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Fred Pete - Oct 31, 2004 12:52:35 pm PST #5355 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 12:56:56 pm PST #5356 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Then it's a good guide what not to do if your SO becomes pregnant.
Also a decent guide of what not to do to get her pregnant.
Zenkitty - Oct 31, 2004 1:08:15 pm PST #5357 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Finally finished reading this thread. Thanks to you people, my Netflix queue now has 219 movies in it. Okay, some of them are Farscape disks, but still.
I never understood what's confusing about Donnie Darko. The Ring and The Grudge both scared the crap outta me. I still get creeped out, just thinking about them. rrrghhh, now I'm thinking about them... la la la nothing scary here
Why do I keep watching Japanese horror movies when I know they're going to bother me for weeks?
Gris - Oct 31, 2004 1:08:16 pm PST #5358 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Right. All netflixed.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 31, 2004 1:08:45 pm PST #5359 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 eventually gathered the courage to ask about it, and apparently it's just his normal voice.
Hmm. I suppose it could be the effect of a carton-a-day smoking habit or somesuch. But 10-15 years ago his voice was much higher-pitched, clearer, and had a slight nasal quality. Ah well, glad to hear it's not a sign of dire medical news.
Well, I have a rental of Hideo Nakada's Dark Waters to watch tonight, so between that and eating some of the humungous bag of Smarties I bought as trick-or-treater insurance today I expect to be getting to sleep sometime Wednesday.
Alibelle - Oct 31, 2004 1:14:28 pm PST #5360 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
I avoid scary movies like the plague. But at the Halloween party I went to on Friday, one guy was dressed like the girl from The Ring. He was terrifying lots of people, but didn't bother me in the slightest, since I hadn't seen it. I chatted with him for a bit, and he said that the most irritating part of the costume was the difficulty in seeing through all the black hair hanging in front of his face.
I'm kind of looking forward to the end of the Halloween scary-movie-push period.
I did just see Bad Santa, though. It was really funny, in a slightly horrifying way.
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2004 1:20:19 pm PST #5361 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did just see Bad Santa, though. It was really funny, in a slightly horrifying way.
Ack. I hated that movie. I didn't find it very funny at all. Lauren Graham notwithstanding. What happened, Terry Zwigoff? I loved Ghost World.
Alibelle - Oct 31, 2004 1:29:26 pm PST #5362 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
Why did you hate it, P-C?
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2004 1:34:35 pm PST #5363 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A lot of people liked it for being mean-spirited. To me, it was mean-spirited for the sake of being mean-spirited. Billy Bob Thornton cursed a lot because hey, a Santa who curses! That's funny! And all the characters were needlessly cruel to children (excepting Lauren Graham's character). And then there was excessive violence. Oh, Bernie Mac. I liked Bernie Mac.
I guess I just wasn't its target audience. I was a little surprised by how much I didn't like it, because I don't normally not like movies so much. Then again, it suffered from my having seen Elf recently, which I loved the hell out of, unexpectedly.
Alibelle - Oct 31, 2004 1:53:52 pm PST #5364 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
I definitely didn't like it for being mean-spirited. The cruelty to children was the horrifying bit. I did like the kid, a lot, and I didn't expect to. Especially the fact that he gave him a wooden pickle. I was like, what the hell? But it made me laugh, at the unexpectedness. And then the visual of Billy Bob and Tony Cox walking through the parking lot had me giggling like crazy. And the partnership between the two of them was pretty funny, I thought. Basically any time a child was on screen, however, I was kind of cringing, though. It's definitely not a movie I need to own, or even really see again, but I did think it was funny, and I don't feel like I wasted the hour and a half that I used up watching it.
And I'm dying to see Elf, but it won't be out on dvd for a while yet.