Jekyll was awesome. I added it to my Netflix queue because John Rogers told me to.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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amyth - Aug 31, 2010 8:20:41 am PDT #11044 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
beekaytee - Aug 31, 2010 8:34:09 am PDT #11045 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I haven't seen Murphy's Law yet. Must remedy that.
lisah - Aug 31, 2010 10:03:29 am PDT #11046 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I enjoyed the Cranfords but, watching the second one recently, I couldn't remember what had happened in the first at all! Possibly I am a little senile.
sumi - Aug 31, 2010 11:12:51 am PDT #11047 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
I thought that the first one was more memorable (I mean - it had Philip Glenister!)
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2010 11:46:34 am PDT #11048 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OT:
Quester, that article sumi was referring to is Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked.
Scrappy - Aug 31, 2010 1:36:41 pm PDT #11049 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Glenister was fabulous, but Dench, Atkins and Staunton all at once? Bliss.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2010 2:29:47 pm PDT #11050 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Random movie-related question: I was reading a review online, and the review went into detail about a surprising scene. But it's the first scene of the movie. People in the comments were like, "Thanks for ruining the movie! Now I won't even bother seeing it! How about a spoiler warning, jackass???"
So, what do you people think? If a surprise comes in the first few minutes, how bad is it to know that ahead of time?
Edit: Or I should say, how much of a spoiler is it? Because I know people have different opinions about spoilers....
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2010 2:49:38 pm PDT #11051 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If it's surprising and it's not in the trailers, I want to see for myself. I'm probably not going to not bother seeing it, but yeah, tell people what's coming up. I don't understand why people wouldn't do that if they do realise it's surprising.
Polter-Cow - Aug 31, 2010 2:53:45 pm PDT #11052 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm a huge spoilerphobe, and while I would be sort of annoyed about a spoiled surprise in the first scene—because if it's set up as a surprise in the first scene, you're meant to be surprised, dammit—I certainly wouldn't consider the movie ruined, for crying out loud. (Was it clear from the review that the surprise was in the first scene? Because it's kind of like the trailer for The Town, where it seems to spoil a huge reveal, but that must come much earlier in the movie than I think it does, or that's shitty marketing.)
Ebert spoiled the fate of the one of the main characters in Cloverfield in, like, the first sentence of his review. And said character dies, like, five minutes from the end. Thankfully, I'd seen the movie already, but damn.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2010 2:55:17 pm PDT #11053 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The reviewer said it was the scene before the opening credits.
Ebert spoiled the fate of the one of the main characters in Cloverfield in, like, the first sentence of his review. And said character dies, like, five minutes from the end.
This is like back copy of books that talks about some big event three-quarters in. Annoying!