Perkins and I saw it today!! I was pretty okay with the different voices (kind of have to be, I guess), and I DIED laughing during the chickens' number. DIED.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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juliana - Nov 27, 2011 3:39:50 pm PST #16853 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Typo Boy - Nov 27, 2011 4:20:31 pm PST #16854 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.
Hmm. I've always liked the extended definition of soul food: as opposed to a specifically African-American cuisine, it is sometimes defined as food that is so good that even though you know it is not physically healthy, the pleasure is great enough you will indulge in it occasionally for the good of your soul. So that could be anything you like well enough, a certain kind of chocolate, Korean spare ribs, an oyster po-boy, really good onion rings, whatever gives you enough pleasure.
I'm thinking the same thing can happen in film. A movie with awful writing can have great acting, or a film with bad actors can have brilliant direction and be visually stunning. Or whatever - again subjective. At any rate, I'm wondering what films you find the cinematic equivalent of soul food - films that fail one of the conventional tests of good film-making like writing or acting quality, but provide such great pleasure due to other virtues that you still love them. Not guilty pleasures, but films so good along other dimensions that you don't feel even a bit guilty for enjoying them. (Not that I don't have a possible rant about the whole idea of guilty pleasures.) Hec mentioned the other day a film that was cooler than it was good. Maybe that qualifies. Depends how much Hec enjoyed the coolness.
Tom Scola - Nov 28, 2011 1:10:51 am PST #16855 of 30000
hwæt
DavidS - Nov 28, 2011 5:04:55 am PST #16856 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
RIP Ken Russell.
Well, at least at lot of his movies which have been unavailable and out of print have come back within the last couple years.
le nubian - Nov 28, 2011 6:08:01 am PST #16857 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Gris - Nov 28, 2011 8:56:43 am PST #16858 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Love Actually is my season-appropriate cinematic soul food.
erikaj - Nov 28, 2011 9:48:00 am PST #16859 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I'm about to pull out my copy of "The Ref" again. Ironically, it could be about my family, until Leary shows up.
sumi - Nov 28, 2011 12:04:06 pm PST #16860 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Ben Whishaw cast as "Q" in next Bond movie.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2011 6:16:07 pm PST #16861 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I came out of Breaking Dawn Team Seth, but apparently Seth isn't important enough for anyone to remember. Sadly, he's played by a 15 year old named Boo Boo, so it's like that. Still, distantly, he's very pretty.
tiggy - Nov 29, 2011 6:40:14 pm PST #16862 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Seth was one of the best parts of BD the book. they didn't give him too much screen time in the movie, but the kid is totally adorable.