Brokeback Mntn. is finally opening here tomorrow. I'm wondering who I can get to see it with me. Because I don't want to go alone to a movie that I know is going to make me cry like a little bitch, but then there aren't a whole lot of friends I'm willing to wail and howl in front of, especially at the movies. Hmmm.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Steph L. - Jan 05, 2006 11:18:17 am PST #9602 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
sumi - Jan 05, 2006 11:20:06 am PST #9603 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
So over my Christmas break I didn't see ANY of the movies I planned to see.
Instead, I saw the Producers which was enjoyable.
I've been thinking that a Heath Ledger doublefeature -- with the tearjerker followed by the fluff might be fun. Or would the contrasting tone be TOO much?
§ ita § - Jan 05, 2006 11:22:48 am PST #9604 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I did that, sumi, with a few hours inbetween. Felt good. But I've loved him for a long time.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 05, 2006 11:50:16 am PST #9605 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
I haven't even seen Brokeback Mountain yet, and already some things are changed forever. Case in point: the clip art index circa 1994 that I'm looking through has one cowboy posed in the foreground with elbow on knee and the back of his other hand at his hip, watching another cowboy ride a bucking bronco (with his left arm extended and wrist sharply downturned). I'm pretty sure that the eyeline of the former running directly to the latter's ass wasn't intentional back when it was drawn.
Trudy Booth - Jan 05, 2006 11:55:08 am PST #9606 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm wondering who I can get to see it with me. Because I don't want to go alone to a movie that I know is going to make me cry like a little bitch, but then there aren't a whole lot of friends I'm willing to wail and howl in front of, especially at the movies. Hmmm.
Man, you desperately need a gay boyfriend, don't you?
Jesse - Jan 05, 2006 12:06:29 pm PST #9607 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, and I didn't even mean that as a diss on Heath -- it just seemed like he had had so much potential that kind of fizzled.
Jessica - Jan 05, 2006 12:28:12 pm PST #9608 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
tommyrot - Jan 05, 2006 12:30:30 pm PST #9609 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.
Blu-Ray should totally win the format wars, as it has a name that sounds like a sea creature or weapon or K-mart special.
Kalshane - Jan 05, 2006 12:44:08 pm PST #9610 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Maybe it ruins my geek-cred, but I'm leaning towards sitting on the sidelines and waiting until the smoke clears before deciding which style of next-gen DVD player to get.
Hayden - Jan 05, 2006 12:53:33 pm PST #9611 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
With Larry McMurtry as one of your screenwriters, I'm sure there were a whole bunch of nods to realism (all of which went over my head).
One of my co-workers was talking about the movie at lunch the other day and he kept saying "McMurtry thinks..." Apparently his son and McMurtry's grandson (James McM's son) are good friends and he had a chance to talk with Larry and James about the movie over the Xmas holiday. I can't remember any of the content of the McMurtry view on the movie (nothing was surprising about it, though), but his McMurtry impression was pretty funny. Apparently, both Larry and James mumble a lot and have a severe economy of words in conversations, just like the characters of their novels and songs, respectively.