Also, yeah Clark Johnson! I fucking loved SWAT.
It was really loud. But it was fun.
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2004 5:10:57 pm PDT #1066 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
alienprayer - Jul 20, 2004 5:23:41 pm PDT #1067 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Didn't the Hughes brothers make From Hell? British period movies are evidently the only way african-american directors "cross over". One of them did the pilot for the US Touching Evil, also. Good show, but nary a person of color. Except for punchline psychiatrist, who only appeared in the pilot.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 5:28:12 pm PDT #1068 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I kind of meant the black movie ghetto
I always envisioned a ghetto like that as an involuntary place to be. I think they make black movies because they'd rather/need to. Which is why I misread.
And you are right about From Hell, alienprayer. And they both produced Touching Evil.
I poked around a little more -- Antoine Fuqua has no production credits. Singleton, Lee, the Hughes Brothers -- produced most everything they directed.
P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2004 6:58:47 pm PDT #1069 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
twitching uncontrollably at the wrongheaded Magnolia-lovers
Dude, watch it as a COMEDY.
That's what we did. (Okay, a black, depressing, bleak comedy, but still.)
Also? Sure, it has that horrible not-an-actress-overrated-twerp-woman in it, but it also has a RAIN OF FUCKING TOADS.
I repeat, a RAIN OF FUCKING TOADS. TOAD. RAIN.
What's not to love?
Signed, simple and shallow, and likes it that way.
Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2004 7:03:47 pm PDT #1070 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
They were frogs, Plei. FROGS.
Katie M - Jul 20, 2004 7:10:17 pm PDT #1071 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
That was so the best part of the movie. It was almost worth the pathological reaction I had to Julianne Moore for a year or two afterwards, which went something like this:
t Julianne Moore appears on-screen
ME: Oh God, she's going to say Fuck, isn't she? Noooooo!
sumi - Jul 20, 2004 7:11:19 pm PDT #1072 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I saw an ad for Collateral during Nip/Tuck -- Tom Cruise does do that horrifying grin/laugh/rictus.
Also, why all the '80s music in the promo for Little Black Book?
Ron Livingston is in it -- I thought I recognized him in the ads!
P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2004 8:10:05 pm PDT #1073 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
P-C:
TOAD is a better word. Frogs work with globes. Toads with rain. No matter which they actually were, I'm sticking with toad, because toad is funnier.
Burrell - Jul 20, 2004 8:18:28 pm PDT #1074 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ye gads, you people. Magnolia was so frigging ponderous I had to take a nap in the middle of it.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 8:34:08 pm PDT #1075 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wish I'd thought to sleep during Magnolia.
What is with Little Black Book -- why are we to get engaged by a psycho stalker chick or the guy that dates her?