Egad. Grave of the Fireflies is on the Asian Channel.
Note to the Hormonally Challenged Pregnant Lady to NOT be watching the angst-ridden melodramatic Japanese Anime.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Cashmere - Oct 25, 2005 4:35:01 pm PDT #8255 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Polter-Cow - Oct 25, 2005 5:13:47 pm PDT #8256 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Shopgirl is a nice movie. I don't remember enough specifics about the book to tell how faithful an adaptation it is, but I think it was good.
Gris - Oct 25, 2005 5:47:09 pm PDT #8257 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Reading about "interesting deaths" popped various images from Final Destination and Final Destination 2 into my head. Terrible movies, seriously, but whoever wrote them had a knack for freaky-ass death. Great combination of the long drawn-out tease deaths (the first death in the sequel, especially, where there's about 25 things that you THINK are gonna kill the guy before he actually dies), the merely nauseating (the elevator death in the sequel), to the almost comedic (the train hitting the metal thing and decapitating the guy in the first one), with the (rare) occasionally actually scary one: the first death in the first movie, for example, is quite creepifying.
Gandalfe - Oct 25, 2005 7:05:31 pm PDT #8258 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Grave of the Fireflys is the most depressing movie ever.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2005 7:49:59 pm PDT #8259 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Grave of the Fireflys is the most depressing movie ever.
Maybe you've never seen Ponette.
Volans - Oct 25, 2005 8:35:30 pm PDT #8260 of 10002
move out and draw fire
The only thing that I have to watch through my fingers is people embarrasing themselves.
Jars and I clearly share a brain.
Mr. Broom - Oct 25, 2005 9:14:15 pm PDT #8261 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
I'm getting in on that share action. Movies whose premises center around the constant embarrassment of the main character make me squirm with dislike. Trailers were enough to convince me I would hate Meet the Parents, and clips forced on me by others confirmed it.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 26, 2005 2:25:46 am PDT #8262 of 10002
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
I can't think of any that I couldn't actually watch though.
There's a scene 25 minutes into the recent British film The Descent that had me considering leaving the theatre. It played to a particular phobia of mine.
Anne W. - Oct 26, 2005 2:35:00 am PDT #8263 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The only thing that I have to watch through my fingers is people embarrasing themselves.
Oh, hell yes. I have a visceral loathing for most "comedy" based on this premise. There are a few exceptions to this rule (mostly involving Steve Martin), but I generally don't find that sort of thing funny at all.
Dana - Oct 26, 2005 5:33:43 am PDT #8264 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
whoever wrote them had a knack for freaky-ass death.
Pretty sure Morgan and Wong, of X-Files fame, wrote the first one (which also explains the presence of Kristen Cloke).