Ooh. Elektra looks really cool.
Jennifer Garner is pretty. And cool.
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
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Alibelle - Nov 11, 2004 5:35:07 pm PST #5663 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
Dana - Nov 11, 2004 6:37:03 pm PST #5664 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I like the original movie. Gene Wilder, pretending to be benevolent, and actually being creepy as fuck.
Polter-Cow - Nov 11, 2004 6:39:45 pm PST #5665 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love the original movie. It's a slasher flick.
Oh, random Incredibles comment: Anyone else catch the license plate of the police car in the opening chase scene? KR-54.
Anne W. - Nov 11, 2004 6:55:38 pm PST #5666 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
P-C! I did notice that!
Kathy A - Nov 11, 2004 7:41:15 pm PST #5667 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Gene Wilder, pretending to be benevolent, and actually being creepy as fuck.
"Oh, you can't go back. You have to go forward, if you want to go back..."
DavidS - Nov 11, 2004 7:45:15 pm PST #5668 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I also dispute the notion that Gene Wilder's peformance is anything other than both warm and sinister. His slow, staggering, creepy entrance. His creepy little psychedelic song when they're on the boat and "there's no way of knowing / which way we're going"; his casual disregard for the well-being of the kinder, his explosive rage at Charlie to test him at the end with the gobstopper.
Fred Pete - Nov 12, 2004 3:48:45 am PST #5669 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I also dispute the notion that Gene Wilder's peformance is anything over than both warm and sinister.
I agree that it's both, but I kept feeling that one was a cover for the other. And you aren't supposed to be able to figure out which is which.
From the freaky mammajamma front -- I liked Forever Amber. Mainly because Linda Darnell is an excellent Amber (more because of presence than acting ability). But it'd be interesting to see what could be done with the story today -- because a lot of the novel just couldn't be put on the screen in the 1940s.
juliana - Nov 12, 2004 5:10:54 am PST #5670 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Gene Wilder's performance in the original movie is wonderful, there's no question. I'm still seriously looking forward to this new interpretation. Especially Wonka's clothes. The hat! The coat!! The cane!!!
tommyrot - Nov 12, 2004 6:10:30 am PST #5671 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.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2004 6:24:44 am PST #5672 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's an Edith Head ref in The Incredibles? I can't wait to see it.