" Wait! Stop! Reverse that!"
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
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Frankenbuddha - Aug 14, 2006 9:30:34 am PDT #3473 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Polter-Cow - Aug 14, 2006 9:31:26 am PDT #3474 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's "Wait, strike that. Reverse it!"
("So much time, so little to do!")
Sean K - Aug 14, 2006 10:31:03 am PDT #3475 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
From this MSNBC article on guilty pleasure movies (quote is from page 3):
Mention “Titanic” to educated, cultured folk and there’s a good chance you’ll be met with condescending sniffs and, if you’re lucky, a defiant declaration that they’ve never seen it, accompanied by a proud refusal to even brook the notion. To which I say: Shut up. What they miss is that the drippy love story isn’t what the film is about at all. It’s merely the mechanism though which we see the film’s true subject — the boat. The reason Rose is in first class and Jack is from steerage isn’t to show that love conquers all, it’s to provide an all-access pass to every section of the ship as it steams towards its doom. Chaining Jack below decks after the iceberg may smack of melodrama, but it also keeps him and Rose at water level almost the entire time and prevents them from abandoning ship before the precise moment when it becomes completely submerged. The result is that we're right there with the ship every second of the way as it slowly, inch by inch, goes to its death. James Cameron's earlier films occasionally slipped into techno-porn. This was his love song to a giant slab of steel. -Marc Hirsh
He makes a very convincing argument. The things I like about Titanic all have Cameron techno-porn at their roots.
Polter-Cow - Aug 14, 2006 10:33:30 am PDT #3476 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh yeah. What I love about Titanic has nothing to do with the love story. It's everything else.
Dude! I know the guy who wrote the Shakes the Clown bit.
Hey! He wrote the bit about Titanic too! Go Marc.
Hayden - Aug 14, 2006 10:36:06 am PDT #3477 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've never seen it (sniff).
Aims - Aug 14, 2006 10:39:22 am PDT #3478 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Shut up.
bon bon - Aug 14, 2006 10:39:26 am PDT #3479 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
This was his love song to a giant slab of steel.
One reason why people who saw the movie also think it's not a good movie. Not to mention his "love song" to a full hour of people dying in horrific ways.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 14, 2006 10:41:32 am PDT #3480 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I liked Victor Garber. And the band that went down with the ship.
Tom Scola - Aug 14, 2006 10:42:27 am PDT #3481 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's love song to fencing.
Hayden - Aug 14, 2006 10:45:20 am PDT #3482 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Shut up.
(chastised)