That New Yorker review was a masterpiece of bile. "Break me a fucking give." Glorious!
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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bon bon - May 16, 2005 6:50:02 am PDT #2773 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
§ ita § - May 16, 2005 6:57:06 am PDT #2774 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love the sentence Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.
Only? Really? Are you absolutely sure?
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 6:59:23 am PDT #2775 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.
Only? Really? Are you absolutely sure?
Heh.
There are two types of people in the world: those who think there are two types of people in the world, and....
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 7:06:40 am PDT #2776 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.
I think Anthony Lane was wearing the cranky pants when he wrote that reveiw. (Probably when he saw the movie too.)
I agree with some of what he says, but his thesis seems to be, "Everthing in the Star Wars movies is stupid."
Although I'll have to see if I can incorporate "Break me a fucking give" into everyday conversation....
Betsy HP - May 16, 2005 8:42:37 am PDT #2777 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I think I need a "Break me a fucking give" icon.
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 8:46:23 am PDT #2778 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.
Although, wouldn't Yoda be more likely to say, "A fucking break give me"?
Betsy HP - May 16, 2005 8:48:33 am PDT #2779 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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Dana - May 16, 2005 8:49:29 am PDT #2780 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Why did I click? Why?
beekaytee - May 16, 2005 8:51:02 am PDT #2781 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Zardoz
The single most excrutiating movie experience of my ever-lovin' life.
Bar. None.
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 8:58:09 am PDT #2782 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.
From IMDB:
In the distant future Earth is divided into two camps, the barely civilized group and the overly civilized one with mental powers. A plague is attacking the second group after which it's members cease to have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic. When Sean Connery one of the barbarians, crosses over, the tenuous balance in their world is threatened.
Brutals are told that when they die they will go to the vortex, where the Eternals live immortally. Zed, an Exterminator-class brutal who worships the stone head Zardoz, comes upon an old library where a mysterious stranger teaches him how to read. When he finds a copy of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he sets out to learn the secret of the god he worships, and disrupts life in the vortex.
C'mon - how could this possibly be bad?