There's another (I think newer) term, "tent pole release" that the studios use which I'm pretty sure is code for, "dear god please let it be a blockbuster." Perhaps all blockbusters are tent poles but only lucky tent poles become blockbusters. Not only does every studio have at least one summer tent pole scheduled each year- they move them around on each other, trying to get the best weekend. For instance, nobody goes up against Jerry Bruckheimer on July 4th. Studios that had tentative schedules up for smaller movies will move those movies around when they see where a Spider-Man or a Harry Potter has been put. All this maneuvering is relatively new to the last 25 years of movie making.
That's not what making out sounds like -- unless I'm doing it wrong?
Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Laga - Jun 26, 2007 12:57:53 pm PDT #9682 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2007 1:01:44 pm PDT #9683 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
David Boreanaz in an Alan Cumming picture:
"The scene," Cumming tells Radar, "involves [former Angel] Boreanaz in a bra and panties, strapped to a chair, and wrapped in Christmas lights. There is a long sequence where I torture him with the bow ..."
Hayden - Jun 26, 2007 1:02:47 pm PDT #9684 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That's not what I meant. I meant all the summer movies that AREN'T Star Wars. The Deep Impacts and Volcanos of yore, which won't be talked about in thirty years.
The Towering Inferno!
Olyphant rocked the hell out of Deadwood, but that pretty much goes for everyone involved in the enterprise.
edited because brain no work.
Laga - Jun 26, 2007 1:06:26 pm PDT #9685 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
OK my desperate love of Alan Cumming is fully renewed. How does he sell mail-order cologne anyway? Doesn't anybody care what it smells like?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2007 1:19:20 pm PDT #9686 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
Konstantin Khabensky is a very enjoyable performer to watch. I wish more of his work were available here.
"The scene," Cumming tells Radar, "involves [former Angel] Boreanaz in a bra and panties, strapped to a chair, and wrapped in Christmas lights. There is a long sequence where I torture him with the bow ..."
I see the dignity and gravitas he developed working under Joss, Tim, and Greenie will serve him well in his movie career...
Ailleann - Jun 26, 2007 1:22:33 pm PDT #9687 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
"The scene," Cumming tells Radar, "involves [former Angel] Boreanaz in a bra and panties, strapped to a chair, and wrapped in Christmas lights. There is a long sequence where I torture him with the bow ..."
That grinding sound you hear is my brain screeching to a fiery halt.
Doesn't anybody care what it smells like?
Perhaps an assumption is made? Given the name, and all...
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2007 1:23:04 pm PDT #9688 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Olyphant rocked the hell out of Deadwood, but that pretty much goes for everyone involved in the enterprise.
He did indeed, and the creep was muted, at least through the eps that I saw.
DebetEsse - Jun 26, 2007 1:28:43 pm PDT #9689 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Towering Inferno is Hi-larious. "Hold my belt"
erikaj - Jun 26, 2007 1:33:40 pm PDT #9690 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Deadwood was Ian McShane's world. Everyone else was just living in it. Olyphant was good too, of course.
Gris - Jun 26, 2007 2:09:33 pm PDT #9691 of 10001
Hey. New board.
People talk about Star Wars all the time.
I think he means that might be why he doesn't know of the blockbuster of say 1976.
I'm not sure I read fluent Strega yet, despite my deep desire to do so, but I think she was making a joke. Specificially, that Star Wars was not actually a good movie, but people still talk about it.
If so, I say "pppphphphphbbbbbbbbbbbbbt!" but then I get bored and walk away.