I wasn't sure if the guinea-pire scene was supposed to be as funny as it was
I think it was, but I may just be flashing back to the Avengers which had more than it's share of black humor.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
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Frankenbuddha - Oct 17, 2005 8:56:19 am PDT #8032 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Cashmere - Oct 17, 2005 11:47:39 am PDT #8033 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
From the Files of Wrongness. I've never seen Meet Joe Black (thankfully). Today I was flipping through the channels and found it. DH said, "Leave it, it's close to the moment of the funniest hit-by-a-car scene in movie history."
Am I wrong? This scene wasn't supposed to be hilarious, was it? I'm glad I didn't see it in the theatre. I laughed. A lot. Brad Pitt flew through the air (albeit digitially) like a muppet shot from a cannon.
Anne W. - Oct 17, 2005 11:49:01 am PDT #8034 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Brad Pitt flew through the air (albeit digitially) like a muppet shot from a cannon.
This actually makes me want to see the movie. Or maybe just that one bit of it.
Sean K - Oct 17, 2005 11:50:41 am PDT #8035 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It is pretty funny. (Yes, I've seen Meet Joe Black. Sick with nothing else on cable will do that to you sometimes)
Cashmere - Oct 17, 2005 11:53:41 am PDT #8036 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
This actually makes me want to see the movie. Or maybe just that one bit of it.
It's *almost* worth sitting through the whole thing. I said, "almost."
erikaj - Oct 17, 2005 11:55:22 am PDT #8037 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Most boring movie I've EVER seen.
Mr. Broom - Oct 17, 2005 12:02:55 pm PDT #8038 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
We heckled the sex scene. It was flatter than just about any I've ever seen, and given its length compared to the godawful length of the movie, makes Brad Pitt look like a short-timer in the sack. Which was funny.
Nutty - Oct 17, 2005 12:48:51 pm PDT #8039 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Brad Pitt flew through the air like a muppet shot from a cannon.
There needs to be a whole movie about this topic.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 17, 2005 1:34:31 pm PDT #8040 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
"Leave it, it's close to the moment of the funniest hit-by-a-car scene in movie history."
I'd argue that a similar scene with Lisa Kudrow in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion should be the winner of that title.
I saw both 9 Songs and Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit yesterday. Both enjoyable, though you could hardly imagine movies more different.
The former had a very Northern European feel to me despite being British-made. Similar feel, if somewhat darker, to the cinema verité of Italian for Beginners. And oddly the feeling of absolute reality in all its bleakness helped keep the explicit sex from seeming expoitative despite taking up a fairly large chunk of the movie. Plus, I loved the concert footage, particularly from the Franz Ferdinand performance.
I can't really say much about Wallace & Gromit that hasn't already been said, but it was a wonderfully enjoyable film.
Strega - Oct 17, 2005 1:47:04 pm PDT #8041 of 10002
Today I was flipping through the channels and found it. DH said, "Leave it, it's close to the moment of the funniest hit-by-a-car scene in movie history."
That's just weird, because I did the exact same thing on Sunday, only there was nobody to explain what was happening. I was channel-surfing. There was Brad Pitt. Then a car hit him. Then I laughed and laughed. Then I desperately tried to figure out what the hell I'd stumbled upon. Eventually I saw Hopkins and figured it out. And went back to surfing.