I am very excited for High School Musical 3. Because it should be silly and fun.
The law of diminishing returns suggests it will be best watched after an entire bottle of wine.
Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?
Snyder ,'Empty Places'
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.
DavidS - Oct 22, 2008 5:41:16 pm PDT #8412 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Frankenbuddha - Oct 22, 2008 5:47:27 pm PDT #8413 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I just watched Paths of Glory. Which wound up being kind of appropriate for October, since the execution scene is truly horrifying. To the point that it's almost funny, so I can see how you'd wind up making Dr. Strangelove a few years later.
LOVE THAT MOVIE! I really need to see it again soon. Have you ever seen The Killing, Strega? It has that same "so horrific it's funny" vibe to it. Which, when you think about, pretty much describes just about every movie Kubrick ever made, but The Killing was like one of the last gasp semi-trad noir movies.
Strega - Oct 22, 2008 6:24:27 pm PDT #8414 of 10000
Oh! Yes, I saw The Killing a while back, and enjoyed it a lot. It's a bit less heartbreaking because of the noir-ness, but yeah, the ending is just crushing. The line between comedy and tragedy is definitely pretty thin in his movies, but.. in PoG, when they're tying the upright stretcher to the post? And pinching his cheek? GAH.
Then during the scene at the end with the German girl, I was sure something awful was going to happen. And instead it was only horribly sad, so...I guess that was a relief, but like I said: good Halloween movie.
I still have to see Killer's Kiss, but I think that's next in my queue. And then I think I can collect my Kubrick Merit Badge, woo!
§ ita § - Oct 22, 2008 8:58:29 pm PDT #8415 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 23, 2008 3:36:46 am PDT #8416 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Then during the scene at the end with the German girl, I was sure something awful was going to happen.
The German girl ended up becoming Mrs. Kubrick, fyi.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 23, 2008 3:40:35 am PDT #8417 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Rumours that the ending of Watchmen has been changed.
I've always thought they'd kinda have to (given what the discussion is about what's being changed). And honestly, what they are changing (if they are) was always my biggest problem with the book.
Jessica - Oct 23, 2008 4:13:23 am PDT #8418 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
As long as they don't change the spirit of the ending, I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if the whole psychic space octopus thing was, let's say, tweaked.
Strega - Oct 23, 2008 4:31:28 am PDT #8419 of 10000
Except if there's no psychic space octopus then there's no island full of artists & writers creating the space octopus and then how exactly does anyone even find out what's going on?
I'm not sure there's a way to "tweak" the ending that doesn't change the entire story. Granted, that particular plot thread is the one that always snaps for me as is.
Jessica - Oct 23, 2008 4:39:45 am PDT #8420 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hm, that's a good point. I'm not sure.
Atropa - Oct 23, 2008 9:36:07 am PDT #8421 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Pete is hugely annoyed that the giant space octopus might be gone.