So, I saw The Big Easy last night. Either that movie has the most abrupt ending ever, or for some reason it was edited for TV. I'm not sure. Otherwise, I liked it. It felt very New Orleans.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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Alibelle - Dec 21, 2004 9:39:32 pm PST #7299 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
Beverly - Dec 21, 2004 10:50:53 pm PST #7300 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Now that you've seen The Big Easy, when Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn arrive at Meduseld in TTT and Hama tells them they have to disarm before he can let them enter, and the three divest themselves of bow, quiver, knife, sword, shurikan, garrotte, ankle gun and brass knuckles? I always expect Gimli to mutter, "And if that don't work, I piss on 'em."
Alibelle - Dec 21, 2004 11:12:38 pm PST #7301 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 can certainly see why.
Though the funniness of that still wouldn't entice me to watch TTT.
Nutty - Dec 22, 2004 6:19:31 am PST #7302 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hilarious cruelty alert:
Of course, Lord Lloyd Webber's music is the whole point of the film, and Joel Schumacher, the director, does his best to find a visual style to match the vulgarity and pretentiousness of the soundtrack.
A. O. Scott (NY Times) vs. Phantom of the Opera. Scott 1, Opera 0.
Atropa - Dec 22, 2004 1:17:56 pm PST #7303 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
And more hilarious cruelty about Phantom of the Opera from Salon:
Now it can be told: Although the press has connivingly led us to believe otherwise, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher are really pseudonyms for two 11-year-old girls from Allentown, Pa., who, disgruntled because their parents wouldn't buy them canopy beds, decided to sit down and write themselves a musical, darn it. And they'd make a movie out of it, too, just you wait and see. "The Phantom of the Opera" is the long-awaited result.
Alibelle - Dec 22, 2004 2:36:20 pm PST #7304 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 so totally had a pink canopy bed from the time I was 3 until I was 16 and it was totally old and falling apart, and you couldn't plop down on it with any sort of force or the box spring would fall through the frame and you'd crash to the floor. I can completely understand being bitter about not getting one, because it is the most awesome thing ever. So that would actually explain the awful punishment that is Phantom.
Angus G - Dec 22, 2004 5:26:15 pm PST #7305 of 10001
Roguish Laird
Lord Lloyd Webber's music
I wouldn't be this pedantic if it wasn't the New York Times and if I wasn't weirdly obsessed with correctness in such things, but it's "Lord Lloyd-Webber" with a hyphen. (Yes, even though "Andrew Lloyd Webber" doesn't have one.) Don't ask me how I know this.
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2004 5:33:19 pm PST #7306 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.
Don't ask me how I know this.
How do you know this?
Frankenbuddha - Dec 22, 2004 5:34:33 pm PST #7307 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I wouldn't be this pedantic if it wasn't the New York Times and if I wasn't weirdly obsessed with correctness in such things, but it's "Lord Lloyd-Webber" with a hyphen. (Yes, even though "Andrew Lloyd Webber" doesn't have one.) Don't ask me how I know this.
Yes. But wouldn't that be showing actual, you know, respect for Andrew Lloyd Webber?
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2004 5:36:27 pm PST #7308 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.
And how did he get to be a Lord? And can Sir Elton John defeat him in a fight?