I totally agree. I listen to the audiobook (the abridgment read by Edward Hermann) a couple times a year. The images are so evocative, I feel as if I've already seen the movie!
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
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beekaytee - Jan 14, 2011 1:08:52 pm PST #12794 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Laga - Jan 14, 2011 3:53:07 pm PST #12795 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 14, 2011 4:08:08 pm PST #12796 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I rented Vampires Suck to watch tonight, and once you put Matt Lanter in whiteface makeup, lipstick, and poufy hair it is surprising how reminiscent he is of Paul Rudd.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 14, 2011 6:56:52 pm PST #12797 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I am Jack's Calvin & Hobbes.
That? Is genius! Oh. My. doG!
Or, you know, tiger.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 14, 2011 7:03:55 pm PST #12798 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
On an unrelated note, I finally saw Death Race 2000 (the original). Total 70's Corman cheese, but hilarious because Paul Bartel really could combine exploitation with hilarity (and just the right amount of social satire that the project required).
I got to admit, having seen Robert Beltran in Eating Raoul and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (both later, more definitively satirical Bartel movies) really made it strange to see him turn up in ST: Voyager. It made that episode where he and Janeway got turned into lizards (or something) and mated a lot less hard to deal with, however.
Steph L. - Jan 14, 2011 7:16:36 pm PST #12799 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I need to go back through the thread and look for True Grit posts, because oh my god, why didn't I know it was actually a movie about a badass girl?
Also: Rooster Cogburn abides.
t edit And the film's dialogue (and I understand much of it is straight from the novel) made me think, "When did American English get contractions? Because it must have been after whenever this was set."
No, but seriously. That was a long 90 minutes of oddly formal dialogue.
Tom's explanation for why he didn't read novels, just good literary criticism, killed me.
With novels, I can never forget that it's all made up, that it never really happened. (Paraphrased.)
That line made me laugh and laugh, because I have had the exact same conversation with a friend of mine who won't read novels.
le nubian - Jan 15, 2011 4:30:20 am PST #12800 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
It made that episode where he and Janeway got turned into lizards (or something)
what.the.fuck?
le nubian - Jan 15, 2011 4:30:51 am PST #12801 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Steph,
the girl is a lot more badassed in this version than the original.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 15, 2011 5:03:30 am PST #12802 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
what.the.fuck?
I think technically (in Trek terms) they de-evolved to an amphibian-ish state. It was a long time ago, but the upshot was that while in this state it turns out they had mated.
le nubian - Jan 15, 2011 5:12:42 am PST #12803 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh my god, I think I remember that episode.
I had successfully purged it from my memory and you just brought it back.
No pie for you.