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The evening's Netflix DVD was Milk. Sean Penn is outstanding. Most of the rest of the cast is not. Victor Garber didn't get much screen time as Moscone, which was a blessing. He is about as much like Moscone as Cate Blanchett, only not as pretty.

Technically, the film sucks lemons through multiple garden hoses, sometimes simultaneously. Truly crappy cinematography, audio levels which jumped all over the place, I finally gave up and turned on subtitles. The black and white clips they showed at the start are disgustingly gratuitously artsy fartsy - all the TV news was in color 10 years before, this was not the 50's. The clips were poorly edited and should never have left the junior high art film project they came from.

The ending was also a study in how not to build suspense, how not to tell a story. The slo-mo at the finale was just stupid. And I never liked Tosca anyway.

The basic story is compelling, Penn carries the show well enough to make it worth seeing. The crowd scenes were impressive. I wonder if rackstraw ever found himself among those thousands of other extras.

There is a lot of history in there which I either had not known or had completely forgotten. At the height of his fame I was overseas, I didn't hear the story till I moved to CA a few years later, Dianne was Mayor.

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[svashtar.livejournal.com]

The only thing I've ever liked Sean Penn in was Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I've always been under the impression that the man has no sense of humor, and that it causes him severe pain just to smile.

He rubs me exactly the wrong way, and I won't watch his movies because of it. I just want to punch him in his sour, craggy, nasty little ferret face.

Makes me glad his character died.

[howeird]

He's ugly and his mother dresses him funny, but I think he's a fine actor. I Am Sam, IMHO, should have won him an Oscar. They can't all be Johnny Depp. In a perfect world, of course, they would be...

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

It isn't his looks that bother me. It's just. . .him. There are a lot of ugly actors I love.

[rackstraw.livejournal.com]

Am in one of the riots, just barely visible holding a no-hate sign. Was happier for some of the people I met on set who got a bit more prominent exposure.

For a more interesting story of an extra in SF, have you come across the story of (I think) Layla Sarakalo?

[rackstraw.livejournal.com]

Was just barely visible for two shots in one of the riot scenes. Was happier for some of the friends I made on set who got more prominent exposure.

For a more interesting story of an extra in SF, have you yet come across the recently discovered trivia of Layla Sarakolo?

[rackstraw.livejournal.com]

And blah!

A browser loading issue caused me to think my comment was lost so I re-composed it. Feel free to choose the version you like and delete the other! :-)

Btw, do you have Cupcake?