A Silent Bob one would be kinda cool, except Kevin Smith makes me itch.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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§ ita § - Oct 12, 2006 4:13:11 pm PDT #4707 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Oct 12, 2006 8:11:31 pm PDT #4708 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ dug into my Val Lewton box set tonight and we watched The Body Snatchers. Holy shit, that's a great horror movie. Fantastic look (using standing sets from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Magnificent Ambersons), dark, morally ambiguous. Probably Karloff's greatest performance - very sly and sardonic and menacing. Yet weirdly soulful.
Like most Lewton films (this was directed by Robert Wise), it looks and feels a lot like a noir.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 13, 2006 8:47:04 am PDT #4709 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
I want to see Marie Antoinette and Pan's Labyrinth so much I'm attributing that sharp pain in my chest and numb feeling in my left hand to it.
esse - Oct 13, 2006 10:38:54 am PDT #4710 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I really want to see Marie Antoinette. And I dislike Kirsten Dunst immensely. But those trailers, with New Order, are just captivating.
Jessica - Oct 13, 2006 10:42:18 am PDT #4711 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And I dislike Kirsten Dunst immensely.
This movie will not make you like her, unfortunately. She's being directed in a very specifically stylized manner (as is everyone else), and while it works for what the film is trying to achieve, it's not very flattering to her acting abilities.
(But go see the movie anyway! It's almost great!)
Aims - Oct 13, 2006 10:43:45 am PDT #4712 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I want to go because it'll be very very very pretty. I'm very into 18th century dress.
Amy - Oct 13, 2006 10:45:23 am PDT #4713 of 10001
Because books.
I want to go because it'll be very very very pretty.
Aimee is me. It looks like costume eye candy. Which is much the way I felt about The Age of Innocence, and the sets/costumes for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Atropa - Oct 13, 2006 10:46:44 am PDT #4714 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I want to go because it'll be very very very pretty.
The exact reason I will go see it. I expect to spend most of the movie going "Oooh! Want that dress! Oooh, shoes pretty!"
esse - Oct 13, 2006 10:49:37 am PDT #4715 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
This movie will not make you like her, unfortunately.
Yeah, well, I dislike the actual Marie Antoinette as well. She was a twit. So I'm not surprised.
Jess, do they actually use more modern music as the soundtrack to the film? Or is it just in the trailer?
I am not a fan of 18th century dress. (Except for sea captains. *coughJackAubreycough*) And France at that time was entirely too white-focused for my tastes.
Jessica - Oct 13, 2006 10:51:03 am PDT #4716 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jess, do they actually use more modern music as the soundtrack to the film?
Yes, the entire soundtrack is pop music, and it works brilliantly.