Excellent.
Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?
Spike ,'Get It Done'
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sumi - Apr 26, 2005 9:25:22 am PDT #2197 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
beekaytee - Apr 26, 2005 9:36:04 am PDT #2198 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Until today, I had not seen the 3rd HGTG trailer where the narrator (who sounds a lot like Stephen Fry) outlines the structure of a movie trailer. It killed me. And seemed so appropriate to HGTG's particular humor.
Katie M - Apr 26, 2005 9:39:53 am PDT #2199 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Oh, yeah, that's a perfect trailer. I adore it.
Jessica - Apr 26, 2005 9:43:10 am PDT #2200 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
who sounds a lot like Stephen Fry
It is Stephen Fry
Jon B. - Apr 26, 2005 9:47:03 am PDT #2201 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
A friend of mine who's a big Anglophile is only showing the vaguest interest in maybe seeing it, since she's not a SF fan normally, nor a big fan of Pythonesque humor.
Given this bias, do you really think she would like it?
beekaytee - Apr 26, 2005 9:48:54 am PDT #2202 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
It is Stephen Fry
Ears like a steeltrap. That's what I have. Plus? A keen awareness of how far behind the curve I generally am.
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2005 9:49:44 am PDT #2203 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ears like a steeltrap.
Q-tips tremble in fear....
beekaytee - Apr 26, 2005 9:51:35 am PDT #2204 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Q-tips= orgasmic
tommyrot, you made me giggle out LOUD
DavidS - Apr 26, 2005 9:57:07 am PDT #2205 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I always think of Resevoir Dogs as a Greek tragedy. If you ignore the flashbacks and flourishes, it certainly has the Aristotelian unities. Plus, lots of loyalty issues. And lots of blood.
All of these, definitely. Plus the Howard Hawks obsession with professionalism, and male codes of honor. Plus the first American dose of Hong Kong style action, with lots of bits lifted directly from (I think) City on Fire (with Chow Yun Fat). Also lots of texture from 70s American films, especially ones like Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman. The classic noir heist films: The Killing, Riffi, Asphalt Jungle. (Two with Sterling Hayden!) And of course, all of the Godard and French New Wave tics that QT rightly considers the motherlode of hipster cinema.
Kathy A - Apr 26, 2005 10:04:38 am PDT #2206 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Given this bias, do you really think she would like it?
But she does enjoy comic-book films like Hellboy and Spiderman, which I view as on the same spectrum as SF films. She also geeks out over the original Star Wars trilogy, and enjoyed the LotR films as well. Oh, and she's a big Buffy and Angel fan, too (some Buffistas met her at the first F2F in Chicago).