Ultimate FF has made me actually *like* them, just in time for the movie to make me hate them. Phooey.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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Holli - Jul 14, 2004 11:26:52 am PDT #622 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
DXMachina - Jul 14, 2004 11:35:46 am PDT #623 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Okay, they did cast Jessica Alba as Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four.
Auuuughhhh!!!
I think puberty tends to be a lot more dramatic among boys than girls, which would jeapordize the sales potential of a cute wittle face.
This would be the Fred Savage lesson.
Holli - Jul 14, 2004 11:52:06 am PDT #624 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
This would be the Fred Savage lesson.
Oh! Also the Anthony Michael Hall lesson.
beekaytee - Jul 14, 2004 11:59:47 am PDT #625 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
K-Pax had potential but ended up falling into a trap that makes me sooooo mad. It's right up there with the daddy-boss-baddie dodge.
It's the tired everyone who has ever been abused as a child grows up to either be cracked or a serial killer trap. We have to excuse/understand their behavior because...well...you know.
It's simplistic, insulting and just plain bad storytelling.
PS: Thanks to the Stompie who staunched my bleeding bold yesterday.
Stompies rule.
Miracleman - Jul 14, 2004 12:25:41 pm PDT #626 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Your fanwank still holds water. There would have been no fuel pump for a 1985 Delorean available in 1955, though one imagines someone might have been able to make one up a little easier in a place where cars at least exist.
Yeah, but...
(we interrupt this post to say Yes. We know it was forever ago. We can't help it, the dude just won't. Let. Things. Go.)
...the initial problem wasn't the fuel pump, it was the fuel line (which had an arrow pierce it) and the subsequent leaking away of all the fuel.
They didn't blow the fuel pump until they idiotically tried to get the engine to run on moonshine. Before that they had line to scavenge and fuel to syphon. All that would change would be the addition of a P.S. to the note they left on the Delorean in the mine. "P.S. fucked the fuel line, get one of those and fill 'er up with premium, por favor."
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 12:39:13 pm PDT #627 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also the Anthony Michael Hall lesson.
Michael Savage should be so lucky. AMH is better looking now than he was then, and he's paying his rent.
Hil R. - Jul 14, 2004 1:16:32 pm PDT #628 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that my definition of child star who successfully transitioned would be a significant number of roles both before age 15 and after age 25. So, in my mind, it's still really too soon to tell for a lot of people.
Volans - Jul 14, 2004 1:49:05 pm PDT #629 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Has someone mentioned Wil Wheaton? He transitioned into something that isn't really an adult star, but is possibly better respected.
Jars - Jul 14, 2004 1:54:27 pm PDT #630 of 10001
There's Christian Bale, to keep it topical.
sumi - Jul 14, 2004 2:03:48 pm PDT #631 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I think he's been mentioned.
How old was Michael J. Fox when he was on that sitcom whose title I cannot remember?