The Zero Effect-
Ooh. I love that one too.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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beekaytee - Mar 19, 2007 1:14:12 pm PDT #7902 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
esse - Mar 19, 2007 1:40:11 pm PDT #7903 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
He rocked in Outside Providence. So awesome. But he really does shine like the brightest star in 30 Rock.
beekaytee - Mar 19, 2007 1:42:50 pm PDT #7904 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
"Sex is like a Chinese meal...it ain't ovah until both youse get your cookies."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2007 2:36:26 pm PDT #7905 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Stands in the loves ZERO EFFECT corner with Kathy and beej.
I own the DVD proudly (MALICE too, but somewhat less proudly).
Loved STATE & MAIN (or was it MAINE?) - really must get a copy of that. Rebecca Pidgeon's character on children (she plays a grade school teacher): Never much saw the point of them.
Sean K - Mar 19, 2007 4:18:14 pm PDT #7906 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, I'm probably one of the most liberal people out there, particularly when it comes to First Amendment rights, and double particularly (way good grammar!) when it comes to those rights and filmmaking, but I saw a bilboard for this movie today at the corner of Hollywood and Vermont, and I'm incredibly offended.
Basically the bilboard was a four panel story board with the captions "Abduction, Confinement, Torture, Termination." each with a picture of a woman (presumably star Elisha Cuthbert) in each of those four states. Basically a storyboard for the ritualized sexual torture and murder of this woman.
Seriously vile.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2007 6:21:59 pm PDT #7907 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Basically the bilboard was a four panel story board with the captions "Abduction, Confinement, Torture, Termination." each with a picture of a woman (presumably star Elisha Cuthbert) in each of those four states. Basically a storyboard for the ritualized sexual torture and murder of this woman.
Odd. It's by Roland Joffe who did THE KILLING FIELDS and THE MISSION. The snarky part of me wants to say that he wants revenge for everyone who watched the first 3 seasons of 24, but I'd hope there was more going on than it looks like.
OTOH, he also directed that gawdawful Demi Moore SCARLET LETTER, so maybe he's just embraced his inner hack.
Sean K - Mar 19, 2007 6:34:57 pm PDT #7908 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Actually, what little information there is about the film on the IMDb listing for it makes it sound like an interesting movie. For the moment it seems like it's just the billboard that is an extremely piss-poor and offensive marketing scheme.
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2007 6:40:07 pm PDT #7909 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
a storyboard for the ritualized sexual torture and murder of this woman
What about it says sexual? I've seen the billboard, and that didn't occur to me. But it was a quick view.
Sean K - Mar 19, 2007 6:46:19 pm PDT #7910 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
What about it says sexual?
In the first three frames, the woman is looking directly at "you," typically close up on her eyes, and given a degree of beauty or sexuality (degrading from frame to frame as her circumstances become more dire). The final frame, for "termination," has her corpse draped in a sort of sexual pose.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Mar 19, 2007 7:11:10 pm PDT #7911 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd