Okay, but the part where Paul Mercurio slides across the floor in that gold sparkly matador jacket? Heaven on a stick.
Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.
Gunn ,'Underneath'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Allyson - Mar 19, 2005 9:45:55 pm PST #5294 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
SailAweigh - Mar 19, 2005 9:46:32 pm PST #5295 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Strictly Ballroom is Baz Luhrman. It is very, very good.
Alibelle - Mar 19, 2005 9:47:34 pm PST #5296 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Hahaha. Well, put like that, I have to say I enjoy Dirty Dancing more, since it's somewhat more cohesive, as far as storytelling goes. And the challenges facing the couple are greater, and more personal. But Strictly Ballroom is way over the top, on purpose, and is very quotable. It's much funnier than Dirty Dancing.
P.M. Marc - Mar 19, 2005 9:48:04 pm PST #5297 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Really? Cause I sort of think of it as the Australian version of Dirty Dancing except with ugly people (that was a review from one of my friends in college).
Oh, not at all. It's far more of a weird, loopy, funny thing.
And the leads are more attractive than the leads in Dirty Dancing, damn it.
But, if you have theories, please don't tell me.
I have none! So you're safe from me.
Kat - Mar 19, 2005 9:49:01 pm PST #5298 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yeah. I'm still pissed at Baz Luhrman for fucking up Romeo + Juliet by having Juliet be a spineless gutless girl and I still get nauseated everytime I see Moulin Rouge. So, yeah, Baz Luhrman not a selling point for me actually.
SailAweigh - Mar 19, 2005 9:53:06 pm PST #5299 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Ah, I'm a huge Moulin Rouge fan. Never seen his Rome + Juliet, but I always thought Juliet was a wuss, no matter whose version you saw, inlcuding the original Shakespeare.
P.M. Marc - Mar 19, 2005 9:54:36 pm PST #5300 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Strictly Ballroom is far better than either of those, mainly because it doesn't suffer from taking itself exceedingly seriously.
And Allyson's point about Paul Mercurio and the sliding is a damn good one.
Alibelle - Mar 19, 2005 9:54:51 pm PST #5301 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Strictly Ballroom is Baz Luhrman. It is very, very good.
I would qualify that, and say that it is clearly early Baz Luhrman. Awesome, but still a little rough around the edges.
And I have an unholy loyalty towards Dirty Dancing, so I can't really compare the attractiveness of the leads. I'd say they're about the same level, really, with the less attractive girl, and the "hot" guy. But I'd subtract a little from SB, for the fact that the leads seem to have almost no chemistry with each other, to the point that it's kind of weird and forced when they kiss . In my opinion, Jennifer Gray's and Patrick Swayze's mutual hate translated much better, and comes across as the sort of intense emotion you want your characters to feel.
Allyson - Mar 19, 2005 9:56:30 pm PST #5302 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Federation President Barry Fife wants you to know that the future of ballroom dancing is very serious indeed, Plei.
SailAweigh - Mar 19, 2005 9:57:53 pm PST #5303 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
have almost no chemistry with each other
That was a problem. I just liked the humor. That movie and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert are two of the best movies to come out of Australia that I've seen.