So, I just watched X-Men: The Last Stand, and, damn, I guess that was the last X-Men movie! Or at least I hope it is. I kept waiting for all that shit to be reversed, but no. Madness.
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Jesse - Sep 12, 2007 12:00:44 pm PDT #1361 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 12:16:01 pm PDT #1362 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
More fun with silly people. This chick asks me, "Do you know the name of that movie about the maid and she's pregnant?"
"I'm sorry I'm not familiar with that one. Do you know who's in it?"
"No except I really wanted to see it. Are there any other movie theatres around here?"
"yes there's one across the parking lot- here's their schedule"
"Oh here it is, The Nanny Diaries!"
um ok.
lisah - Sep 12, 2007 12:19:12 pm PDT #1363 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
"Do you know the name of that movie about the maid and she's pregnant?"
I got it in one! and I haven't seen the movie and didn't realize she was pregnant in it.
Clearly I have discovered a talent.
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 12:57:21 pm PDT #1364 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Well, I haven't seen the movie, so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure she's a nanny (hence the title) not a maid, and I don't think she gets pregnant.
Mikey - Sep 12, 2007 1:07:53 pm PDT #1365 of 10000
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
I hate the Across The Universe (that's the Evan Rachel Wood-Beatle thing, right?) trailer. Every time it comes on I worry that they think I'm its audience because of what movie ticket I bought.
I think you've got something. I saw Death At A Funeral last night and there were 20 minutes of trailers for movies I'd be pretty much equally likely to avoid and I could only wonder: why those trailers with this movie? Because Running With Scissors was long out of the theatres?
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 1:11:10 pm PDT #1366 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
A lot of the time the studio tells us which trailers to program with their movies. Ferinstance Fox might position a 20th Century blockbuster trailer in front of a Fox Searchlight title.
sj - Sep 12, 2007 4:29:06 pm PDT #1367 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
"Do you know the name of that movie about the maid and she's pregnant?"
Any chance she got maid confused with waitress and wanted to see "Waitress"? Although it hasn't been in first run theatres for a while.
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 7:17:12 pm PDT #1368 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
When she saw "Nanny Diaries" on the schedule she was sure that was the one.
Volans - Sep 13, 2007 1:46:12 am PDT #1369 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Just keep in mind that she's the Viewing Audience. You know, the big demographic that movies are made for.
It helps explain Uwe Boll.
lisah - Sep 13, 2007 5:00:38 am PDT #1370 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
A lot of the time the studio tells us which trailers to program with their movies. Ferinstance Fox might position a 20th Century blockbuster trailer in front of a Fox Searchlight title.
Don't the trailers actually come attached to the films sometimes? I learned that at one point and then forgot and re-learned it when I complained about the trailer that was shown before Waitress . It was for that movie about the disturbed little kid who, the trailer implies, kills his family dog and tries to kill his infant sibling. It was incredibly graphic and disturbing and so very inappropriate in my mind considering the type of movie that Waitress is and the fact that its filmmaker was murdered.
Anyway, the movie theatre (independtly owned by a very responsive owner) couldn't do anything about what trailer was shown with the movie because the distributor sends them attached.