'Destiny'
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.
I'm objecting to Madagascar on the grounds that penguins (and most of the other animals pictured in the ads) are not native to Madagascar. The island is sometimes referred to as the 8th continent because, despite its proximity to the African coast, it has not had a land connection in a real real long time. So aside from flying things, it has two large animals in common with Africa: big crocodiles and pygmy hippos.
Le sigh. I had this trouble with a singing deaf-mute, too.
But that's the point of the movie -- they are zoo animals who end up in Madagascar as a result of wacky hijinks.
Also, the penguins are psychotic.
Ismail Merchant, as in "a Merchant-Ivory film", has died. [link]
The final Star Wars movie Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith has been slated by outraged fans, because it's riddled with continuity errors. Viewers have inundated website Moviemistakes.Com complaining director George Lucas's blockbuster contains 14 glaring mistakes. One film fan says of the latest film, "When he is telling Anakin how proud he is of him, Obi-wan's eye color shifts from Ewan McGregor's natural blue-green eyes to a dark brown." Another fumes, "When Samuel L. Jackson says, 'I don't think the boy can handle it, I don't trust him,' his lips don't match his dialogue." But the mistakes in the current release are nothing compared to the original 1977 film Episode IV - A New Hope which contained 214 mistakes, and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back, which contained 144 errors.
In the words of Mission of Burma, that's when I reach for my revolver. Pistol whippings for the lot of 'em. The one thing a fanboy cannot stand is a worse fanboy, and there's always a worse fanboy.
Some people are really, really, really unclear on the care and feeding of geeks.
My employer is sponsoring a free showing of the new Star Wars movie for its employees... June 2 and 3.
At 9:00 A.M.
There's a 9 a.m.?
My employer is sponsoring a free showing of the new Star Wars movie for its employees... June 2 and 3.
Talk about closing the barn door after the geeks have escaped.
Sounds like that showing's for the tragically unhip who wish they could be geeks, now that geeks are cool.
Any cred to the rumor that Tom Stoppard helped write the screenplay for ROTS?
If there is, he should commit hari-kari now before anyone can confirm the rumor.