Just a bit more mocking of the Alice band (I love that phrase, as opposed to "hair band") and her other fashion choices might do the trick.
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Kathy A - Oct 19, 2005 12:35:43 pm PDT #8057 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Aims - Oct 19, 2005 12:44:28 pm PDT #8058 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I think that was my major problem with her in the book, Jess. Thanks for pointing it out. She wasn;t the least bit fun or mockable. She was just mean for no reason.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2005 1:44:27 pm PDT #8059 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
To make Jessica feel better about Doom. If that's possible.
Jessica -- if you're a Rock fangirl -- still untenable?
askye - Oct 19, 2005 2:49:29 pm PDT #8060 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I watched a bit of TMC last night and they had a biography on Bette Davis and I caught the part where she fought against the studio system and went to England and I guess either was sued or sued over the contract. There were other things about the studio system and how much control Jack Warner had over the final cuts of movies, etc. I don't know much about the studio system, but I was wondering when and how the studio system changed and ended.
Jessica - Oct 19, 2005 2:52:45 pm PDT #8061 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
To make Jessica feel better about Doom. If that's possible.
I still feel pretty bad. Better show me some more.
Jessica -- if you're a Rock fangirl -- still untenable?
I adore the Rock, but he really needs to be allowed to be funny, and this movie takes itself SO seriously. In the scenes that don't take place in near-total darkness, his arms are almost spectacular enough to distract from the script. Almost. (It's a really bad script, and he gets handed the biggest clunkers of all)
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2005 4:05:48 pm PDT #8062 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh dear. I had been going to see it.
Doom no more.
sumi - Oct 19, 2005 4:09:50 pm PDT #8063 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
So, I was watching my Batman Begins dvd (why no commentary?) when my cat Tanuki jumps up on the sofa and suddenly there is Willy Wonka in my Batman Begins!
I have NO idea what button on my remote she stepped on. . . but apparently the scene does run okay. It was that scene where College Boy Bruce comes home and Alfred tells him he's concerned about his future. . . boom Willy Wonka! It was . . . odd.
askye - Oct 19, 2005 4:14:54 pm PDT #8064 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
So, I was watching my Batman Begins dvd (why no commentary?)
I can't believe there isn't one. I was just watching the commercial and thinking how cool it would be to hear all the behind the scenes stuff and hear them talk about it.
Maybe they are waiting to put out some kind of special edition?
I just don't get current movies not having some kind of commentary, it's part of the joys of dvds.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2005 8:04:33 pm PDT #8065 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 Onion AV Club's A Decade Of Underrated Movies
Yay! They included Office Space, Starship Troopers and Dead Man.
Scrappy - Oct 20, 2005 6:49:33 am PDT #8066 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw Good Night and Good Luck last night. It was really very good, and I LOVE the way they used real footage of McCarthy. It's a more intimate movies than I expected, but once I got used to its scale, I dug it a lot. Strathairn has long been one of my favorite actors and he give a terrific performanc3e here--not showy but he really inhabits this man and gives him a complex interior life without seeming to "act" at all.