It really was! I think I wrote a five-page letter during the film.
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
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esse - Oct 19, 2006 5:42:21 am PDT #4798 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
DavidS - Oct 20, 2006 3:24:23 pm PDT #4799 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not quite movies, but I spent the morning minding the babby whilst JZ slept and poking around on the Avengers Forever website.
It's one of the coolest and most comprehensive show sites ever, and explains all the backstory on how/why Linda Thorson got cast, the great producer putsch of the last season, who Elizabeth Shepard was and with a lot of cool analysis and tidbits.
Sort of like the Buffy guide once was. But more comprehensive.
Damn. The Buffyguide was sooo good at one point.
Still also missing The Eleventh Hour.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2006 3:31:37 pm PDT #4800 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Watched some of The Protector. Admittedly, it was the Thai version with no dubbing or subtitles, but you have a long road to hoe to convince me that understanding what they're saying makes the movie significantly better.
I've been told I should have started with disk 2 of the VCD set, but this was from the same guy who didn't see fit to tell us we'd not understand 2/3 of the conversations.
It also features some painfully bad phonetic English which makes you realise how well Jackie Chan and Jet Li were doing.
SailAweigh - Oct 21, 2006 11:56:54 am PDT #4801 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
How the hell did Naomi Watts get first billing in King Kong? By virtue that she could scream louder than any of the leading men?
Frankenbuddha - Oct 21, 2006 12:59:03 pm PDT #4802 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
How the hell did Naomi Watts get first billing in King Kong? By virtue that she could scream louder than any of the leading men?
Well, that and having to have to display emotions other than "RUN AWAY!!!!" to the ping pong ball representing the effects to be named later.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 21, 2006 5:58:30 pm PDT #4803 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
The cynic in me thinks it's because she appeared in all the promotional material in that wet flesh-colored dress. Then again, she's more of a draw as a performer for me than Adrien Brody or Jack Black, and that movie was made pretty close on the heels of her fame from The Ring.
Gris - Oct 21, 2006 7:32:01 pm PDT #4804 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Yeah, Jack Black seems to be the only big-enoughname contender for first billing there, and if they gave it to him people might assume it was a comedy.
It makes sense to me. I mean, she did plenty of work. It's not like Neve Campbell being mentioned on the cover of Reefer Madness: The Musical for her one throwaway scene, and other even worse travesties I've seen.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 22, 2006 2:58:06 am PDT #4805 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Brody had won a best actor Oscar in recent years, but given that he seems to be emulating the post-Oscar career path of a best supporting actress winner...
megan walker - Oct 22, 2006 1:02:49 pm PDT #4806 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
In case anyone is interested, Amazon is currently selling the Criterion DVDs of Diabolique, Eyes Without a Face, and the original The Vanishing for under $20.
Sean K - Oct 22, 2006 1:37:24 pm PDT #4807 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
How the hell did Naomi Watts get first billing in King Kong?
Not even remotely as bad as Sting getting top billing for his less-than-ten-minutes appearance in Dune.