I love the part with the snakes.
BWAH!!
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
Xander ,'Showtime'
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tommyrot - Mar 17, 2006 7:06:56 am PST #1025 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2006 7:10:25 am PST #1026 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think I'm in love with its brazen badness.
To paraphrase the NYT review of The Producers (the stage vesion):
"Never have I seen a movie preview so drunk on its own power to convey schlocky badness...."
Dana - Mar 17, 2006 8:30:11 am PST #1027 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Polter-Cow - Mar 17, 2006 9:12:09 am PST #1028 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
HA! That was great.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2006 9:19:11 am PST #1029 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bwah --
Depe did we stepe ourselves in drinke. Thenne – and by the waye ich assume thou wilt kepe this knowledge from dere Philippa! – we dide thynges that wolde make Alanus of Lille his hede explode. We dide thynges that wolde make Peter Damyan spontaneouslie combuste. We dide thynges that are notte even listede in Burchard of Worms. Rim, ram, ruf!
At morwe-tyde, he sayde me, “Thou knowst I am not of the scole of Edwarde II.”
“Me neithere,” quod I “‘Tis nobodies privitee but oures.”
Kathy A - Mar 17, 2006 9:30:24 am PST #1030 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Loved the take on Brokeback Mountain, but being the medieval lit geek that I am, I'm in awe that he managed to slash Chaucer and the Pearl-poet.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2006 10:04:10 am PST #1031 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
William Gibson's review of V for Vendetta, from his blog:
Just back from V FOR VENDETTA. More thumbs up than a Chernobyl pianist. Superb. Splendid. Heartening. Go see.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2006 10:07:29 am PST #1032 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It seems to have gotten mixed reviews so far.
However, "More thumbs up than a Chernobyl pianist" is teh awesome....
Sean K - Mar 17, 2006 10:09:50 am PST #1033 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I read Salon's review of V for Vendetta this morning. Stephanie Zacharek didn't like it, but then again, I don't like Zacharek's reviews very often. She always comes across as a little too snooty for my tastes, and doesn't seem to be able to just sit back and enjoy a movie (not all movies are FILMS, okay...), and to the best of my knowledge, she's never liked a comic book film, and seems to always want to dump on them.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2006 10:12:07 am PST #1034 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't think there's any way this movie was going to be universally liked -- the subject matter alone is going to turn a lot of people off, let alone that it's a comic book adaptation. So mixed reviews, in this case, are a good sign, I think.
I really want to see it again.