I screened This Christmas this morning. I was surprised at how good it was. Quite the assortment of complex and flawed characters. This is not your feel-good Christmas movie. The many plot lines failed to come together in a neat little bow at the end. Overall I thought the message was, life sucks, but it's easier with family.
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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Laga - Nov 21, 2007 11:30:47 am PST #2374 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Juliebird - Nov 21, 2007 11:55:18 am PST #2375 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Polter-Cow - Nov 21, 2007 12:03:15 pm PST #2376 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
*rolls eyes*
Volans - Nov 21, 2007 2:45:51 pm PST #2377 of 10000
move out and draw fire
My friend's kids are enraptured by the original Sesame Street DVDs. And they won't watch the new Elmo Street.
Juliebird - Nov 21, 2007 3:16:52 pm PST #2378 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Good for them.
I seriously fear for the future of America what with the rearing of kids in safe insulated little bubbles. Real Life's going to be a fucking shocker.
Beverly - Nov 21, 2007 4:58:59 pm PST #2379 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
We need to get copies of the original Sesame Street on a pirate channel beamed into every home with preschoolers, don't we? I knew the show had changed over the years, but I wasn't aware of just how much. After watching through only part of a show recently I was fargin appalled at what PBS is calling Sesame Street these days. I figured it was part of the new policies since 2001.
I'm not surprised kids would rather watch 30 year old tv than the pap they're trying to push now.
DavidS - Nov 21, 2007 5:13:47 pm PST #2380 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sesame Street was very good right up to the point where they added Elmo's World. I know this because I was taping it before then so Emmett would have something to watch besides Teletubbies.
So even up to 1997-8 it was still the Sesame Street you would recognize.
Yes, I still have my mid Nineties Sesame Street tapes including Patrick Stewart in black doublet and ruff proclaiming "'Tis B, or not a B" and a (no lie) hardcore punk animation for the number 3, cut-up animation James Brown singing about "O", Tully filking Cole Porter and a bunch of kids running around a park while Jonathan Richman sings "I'm a Little Airplane."
Beverly - Nov 21, 2007 5:18:26 pm PST #2381 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Sesame Street was always cool. Stockard Channing in a sou'wester, man. Paul Benedict in a striped shirt and bowler--"I'm going to paint a three!"
BigDuluth - Nov 21, 2007 5:45:35 pm PST #2382 of 10000
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
I learned so much from Sesame Street back in the day. In conjunction with what my parents taught me I was overly prepared for Kindergarden. Kids were learning about the letter G and I was already reading the original Dick and Jane series of books, probably more if I remember correctly...
Polter-Cow - Nov 21, 2007 10:07:59 pm PST #2383 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched Night of the Comet. That was pretty fun. You can't go wrong with girls with machine guns.