A screenwriter critiques Spidey 3 (some spoilers): [link]
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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Tom Scola - May 07, 2007 1:24:18 am PDT #8342 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Fred Pete - May 07, 2007 4:50:16 am PDT #8343 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Didn't see Spidey 3. But an obscure gem for the oldies fans.
There's Always a Woman is a late '30s screwball comedy. Bill Reardon (Melvyn Douglas) is a private eye with little success. While he's busy getting his job back as an investigator with the D.A.'s office, his wife Sally (Joan Blondell) finds a client (Mary Astor). Both Bill and Sally end up investigating the murder that follows.
In other words, the plot is The Thin Man meets Adam's Rib. But it's a lot of fun, especially trying to figure out what Sally will do next. Plus, a lot of one-liners come out of the screwball assumption that marriages work a lot better when the spouses don't take each other too seriously. And Douglas and Blondell, while not Loy and Powell or Tracy and Hepburn, have enough chemistry to pull it off.
Jessica - May 07, 2007 5:01:47 am PDT #8344 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Saw Spidey 3 last night. Uh....yeah. I'm just going to pretend that the film snapped in the projector right before the Pete/Gwen jazz club scene and that I have no idea how the movie ended.
Polter-Cow - May 07, 2007 11:42:01 am PDT #8345 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The success of Spider-Man 3 brought promises of additional episodes of Spidey and his enemies. "There'll be a fourth and a fifth and sixth and a seventh," Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal told Daily Variety. "As many stories as Peter Parker has to tell, we'll do sequels." Her colleague, Michael Lynton, told the BBC that there would be "as many as we can make good stories for. ... Everybody's been so busy trying to get this one out that that's been the focus. ... When everybody comes up for air, we can think about how to make the next one." Lynton added that, although the critics by and large drubbed the film, "the exit polls show that the audience really loved the movie, and that's what counts." Sony distribution chief Jeff Blake told the New York Times that the box-office count "justifies the expense of a franchise picture like this. And I think it's a great sign for the summer."
brenda m - May 07, 2007 11:58:31 am PDT #8346 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
Ooh. I didn't know Chow Yun-Fat was slated to be in Pirates.
§ ita § - May 07, 2007 12:21:17 pm PDT #8347 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's in all the trailers, brenda.
Which isn't me chiding you for not knowing--just indicating that it's not whitefontworthy.
brenda m - May 07, 2007 12:31:14 pm PDT #8348 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
Ah. I thought not, but wasn't one hundred percent.
Steph L. - May 07, 2007 1:12:08 pm PDT #8349 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The success of Spider-Man 3 brought promises of additional episodes of Spidey and his enemies. "There'll be a fourth and a fifth and sixth and a seventh,"
Oooooh. Maybe in the 4th one, there'll be an extended dance scene, a la West Side Story. Maybe Spidey will even dance in costume!
Polter-Cow - May 07, 2007 1:42:29 pm PDT #8350 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Here's Spider-Man 4 for you, Tep.
Steph L. - May 07, 2007 1:54:34 pm PDT #8351 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
P-C, you are an eeeeeevil, evil man.