I'm watching Chicago. Man I forgot what a fantastic movie this is. I wonder if the original Broadway cast had any idea what a work of genius they would one day not be remembered for.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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Laga - Jun 14, 2008 8:49:23 pm PDT #6452 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Theodosia - Jun 15, 2008 5:27:44 am PDT #6453 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Late chime in for the male-cows-with-udders revulsion here -- I cracked up my video class by ranting about whether they were tranny cows, or male-identified cows or hideously deformed oxen.
It also bugs me when ant and bee characters are portrayed as male by default.
Or Quasimodo as singing and dancing. He's a deaf hunchback! That's kind of the point of the story, you know?
Feh.
Laga - Jun 15, 2008 7:23:43 am PDT #6454 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oh don't get me started on the way Disney interprets classic tales.
megan walker - Jun 15, 2008 8:39:54 am PDT #6455 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Or Quasimodo as singing and dancing. He's a deaf hunchback! That's kind of the point of the story, you know?
I don't know the French-Canadian musical of HoND, Notre-Dame de Paris, is pretty good. It has a gorgeous three-part ballad about Esmeralda ("Belle").
sumi - Jun 16, 2008 5:31:12 am PDT #6456 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
RDJ to star in space cowboy movie - so, in this context, what do they mean by "tentpole"?
Strega - Jun 16, 2008 7:24:58 am PDT #6457 of 10000
Tentpole = the studio's major release, the kind where people are excited just to see the trailer for it. Something expected to make a bajillion dollars.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 7:27:47 am PDT #6458 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Something expected to make a bajillion dollars.
And in doing so, "prop up" the rest of their summer releases (hence the term). It's the movie they're counting on to make money just in case everything else is a flop.
Tom Scola - Jun 16, 2008 7:31:08 am PDT #6459 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They're betting the farm on Space Cowboys? It's hardly a proven genre, and not for lack of trying.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2008 7:33:04 am PDT #6460 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Saw Four Brothers last night. I swear Marky Mark can act, but that wasn't it either. It was interesting, plotwise, to see how they were going to deal with the protagonists being so consumately illegal from move 1. Hmmph. Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a great performance, where he's American down to the way he shifts his weight. I continue to be impressed by him.
Tom Scola - Jun 16, 2008 7:34:03 am PDT #6461 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Did you ever see Redbelt?