5 Old TIme Prejudices That Still Show Up In Every Movie. Well, "every movie" is a bit of a long shot. "Are rarely contradicted" is more accurate.
I have a beef with point #4: Only the pretty girls are allowed to live. Because Michelle Rodriguez is apparently not pretty, and Michelle Yeoh is apparently not physically capable. I think both these positions weaken their argument markedly. Oh, yeah--Sigourney Weaver is *not* traditionally pretty in Alien. I think the point may be that the more butch chicks die, but that's a slightly different angle.
Physically, my features and body didn't change much from 14-21. In that range, I was assumed to be about 17/18 all the time.
Yep except in my case it'd be 14-26, and I looked about 16. I was like Alyson Hannigan minus the fabulous acting career.
I had the same issues with #4, ita. I was like, "Ripley is traditionally feminine? ...What?"
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Huh!
Snow White and the Huntsman
looks kind of awesome.
Mirror Mirror...
not so much.
Neil Gaiman shared this on Facebook - I think many here would appreciate it:
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"Out of my way, you flame of doom!"
Peter Lorre was perfect as Gollum.
I also liked how Dietrich/Galadriel's speech was reduced to: "Get out."
I'll have to watch that tonight (no YouTube at work).
Did y'all see last night's Colbert? Elijah Wood was on promoting Happy Feet 2, but they only talked about it for a few minutes before the geek in Stephen couldn't resist it anymore and they started to talk about LotR/The Hobbit. EW brought his Sting sword with him and Stephen's eyes went reverent, but then he pulled out his own Sting! Turns out, he has recently (I'm guessing on their most recent break) gone to NZ and visited the set. As all visitors to the set do, he signed a non-disclosure agreement, and he was just bursting with the desire to spill everything on the air. Since he couldn't do that, he got EW to agree to stick around so they could burble without anyone else around.
It's always fun to watch Stephen geek out over LotR on air, and last night was about as full-on geek as I've seen him in a long time.
It's always fun to watch Stephen geek out over LotR on air, and last night was about as full-on geek as I've seen him in a long time.
Remember when Viggo came on and gave him commemorative LotR chocolate figures?
Remember when Viggo came on and gave him commemorative LotR chocolate figures?
Hee! My favorite Stephen LotR geekout didn't even have him visible. It was when Viggo was a guest on TDS, and someone had gone to Stephen beforehand and did an audio recording of him going on, and on, and on with all the varied and sundry names of Aragorn.
His love of Tolkien is very poignant, since one of his older brothers had given him The Hobbit to read during the wake for his dad and two brothers to give him an escape from his grief.
