Still, I was sitting there watching the movie going
At the very least, Lois should have known to pull the shades up.
I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not. So where does that put you?
Book ,'Objects In Space'
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Jessica - Jul 03, 2006 5:47:30 am PDT #2621 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Jul 03, 2006 5:47:32 am PDT #2622 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.
Saw Downfall over the weekend. (It's the movie about Hitler's last days in the bunker, told largely from the POV of his secretary.) Damn, but I don't think I've ever seen a movie with half the suicides as this one. Very well made and acted. But there were many times I just wanted to yell at the TV, "You people are all insane."
erikaj - Jul 03, 2006 6:15:33 am PDT #2623 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Considering in every bit of trouble I've ever been in in my life, some kind soul wanted to take me to the hospital whether there was anything medical at issue, or not that part of Superman would feel like life, to me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 03, 2006 6:17:11 am PDT #2624 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
When reading about Hitler's lemming-like girlfriends, I always wondered how much Eva Braun knew about his track record. Then again, I suppose turning Der Fuhrer down wasn't exactly a safe course of action...
Sean K - Jul 03, 2006 6:19:58 am PDT #2625 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Animated Dragonlance movies well - at least one - is coming.
Ooh. Interesting. I liked the books when I was in high school, though they lost their shine for me after a while. Mostly because, as with most gaming books, you can kind of hear the dice rolling in the background, but also because they were rather simple and shallow (though still better than most D&D novels). Still, I think that's a quality that will lend itself well to an animated movie. ANd they had decent plots, so that will be good, too.
tommyrot - Jul 03, 2006 6:49:13 am PDT #2626 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.
Now I'm thinking "The Goebbels Children" would be a good band name....
(The six Goebbels children were murdered by Ms. Goebbels so they "would not have to live in a world without National Socialism" - i.e. Naziism.)
eta: Or maybe "The Goebbels Bunch."
Jars - Jul 03, 2006 7:05:52 am PDT #2627 of 10001
We're whitefonting history now? Heh.
Loved Downfall. And I did sit there screaming at the tv "You are all fucking psychos!" quite a bit.
tommyrot - Jul 03, 2006 7:06:51 am PDT #2628 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.
We're whitefonting history now? Heh.
Well, in case someone wants to see Downfall but hasn't yet and is unfamiliar with that bit of history....
Calli - Jul 03, 2006 7:09:03 am PDT #2629 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It reminds me of when folks were cut-tagging plotpoints from Troy on LJ. Although, to be fair, the movie did screw around with the Homeric version of events more than a little. Still, it made me giggle.
Scrappy - Jul 03, 2006 7:18:56 am PDT #2630 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I liked Superman way more than I expected. I am not sure Routh can actually act, but his limitations worked for this role. I loved Posey and Spacey and the snark. I don't thik I have ever seen the Jimmy Olsen actor before, but I thought he nailed it without being too much of caricature. I even liked Bosworth which I wasn't expecting.
There were lots of logical lapses, but one choice I liked a lot was that there was very little talking during the action sequences. People are trying to stay alive, and don't make long speeches or profess true love or describe epiphanies. That felt real to me.