The Hot Blog

Selfish request from the peanut gallery: For selfish reasons, Dave, please include your thoughts about the new Springsteen track (if they've put it on the end of the film yet) if/when you're able to remark upon the movie.

This might be my favorite Hot Blog post ever.

Yeah it includes like Mickey Rourke kissing a 22 year-old, that's like astounding!

Hope you like it. As far as I'm concerned, Aronofsky hasn't missed yet. I know some were disappointed in The Fountain, but I think it resonates if you've lost someone close to you.

That's too much to throw on this very little movie.

Hype and expectations screw a lot of wonderful and small gems.

Watched Angel Heart for the 20th time last week. Mickey was so good in that. Why did he butcher his face? He's unrecognizable, man.

'angel heart' is one of my all-time faves, aris p. hard boiled eggs are never quite the same after watching it. i share your pain re: mickey's face.

Yeah, I haven't seen the film, but I have read the script and it's teensy tiny. It's very intimate, not a huge picture, not a major story. I'm afraid that audience is going to hold the smallness - the very thing I liked about the script - against the film.

If the moviegoing public could embrace the myriad of shit they embrace yearly. They can embrace a movie about a wrestler. Or not. They might want to see the Changeling again. The cocksuckers.

Another extremely underrated Mickey gem is Johnny Handsome by Walter Hill. I haven't seen it in years but remember really taking to it when I saw it in university.

Features Morgan Freeman before he really took off and a sexy Ellen Barkin performance if I recall.

Is this thing even on DVD?

IOI, what's the matter with Changeling, a movie neither you nor 99% of the rest of the population have seen?

This is really getting scary, Leahnz!
I can't believe that you love "Angel Heart," too. That's always been one of my favorite Alan Parkers--right alongside "Birdy" and "Shoot the Moon." I didn't think anyone even remembered it these days since it's rarely if ever mentioned.
Very much looking forward to "The Wrestler" tomorrow despite (pardon the pun) never having really gone to the mat for any Aronofsky film so far.

Jeff: I am going after that freakin movie. I am still mad about Million Dollar Baby sir, and I WANT BLOOD!

I think MDB is a pretty good movie, but I won't bother trying to change your mind.

I was as lost in the first and third portions of The Fountain as everyone else, but the present day stuff was incredibly powerful. That portion at least makes it one of those great movies (Away From Her, Million Dollar Baby) that I will never, ever want to watch again.

Jeff: we have had this discussion. It's a horrible triffle of a film, that's based around stereotypes of lower-income people. It's ridiculous. It easily ranks right up there with Crash as one of the biggest Best Picture blunders of all time.

movieman, i worship parker, he's genius! i don't know what happened on 'the life of david gale' - i can't say i liked that movie much - but parker's body of work is amazing, i hope he gets back to his brilliant self. (and if there's a grimier, better-conceived, more visually stunning and atmospheric who-done-it murder mystery than 'angel heart' out there, i'd like to see it! i think parker may have written it as well)

IO: Shut your mouth and know your role, Jabroni. Stereotypes of lower-economic people? You mean white trash? Well, hell, yeah. I've known people in real life who make the family in Million Dollar Baby look like country club Republicans. Damn, but I hope you never meet some of the next-door neighbors I had back while I was growing up in New Orleans. Admit it: You know not what you're talking about. So just head back to the corner of Don'tKnowShit Drive and GilmorerGirl Avenue, or I'll have to lay the smackdown on you, if you can smell what...

Oh, sorry. I was thinking about wrestlers, and got carried away.

forgot to add re: movies i don't want to watch again, aronofsky's 'requiem for a dream' falls into that category for me, i found it very disturbing first time out and have no desire to do it again

My great movie I will never see again is the other Swank oscar win Boys Don't Cry. Great performances all around but just a brutal film to sit through. Lars Von Teir is the best filmaker whose films I will only see once.

And M$B is brillant, gets even better by repeat veiwing, Clint's best second only to Unforgiven. For some reason I alway forget about Mo cuishle or whatever the name is, so each time I watch it and he brings the robe out the emotional arc of the movie hits me all at once and floors me. Haven't seen crash but M$B is the most deserving best picture of the decade save for No Country.

Joe; unlike you I AM A SOUTHERNER. No; Louisiana does not count. You are cajuns. There is a a difference. So you are just a sorry ass jabberjawin Texas Cajun. So why don't you take Louisiana and Texas and everyone in it, turn it sideways, and stick it up your wrinkled ass. No hit the bricks monkey. The adults have some discussions to have.

Million Dollar Baby is a joke. If you like it. Go fetch your DOOM ticket.

Rolling over here at "Go fetch your DOOM ticket." I'm not even sure I know what that means, but HILARIOUS stuff.

I'd ask, but I think I'll just assume that DOOM ticket is a common term among the millions of folks who spend all their waking hours online. Y'know, like SHIPS. I don't know what it actually means, but I'll bet it's the cat's pajamas, maybe even the bee's knees (if not in fact all that and a bag of chips).

I deal with people on a daily basis like the family in M$B. It's frightening.

If there's one upside of Rourke's massacre of his face it's that he certainly looks like a wrestler.

As a lifelong southerner, I thought that Eastwood depicted the rednecks M$B with great verisimilitude.

Make that "in M$B"

The South has nothing to do with it, there are people like her family in upstate New York, Illinois, Ohio, Nebraska, and Montana. The family in M$B are simply self-centered poor people who happen to be southerners.

More importantly, they're people who Paul Haggis hates.

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