Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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Jesse - Jun 06, 2005 9:11:04 am PDT #3788 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, there were five, and I had never heard of three of them, so I'm calling it 50/50 at this point.


Jessica - Jun 06, 2005 9:29:45 am PDT #3789 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I trust Empire more than either the Hollywood Reporter or Variety, so I'd say it looks pretty hopeful.

[eta: Empire liked Mr and Mrs Smith too.]


Volans - Jun 06, 2005 9:48:26 am PDT #3790 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Best alien ever

The beach ball? Yeah.

You know, I couldn't contribute to the Donnie Darko discussion because it's sitting on my shelf of To Watch. We've been putting off watching it because the DH wanted to get the one with the extra 26 minutes or whatever added back in. So I asked tonight, after having read Buffista commentary on DD, what those extra minutes were, and he tells me its the physics about the black hole/singularity thing.

Which is a key part of the science fiction game that I asked for the movie references for.

So does that count as a plate of shrimp?

(Probably not, but I'm tired)


Gris - Jun 06, 2005 9:49:46 am PDT #3791 of 10002
Hey. New board.

The funny thing is that all of Zach's student films (that I saw) were show-not-tell, almost to a fault -- gorgeous pacing and composition, very very very sparse writing.

I believe this, because I believe the first 80 minutes are fantastic show-not-tell. That's why it's annoying when he decides to monologue the points home that he's already made so clear in the last two big scenes.

Now, crossing my fingers for BB.


tommyrot - Jun 06, 2005 9:56:40 am PDT #3792 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.

The tech of Batman Begins: [link]

Somewhat spoilery, as to what the batsuit can do, etc....


Ailleann - Jun 06, 2005 11:54:00 am PDT #3793 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I am randomly earwormed with the song "Suddenly" from Xanadu.

I need to find that movie. Gene Kelly on roller skates? What's not to love?!?


Glamcookie - Jun 06, 2005 12:25:57 pm PDT #3794 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

The GF and I bought a copy of Xanadu a couple of years ago and it's far worse than we remembered. We didn't even watch the whole thing. It was quite a disappointment.


Aims - Jun 06, 2005 12:27:21 pm PDT #3795 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

That happened to me when I found a copy of "License to Drive." Just not as funny when you aren't 14.


Ailleann - Jun 06, 2005 12:58:38 pm PDT #3796 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

That's what I'm afraid of, GC. I know I've watched Xanadu a billion times, but all when I was much younger. I can't remember much about it, except Gene Kelly, how much the guy looks like a Gibb brother, the music that randomly pops into my head that I know all the lyrics to, and a strange sequence pitting modern (read: 80's) musicians against a swing band in some kind of band-off.

And I just read on the IMDB boards (scary, scary place) that someone thinks David Thewlis is in the band sequence. In one of the bands. This thought somehow makes me sad.

Until I think of David Thewlis as a glam rocker. Then I'm thinking of something else entirely. t in bunk


Ailleann - Jun 06, 2005 5:26:03 pm PDT #3797 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

And... glam David Thewlis killed the thread.

hangs head in shame

goes back to bunk