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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Beverly - Jun 14, 2011 9:19:35 am PDT #14943 of 30000

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

H and I saw Flash Gordon in the theater. There was a couple behind us who MSTK2000'd all the way through the film. Years later, when we got all nostalgic and watched it on cable, SO many scenes we remembered as hysterically funny just fell flat, without the onsite commentary. Finally, when the princess was screaming, "No! No! Not the Borer Worms!" H and I chorused, "Yes! Yes! Let's have the Borer Worms!" and felt marginally better.

ETA: The movie has marked us indelibly, too. What's for dinner? "HASH! AH-AHH!" That movie with Tom Hanks and the mermaid--"SPLASH! AH-AHH!" Alan Alda's old show? "M*A*S*H! AH-AHH!" And so on.

§ ita § - Jun 14, 2011 9:49:36 am PDT #14944 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Community film events:

films at McGill. When they'd reshow movies, the atmosphere was convivial and communal. And mocking, of me, when I gasped when Rugen pulled the knife out of his boot.

first Batman movie, first showing. For unclear reasons I took my life-sized Wolverine cutout, and it generated a wee bit of conversation.

all the LotR movies, first showing. No need to explain.

Serenity premiere. As you could guess.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 14, 2011 9:59:07 am PDT #14945 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 still laugh over my date to the Serenity preview asking me if Simon was supposed to be gay, and telling him "Oh, they butched him WAY up from the TV series!"

§ ita § - Jun 14, 2011 11:10:35 am PDT #14946 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I laugh over my date to the Serenity preview being shanghaied by screams of "Best Patrick ever!"

Steph L. - Jun 14, 2011 11:14:38 am PDT #14947 of 30000

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I was NOT there. IJS.

§ ita § - Jun 14, 2011 11:18:49 am PDT #14948 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He is the best Patrick ever, because he's the only Patrick that then went over to Alexis Denisof and Alyson Hanigan to chat. I don't ask for much from my Patricks, but I do like me some of that.

Typo Boy - Jun 14, 2011 12:44:56 pm PDT #14949 of 30000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Buffista game if you are so inclined. A millionaire financed a low budget "Atlas Shrugged" movie that was a critical and financial disaster. He had a chance to make it with Angela Jolie who is a big Rand fan, but she would not let him include ENTIRE Galt speech and in other ways would have interfered with the purity of of the propaganda content so he did it without her and pretty much without much professional input of any kind.

It occurs to me that "Atlas Shrugged" done right could make a good trashy (non-satirical) movie. (I could totally see an intentionally comic version but that is a different film.) So the question is: who could do it right?

Director? Screenwriter? Casting: Reardoe? Dagny? , D'Anconia, Wyatt? Mouch? James? etc..

Tom Scola - Jun 15, 2011 6:37:38 am PDT #14950 of 30000

hwæt

David Lynch to open Mulholland Drive-style nightclub in Paris.

DavidS - Jun 15, 2011 6:45:51 am PDT #14951 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

David Lynch to open Mulholland Drive-style nightclub in Paris.

Time to invest in red draperies.

I hope Julee Cruise or Rebekkah Del Rio opens it.

Laga - Jun 15, 2011 11:41:20 am PDT #14952 of 30000

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I just noticed M McGonagle on the same quidditch plaque as James Potter. Is that in the books that Minerva and James were on the same team?

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