I hope Lemony Snicket wins for Best Costume & Art Direction, because those were some of the only good things about the dratted film, and I'd like to see that rewarded.
This is where I am on the movies. They really outdid themselves on the pretty.
There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Sean K - Jan 25, 2005 9:51:45 am PST #8479 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Alibelle - Jan 25, 2005 4:08:31 pm PST #8480 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'd envy you the blissful ignorance Betsy, but it was worth having to hear the song to get the full impact of ita's hodgeberries joke a while back.
Is this in COMM somewhere?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2005 7:25:35 pm PST #8481 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
I don't know, but if not I think it's in one of the Firefly threads.
I saw A Very Long Engagement tonight. It's not so magic that it makes me want to quit my job in favor of watching the movie full-time the way Amélie was, but it's a very well-made and enjoyable film that I'd recommend seeing. And there was a fun surprise in running across a familiar face that I had difficulty placing at first, surrounded as it was by Jeunet's usual stable of French character actors.
Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2005 7:27:43 pm PST #8482 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Alibelle - Jan 25, 2005 7:32:42 pm PST #8483 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
Thanks, P-C!
I still haven't seem Amelie. I keep meaning to. Hmm.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2005 7:33:31 pm PST #8484 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
There ya go. But you didn't include tommyrot's hilarious follow-up in the COMM quote!
Polter-Cow - Jan 25, 2005 7:35:26 pm PST #8485 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 7:02:01 am PST #8486 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 7:27:10 am PST #8487 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If anyone knows where to find a copy of the international Batman Begins poster that's larger than 600*887, I'd be very grateful.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 12:29:58 pm PST #8488 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And going for the threepeat:
From IMDB:
[NOTE - SPOILER ALERT: Ordinarily we do not offer "spoiler" warnings when discussing the content of movies unless they also appear in the news reports that we compress for this digest. The following item, however, covers the controversy over the actions by some commentators and columnists to undermine Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby by disclosing a key plot element. Readers who have not seen the movie and who do not want to be informed about the issue it raises until they have seen it may wish to skip this item.]
Rush Limbaugh has become the latest commentator to blast Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, calling it a "million dollar euthanasia movie." On Tuesday, he facetiously apologized for letting "the cat out of the bag when I mentioned to you that the real subject of the movie is, when this heroine becomes paralyzed, she wants to die and they say, 'Okay, you'd be better off dead,' and they pretty much zap her. I apparently spoke out of school, as a movie critic and reviewer, uh, ladies and gentlemen. I just feel terrible about this." Critic Michael Medved told USA Today that he had revealed the plot twist because "there are competing moral demands that come into the job of a movie critic. We have a moral and fairness obligation to not spoil movies. On the other hand, our primary moral obligation is to tell the truth." Medved, who says he "hated this movie," also remarked that "They didn't want to tell people what it is [about] because no one would come." On Tuesday, an orgaization of paraplegics also joined the critics of the movie.
I didn't actually read the whited out portion. I'll just see the damned movie and cry like a wreck sometime this weekend.