what she doesn't know is that heathcliff passionately loves her sister-in-law, who is an evil bitch. as a bitter, evil joke, heathcliff seduces the innocent isabella and once they're married proceeds to beat her until she stops loving him. isabella becomes a murderous, maniacal witch-woman from hell who laughs at heathcliff when cathy (the sis-in-law) dies. my kind of fuckin' movie (except that last scene's only in the book. whatever.) >:D ...oh yeah. ralph fiennes. shoulda just said that in the beginning and left it there.
Saint Clara
this movie is so fucking sweet. everyone should watch it. it's practically a family movie it's so fucking pleasant. post-apocalyptic drug-addict middle-schoolers learn a little about love whilst dealing with insane teachers and family members. quoth - 'go fuck charlie'
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
arright, maybe not obscure enough to truly warrant a plug. whatever. the illustrations kick ass! pull the books out the closet and just gaze at the pictures. they're all drippy and slimy and dark and shadowy. CREEPY. stylin'. all hail the illustrations.
Raptor Red
haven't you ever wanted to be a velociraptor? like fucking hell you haven't. you saw jurassic park. you Wanted to tear someone apart with ginsu-knife claws, swallow slabs of their flesh whole. well now you can. and this book is funny, too! not just carnal. dood. the frog. he almost gets squashed, freaks out the mouse-thing. *i* thought it was funny. this book is genius. why the fuck wasn't i born in the cretaceous age? i would've made a much better dinosaur.
Moby Dick
shitheads who think this book is serious read the fucking cliff notes. existentialist my ass. it's all about ishmael. ish-baby is The Man. he's a fucking goof-nut. he writes a chapter about how not to draw a whale (practically). one chapter is 'uhm uhm uhm. weather looks bad' or some shit like that. i can't be expected to look it up! and not only is ish-baby (aka herman melville) the world's biggest dork, he's also a sleaze bag. he is All Over queequeg. tell me i'm wrong and face my wrath. grr.
A Dangerous Man / Seven Pillars of Wisdom
lawrence of arabia - complex, bitchy, enigmatic, weird-ass, glorious man. DON'T see the epic 60s movie. really. it sucks. i don't care how many damn critics like it. shitheads. every character who isn't lawrence is fucking one-dimensional. though peter o'toole is *lovely*, wonderful as lawrence. just fucked up enough. but read the book, it's amazing, and watch the ralph fiennes movie, it's great fun.