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Great Movies You Won't Watch More Than Once
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While zoning out during the baseball game last night, a random thought popped into my head: "Ya know, I don't think I'd ever watch Atonement again." Don't ask me where these stupid random thoughts come from, or why I was thinking about Atonement when it wasn't on TV or anything, but the thought came from somewhere and so I began to pursue it a little. The end result came in the form of a question I posed on Twitter: Name some great movies that for some reason or another you wouldn't watch more than once.
I thought Atonement was a good film; I really enjoyed it. But I have no need to watch it again ... just because. A whole bunch of people responded to my Twitter question (thanks everyone!), and a pretty big majority of them went with Requiem for a Dream, which I completely understand. (I love you Jennifer Connelly, but you're a freaky mess in this flick.) Some other films mentioned include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Irreversible, Dear Zachary, United 93, Citizen Kane, Leaving Las Vegas, Beauty and the Beast, Battleship Potemkin, Monster, Se7en, High Fidelity and The Machinist.
Now it's your turn: Give us a great film you won't watch more than once, and why.
Brad Anderson Cooking Up Lots of Horror
Filed under: Horror », Thrillers », Noir », Mystery & Suspense », Remakes and Sequels »
The first Brad Anderson film I saw was Session 9. (I also spent $27 on the out-of-print DVD, which I've watched at least three times in the last year. It's a great movie.) And then I saw his dark and twisted love letter to Alfred Hitchcock: The Machinist. Wow. Aside from Christian Bale's staggering performance, it's just a rock-solid, old-fashioned mind-bender of a noir thriller. Good stuff. Most recently I saw the director's train-bound and icy chiller Transsiberian at Sundance, which (shocking!) I also enjoyed quite a bit.Which leads us to a logical question. What can Brad Anderson fans expect next? According to Bloody-Disgusting, the writer / director is not straying far from the genre fare any time soon. First on the filmmaker's plate looks to be All Lost Souls, which is a "serial killer movie," and then perhaps Vanishing, which Anderson describes as "a smart post-apocalyptic horror film." Sounds good so far.
But even further down the road, Anderson could be looking at a remake of the 1943 occult flick The Seventh Victim -- and a Cronenbergian thriller called Concrete Island, which just might reunite the director with two of his Machinist collaborators: screenwriter Scott Kosar and low-key superstar Christian Bale. And to all those projects, I say this: Cool. Get to work, Brad!
[ Thanks to Bloody-Dee for the cool info. ]
Woody Harrelson Goes Trans-Siberian
Filed under: Drama », Thrillers », Casting », Deals », Mystery & Suspense »
We all know that Woody Harrelson is a bit of an odd character. When not chaining himself to trees, or driving across the country in a hemp-powered bus, Harrelson still manages to work in the odd acting project. Luckily, he has pretty good taste in movies (well, other than The Cowboy Way), and his next project looks to be one of the good ones.The Hollywood Reporter announced that Harrelson has signed to join the international cast for Brad Anderson's thriller, Trans-Siberian. The film follows an American couple traveling on the famous Trans-Siberian train from Vladivostok to Moscow, who meet another couple that might not be who they seem. So, I'm sure the Strangers on a Train motif of the film will make it chock-full of murders and double-crosses. The cast of the film also includes Samantha Morton as Harrelson's wife, as well as Ben Kingsley who will play a Russian police officer -- not to mention washing off what's left of the taint from Bloodrayne.
The film is being made as a co-production between Spain's Filmax and the German company Universum Film GmbH, and will begin shooting this December. The film is the follow-up to Anderson's The Machinist, which garnered a lot of attention when it hit the festival circuit back in 2004, so I won't be surprised if Trans-Siberian does the same.
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