I just watched Young Adult. I haven't felt so weirdly conflicted about a movie in a while. It's not a bad movie. It's a good movie I didn't particularly enjoy watching.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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Polter-Cow - Apr 17, 2012 8:04:46 pm PDT #19518 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Apr 18, 2012 2:48:48 am PDT #19519 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Fred,
I used to LOVE the Three Stooges when I was a kid. Watched the reruns on weekends. I'm not sure I found it funny, but I loved to watch them with a Shirley Temple movies.
I run far away from slapstick now. I just don't like it much for slapstick sake. You couldn't pay me to watch the movie.
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2012 5:17:22 am PDT #19520 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was a big THree Stooges fan as a kid. The preview for the movie did absolutely nothing for me. So I don't know if it's the movie, or if I just got tired of the slapstick.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2012 5:23:48 am PDT #19521 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 laughed my way through American Reunion so I'm pretty sure it's not aversion to slapstick that's behind my make-sign-of-the-cross reaction to the Stooges movie.
tiggy - Apr 18, 2012 8:04:38 am PDT #19522 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
according to [link] , there is a Reaver in Cabin in the Woods. it's the little things...
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2012 8:11:15 am PDT #19523 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
according to [link]
Yeah, I think I gotta buy that book....
( The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Visual Companion)
Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2012 8:14:06 am PDT #19524 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I put that thing on my Amazon Wishlist. HINT HINT.
Amy - Apr 19, 2012 4:53:02 pm PDT #19525 of 30000
Because books.
I hope she doesn't want to write the script. Because I LOVED that book when I was a kid.
quester - Apr 19, 2012 5:16:23 pm PDT #19526 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I keep finding out that more members of my non-Buffista friends and members of my family are secret Buffistas! How is it possible that I never knew before?
I just recommended Cabin in the Woods to a friend and he invoked Buffy in his appreciation.
Beverly - Apr 19, 2012 10:11:57 pm PDT #19527 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm late to the party, as usual, I only saw Hunger Games for the first time this week.
I had no problems with any of the casting with the possible exception that Katniss was exceptionally healthy-looking for someone as deeply poverty-stricken as she was supposed to be. I easily handwaved it on the basis of her being well-fed from hunting, or selling her kills.
Two things struck me, and they're related. The movie was filmed in Mohicans country (Asheville, French Broad River, Lake Lure and Hickory Nut Gorge), which I recognized as been-there-often familiar, and it made me a little homesick. The second was that I grew up with people who lived as District 12 lived, some of them were relatives and friends. What's more, people still live like that--just like that--today. It's actually a couple of steps down from Justified country.