Salon gave it a good review too.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Dana - Feb 18, 2005 10:48:40 am PST #9177 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
DavidS - Feb 18, 2005 10:49:15 am PST #9178 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's been getting mixed to bad reviews, but it still sounds kind of interesting. It doesn't sound like a Catwoman or League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen level atrocity.
Jessica - Feb 18, 2005 10:50:30 am PST #9179 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
It doesn't sound like a Catwoman or League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen level atrocity.
That would be difficult to match. Though I am feeling lucky that I have no attachment whatsoever to the source material -- I suspect I'll enjoy the film more that way.
Tom Scola - Feb 18, 2005 10:51:38 am PST #9180 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
One of my cow-orkers--who hasn't seen the film yet--was complaining today about how it deviates from the comic.
Atropa - Feb 18, 2005 10:57:26 am PST #9181 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Though I am feeling lucky that I have no attachment whatsoever to the source material -- I suspect I'll enjoy the film more that way.
I suspect you will, too. I suspect my attachment to the source material is going to render me incapable of watching the movie.
Anne W. - Feb 18, 2005 11:01:47 am PST #9182 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
And Hank Stuever in the Washington Post suggests that the movie ought to be called CSI: Revelation.
dying of laughter
joe boucher - Feb 18, 2005 11:09:03 am PST #9183 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
One of my cow-orkers--who hasn't seen the film yet--was complaining today about how it deviates from the comic.
I'm far from a Hellblazer completist, but I've read enough to find Keanu's casting bizarre. Don't get me wrong, I like Keanu, but if you had given me a list of twenty possible Constantines I would have put him close to or at the bottom of the list. Maybe he's good in it, too, but judging from the trailers, if he is good it's because he creates a John Constantine of his own, not because he embodies the guy from the comics. That can be a valid approach, but if the most distinctive thing about a given property is the main character, and you really change the main character, why acquire the property? Odd way to build a franchise.
Jessica - Feb 18, 2005 11:13:18 am PST #9184 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
but if the most distinctive thing about a given property is the main character, and you really change the main character, why acquire the property?
Because if you don't, someone else will get it first. It's Hollywood corporate logic.
Sue - Feb 18, 2005 11:22:18 am PST #9185 of 10001
hip deep in pie
That can be a valid approach, but if the most distinctive thing about a given property is the main character, and you really change the main character, why acquire the property? Odd way to build a franchise.
This reminds me of a bit in Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne. A script that he and his wife wrote about Jessica Savitch was turned in Up Close and Personal. At one point, after Redford and Pfeiffer had signed onto the movie and the movie plot had been completely changed, Dunne asked the producer, what the picture was really about. "It's about two movie stars," the producer replied.
Kathy A - Feb 18, 2005 5:57:02 pm PST #9186 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was just over at IMDB, where the Movie of the Day is Erin Brockovich. I followed the links to the external reviews of the movie, and read the NYTimes review, which has one of their classic ratings blurbs at the end:
"Erin Brockovich" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It contains a scattering of obscenities and sexual references and displays of female cleavage in the service of a noble cause.