it looks like Starship Troopers without the funny parts
There were funny bits in Starship Troopers? Other than standard "we're having witty banter now" moments?
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
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Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:03:36 am PDT #1164 of 30000
brillig
tommyrot - May 08, 2009 9:05:48 am PDT #1165 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There were funny bits in Starship Troopers?
Yes! Dougie Howser, Nazi!
erikaj - May 08, 2009 9:13:18 am PDT #1166 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, yes, Crash...the latest best picture nominee to remind me that cocaine is still a factor in the film business.And yet it got all those "I laughed," "I cried" reviews...wtf?
Sue - May 08, 2009 9:14:12 am PDT #1167 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Movies I have walked out of: Muppet Movie
GASP!
I was 10.
DavidS - May 08, 2009 9:14:13 am PDT #1168 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love the Cronenburg Crash. In fact I own it.
Pay It Forward.
Euchhh. I can't remember what compelled me to watch that but it skeeved me like that children's book I'll Always Love You with the adult infantilism.
The Muppet Movie? But it's got Steve Martin as a bad waiter and the standard rich and famous contract and a bear in his natural habitat.
Fred Pete - May 08, 2009 9:16:09 am PDT #1169 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Branagh's Hamlet
I saw it on TV not long ago. Looked beautiful, but how in the name of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern does the story belong in an Edwardian setting?
I mean, in college I helped out a professor who staged a couple of scenes of Richard III for a thesis. He used a 1960s Vietnam setting, but he explained the reasons for his choice to the committee. (Short summary for the curious: The government and society of Vietnam in the 1960s paralleled those of England during the Wars of the Roses.)
Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:27:03 am PDT #1170 of 30000
brillig
People like to play with the settings of Shakespeare. I've got a book of Shakespeare in Performance, and I think there's a punk rock version of one of the Henry V or IV plays.
megan walker - May 08, 2009 9:28:57 am PDT #1171 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Nothing is worse than the Mikado set at a 20s British seaside resort, although Carmen with a disco ball came close.
Kathy A - May 08, 2009 9:29:31 am PDT #1172 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I liked the ShakespeaRetold movies that were on BBCA a few years back. Much Ado About Nothing set in the morning talk show realm, Macbeth set in the cut-throat restaurant business, Taming of the Shrew with Katherine being an MP and Petruchio being Rufus Sewell.
Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:31:37 am PDT #1173 of 30000
brillig
The Tosca I saw that was set in Mussolini's Italy was good.