Shut up! I am reading that Contino thing right now and it's fucking...disturbing, actually. Hello? Ellroy.(Hivemind creeping me out.) But he is very talented, despite being right there with Lehane in my personal "You think you have issues?!" lexicon making me think I write kids and puppies.
Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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erikaj - Feb 04, 2005 10:08:54 am PST #8817 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2005 10:12:01 am PST #8818 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.
I liked Titanic as well. The thing that got to me the most was just the physical scale of the disaster - Here was this incredibly huge object that dwarfed any human that was slowly slipping between the waves. I could imagine myself being on the ship - my experience of the event and my desire to Not Die would be utterly insignificant in the face what was physically taking place.
If that makes sense.
erikaj - Feb 04, 2005 10:16:38 am PST #8819 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I so coveted the "The ship sank. Get over it." t-shirt, you have no idea. Go ahead, act surprised.
Alibelle - Feb 04, 2005 10:20:33 am PST #8820 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
There was a t-shirt at K-Mart that said something like Titanic Swim Team. It was one of those generic looking sports t-shirts, only the team was Titanic, and it definitely had something to do with swimming. It took a moment for the impact to sink in, when I saw it.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 10:26:52 am PST #8821 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I so coveted the "The ship sank. Get over it." t-shirt, you have no idea. Go ahead, act surprised.
Heh, a close friend of a close friend (I was at a wedding with the guy in June) created those t-shirts. Made a ton of money off of them too.
erikaj - Feb 04, 2005 10:31:52 am PST #8822 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Funny! Well, I guess somebody had to.
Polter-Cow - Feb 04, 2005 10:59:38 am PST #8823 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love Philip Glass' soundtrack to The Hours.
Also, I like Titanic too. Not for the romance, but for everything else. The human story, and the sinking ship.
Sue - Feb 04, 2005 11:04:30 am PST #8824 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I found Titanic interminable and overblown. And I kept thinking "You've got two minutes to live in the North Atlantic, die Leo, die!" And the more people cried around me in the theatre, the more hysterical the movie seemed to me.
Gris - Feb 04, 2005 11:05:10 am PST #8825 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I like Titanic a lot more now than I used to. I re-watched it very recently.
I hated it then because I was 14. And Every. Single. Girl. I. Knew. Saw it. Eighteen thousand times.
Which was just WRONG.
However, I actually like the romance - I always like cheesy romances - and I love that they at least are fairly accurate about the sinking of the ship, and I personally think the acting and directing and costume design and cinematography are all tremendous. The melodramaticism goes just a little too far with ice!Leo, but that's my only complaint, really.
Oh, and why'd she throw the frickin' diamond away? That was just stupid.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 11:08:04 am PST #8826 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll never be able to tell you if Amistad is a good movie or not. I started crying before they reached American soil, and I didn't stop until I left the theatre. Its emotional impact on me and its quality, however, I see as potentially independent things.
Titanic was kinda like that, except the idea of waiting around for the human tragedy while the annoying people pranced? So not going to happen. And I didn't dislike Leo or anything. The A story was more boring than the truth, and distracting. I didn't need to be seduced into sadness. It's all over the story.