Oops - fixed.
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
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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
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.)
erikaj - Jul 16, 2008 9:21:43 am PDT #7072 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I've been known to laugh at Family Guy, but I always feel kinda dirty about it. TV Heresy: It's totally time to cancel "The Simpsons". Makes me sad to say so because I used to love it so much. But things end, and it's a shadow of its former...everything.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 16, 2008 9:57:21 am PDT #7073 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
but loved sensationalists like Fellini and Kurowasawa
Kurosawa yes, but she had little-to-no use for Fellini from La Dolce Vita onward (IOW, pretty much what we think of when we think of Fellini).
DavidS - Jul 16, 2008 10:02:44 am PDT #7074 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
from La Dolce Vita onward (IOW, pretty much what we think of when we think of Fellini).
La Strada is pre-La Dolce. And that's pretty definitive Fellini for me.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 16, 2008 10:15:57 am PDT #7075 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
La Strada is pre-La Dolce. And that's pretty definitive Fellini for me.
So is I Vitteloni (also pre-La Dolce), but neither really gets into the freak-show, stream of consciousness surrealism that pretty much became Fellini's signature (despite La Strada's circus milieu).