Just watched Good Night and Good Luck. My Clooney love continues.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
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Cashmere - Apr 27, 2006 6:49:18 pm PDT #1562 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Volans - Apr 28, 2006 2:32:39 am PDT #1563 of 10001
move out and draw fire
A friend IM'd me at work yesterday to inform me that Keira Knightley has been voted World's Sexist Woman. Other sources tell me it was Angelina Jolie.
Anyway.
Watched The Frighteners last night (10th Anniversary DVD). It was actually a pretty good movie. One or two "but how...?" points, but some good writing and some good performances. Awesome work by Michael J. Fox. And R. Lee Ermey!
As usual with Wingnut, the art direction was awesome. Nothing scary about the movie at all, but the "creepy house" was perfect, and the "scary evil thing" was also well-designed.
PJ (half the man he used to be) introduced the movie, and talked a little on the extras, and it's so odd...the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.
JohnSweden - Apr 28, 2006 4:46:13 am PDT #1564 of 10001
I can't even.
the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.
I totally get this. When Richard Taylor was up getting the Oscar for effects for King Kong, I was all "Gumby's back!" Then wondered why I hadn't been invited for the afterparty with the fans like LOTR.
Nutty - Apr 28, 2006 5:46:27 am PDT #1565 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Of course, how old was Christian Rivers when The Frighteners came out? Seventeen? It's not a corporation; it's a fraternity. Once you've joined, you're in for life.
On the downside, imagine if you were a Kiwi and had a falling-out with Wingnut/Weta/Jackson/his posse. You'd have to move to a different country to work again!
Polter-Cow - Apr 28, 2006 6:39:21 am PDT #1566 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love The Frighteners. Totally underrated movie, I think. It's got that fun tonal shift from horror comedy to regular horror halfway through the movie. Few people have even heard about it, but I'll bet more people now because of the Peter Jackson connection.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2006 6:47:37 am PDT #1567 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Having just been subjected to (okay, I did occasionally laugh like a drain) Meet The Feebles, I'm thinking I need to reciprocate with The Frighteners. I was gonna go with Heavenly Creatures, but that I've seen before.
Hayden - Apr 28, 2006 7:12:16 am PDT #1568 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
This is devastating. Jennifer Dawson, whom some of y'all might remember as a TT poster and others might know as Matt Zoller Seitz's wife, died suddenly yesterday of unknown causes.
sumi - Apr 28, 2006 7:21:35 am PDT #1569 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
How horrible and how sad.
Glamcookie - Apr 28, 2006 10:59:56 am PDT #1570 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Good Night and Good Luck
Thoroughly enjoyed this as well, and I have no Clooney love.
erikaj - Apr 28, 2006 11:04:04 am PDT #1571 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
None, at all? Or just platonic.