Slog - Comments on This Weekend at the Movies http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5 First, the movie news: Worst idea ever: The Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, about the secret police in 1980s East Germany, is going to be remade as an English-language film by the Weinstein bros. Someone finally punched NP Thompson where it hurts: Interviews by the former Seattle freelancer and professional basketcase have been pulled from the Greencine website. David Denby still hates Babel: For all the same reasons, but with shiny new literary references. SIFF Cinema at Nesholm Family Lecture Hall in the Cell Therapeutics something Auditorium at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall (WHEW!) had its soft opening last night with... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:45:01 -0800 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:16:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Disagree. I saw The Lives of Others at a preview mostly attended by many German people, and it highly deserved the buzz - a very good film. The fact that my brother was a student in Hamburg during the time of the movie made it all the more interesting - he was there when the wall fell.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653605 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653605 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:20:56 -0800 Comment by elswinger "Zodiac (like being locked in the file cabinet of a conspiracy junkie)."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I'm going to see Zodiac tonight and I hope it's not as bad as your description. i used to wonder if The Stranger waited for everyone else to review a movie and if, as a whole, the reviews were positive, The Stranger took a contrary opinion. Unless a film is an obvious piece of crap like Wild Hogs, I tend to believe a movie is as bad as The Stranger suggests.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653629 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:37:49 -0800 Comment by annie Dear people, do you ever bother to read the reviews I link to?

Will, you should know I loved The Lives of Others. But taking cutting it out of its political and historical context and needlessly remaking it? HORRIBLE. IDEA.

Elswinger, I'm quoting from the review, which you can click on right there. Andrew Wright praises the film. Please read the review before you wantonly misinterpret the teaser.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653640 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653640 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:45:58 -0800 Comment by elswinger Annie, I read the review earlier today, but for some reason forgot you didn't write it, that Andrew did. By your comment it doesn't sound like you liked it as much as Andrew did (I could be wrong) and so it was my knee jerk reaction to assume the Stranger panned it. It would be a great feature to the web page to be able to go back and read Stranger reviews of movies of the past.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653656 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:54:57 -0800 Comment by annie I haven't seen Zodiac yet; I was quoting directly from Andrew's review, and I think that line is neither positive nor negative--whether that sounds good depends on your perspective.

You can already search for film titles, which will bring up reviews, but we would like to have some kind of index in the future. Thanks for the suggestion.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653664 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653664 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:00:04 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew The more the critics condemn Black Snake Moan as sleazy and trashy, the more I'm tempted to see it.

I mean, c'mon, am I the only person who enjoyed Poor White Trash 2?

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c653671 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:11:41 -0800 Comment by karmic cleanser Your inclusion of the NPT/GreenCine drama makes me happy in all the unmentionable places. Here's to hoping his writing career eventually devolves into doing the one-word keyword summaries on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

]]> karmic cleanser http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c654038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/this_weekend_at_the_movies_5#c654038 Arts Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:16:13 -0800