Oh, don't do that...it's really fun. Bossy!Hec or no.
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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erikaj - Dec 07, 2006 11:33:25 am PST #6300 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2006 11:36:20 am PST #6301 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I need to watch some movies with Gloomcookie's GF.
Her original goal in life was to teach Women In Film. She would have rocked at it.
P.M. Marc - Dec 07, 2006 11:36:37 am PST #6302 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
People that don't like Bull Durham are simply bad human beings. I don't mean to impugn your taste, but it's a proven fact. Really, it's not even a question of taste, it's about your worth as human beings on this planet. Consider yourselves judged.
But it's BORING.
And tries way too hard to be Sexy.
It's like Smoov B, but sincere and with baseball.
BLEH.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2006 11:37:41 am PST #6303 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am going to see Bull Durham for the express purpose of not liking it, now.
Right on!
(Seriously, you'll probably enjoy it more that way than I did, since I'm sure a large part of my own antipathy towards the movie is that before I saw it, it was pitched to me by approximately twelve zillion people as The Best Movie Ever That Everyone With A Soul Loves And I Can't Believe You've Never Seen It You Have To See It So We Can Talk About How Great It Is. And it was...a completely standard romantic comedy. About baseball. Had it been sold as such, I would have adjusted my expectations accordingly.)
Jesse - Dec 07, 2006 11:38:38 am PST #6304 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And I hate High Society because I saw The Philadelphia Story first.
I don't remember which one I saw first, and I love them both! Each one has so many awesome qualitities!! Don't be a hater!
megan, I also enjoy quoting Shag with certain friends. WAY out of control, free love, bevos, etc.
Atropa - Dec 07, 2006 11:41:22 am PST #6305 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's like Smoov B, but sincere and with baseball.
Oh, how much do I love this phrase? Because yes, that's exactly the reaction I had to the bits I've seen.
Amy - Dec 07, 2006 11:42:10 am PST #6306 of 10001
Because books.
And it was...a completely standard romantic comedy. About baseball.
Exactly. I love a lot of it -- the "I like" speech, certainly -- and pretty much anything Annie Savoy said, but it's not, oddly, one I rewatch often.
I am a complete sucker for Field of Dreams, though. But I do hate Forrest Gump! I hated it at the time it came out, too, not on subsesquent rewatch, and was made to feel I'd betrayed my country or something.
Nutty - Dec 07, 2006 11:42:29 am PST #6307 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The only 30s movies I've seen are pretty much all gangster pictures. What does that say about me??
I can't say that the "see it in the theatre" experience always makes a difference for me, but, when you watch Lawrence of Arabia in widescreen on a 19" TV, you become aware that something is... lacking. Like a microscope, to see the characters. At the Brattle (which isn't that big a screen, even) it was a lot bigger and required less squinting.
Ben-Hur, same deal. That was in Squillo-opti-pana-tastic-vision or something, and the aspect ratio is such that in its original format it takes up only 1/3 the vertical space of a TV screen. Teeny tiny Charlton Heston, grimacing at the world!!
Krell machines seem Krellier
Ha!
Jessica - Dec 07, 2006 11:46:56 am PST #6308 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ben-Hur, same deal. That was in Squillo-opti-pana-tastic-vision or something, and the aspect ratio is such that in its original format it takes up only 1/3 the vertical space of a TV screen. Teeny tiny Charlton Heston, grimacing at the world!!
Unfortunately, Ben-Hur was also shot without any eye towards composition -- it's kind of a tragic waste of widescreen technology. The movie's worth watching for the homoerotic subtext and the chariot scene, but the only reason to see it on a big screen is if your TV is too small to make out the figures otherwise.
megan walker - Dec 07, 2006 11:47:58 am PST #6309 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan, I also enjoy quoting Shag with certain friends. WAY out of control, free love, bevos, etc.
Jesse, come on, it's not Shag, it's Shag: The Movie! The title alone cracks me up. Even my brother-in-law (who I'm sure has never sat through the whole thing) always says "beevo?" when asking if I want a beer.