Hey, what's this "Music and Lyrics" movie I just saw posters for?
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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esse - Jan 31, 2007 1:53:58 am PST #7302 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Frankenbuddha - Jan 31, 2007 4:29:29 am PST #7303 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hmm. Just watched Near Dark. Why do we have to have happy endings? Or, really, why don't I get to decide what happy is?
The whole cure vampirism via transfusion was by far the weakest part of the movie. By light years, even. So. Lame.
How would you have ended it? I didn't want Caleb or the Jenny Wright character to die, so I probably would have had it pretty much the way it did, except the two of them stay vamped and go out on the road together. Of course, how they feed going forward if they don't want to kill people is the main reason the filmmakers came up with the blood ex machina, I suspect.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2007 4:48:52 am PST #7304 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd have attached more difficulty to the healing. Way too simple. And then maybe had her dying to save him. Or him dying to save his family--in which case he might have been allowed to feed beforehand.
SailAweigh - Jan 31, 2007 4:49:01 am PST #7305 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hey, what's this "Music and Lyrics" movie I just saw posters for?
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore looking cute together. He's a singer and she's a songwriter, at least, that's what it looked like from the trailers, I yawned. Romance ensues. I'll probably watch it because I like Drew Barrymore. As cute as Hugh is, I'm tired of seeing him in romantic comedies.
Jessica - Jan 31, 2007 4:53:43 am PST #7306 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
He's a singer and she's a songwriter, at least, that's what it looked like from the trailers
Close -- he's a singer and she's his housekeeper. Who helps him write a song. It looks odd.
esse - Jan 31, 2007 5:36:14 am PST #7307 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
It looks odd.
Which is the impression I got from the poster, so it's nice to know that was spot-on.
I'm sick of HG in romantic comedies too. Surely he could do something else with his acting skillz? *Has* he done anything else? I frankly can't recall.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2007 5:42:47 am PST #7308 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
He played a closeted aristocrat in Maurice but that was before anyone outside of Britain knew who he was.
Sirens came after he started getting pretty famous, didn't it?
Theodosia - Jan 31, 2007 5:46:20 am PST #7309 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"
Yes to Sirens which is some of his most charming and subtle acting.
Vonnie K - Jan 31, 2007 5:48:09 am PST #7310 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Surely he could do something else with his acting skillz? *Has* he done anything else? I frankly can't recall.
I found him quite appealing as Edward Ferrars in "Sense and Sensibility". And he was good in "About A Boy" as well, which is a comedy but not primarily a rom-com.
Vonnie K - Jan 31, 2007 5:56:58 am PST #7311 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Weetabix:
I watched Pan's Labyrinth, which knocked my socks off. Did people know Doug Jones, who played both Pan and Pale Man was one of the Gentlemen in "Hush"?
As for the ending, I think I'm one of those glass-is-half-empy people because I just cannot see that denouement as happy. It's bittersweet at best and terribly sad, and even if the fantasy realm was real (the fact that the Queen had Ofelia's mother face is rather suspect though), that world is a beautiful, but terrible place. I mean, the realm is explicitly called "The Underworld" -- surely that's some kind of metaphor for death. Not that I found the film depressing, mind you -- the film is too vibrant for that. I wouldn't have had it any other way, and really, the power of the film rests on the very ambiguity of the ending.