week winding down; coffee; lunch; more DVDs; dominoes

[fflo]

Had coffee with elmur_fudd yesterday---good hangin'. Just came back from lunch with coworker. had a beer! oooh!

This weekend to look forward to: more library DVDs, cleaning, maybe Discount Tire, dominoes. Anything else? I forget.

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Yeah, I did---t'other night. Good! Did you like it? It wasn't as dated as I thought it would be---guess it held up better as styl-y noir without being too reflective of what seemed cool in 1990. (Blows my mind that 1990-anything stuff can be far-ish in the past, but there ya go.)

I'm a fan of Angelica, and I don't find John Cusack annoying, as some do. He's picked movies to be in that I often end up liking, too. I had no idea Annette Bening was ever in the movies as such a young tart type, though! That was a revelation. I don't think she got on my radar at all until American Beauty. {looking her up now....}

Well, I'd forgotten about The American President---that was pretty good, and she in it. But not really a tart there. I can't remember her in Postcards from the Edge.

What did you think of The Grifters? Have you read the book? I've not.

[groovesinorbit]

I liked The Grifters a lot up till the ending. It just didn't make any sense. But then R&I got the book out of the library. Same ending, but there's a pivotal point in the book that makes it make sense. Other than that one thing (that I can't remember right now to save me), the movie was very faithful. The book's not bad--a light crime read, very short.

I thought everything else about the movie was good, though. Created the mood quite well. I was still in the midst of my Cusack obsession, and Anjelica's always wonderful. Yeah, Annette Benning. Young tart describes her pretty well. It was interesting to see her in American Beauty having known her in The Grifters.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hunh---what was it about the ending? [SPOILER WARNING, anybody reading...] I shall have to get ahold of the book next. I'm thinking you're meaning either something about the mother-son relationship or something about the death.

[groovesinorbit]

It was the death. R reminded me when I mentioned our conversation to him. In the movie it came across as an accident with no real point--out of left field, so to speak. In the book, though, there's a reason.

Like your new icon.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

After the one viewing of the movie, the death looked to me as if it was supposed to be an accident caused by the glass breaking when she tries to push him away to take the money, after the come-on--cum--"i'm not your mother" didn't work. No "purpose" but karmic come-uppance, and the literary purpose of her losing her soul.

[groovesinorbit]

Yeah, I see what you mean, but it didn't work for me on that level. It just seemed sloppy. I'm curious what you'll think of the book in comparison.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Off to the library website now!

Here's to Charlotte's nipple removal, btw: may it do the trick, whatever the necessary trick turns out to be.

[groovesinorbit]

Good luck. Hey, get White Heat while you're browsing, if you haven't seen it. You'll be glad you did.

Thanks. The trick is to keep her as happy and healthy as we can without being too invasive about it. So far, she's doing all right. Very happy today, had tuna treats for lunch and now napping in a sun puddle.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I had to interlibrary loan that novel! Too gritty for A squared? lol

That is indeed the challenge with an older/failing pet. I'm a little freaked out about being Chet's sole parent as he ages. Somehow it seems as if it'll be even harder---possibly considerably so---on my own.

[groovesinorbit]

Yeah, it's gonna be tough for you when Chet's time comes. You two have had each other for so long. I think it helps to have another critter. Not as a replacement (they're all different), but just so you still have the companionship. It's helped me when we've had kitties go, to have others to snuggle with.

p.s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

White Heat's only at the 'brar' on video, unfortunately. Is it campy? Looks that way from the description. Campy noir?

Re: p.s.

[groovesinorbit]

Not by a long shot. Heavy duty 40s gangster noir. Sharply written, well acted, sucked me in and didn't let go till the climax. Cagney was a great surprise. One of the best movies I've seen in ages. Made The Matrix (the most recent film we'd seen otherwise) seem even more puny.