I saw Matador last night. I really enjoyed it. It owes a lot to tarantino, but it's fun and quick and Kinnear and Brosnan are terrific together. Lots of snarky, hilarious dialogue.
Angel: Lorne, you're— Lorne: Reliable as a cheap fortune cookie? Angel: I was gonna say a guy with good contacts…
'Shells'
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Scrappy - Jan 23, 2006 8:22:24 am PST #88 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2006 8:39:18 am PST #89 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey, I never got to see Six-String Samurai. How much fun is it?
Maybe 7 out of 10 on the fun scale? Cool music, goofy scenarios, great martial arts.
juliana - Jan 23, 2006 9:31:01 am PST #90 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Thanks to Hec & JZ, I have now seen Slings & Arrows, and my Paul Gross love continues unabated. Seriously. He's all brilliantly mad and spouting Shakespeare - right up my alley.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2006 9:41:11 am PST #91 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thanks to Hec & JZ, I have now seen Slings & Arrows, and my Paul Gross love continues unabated. Seriously. He's all brilliantly mad and spouting Shakespeare - right up my alley.
Yay! Isn't he spectacular? I need to send that tape off to Theo so the Somervillains can partake.
JZ - Jan 23, 2006 9:41:43 am PST #92 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
He's all brilliantly mad and spouting Shakespeare - right up my alley.
Every time he gives one of his Big Kick-Ass-And-Take-Names Master Director speeches, my heart wells up with this O Captain, My Captain! sensation and I have to physically restrain myself from running out the door in a mad dash straight to Canada just so he can boss me around.
juliana - Jan 23, 2006 9:48:45 am PST #93 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
There needs to be a DVD of that show. Seriously.
Every time he gives one of his Big Kick-Ass-And-Take-Names Master Director speeches, my heart wells up with this O Captain, My Captain! sensation and I have to physically restrain myself from running out the door in a mad dash straight to Canada just so he can boss me around.
packing up to run to Canada with JZ
On my third re-watch, I started FFing through the Mark McKinney plot just to get to the Paul Gross bits again. Damn.
JZ - Jan 23, 2006 9:53:03 am PST #94 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Though I do love Mark McKinney, too. The teleconference scene where he's talking calmly while stabbity-stabbing the phone with his middle finger is a wonder, as is his incredibly polite, stereotypically Canadian towering rage at the very end -- shaking with rage and revulsion, winding himself up to a fever pitch, and finally unleashing both painfully mannerly barrels on his Lady Macbeth/Iago with a sotto voce "You are a.... TERRIBLE PERSON," and then closing the door. Oh, snap!
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 9:56:48 am PST #95 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is this thing torrentable or anything?
DavidS - Jan 23, 2006 9:59:22 am PST #96 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is this thing torrentable or anything?
Probably. If not, Chez Zmayhem could send you something in a VHS.
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2006 10:01:10 am PST #97 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll have to check the sites when I get home.
I suspect my VCR doesn't even work. Last time I powered it on, it ate a friend's tape. I think it's sulking about my Netflix queue being 400 discs deep.