I really loved The Secret World of Arrietty, Matt. It's a relatively slight story, but the characters were engaging enough. But I think you'd really appreciate it because it's classically beautiful in the Ghibli style.
You turned evil a lot faster than I thought you would.
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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DavidS - Feb 20, 2012 6:18:22 am PST #18300 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Feb 20, 2012 7:37:55 am PST #18301 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My grandmother has the macular degeneration and can't read at all any more, but can still see well enough to comment on your outfit.... I think the weirdness is that you (often?) lose the straight-ahead vision, but the peripheral is better. So she can see stuff in the world but not really focus on anything.
Toddson - Feb 20, 2012 7:39:05 am PST #18302 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
That's what happened with my mother - she now has a very small amount of vision around the edges. She's also almost completely deaf.
Polter-Cow - Feb 20, 2012 7:55:07 am PST #18303 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
All my votes for Chronicle !! So fucking good.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2012 9:35:01 am PST #18304 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd vote Chronicle first, This Means War second.
le nubian - Feb 20, 2012 9:46:55 am PST #18305 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh, sorry about that!
Enjoy the movie Matt! I have no intention of seeing it. :-)
Sue - Feb 21, 2012 1:02:22 pm PST #18306 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Juliebird - Feb 21, 2012 1:18:27 pm PST #18307 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Trolling online rentals to rot my brain in celebration of finishing my exams. Just watched the trailer for The Way, with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez (playing his real dad's fictional son), and now I want to cry. It looked good, but not tonight. Man, Emilio is looking more and more like pops.
Tom Scola - Feb 22, 2012 6:28:35 am PST #18308 of 30000
hwæt
An unfinished autobiography and a 1980s biopic turned Frances Farmer, one of the great golden-era stars, into a lobotomized zombie. The main trouble: Frances Farmer wasn’t lobotomized.
DavidS - Feb 22, 2012 7:41:13 am PST #18309 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That writer is glossing over the fact that while she was incarcerated in the mental hospital she was pimped out as a whore by the staff, which was not uncommon practice in the "chronically ill" section of that hospital.
I've seen some video clips of Frances Farmer after she was released from the mental institution and she's not zombie-like at all. (Though it should be noted that most lobotomies did not make people into vegetables, and you probably wouldn't have noticed whether they did or didn't have a lobotomy from their appearance on a talk show.)
I've also read her autobiography and it belies the notion that she had a lobotomy.
I guess I'm saying that to rectify one bit of misinformation he's discounting all the many other abuses she was subjected to for being defiant.