Oh, Matt, Matt.
shakes head.
...I have to say, I rather think that The 300 WAS its own pastiche already. I mean, how are they going to top it?
Ah. No bowm-chika-bowm-bowm soundtrack intended on that last sentence, and yet somehow...
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Fay - Dec 30, 2007 8:19:02 pm PST #3104 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2007 9:26:25 pm PST #3105 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sadly, I might be tempted to see it. But of the three nekkidish men mentioned, really, only Sorbo's the turn-off.
Jessica - Dec 31, 2007 3:20:32 am PST #3106 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The smaller voices worked fine with the intimacy of all the closeups. Much more like thinking aloud than declaiming.
I agree wrt to Depp, but I honestly couldn't understand what HBC was saying half the time, and I've had the entire show memorized since I was 12.
She wasn't just singing small, she was mumbling. Which meant that the few jokes Burton did leave in for her got swallowed. And there's no reason for "inside my own head mumbly breathy singing" during numbers like the Pirelli scene and "God That's Good!" when she's supposed to be talking out loud to other people.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2007 9:16:06 am PST #3107 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just saw Juno, and LOVED IT. It was funny that there was a group of Actual Teenagers in the theater with me, to hear their reactions to things, which were of course very different from mine. It made me laugh a lot, and toward the end it made me cry a lot. Through the end of the movie, into the bathroom, and even a little walking down the street. Oops.
Typo Boy - Dec 31, 2007 9:37:29 am PST #3108 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm with Jessica here. Depp surprised me by being able to sing. HBC not so much. And the girl who played Joanna really surprised me, cause I think she sang the part on stage in London. Maybe she had a sore throat during filming...
Jon B. - Dec 31, 2007 9:51:54 am PST #3109 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
to hear their reactions to things, which were of course very different from mine.
Could you give some examples, Jesse?
Jesse - Dec 31, 2007 10:05:11 am PST #3110 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There was a lot of "EW!" and lack of laughing at things that cracked me up, but I can't quite remember what. Obviously the Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner characters didn't really resonate. The talk in the bathroom was all about, "No, seriously, your uterus gets that big!" "EW!!!"
Also, I don't think they went "aw" every time Michael Cena was on-screen like I did.
Scrappy - Dec 31, 2007 10:10:15 am PST #3111 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I totally did the aw thing with him. Well, he's such a big doe-eyed doofusy-but-cool kid, isn't he? And the kid can act. I mean, it's almost impossible not be all, Gee whiz over him.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 31, 2007 10:17:57 am PST #3112 of 10000
"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
And yet, somehow I manage. He did not feature in the "pro" column on my list of reasons to see or avoid Superbad.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2007 10:19:26 am PST #3113 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't think I've seen him in anything else except Arrested Development, and not much of that. I seriously said "aw!" out loud more than once.