Count me in among those who didn't like Lebowski until the second viewing.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
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Scrappy - Nov 06, 2006 9:42:58 am PST #5532 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
ChiKat - Nov 06, 2006 9:44:29 am PST #5533 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I tried watching Lebowski yesterday, but it just didn't grab me. Partly, I was really tired.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 06, 2006 9:46:37 am PST #5534 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Slate had, on last count, sixteen thousand articles on Borat, one even opening with 'I know we're all sick of Borat...'
Polter-Cow - Nov 06, 2006 9:48:59 am PST #5535 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Another digression from noir: does this person amuse you as much as she amuses me? I don't want to defend Borat, but how hard do you have to work to miss the point like this?
Er. Pretty hard, it seems. Although it was interesting to get the perspective of someone from the other side. I always wonder how they feel. Clearly...not very good!
Vonnie K - Nov 06, 2006 9:50:13 am PST #5536 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
While we're on the subject of The Big Lebowski, here is an awesome set of TBL livejournal icons. [link]
Also, for whose wanting to give the movie a second shot, TBL is best watched in 1) a group and 2) with some amount of alcohol in the system.
Hayden - Nov 06, 2006 9:50:28 am PST #5537 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I think we clearly all need Wonder Woman statues to keep Borat at bay.
Jessica - Nov 06, 2006 9:52:33 am PST #5538 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Some of Borat’s most famous segments do just that, such as when the comic, who is Jewish, cajoles patrons in a country-western bar to sing “Throw the Jew down the well” to expose covert anti-Semitism. But what exactly is he trying to unmask when he ridicules women?
Er, just at a guess...sexism? Which I realize isn't anywhere near as hilariously funny as anti-semitism, but hey, you take what you can get...
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 06, 2006 9:53:22 am PST #5539 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Wonder Woman statues
I first read that as Wonder Woman statutes and thought 'You Americans have laws for everything'
Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2006 10:31:19 am PST #5540 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
We're strange, but I don't think we're that strange.
Vonnie K - Nov 06, 2006 10:40:12 am PST #5541 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
TCM is running "A Foreign Affair", ( [link] ) at 11 PM tonight, a lesser-known Billy Wilder and one of my all-time favourites. Jean Arthur has this scene where she talks about an old lover who betrayed her for a political gain that completely shatters my heart (man, she was amazing in this film), and her romantic rival is played by Marlene Dietrich, who is 1) awesome, and 2) sings a couple of great musical numbers -- composed specifically for her by Frederick Hollander, if I recall. The only thing that kind of puts the damper on the film is that I was never convinced the male lead was all that -- certainly not interesting enough to make these two fabulous women fall for him anyway.