Marian is okay for the first fifteen minutes of the film. Then she turns into this needing-to-be-rescued, evil-monkey-loving thing that shrieks "Indeeeee" all the time, and really pisses me off.
Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.
'Serenity'
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.
flea - Jun 23, 2004 7:48:39 am PDT #702 of 10001
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Allyson - Jun 23, 2004 7:55:01 am PDT #703 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
The heroines of the two Raiders sequels, though? Pfui. Give me Marian any day.
Also forced to wear something ridiculous by a villian and then have to kick ass while wearing the ridiculous thing.
Also happened in True Lies.
Manny buys Wyoh a dress that's size too small, right? But she slinks around in happiness, whereas Leia and Marian are both like, "the FUCK?"
Trying to think of another movie where the heroine or female lead is forced to wear something ridiculous and then spend the rest of the flick having to fight in heels and a dress. Le Femme Nikita?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 23, 2004 8:00:42 am PDT #704 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
She was nicely defiant against the Nazi Hebrew Scholar What Got His Face Blown Up. Though with Kate Capshaw's character as a later comparison, Jennifer Tilly would have seemed wonderful.
Why couldn't Spielberg have made Temple of Doom a few years later when he was married to Amy Irving?
Beverly - Jun 23, 2004 8:10:12 am PDT #705 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Spielberg was married to Amy Irving--or breaking up with her--when he did Doom. Filming of ToD was actually where he and Kate Capshaw, now Mrs. Spielberg, met.
Nutty - Jun 23, 2004 8:10:39 am PDT #706 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Trying to think of another movie where the heroine or female lead is forced to wear something ridiculous and then spend the rest of the flick having to fight in heels and a dress.
Well, on the subject of Princess Leia, while she was as liable to yell at a villain as quail from him, she did spend the entire first movie desperately in need of a bra. So perhaps being forced to wear something else was actually a good thing. I was afraid she was going to put her own eye out. (I know, I know, fashions of the times. But, I mean really. That was the last time Lucas ever failed to provide excessive structure and elaboration in his movies, don't you think?)
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2004 8:30:46 am PDT #707 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I had heard that for the first SW flick Lucas insisted Leia have her breasts taped or bound or something, as he didn't want excess distracting motion going on.
Personally, I don't think I've ever noticed the Leia boobage bounceage.
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P.M. Marc - Jun 23, 2004 8:35:32 am PDT #708 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
Ooh! Can we use a T-test!? Can we? Can we? Can we?
These are somehow sexy words.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 23, 2004 9:16:54 am PDT #709 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Spielberg was married to Amy Irving--or breaking up with her--when he did Doom. Filming of ToD was actually where he and Kate Capshaw, now Mrs. Spielberg, met.
Actually, Doom was released in 1984 and his marriage to Irving ran from 1985-1989, with him marrying Kapshaw in 1991. It may well have been where he met Kate, but his entire first marriage came after the filming.
Beverly - Jun 23, 2004 9:32:20 am PDT #710 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I bow to superior knowledge. He and Irving were an item long before they married, though, weren't they?
Betsy HP - Jun 23, 2004 11:16:52 am PDT #711 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Trying to think of another movie where the heroine or female lead is forced to wear something ridiculous and then spend the rest of the flick having to fight in heels and a dress.
Some Like It Hot.