'Out Of Gas'
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.
Harvard symbologist
I am still working on what this job is. Is he the guy who designs those signs-without-words in airports? The guy who invented the "pull this heavy object don't pull it or it will tip over and squash you" sign that goes on soda vending machines? Did he draw the original Mister Yucky?
I'm with ita. OMG, that was...one of the worst reading experiences I've ever had, including creative writing class.
British actors Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina have been added to the cast of the anticipated screen adaptation of Dan Brown's controversial novel The Da Vinci Code.
"Throw me the Grail, I'll throw you the rope!"
I'm with ita. OMG, that was...one of the worst reading experiences I've ever had, including creative writing class.
The idea behind the story, if I understand it correctly, might be intriguing in the hands of someone who can write. But I had to set Angels and Demons down after a few chapters, because it was so so SO execrably written. I tried, I really did -- see, my Dad LOVED it, and loaned it to me so that we could discuss it, and in the interests of family bonding, I tried to read it.
But how do you tell someone who loved a book that you couldn't read it because it was written so badly that it made your eyes bleed? I don't want to insult him for loving the book -- I say read what you like, as long as you're reading -- but telling someone you hated what they recommended to you feels like an insult.
Steph, tell him you didn't like the book because it was poorly edited. You know, technical stuff that a layperson wouldn't notice.
"Throw me the Grail, I'll throw you the rope!"
OMG, I'd completely forgotten about that. Bwahahahahahaha!
Tom, good idea! I need you to craft all my excuses to weasel out of things!
But how do you tell someone who loved a book that you couldn't read it because it was written so badly that it made your eyes bleed?
"Just not my cup of tea." Especially if you can find something positive to say about it.
Curse you all. You're now making me perversely interested in at least attempting that book, just to see how painful it is. Bridges of Madison County has been my bad-book gold standard for ages upon ages; I read it at the behest of a relative who was just swoony over it, and actually finished the whole thing because it was so painfully astounding. At the end of every chapter I'd think Well, that's got to be as bad as bad could possibly get, and then the very next chapter would prove me wrong. Around midbook it started getting visibly worse paragraph by paragraph. Then the epilogue broke me, every sentence exponentially worse than the one preceding it.
And now I feel the need to check out DaVinci Code to see how it measures up.
Curse you all.
I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite last night on DVD and... it was charming. I suspect my opinion of it will grow in my memory as I recall various bits over time.
Has anyone linked to this? - [link]
My favorite:
WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" and run the risk of having the "Worst Day of Their Lives!"