Hec is on fire with the witty repartee today.
::Preens::
Tell me about your new super fast skates. Please phrase your answer in the form of a review of Kansas City Bomber and/or Rollerball (the original) in deference to on-topicity.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 8:30:30 am PST #6552 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scrappy - Dec 21, 2006 9:14:54 am PST #6553 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hey, I can be on-topic without resorting to skating movies. Watch me:
I am beginning to get comfortable on my new skates, but still often look like a female version of Monsieur Hulot, struggling to combine my vulnerable humanity with modern technology with results that are both touching and hilarious.
Beverly - Dec 21, 2006 9:23:33 am PST #6554 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::applauds::
DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 9:29:32 am PST #6555 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I am beginning to get comfortable on my new skates, but still often look like a female version of Monsieur Hulot, struggling to combine my vulnerable humanity with modern technology with results that are both touching and hilarious.
::swoon::
JZ - Dec 21, 2006 9:53:19 am PST #6556 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Okay, that's it. You've done it, Robin. While I'm cooling my heels here waiting for UPS to arrive with Emmett's Christmas present, you have now left me no choice but to while away the afternoon watching M. Hulot's Holiday. Oh, how shall I ever bear it?
DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 10:08:15 am PST #6557 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
you have now left me no choice but to while away the afternoon watching M. Hulot's Holiday. Oh, how shall I ever bear it?
Don't eat all the molasses cookies before I get home.
Sean K - Dec 21, 2006 10:14:05 am PST #6558 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I heard a piece on the radio yesterday about Cuaron's new movie Children of Men, and how it has a seven minute long action sequence, with tanks, bombs, bullets, and running around, shot in a single, unedited take. Apparently it took four or five attempts, and they almost didn't pull it off. In fact, on the last take, which is the one they ended up using, some blood got on the lens and Cuaron yelled "cut," but just at that moment one of the bigger explosives went off and nobody heard him, so he let it keep going. It was the last try they were going to get before they lost the location.
When they finished, star Clive Owen and the camera man (who by necessity spent the entire shot running alongside Owen, and sometimes running backwards in front of him over obstacles and up stairs) were giddy at having finished the shot. When Cuaron told them "yeah, but we got blood on the lens," implying that the shot was ruined, they both looked at him and said "yeah, but that was the best part," at which point Cuaron realized they were right.
Now I have to see Children of Men just for this legendary shot.
Theodosia - Dec 21, 2006 10:18:10 am PST #6559 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Cuaron is dangerously close to getting on my "they get to make whatever they want, forever, and I'll be there" list, along with Jackson and Miyazaki and Almodovar.
erikaj - Dec 21, 2006 10:26:42 am PST #6560 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I saw the '62 "Manchurian Candidate" yesterday because KO compared the Bush Admin to power-mad Angela Lansbury(My fake boyfriends are *so* fricking smart.) Frank was really really good in it, in a way I wouldn't have credited, having seen footage from his "Fuck You, I'm An Icon," period.(kudos Mr. S. Sorry I underestimated you.) Angela Lansbury is Neo-Con Evil...smiley puppetmaster.
Aims - Dec 21, 2006 10:30:46 am PST #6561 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The best it to watch that Manchurian Candidate and then watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Makes for much surreal fun.