Another excellent set of opening credits I just remembered due to having just watched it for the first time in a couple of years: the fakeout opening credits to A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
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JZ - Mar 06, 2011 2:40:23 pm PST #13476 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2011 2:50:52 pm PST #13477 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.
Just watched Robocop for the first time in decades. The whole "corporatism run amok" satire hits a little too close to home these days, methinks.
Reminds me of when a friend and I watched Brazil shortly after 9-11. That hit too close to home too, so we had to turn it off.
JZ - Mar 06, 2011 3:01:42 pm PST #13478 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Midway through Unfortunate Events - Jane Lynch sighting!
Dana - Mar 06, 2011 3:02:26 pm PST #13479 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
As who?
DavidS - Mar 06, 2011 3:08:17 pm PST #13480 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jane is the Realator who sends Aunt Josephine to gasp in mortal terror. (It's a great take by Meryl.)
JZ - Mar 06, 2011 3:42:32 pm PST #13481 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Just finished. I had remembered that the closing credits were also amazing, but I'd forgotten just how amazing.
Damn, that movie has so many virtues and its many virtues are so spectacular. Its only, only flaw is Jim Carrey; I could forgive his presence more easily if everything else weren't so very, very good.
billytea - Mar 06, 2011 3:50:08 pm PST #13482 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Unfortunate Glee:Hawaii Five-O sighting. I found myself utterly unable to believe that a Filipino terror organization was headed up by Coach Tanaka.
Dana - Mar 06, 2011 3:58:46 pm PST #13483 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Ha, yes, I saw that episode too. Though I doubt this is the right thread.
Atropa - Mar 06, 2011 7:00:10 pm PST #13484 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Damn, that movie has so many virtues and its many virtues are so spectacular. Its only, only flaw is Jim Carrey; I could forgive his presence more easily if everything else weren't so very, very good.
I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
DavidS - Mar 06, 2011 7:06:28 pm PST #13485 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I keep thinking I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events again, and then I remember HOW MUCH Jim Carrey ruined the movie for me.
Actually his impact lessens on repeat viewings. You spend more time (a) loving the kid casting; (b) loving the costuming; (c) loving the set designs; (e) loving the opening and closing credits; and (f) loving the supporting actors, especially Meryl Streep just killing in one of her all-time best comic roles.