Dr. Strangelove
Possibly my favorite movie of all time (it switches back and forth with TOUCH OF EVIL).
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Frankenbuddha - Jun 12, 2006 3:48:55 am PDT #2231 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Narrator - Jun 12, 2006 3:52:24 am PDT #2232 of 10001
The evil is this way?
(I've only read the book Fail-Safe. The DVD extras had the theatrical preview for Fail-Safe, which made we wanna see it.)
I saw it years ago. I remember it being very well done. Intense and more than a little disturbing. I remember being drained my it. I don't know if the film still carries that weight with me. George Clooney did a remake for TV a few years ago, which didn't hold my attention.
megan walker - Jun 12, 2006 4:24:50 am PDT #2233 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
One thing I noticed that amused me was the different on-screen pronunciations between the English version versus the French:
ra-ta-tou-ye French
rat-a-too-ee English
Well, it doesn't really make sense to me why you would have to have that bit for French speakers, but, given they made the choice to include it, I think that what they are going for is the fact that "y" is a semi-vowel in French that is pronounced "eee" with the "e" on the end here serving to make it sound like the 1 1/2 syllables that "touille" gets in French. It really should sound like there's a w in there: too-wee smushed together to make almost, but not quite, one syllable.
t /French professor on vacation with too much time on her hands during a boring soccer match.
Ailleann - Jun 12, 2006 5:30:51 am PDT #2234 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
...and what's the deal with the shuttlecock logo?
Isn't it a mouse nose? Or am I thinking of a different logo? (Saw the trailer for it on Cars, and now I am very excited about it.)
Saw Cars yesterday, and I loved it a lot. I still put it behind Incredibles and Nemo, but I did really enjoy it. I think it has a little more of an "older" plot, as compared to a movie like Monsters Inc. (not to diss Monsters Inc., as I love that film, but the story seems a little easier to grasp for younger kids...) The subplot of appreciate our recent history i.e. Route 66 made me all teary and want to go visit out west.
I also LOVED the short. Brilliant.
Eddie - Jun 12, 2006 5:32:33 am PDT #2235 of 10001
Your tag here.
Isn't it a mouse nose?
It is. I was just being silly.
Ailleann - Jun 12, 2006 5:57:43 am PDT #2236 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I was just being silly.
CARRY ON.
slinks off to have more coffee
"Let it go, Dad!"
Oooh, also, the music in Cars was excellent. Rascal Flatts and John Mayer, whee!
t /Cars likes carrots
Kalshane - Jun 12, 2006 8:10:34 am PDT #2237 of 10001
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.
Have now seen X2. I liked it better for about 2/3 of the movie. Then I kinda got impatient. A few things didn't make any sense, like why exactly did Jean get out of the plane, but upon further thought, I realize that it's not worth further thought.
That confused me at first too, and then on re-watch the first scene where Jean is making all the TVs and such freak out made me realize that it was her powers that were screwing up the electronics in the Blackbird, which is why she had to get out of it.
tommyrot - Jun 12, 2006 9:16:45 am PDT #2238 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.
George Clooney did a remake for TV a few years ago, which didn't hold my attention.
Oh yeah - wasn't that the live TV show?
Hayden - Jun 12, 2006 9:31:35 am PDT #2239 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
One more note about Once Upon A Time In The West: although the movie is about ~3 hours long, the script (by Leone, Bertolucci, and Dario Argento) was (notoriously) only 15 pages long.
beekaytee - Jun 12, 2006 9:37:17 am PDT #2240 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
George Clooney did a remake for TV a few years ago, which didn't hold my attention.
Oh yeah - wasn't that the live TV show?
I loved that version. And I was so glad to see the message available to Joe Sixpak...who probably didn't watch...but still.
t /anti-nuclear activist bias