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A 1001 Films We Will Never See, Britt and LizRo's Journey Through Cinema: Joint "A Dangerous Method" Review

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Introduction:   Because LizRo has not seen most movies or most things with any semblance of connection to pop culture, I have taken it upon myself to educate her to the "finer things in life."  The following will be a reoccurring series where we document our "fantastic voyage" through a metric crap-ton of movies which I seriously doubt we'll get all the way through, but it's cool. LET IT BEGIN Britt: What I expected of this film was twisted creepiness a la Cronenberg, director of  A History of Violence  and that sort of ill artform. Mostly I just wanted to see some weird sexual things go down in a love triangle (historically accurate I suppose) between Jung, Freud and the Russian Jewish crazy bitch played by Keira Knightley. Now I have reached the point in my life where I could be totally satisfied with a film if Keira Knightley was in it. I don’t care what the film is. I don’t care if it is the phonebook being acted out set to Counting Crows son...

ON THE ROAD: the ultimately questionable movie

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This is one of my favorite books of all time, so I'm torn. Very torn. the one kid does look like Kerouac, though!

omg ERIE IS IN A MOVIEEEEE

Who doesn't love Cormac McCarthy novels, seriously? Hollywood does!!!!!!!! In a very positive touch for the Erie region, the film The Road (based on a book by Cormac, books, that's right, they exist) which was filmed largely in this area over the course of spring 2008 was released to theaters today for some delightful, positive Thanksgiving movie-watching. not, not really. um, it's set in a post-apocalyptic world. starring the men many women (not me obviously) swoon over (Viggo Mortenson) and some pretty good other people (Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron) and it's already generating, THAT'S RIGHT, OSCAR BUZZ. read an interview with Viggo here and watch the trailer (I redirect, because I can't get no Viggo interviews:) http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/viggo-mortensen-interview/ wow, I'm glad Erie's the sight for the apocalypse. AWESOME!!!! TOTALLY POSITIVE! well hopefully more movies will be filmed here and when I say that I mean movies of this tier (g...