Oh man, the WAM channel is showing a movie called Spymate that stars Chris Potter and Richard Kind. Toss in Will Farrell and you'd have had a movie that would spur me into a spree killing rampage in the theater.
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
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Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2007 4:36:14 pm PDT #8281 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
Tom Scola - May 02, 2007 3:12:22 am PDT #8282 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Right now, Disney's home page is showing a 9 minute clip of Ratatouille.
brenda m - May 02, 2007 3:14:20 am PDT #8283 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The trailer for that was giving me all kinds of SF2F flashbacks, between the music and the claymation animals. Heh.
§ ita § - May 02, 2007 3:38:34 am PDT #8284 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
On my periodic jaunt to apple.com's trailers, I watched the one for Nancy Drew. Horrors! Shock! Call me a grumpy old timer, but that's not my Nancy! This movie looks to be a Clueless/Mean Girls/Scooby damned Doo mishmash. I liked Mean Girls and loved Clueless. But there's no George, unless you count the sassy hipster who helps her acclimate to the big city. And there's no Bess unless you count the chunky boy who hangs out with her.
There is a Ned, but who cares? Also, what teenaged boy these days has the curse of being named Ned? Still. I wanted my George and my Bess and less country mouse who triumphs. *My* Nancy is hip!
Sean K - May 02, 2007 6:17:43 am PDT #8285 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Right now, Disney's home page is showing a 9 minute clip of Ratatouille.
OMG! HI-Larious.
Amy - May 02, 2007 6:27:34 am PDT #8286 of 10001
Because books.
But there's no George, unless you count the sassy hipster who helps her acclimate to the big city. And there's no Bess unless you count the chunky boy who hangs out with her.
There's a George and a Bess according the cast list on imdb, but I agree -- this does not look like the Nancy Drew I knew and loved.
I think it would have been wonderful if they'd made a period piece, with Nancy and Ned and George and Bess in the 1930s or 1940s, but I'm Studio Wisdom (tm) said no one would go see it then.
flea - May 02, 2007 6:33:29 am PDT #8287 of 10001
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I know a kid named Ned. He's 5. I think it's coming back, as a name. (I really like it myself, but mr. flea said no so the Dillo is Peter.)
bon bon - May 02, 2007 8:00:36 am PDT #8288 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I think it would have been wonderful if they'd made a period piece, with Nancy and Ned and George and Bess in the 1930s or 1940s, but I'm Studio Wisdom (tm) said no one would go see it then.
Or if they were going to modernize it, make it satirical a la the Brady Bunch movie-- there's something about Drew and butch George, girly Bess and pencil-necked Ned that is so charmingly stuck in that era.
Not that I didn't fucking love the modern Nancy Drews and the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys supermysteries, because I DID.
§ ita § - May 02, 2007 8:42:56 am PDT #8289 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if Bess or George were in the trailer, but unnamed. Her main companion was a chubby boy.
She looks retro in comparison to the other characters, and that is noted. But *my* Nancy Drew (lord, I sound insane) was worldly and a jetsetter. Remember the spider sapphire in Kenya and all that?
This new one looks very small town, but they are obviously going to let her win.
Jesse - May 02, 2007 8:53:47 am PDT #8290 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
