Did they enjoy carrots, by any chance?
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Nutty - Sep 21, 2006 5:22:39 pm PDT #4480 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Sean K - Sep 21, 2006 7:41:19 pm PDT #4481 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
They LOVED carrots!
Frankenbuddha - Sep 22, 2006 4:15:11 am PDT #4482 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
A lot of people whom I've only thought moderately funny since killed me in Diner.
HMOG yes. Reiser & Guttenberg without a doubt (though I love hating Reiser in Aliens). I've liked Kevin Bacon and Ellen Barkin as much since. I've liked Daniel Stern, but he's never been as funny. I've liked Mickey Rourke occasionally, but I don't remember him ever being funny on purpose since.
The scene in the strip club with Daly and Guttenberg, when Daly starts playing the piano and Guttenberg jumps up to dance with the stripper is one of my all time favorite scenes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 22, 2006 5:57:30 am PDT #4483 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
I'm sure Weber is a very nice guy, and I'd have no problem at all with him if he'd stay off my TV instead of chewing the scenery in a craptastic Stephen King adaptation every three months.
sumi - Sep 22, 2006 6:08:57 am PDT #4484 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, if Studio 60 lasts, he won't have much time for Stephen King adaptations. Unless his character is only recurring, not regular.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2006 12:20:11 pm PDT #4485 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Expressing displeasure over the fact that the theme of martial arts movies is "always revenge," Jet Li has told the Los Angeles Times that he will no longer make such films. Li made his remarks on the eve of the opening of his latest film, Fearless, about a Chinese martial arts master who died in 1910. "In this movie and in my past three movies, I continue to say that violence is not any solution," Li told the Times.He said that he had become concerned that the spirit of martial arts, wushu, had become lost in movies, especially when young people confronted him. "On the street, I see a lot of young teenagers saying, 'Hey, Jet Lit. Beat up somebody! Fight! Fight!" The true meaning of wushu, he said, is "stop fighting."
Hmm. Well, revenge is a good reason for people who don't bo battle all the time to do battle. And those are more sympathetic people than the constant fighters. So the revenge thing makes sense.
Seems like he's either giving up the genre as being irredeemably tainted, or conceding that he can't or doesn't want to fix it. Shame.
But he hasn't been in any great English language movies...and I'm behind on his Chinese/HK ones of late.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 22, 2006 1:45:58 pm PDT #4486 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
I'd wondered about those "Jet Li's LAST martial arts movie!" promos. And googled to see if he died in August while I was getting almost no exposure to news.
Nutty - Sep 22, 2006 2:32:01 pm PDT #4487 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think the real story is that Jet Li has knees made of brie, and canna do the fighty-fight thing at full throttle any more, and would rather retire to some other role than be diminished gradually on celluloid.
He retired pretty early from competition for the same reason, IIRC.
(He is so charming, when he's not doing the fart-smelling acting thing. I don't know why he doesn't get romantic comedy roles. His English is pretty good too!)
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2006 2:38:51 pm PDT #4488 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He retired pretty early from competition for the same reason, IIRC.
Not so much brie as a torn ligament, which can (and does) happen to the hardiest of us.
Nutty - Sep 22, 2006 6:35:22 pm PDT #4489 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
You mean ligaments are not made of brie? The point was, he's not the sort for a comeback tour.
(I'm kind of surprised that's all it was -- ACL or something? People do come back from that in other sports. Although, I don't really follow sports where knees are used as weapons.)