That was the one with the dude in the wheelchair, right?
Haven't seen that show since I was a kid.
As I type this, Uma is wheeling herself in a wheelchair....
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
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tommyrot - Aug 29, 2004 1:26:29 pm PDT #3308 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.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2004 1:28:53 pm PDT #3309 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That was the one with the dude in the wheelchair, right?
Raymond Burr no less. That high-pitched, shrill siren-y bit is at the start of the Ironside credits which shows an assassin siting on Ironside, then lowering the gun to shoot his spine and leave him in a wheelchair. Then it goes into the regular theme (by Lalo Schifrin, I think).
Lalo also did the theme to Medical Center which was a way-more kickass theme than that show really needed. (Lalo's most famous, of course, for the Mission: Impossible theme, and various early 70s movies like Bullitt).
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2004 3:41:13 pm PDT #3310 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Hero is glorious. Most beautiful movie I've seen all year, both emotionally and visually. (Great soundtrack, too, but it's based on an album I already own.) I'll be interested to see what ita makes of the martial arts; all I knew or cared about was the glory of people in robes and trailing hair sweeping about with swords.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2004 3:42:27 pm PDT #3311 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I suspect there will be little of me to make of the martial arts. Wuxia and reality are not closely related. Beauty and magic are paramount.
Dana - Aug 29, 2004 4:08:37 pm PDT #3312 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I was a little sleepy when I saw Hero, and it was perfect. I just let all the visuals wash over me.
tommyrot - Aug 29, 2004 4:11:22 pm PDT #3313 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 am watching Showgirls. How long before my head explodes?
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2004 4:22:15 pm PDT #3314 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Beauty and magic we have in spades and notrump. Lovely, lovely movie, and I shall be dashing out to buy the DVD when I can. I don't love it quite as much as CTHD because I love CTHD's plot more. But the colors... manoman.
sumi - Aug 29, 2004 4:45:30 pm PDT #3315 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I saw Ned Kelly on dvd today and that scene in the bar, where OB speaks in Chinese? I couldn't help but suddenly think OB in BDM3! Silly, I know.
I also saw Big Fish to which I had an unexpectedly intense reaction. I cried my guts out as soon as Will starts telling his dad the story of how he is going to walk into the river. And I couldn't stop. I had been thinking how good it would have been to see this on the big screen -- but now I'm feeling kind of relieved that I didn't.
sumi - Aug 29, 2004 4:45:46 pm PDT #3316 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2004 5:03:49 pm PDT #3317 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ed McMahon (of all people) slapped on a portentious voice over and it was finally released years later as Daughter of Horror.
I've read about this movie! It got a big write-up in the RE SEARCH's book "Incredibly Strange Movies". And they also mention TOUCH OF EVIL in terms of the setting.
I don't love it quite as much as CTHD because I love CTHD's plot more.
As a friend of mine said, it's not as much fun as CTHD - everything about the movie is a bit more distanced and abstracted, very deliberately I think. But, oh YEAH! Eye candy deluxe. Beautiful acting, too.