Heh, we usually stay through the credits because we like to see where they filmed, and I love to read names - some of the tech people have really cool names - and yeah, sometimes my company or one of our customers gets name checked so we stay, but mostly for the cool names.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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DawnK - Apr 05, 2011 9:35:21 am PDT #13971 of 30000
giraffe mode
Kate P. - Apr 05, 2011 9:59:36 am PDT #13972 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Time Bandits along with Watership Down, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and The Last Unicorn are almost always on our annual list of movies that will fuck you up as a kid (I would currently add Where The Wild Things Are to that list). I'm sure we have some corporate friendly name for that list, but basically they're movies that are much more complex than typical Disney fare.
Ooh, I would love to see this full list. Does it include The Neverending Story? Because that movie creeped me out as a kid, and yet I watched it every chance I got (along with The Last Unicorn and, um, a Care Bears movie, I think). Rewatching it as an adult I definitely thought it was a fairly complex concept and story.
It's not so much that they fucked us up, but they actually gave us a bit more credit for knowing that fucked up stuff was out there, and we could deal with it.
100% agreed.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 10:03:24 am PDT #13973 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It exists somewhere. I may be able to dig it out of my emails.
Beverly - Apr 05, 2011 10:28:48 am PDT #13974 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Reading the names in the credits for movies filmed in NZ is an especial treat. Bulgaria, Czech, and all the eastern European locations are good for crew names, too.
sumi - Apr 05, 2011 10:40:37 am PDT #13975 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
So, Figwit's real name is Lindir . . . a name that sounds familiar to me.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 10:51:16 am PDT #13976 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I have combed through everything I have, and I can't see anything that looks like that list we built. I know those movies, in addition to The Black Cauldron, Something Wicked, Spirited Away (or one of those) were on it.
Lemme ask our copywriter. He's got a better memory for these things than I do.
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 10:55:59 am PDT #13977 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is Lindir the same elf? I thought grey materials had made Figwit a concrete name (poor JRR--aneurysm material).
Kate P. - Apr 05, 2011 11:24:33 am PDT #13978 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, DJ, I certainly didn't mean for you to go to great lengths to find the list! I was just curious. No worries if it's no longer available. But thank you for looking!
sumi - Apr 05, 2011 11:31:06 am PDT #13979 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Grey materials?
DavidS - Apr 05, 2011 11:34:14 am PDT #13980 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Grey materials?
Non-canon, I think.