I was reading the Billy West Random Roles at AVclub and he had this bit that I thought I should share:
You know the show Oz? Well, I was separated from my wife, and when I went home one time she said, "Have you seen Oz?" And I said, "No, I haven't." So she said, "Sit down." And she knew what was coming up, and she pointed, "Watch this guy, watch this motherfucker. Those are not acting choices. They are not—he's doing something very familiar and very real to him." You know, Schillinger, the worst guy in the prison. [J.K. Simmons voice.] "I've changed, Beecher." She said, "Look at this motherfucker, he's the real deal." And I started snickering, and I go, "I know him. That's the Yellow M&M."
When I get to see him, he's only doing voice acting, but believe it or not, he's taking me to school most of the time. Even though it seems like nothing much: [J.K. Simmons voice.] "Uh, Red…" It's the way you riff in the booth before you actually record anything.
We got the Swag Wag (now definitively named Sopie) detailed when we got her. Those wood panels glowed, baby.
Tremors is a great film, loads of fun! I probably had the best time ever in a movie theater when my sister and I saw that film at the $2 bargain theater not too long after it came out. Everyone was yelling at the screen during the Graboid chase sequences--"Get going! Don't stop running! Get out of the way!!!" and really got into it.
Speaking of fun movies, TCM is now showing The Sting. So much fun, between the dialogue, the ensemble acting, the music, the costumes...oh, just everything. I really think this is one of the best films of the last 50 years.
Is it Paul Newman day, Kathy? I thought I clicked past
Hud
earlier.
I think so. I noticed Hud in the listings, too.
(Mostly) 80s Action movies rated for HoYay. Unsurprisingly
Showdown in Little Tokyo
seems to win. Although I haven't seen nearly as many of these as I thought I would have.
How could that win when Tango & Cash is in contention? That movie made Top Gun look like Ozzie and Harriet in terms of homoeroticism!
I haven't seen
Tango and Cash
recently, but does one of the leads compliment the other one's penis? In a bathhouse?
I believe they both check out each other's dicks and have a conversation about same while showering together. In prison.
So, here is my Inception thing that no one else here has said:
It seems damn stupid to use someone else's Totem. The whole point is that Only You Know. Also, everyone knows what the gimmick is on the top, so secrecy? nsm. Finally, the difference between Cobb's and the others' is that the top does not function as expected in dreams, but does in the real world, whereas a loaded die, or a mis-weighted bishop would be rendered by someone unfamiliar with them as "normal" (random and of appropriate weight, respectively). The only way that I can see the top working is if he nudges dream-reality enough to keep it spinning (totally do-able for an Architect). However that depends on his subconscious realizing and wanting to acknowledge that it is a dream. Thus, if all that it takes for the top to register "reality" is either the person running the dream knowing how the top works (if they can override him) or him not wanting to know that it's a dream.
My theory on
how deep is limbo (we talking about this at some length, though it hasn't really come up here) is that it's just below whatever the lowest constructed dream-reality is, thus time is very fluid, and probably subjective, which explains the asymmetrical aging of Kaito and Cobb.
The other thing that struck me, watching it, is that there is no character in the movie
whose gender was particularly relevant to their character. Thus, there is no good reason why we had only one member of a 6-person team be female. In fact, I was gender-swapping Cobb after the movie was over.
And, in getting to the last tab of links on the movie, I have another thing.
Dom's name is relatively un-referential (except to Nolan's own work), except that this movie talks about the subconscious a lot. The opposite of Sub(conscious) being Dom (Cobb).
