That Millenium ep had to be a Darin Morgan episode, right?
Man, there's someone I would have loved the Mutant Enemy folks to get a hold of after the X-Files were done. Though I did read he was really slow in writing his episodes.
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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Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2008 9:24:09 am PDT #7062 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jessica - Jul 16, 2008 3:07:28 am PDT #7063 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So um, I liked Dark Knight. I didn't love it. I think I may need to see it again to work out exactly how much of a clusterfuck the plot is, and how much of that is deliberately done for effect. I definitely like it more this morning than I did last night - the good bits are sticking in my mind, and the ones I wish had been edited out aren't.
The performances are stellar. The production design continues to rock. The IMAX....WOW. I mean, WOW. This is one seriously good-looking movie. And it's BIG. Very, very big.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2008 4:51:54 am PDT #7064 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Spoilerish comments here. (Linking instead of whitefonting for added protection.)
Frankenbuddha - Jul 16, 2008 5:08:37 am PDT #7065 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Your LJ post starts duplicating itself, Jess.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2008 5:13:01 am PDT #7066 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oops - fixed.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 16, 2008 5:19:22 am PDT #7067 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
By the way, I LOVE that avatar.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2008 5:26:17 am PDT #7068 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Thank you!
One other nonspoilery thing - as much as I like the actor, casting Nestor Carbonell as the Mayor was a mistake. There is just no way to make casting Batmanuel in a Batman movie not funny.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 16, 2008 5:29:11 am PDT #7069 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
There is just no way to make casting Batmanuel in a Batman movie not funny.
Heh.
Strega - Jul 16, 2008 8:29:23 am PDT #7070 of 10000
An interesting article about Pauline Kael, Will Smith, and how pop culture became the only culture.
Kael assumed she was safe to defend the choices of mass audiences because the old standards of taste would always be there. They were, after all, built into the culture. But those standards were swiftly eroding. Schrader argued that she and her admirers won the battle but lost the war. Acceptable taste became mass-audience taste, box-office receipts the ultimate measure of a film's worth, sometimes the only measure. Traditional, well-written movies without violence or special effects were pushed to the margins. "It was fun watching the applecart being upset," Schrader said, "but now where do we go for apples?"
DavidS - Jul 16, 2008 8:46:38 am PDT #7071 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kael assumed she was safe to defend the choices of mass audiences because the old standards of taste would always be there.
I don't remember her being a populist so much as appreciating good genre work and not dismissing it out of hand. She didn't even like Raiders of the Lost Ark, and she certainly loved certain high mandarin art films. (She disliked slow quiet filmmakers like Ozu and Bresson, but loved sensationalists like Fellini and Kurowasawa.)