I grew up on a 70s Black Panther, but I guess he might be a little bigger than I thought.
I think of him as a lithe, Daredevil type.
He doesn't look big when he's standing next to Thor, but then who does.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
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I grew up on a 70s Black Panther, but I guess he might be a little bigger than I thought.
I think of him as a lithe, Daredevil type.
He doesn't look big when he's standing next to Thor, but then who does.
I think Chiwetel Ejiofor would be the best at portraying T'Challa's particular kind of dignity, but he's a bit too stocky to pull off the acrobatics believably.
I think of him as a lithe, Daredevil type.
Appropriate, since he's the new Daredevil!
Chewie's my favorite but I worship him so, I think he can do anything.
Something for your bookmarks, TCM's Underground schedule.
They're showing Fulci's The Beyond tonight. A classic of Italian horror.
I saw Love and Other Drugs last night and thoroughly enjoyed all but the end. I guess a movie has to have an end, but that one was lame. Still, the rest of the movie made me laugh and in good ways. A lot.
You know how It's a Wonderful Life isn't really a Christmas movie, not in the way that, say Miracle on 34th Street is, in that IaWL spans a longer time than just the Christmas season? It's just that the big important self-revelatory part of the movie takes place at Christmas, and somehow it got classified as a Christmas movie.
So. I realized that I tend to think of Desk Set as a Christmas movie in the same vein as IaWL. It's got one of my favorite Christmas party scenes ever, particularly when the "Do Not Remove From Studio 11" piano comes rolling into the Research department, accompanied by all the people dancing their asses off. (Also, I'm charmed by the idea of a Christmas party AT WORK, during the day, since it's so removed from my own experience.)
Desk Set also has, hands down, the most romantic line I've ever heard, delivered by Spencer Tracy, after recounting his ex-girlfriend, the model, who wrote him long letters when he was in the war, full of details about hemlines and fashion. Then he says to Katharine Hepburn, "I'll bet you write wonderful letters."
I'm such a nerd. That's the best line EVER.
It would work on me. Because I do, for one thing.
We watched Hot tub Time Machine last night.
Dude. That was freaking hilarious. It verged on Theater of the Absurd, was definitely magical realism, and had me laughing so much I had to rewind parts. Not bad for a gross-out druggie pic. Plenty of meta, plenty of in-jokes, and me thinking it was sort of the spiritual successor to Caddyshack and Back to the Future, before actors from those movies showed up.