'Shindig'
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."
::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.
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?
Didn't need to be said twice.
Or did it. Really? Star Wars?
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.
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.
War Horse was PG-13. Not a lot of gore, but they went to brutality places I was surprised by.
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.
'cause Stephen King's an obscure, struggling writer, envying her her success? I was amused that the distraught fan never seemed to have heard of him.
On a tangential note, we finally have an answer to the question of just how bad a horror-themed book would need to be to NOT get the ubiquitous complimentary quote from King that appeared on the cover of just about every genre book I read in the 80s and 90s.
is that the same one who finished off talking about men and strong women and made me feel all "You say that word a lot...I don't think it means what you think it means." Matt, I finally read "On Writing" and it appears that possibly over-blurbing, while not a symptom as such, coincides neatly with his cocaine and heavy drinking days...maybe he'd like to take some of them back, too.