Yikes. I will...not add it to my Netflix queueueueue, then.
I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?
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Polter-Cow - Aug 09, 2010 1:48:40 pm PDT #10491 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 1:58:18 pm PDT #10492 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Oh, and the movie that inspired me to walk across America...and become a professional peace activist...The Day After. Yeah, I guess that qualifies as influence.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 2:00:07 pm PDT #10493 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Loved Brian's Song so very much.
I was totally in love with James Caan after that.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2010 2:07:15 pm PDT #10494 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You people that don't hate Julia Stiles are weird. She can't out act a potato.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 2:09:34 pm PDT #10495 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I'm with ita. I like 10 Things a lot...even own it...but more for what goes on around her than for Stiles' acting. I thought she was terrible in the Bourne flicks and not even because of how poorly her character was written.
Aims - Aug 09, 2010 2:10:11 pm PDT #10496 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She had me with Save the Last Dance.
But I have an unholy love for anyone in a dance movie.
JZ - Aug 09, 2010 2:14:47 pm PDT #10497 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
You people that don't hate Julia Stiles are weird. She can't out act a potato.
To be fair, she wasn't bad in 10 Things. And she totally out-acts a potato when Matt Damon is getting all up in her face in extremely scary Jason Bourne mode. I think she just needs to take Matt Damon with her on every single gig she ever gets. She still may not be able to manage much beyond "scared shitless and trying not to cry," but that's still one more emotion than she could plausibly play before she started working with Matt Damon.
eta:
She had me with Save the Last Dance.
She was awesome at saying "I would never pop a cap in your ass!" in the most wholesomely, earnestly white suburban manner possible. Though I don't know that that, coupled with "Watch me not altogether suck in my scenes with Heath!" and "Oh shit, Matt Damon is going to actually snap my actual neck!" will be enough to win her a lifetime achievement Oscar decades from now when someone notices that she's been in eleven jillion movies and never been nominated.
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2010 2:16:01 pm PDT #10498 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, and the movie that inspired me to walk across America...and become a professional peace activist...The Day After. Yeah, I guess that qualifies as influence.
Threads freaked me out more. I still have nightmares from that film, 25 years later.
ETA: Not that The Day After wasn't scary! I think I just had too much of the HITG response to the film, and couldn't move past the recognizable actors to the guts of the movie.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2010 2:20:12 pm PDT #10499 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But I have an unholy love for anyone in a dance movie.
You're just hot air until you come back with your review of Step Up 3D.
Julia Stiles is why I'm not one of the cool kids who loves 10 Things. I can't work around her. The stuff around her is GREAT. I just don't forgive the movie for including her.
I don't think any TV movies have influenced me ever, except for sheer horror of ones Colin was in. But they weren't a part of my formative years. We did get some mini-series, though. Roots, naturally. First time I cried watching anything--last time I cried for a long time.
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2010 2:25:31 pm PDT #10500 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Miniseries from my childhood that left a lasting imprint:
Roots--saw it during the initial broadcast when I was in 5th grade, read the book immediately afterwards.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII--saw it on Masterpiece Theatre about the same time as Roots, possibly earlier. Have never been able to get the image of one of Anne Boleyn's accused lovers with the bloody eye-sockets out of my head. May be the source of my lifelong eye squick.