Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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Calli - Jul 05, 2005 7:17:48 am PDT #5191 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

because SV has had like fifty thousand storylines where people are either possessed or controlled or seduced or anything at all that allows their actions to be completely without reproach, thereby giving the appearance of character development without actually developing characters.

Mostly, I think it's for the appearance of various actors in revealing outfits. And in the case of MR and TW I'm pretty much ok with it.

So not watching for the plots.

Re: trailers. The second time I saw Batman Begins I got both the Serenity and Willy Wonka trailers. The first time, neither one. Both times I saw BB at the same theater. No idea what's up with that.


Jessica - Jul 05, 2005 7:23:39 am PDT #5192 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Most big chain theatres change their preview reels every month, so if you saw it in June and July, you'd have gotten different previews.


§ ita § - Jul 05, 2005 7:25:42 am PDT #5193 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't know if studios charge too much for their movies, since I've been assured that movies never make profits.

I don't understand that, though -- the profit must be coming from somewhere, or we'd have much fewer of them.


Calli - Jul 05, 2005 7:25:44 am PDT #5194 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Ah, three clicks to enlightenment. Thanks, Jessica!


Fay - Jul 05, 2005 7:26:03 am PDT #5195 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I've never even heard of the Fantastic Four before the movie info came out.

Wow. Wow. That's - wow.

But you'd heard of The X Men before their movie came out, yes?

signed, seemingly more of a comic geek than she realised.

(fwiw, I think Jessica Alba looks horrendous with blonde hair. Just awful. Awful awful awful. But I remain cautiously optimistic, nevertheless.)


Sean K - Jul 05, 2005 7:29:59 am PDT #5196 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I don't know if studios charge too much for their movies, since I've been assured that movies never make profits.

Most movies make a profit, just not on the books. At least, that's the way the shell game has been explained to me. They do all make money, but the studio will include all the promotion, shipping, tie-ins.... Any other costs they can think of so they movie never makes a profit on the books.


sumi - Jul 05, 2005 7:30:08 am PDT #5197 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Umm, there there is going to be a fifth Highlander movie and Adrien Paul is producing it.

Also, so the print of Bats at the IMAX is not just the regular print, but the IMAX print, right?

(Because one of the times that I saw RotK was at the IMAX and it was disappointing.)

Got both Serenity and Willy Wonka and, sadly, Dukes of Hazzard this weekend too.

Luckily, we didn't have to sit through a full trailer for WotW.


Dana - Jul 05, 2005 7:33:54 am PDT #5198 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Umm, there there is going to be a fifth Highlander movie and Adrien Paul is producing it.

Oh, dear. (Is Methos going to be in it?)


Jars - Jul 05, 2005 7:36:13 am PDT #5199 of 10002

Is Methos going to be in it?

This.

The last time I watched the original Highlander movie I was sitting on a pontoon on the Nile. It was incredibly surreal.


sumi - Jul 05, 2005 7:48:15 am PDT #5200 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I caught no mention of him in this article.