Wow, that's a lot of hate.
Oh, you have NO idea! My hate is so freakin' pure.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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P.M. Marc - Jan 15, 2007 3:39:26 pm PST #7055 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
Gris - Jan 15, 2007 6:26:58 pm PST #7056 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Golden Globes over. My movie of choice (Pan's Labyrinth) did not win the Best Drama award. Of course, it wasn't nominated, so that wasn't too surprising. I WAS surprised to see that no Clint Eastwood movie was nominated for Best Drama, even though he made two - I thought that was illegal for US film awards - but then I saw that Letters From Iwo Jima is under best foreign-language film. Naturally. Because they always have to pair the Eastwood flicks against movies I strongly want to win things. (I haven't seen Letters and it may very well be fantastic, but I heartily dislked both Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby so I'm not holding my breath.)
Does anybody else think it's silly that Musicals are paired with Comedies by default? I mean, sure, Singin' in the Rain belonged with the comedies (if they had Golden Globes back then), and Chicago probably did as well. But Ray? Walk the Line? Dreamgirls? Last I checked, these were pretty dramatic. Seems unfair to pit them with the Little Miss Sunshines and Borats, thus basically removing the one big-name award comedies ever have a real shot at. (Though Ray didn't win, apparently, so perhaps my argument is less water-holdy than I thought, Sideways definitely falling under "comedy" in my head)
Of course, I'm still wondering why Lost in Translation was in the Comedy/Musical category all those years ago, so what do I know?
Invisible Green - Jan 15, 2007 6:40:45 pm PST #7057 of 10001
I don't understand why all the Running With Scissors noms were in the musical/comedy category either. The movie has a funny title, but other than that, it's straight melodrama.
megan walker - Jan 15, 2007 6:41:59 pm PST #7058 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Does anybody else think it's silly that Musicals are paired with Comedies by default?
I suppose, but I'm still more concerned with the fact that the Globes have followed in the lame footsteps of the Oscars in giving animated films a separate category. If it's hard to field five nominees, give the category a rest, especially at the GG where there is the Comedy/Musical category so that they don't have to compete with "serious" films.
Gris - Jan 15, 2007 6:52:58 pm PST #7059 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Yeah. None of the movies were spectacular this year - so why should they get a reward? I mean, The Lion King won the Comedy/Musical award the year it came out, and so did Toy Story 2. The Golden Globes has been pretty good about awarding good animated flicks in that category.
Jessica - Jan 18, 2007 9:38:30 am PST #7060 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
A high-definition format movie has made its way onto BitTorrent. A pirated copy of the hit science fiction movie Serenity has been ripped from a HD DVD disc and made available to users of the popular P2P file sharing protocol.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2007 9:40:39 am PST #7061 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's the signal, mei mei.
amych - Jan 18, 2007 9:45:21 am PST #7062 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The one that can't be stopped?
Zenkitty - Jan 18, 2007 9:51:54 am PST #7063 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I like this part:
the hit science fiction movie Serenity
HIT.
Is this the first HD movie to be pirated? Is that like an award?
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2007 9:55:36 am PST #7064 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It is, Zenkitty. Whedonesque has been following the story. I'm not sure if it's a laudable occurrence, but it certainly gets the name out, and people are taking the thematic connotations very seriously.