so, someone in my twitter timeline said these 1 star reviews of Dracula gave him an aneurysm.
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go in peace.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 12:34:42 pm PDT #18253 of 28287
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger - Mar 20, 2012 12:38:22 pm PDT #18254 of 28287
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The reviewer who said Dracula was written in "Old English language" would be stunned by actual Old English. I'd guess that the intersection of the people who like Twilight and the people who like Dracula is quite small.
Toddson - Mar 20, 2012 12:38:23 pm PDT #18255 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
sigh ... reminds me of the YouTube video of the Twilight fan who was sobbing uncontrollably because another writer had not been sufficiently appreciative of the books. She attributed it to jealousy - after all, who is this Stephen King guy?
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 12:41:14 pm PDT #18256 of 28287
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
::head explodes::
I'd guess that the intersection of the people who like Twilight and the people who like Dracula is quite small.
Is it awful of me to hope that this is true? Because dammit, I don't WANT people like the ones who wrote those reviews to read Dracula.
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 12:44:07 pm PDT #18257 of 28287
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Someone in the lobby last night, upon seeing me taking pictures of my friend in front of Darth Vadar (the screening was at ILM, i.e., Lucasfilm), shouted that she had never seen Star Wars in a voice that made me question if she even recognized the character. Seriously? You bothered to get into a nearly closed critic screening of The Hunger Games and you've never seen Star Wars?
megan walker - Mar 20, 2012 12:44:07 pm PDT #18258 of 28287
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Didn't need to be said twice.
Or did it. Really? Star Wars?
Jessica - Mar 20, 2012 2:38:18 pm PDT #18259 of 28287
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
These days you can get away with a lot of violence in a PG-13 movie as long as there's no nudity or swearing. As a parent, I dearly wish it were the other way around.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2012 2:44:38 pm PDT #18260 of 28287
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You can say the F word once in a PG-13, as long as it's not about sex, I believe. Like maybe my favorite single moment from X Men: First Class.
Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2012 2:50:56 pm PDT #18261 of 28287
brillig
War Horse was PG-13. Not a lot of gore, but they went to brutality places I was surprised by.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2012 4:15:43 pm PDT #18262 of 28287
"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
sigh ... reminds me of the YouTube video of the Twilight fan who was sobbing uncontrollably because another writer had not been sufficiently appreciative of the books. She attributed it to jealousy - after all, who is this Stephen King guy?
To be fair, at this point it's probably a toss of the coin whether Meyer or King has inflicted more horror upon the world. He might be jealous.