Kermit dance! Kermit dance!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Nov 01, 2006 3:24:51 pm PST #1703 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Frankenbuddha - Nov 02, 2006 3:44:17 am PST #1704 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
PTA's Hard Eight
Love this movie; I really need to own that.
I started watching it the other night at about midnight. I had work the next day, and had forgotten it's just over 3 hours long.
I'm not sure how the movie as a whole holds up (I really enjoyed it when I saw it in the theater, but it had a LOT of problems), but every time I've flipped on to it on cable (always at different points in the movie), I'm just mesmerized for a scene or two, and then tell myself I really need to see the whole thing again and move on to something else.
JZ - Nov 02, 2006 6:08:30 am PST #1705 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.
Magnolia cemented my bone-deep love of William H. Macy. I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking. I mean, I already loved him because I'm not insane or stupid, but that performance just killed me nine ways from Sunday.
Also, because it turns out that I have been living under a rock for years and years, I had never seen either John C. Reilly or Phillip Seymour Hoffman before, and there's not a moment in either man's performance in Magnolia that I don't just hopelessly love.
Vortex - Nov 02, 2006 6:32:55 am PST #1706 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking.
His performance in Boogie Nights was stunning as well.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 02, 2006 6:48:16 am PST #1707 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've never before or since seen a performance so utterly simultaneously watch-from-the-hall and heartbreaking.
And Henry Gibson (as Thurston Howell!) adding to both by just destroying him from the sidelines with his catty snark.
Jackal - Nov 02, 2006 8:07:22 am PST #1708 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
Fox have provided a press release for Drive. It seems to be a direct lift off the Fox page except this time Tim's actually been credited as a co-creator.
Allyson - Nov 02, 2006 8:10:17 am PST #1709 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I say this all the time, but I'm so proud of my Tim cutieheadwriterboy.
lisah - Nov 02, 2006 8:40:59 am PST #1710 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
is very exciting news!!!
Jon B. - Nov 02, 2006 9:33:58 am PST #1711 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Magnolia: I loved the directing and the performances, but I found I could not care a whit what happened to the characters.
Strega - Nov 02, 2006 11:03:23 am PST #1712 of 10001
I watched Magnolia when I had a very, very bad day. Because it was long and I wanted to think about something else for a few hours.
I only remember bits and pieces about it now, but I think I might have been better off listening to NIN and The Cure on repeat for a few hours.