(likes Jessica particularly much right now)
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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§ ita § - Jun 11, 2008 9:55:00 am PDT #6300 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Jun 11, 2008 9:55:26 am PDT #6301 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I wanted to hit Anthony with a brick after about his second scene.
YES. In fact, when I watch the DVD, I tend to skip past the Anthony & Joanna scenes.
Hammer Films Red (that's the Pantone name)
Hee!
juliana - Jun 11, 2008 9:58:26 am PDT #6302 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Hammer Films Red (that's the Pantone name)
That always makes me so very happy. Like "Bastard Amber" in the Roscolux book.
Glamcookie - Jun 11, 2008 9:59:32 am PDT #6303 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Not a fan of M. Night. Pissed he's making an Avatar movie. Hell, we don't need a live-action Avatar movie! The show is perfection!
Scrappy - Jun 11, 2008 10:00:39 am PDT #6304 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
when I watch the DVD, I tend to skip past the Anthony & Joanna scenes.
But not the Anthony/Turpin scenes, I hope.
"You gandered at my ward, sir. Gandered!"
amych - Jun 11, 2008 10:03:05 am PDT #6305 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The revelations were all SO FUCKING OBVIOUS and yet they were treated as these massive surprise twists.
This is pretty much my issue with all of Shamalamalamadingdong, not just Unbreakable. Well, that and the "Look at my surprise twist! See how incredibly clever I am? Pat me on the back now!!"ness of them.
(For bonus points, I have a friend with the same disability, and it didn't make her turn evil! Except in a "let me taunt you with my food blog" way.)
Atropa - Jun 11, 2008 10:04:30 am PDT #6306 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But not the Anthony/Turpin scenes, I hope.
Oh good heavens, no. That would be a crime.
(Dear Self, remember to load Sweeney Todd onto your laptop and iPod. That way Pete won't have to watch it over and over and over.)
Dana - Jun 11, 2008 10:08:00 am PDT #6307 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My favorite Shyamalan word play was used in the New York times back when Lady in the Water came out, I think.
"Shyamaladenfreude."
Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2008 10:10:28 am PDT #6308 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Unbreakable made me want to throw things.
Unbreakable made me want to throw things that said, "SHOW! DON'T TELL!!" on them.
Connie Neil - Jun 11, 2008 10:11:23 am PDT #6309 of 10000
brillig
I quite liked Unbreakable, though I confess we fast-forwarded through stuff that seemed irrelevant. We had no experience of M. Night so had no pre-conceptions about what would happen. I was expecting it to turn out that his power was the love of his family or twiddle like that, and was quite delighted that it turned out as it did. And the twist, if I'm guessing the correct one, was delightfully macabre.
So, anyway, I quite liked it, but it's well-known that I have what are considered plebian tastes in movies.