It'd still be the kindest bit of nation-building our country has ever done.
That's disturbing. You're emotionally scarred and will end up badly.
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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erikaj - Jan 23, 2006 10:38:51 am PST #101 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Narrator - Jan 23, 2006 12:30:03 pm PST #102 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I suspect my VCR doesn't even work. Last time I powered it on, it ate a friend's tape. I think it's sulking about my Netflix queue being 400 discs deep.
Sounds like my VCR. It had a personality of its own. Also, its own posting name ("Narrator's VCR") at another board, where it would post in triumph each time it ate my tape or failed to record something.
juliana - Jan 23, 2006 3:33:00 pm PST #103 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
For JZ, if she ever used LiveJournal.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 23, 2006 7:37:35 pm PST #104 of 10001
"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
My first VCR would not play any rental copy of My Stepmother Is an Alien no matter what chain or individual store I got it from. Either there was something odd about the tape manufacture or it REALLY didn't like Kim Basinger's outfits.
I wish I'd had the chance to try and tape it off broadcast TV to find out for sure.
JZ - Jan 24, 2006 5:10:08 am PST #105 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oooh, pretty, juliana!
Relatedly but oh so trivially, are you now also in agreement that Rachel McAdams is on teh crack for going all blonde since arriving in the US? As a brunette - cuter than a bug's ear, doesn't look quite like any other ingenue out there (possibly Kate Beckinsale 1.0.ColdComfort, a little) but does look like someone you'd know, someone you'd want to know. Blonde - pretty but shockingly generic starlet. Even Hec, who has a great eye for faces, had to stare and stare at the first blonde picture of her we saw, frowning and saying, "I know her, we've seen her in something," for almost two full minutes before he figured her out. If she's blonded herself all on her own, her manager ought to gently but firmly smack her. If her manager or another handler suggested it, I'll pay ita cash money to deliver that handler an ungentle smackdown.
Oh, shit, topic... having staggered through two-thirds of Van Helsing, I really need to rent or Tivo Cold Comfort Farm. How can the same actress possibly have played a central role in both films?
§ ita § - Jan 24, 2006 5:12:10 am PST #106 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, you Helsing hatahs. On the other hand, the same actress has now done two Underworlds. Cold Comfort Farm and recognisability may be far in her rearview mirror.
Tom Scola - Jan 24, 2006 5:20:48 am PST #107 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
JZ, you can borrow my copy of CCF if you want. She's hardly recognizable as the same person.
Dana - Jan 24, 2006 5:45:33 am PST #108 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Cold Comfort Farm was actually on one of the cable channels last week. It's weird to see Clive Owen and Ian McKellan in it too.
Tom Scola - Jan 24, 2006 5:47:27 am PST #109 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Ian McKellen really chews his way through the entire movie. It's wonderful.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 24, 2006 6:24:37 am PST #110 of 10001
"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 think Beckinsale turns in a respectable acting job in both Underworld movies, although they're mired in two confusing muddles of plot wherein her apparently ADD hubby reacts to any inconsistencies by whitewashing them in gunfire and speeded-up action sequences.
As for Van Helsing? I got nuthin'.