Oh, yeah, that sounds right.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Jon B. - Aug 25, 2008 8:40:51 am PDT #7823 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jessica - Aug 25, 2008 8:46:08 am PDT #7824 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Hidden Fortress
If you Google "hidden fortress star wars" there's a bajillion sites out there that outline all the parallels between the two (and the debates over whether SW is an homage, a rip-off, a remake, or a combination of all three).
sumi - Aug 25, 2008 9:36:59 am PDT #7825 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Kevin McKidd is doing better than this, right?
Glamcookie - Aug 25, 2008 11:06:17 am PDT #7826 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
So I watched Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in a week.
Made of win! Blondie was a hottie!
Frankenbuddha - Aug 25, 2008 11:10:19 am PDT #7827 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
You got anymore of those cigars, Blondie?
Polter-Cow - Aug 25, 2008 11:14:45 am PDT #7828 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"'IDIOTS.' ...It's for you."
megan walker - Aug 25, 2008 11:15:04 am PDT #7829 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Speaking of Westerns, I just watched She Wore a Yellow Ribbon this weekend. Mostly as prep for my trip to Monument Valley, but also because it's mentioned in the mise-en-scène sample chapter in my next book.
It was better than I thought it would be, but mostly only worth watching for the lightning shots. Which are incredible.
Kathy A - Aug 25, 2008 11:27:17 am PDT #7830 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So what's the consensus on the latest Mummy movie? I'll be taken brother and his family to the movies tomorrow, and that's the only one that I don't think they've already seen that I'd be willing to go to. If I can, I'm going to try and talk them into Dark Knight at the IMAX instead, but most of them have already seen it twice, so that might not be an option. (I still haven't seen it once, so I hope they go with it!)
Hayden - Aug 25, 2008 11:45:57 am PDT #7831 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Speaking of Westerns, I just watched She Wore a Yellow Ribbon this weekend. Mostly as prep for my trip to Monument Valley, but also because it's mentioned in the mise-en-scène sample chapter in my next book.
I like that one pretty well, myself. Along with, uh, Fort Apache and Rio Grande (I think? Were those from right around that time? I'll have to look it up. Soon...), it's sort of an ur-Western and a great example of the brilliant/cheesy dichotomy that made John Ford such a weird genius.
Polter-Cow - Aug 25, 2008 12:01:29 pm PDT #7832 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So what's the consensus on the latest Mummy movie?
I have not heard good things. Even my aunt and uncle, who don't have the most refined tastes, thought it was inferior to the first two.