Especially since From Here to Eternity shows that Jones's novels can be turned into good movies. Even great ones.
Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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Fred Pete - Aug 30, 2004 5:34:49 am PDT #3337 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Steph L. - Aug 30, 2004 5:55:38 am PDT #3338 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What do folks hate about The Thin Red Line?
It's relentlessly boring, there's no narrative flow, the characters spout faux poetry as if it were profound, and I want those three hours back.
What P-C said. Also, it perpetuates the Noble Savage myth, or comes damn close.
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2004 5:57:58 am PDT #3339 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.
Also, it perpetuates the Noble Savage myth, or comes damn close.
OK, now I remember being uncomfortable with that.
Dani - Aug 30, 2004 6:25:14 am PDT #3340 of 10001
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
it fetishized the local peoples as part of nature
With Nutty, P-C, and Steph L on disliking Thin Red Line for that reason. OTOH, I don't want my 3 hours back because there were a remarkable number of pretty men (Clooney! Cusack! Chaplin! Brody!) in the movie and I am shallow.
Was it here or in Natter that people were hating on Vincent Gallo? The latest from IMDB doesn't make him sound any more likeable.
Sean K - Aug 30, 2004 6:37:31 am PDT #3341 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Screw Gallo. What an ass.
Theodosia - Aug 30, 2004 8:06:45 am PDT #3342 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hating Gallo is a pan-thread sport. Tomorrow we're scheduled to hate him in the Firefly thread, Wednesday in the Music thread. There will be a schedule posted in Bureacracy soon....
sumi - Aug 30, 2004 8:48:17 am PDT #3343 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Scifi Wire reports that Mira Nair has been offered HP5.
sumi - Aug 30, 2004 8:49:58 am PDT #3344 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh and Hero was #1?
That's great -- I guess I don't have to worry if it will still be in town this weekend!
DavidS - Aug 30, 2004 10:57:48 am PDT #3345 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scifi Wire reports that Mira Nair has been offered HP5.
Wooo! Very exciting. No other living director has a higher batting average with me than Mira Nair. I've loved everything she's done.
Kate P. - Aug 30, 2004 11:24:10 am PDT #3346 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
That would be wicked cool if Mira Nair did HP5!
Saw The Apple on Saturday. Sweet Jesus. I'm highly tempted to run out and buy myself a copy, but I fear that nothing could top watching it with Polter-Cow, Tom Scola, Trudy, KristinT, Jessica, and Ethan. Disco Nazis! Microwaved babies! Oh, the costumes, and the dancing, and the utter ridiculosity!