I mean, if it hadn't been those Transformers, it wouldn't have been funny. But it was!
That's exactly it. It's impossible to take them seriously, therefore Teh Funny.
Jayne is a girl's name.
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juliana - Jul 17, 2006 9:24:27 am PDT #2941 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Strega - Jul 17, 2006 9:26:51 am PDT #2942 of 10001
Lee -- I think POTC whitefont goes minimal this Friday, since it'll have been out for 2 weeks then.
it was just so cheesy and silly and then with the logo unfurling
This. The super-serious treatment is what's funny. It's a freaking Transformers movie!
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2006 9:42:38 am PDT #2943 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The super-serious treatment is what's funny. It's a freaking Transformers movie!
Not only that - isn't it a sooper-serious Michael Bay Transformers movie?
beekaytee - Jul 17, 2006 9:50:04 am PDT #2944 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
All the PotC talk (and seeing it last Friday) has renewed my lurve for the best piratical book I've ever seen/read/heard of..."Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates." I heart me some David Cordingly commentary on all things pirate. Including a statement that had me musing all weekend. Imagine a life before (read: without) Stevenson's Treasure Island.
I can't do it!
brenda m - Jul 17, 2006 9:54:30 am PDT #2945 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Discovery Channel had an interesting special on last week (and probably still) on the real Caribbean pirates. (ETA: actually I think maybe it was the History Channel)
Ailleann - Jul 17, 2006 10:16:57 am PDT #2946 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I was catching up, and I was going to say something about the compass, and how Jack can't get it to work because he doesn't know what he wants most . But now I can just say "what Hec said." Also, I thought I mentioned something in whitefont about the necklaces matching , but I was a little squeetastic at the time, so I might have forgotten.
Also, I figured that the cannibal sequence was in there because running away from cannibals is funny.
Sean K - Jul 17, 2006 10:19:26 am PDT #2947 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
(ETA: actually I think maybe it was the History Channel)
Yeah, it was the History Channel. They were doing a pirate thing all week.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2006 10:24:52 am PDT #2948 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
One of the best laughs I can recall at Gencon was a screening of some spoof-dubbed animé movie cobbled together from various series like Macross and Neon Genesis. At one point, a spaceship changed shape into battle configuration and they overdubbed the Transformers sound effect. The whole room fell out laughing.
beekaytee - Jul 17, 2006 11:14:32 am PDT #2949 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
The entire shish-ka-Jack, running from cannibals scene gave me a headache.
But I recognized one of the women mocking him. (the one on the left) Not sure where I've seen her before, but her mouth is very distinctive.
eta: I'm dyslexic, I don't even have a 50/50 chance of identifying a direction correctly!
Volans - Jul 17, 2006 11:18:14 am PDT #2950 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Ugh. Just watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The trailer for it was far far better than the movie itself.