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Slate is doing Sneakers week in honor the movie's 20th anniversary. [link]
Thanks for posting that, by the way, Kalshane. I am loving the discussion goin on (and Stephen Tobolowsky's reminiscing about the shoot). That is one of my favorite underrated movies.
Verhoeven seems to enjoy fucking around with his actors.
I definitely thought Starship Troopers (the movie) was satire. It wasn't very good but it was definitely satire.
The book...no, I don't think so. Not mostly, anyway. But unlike some of Heinlein's later books, there are places where I think Heinlein knows he's stretching. Basically, I don't think he was 100% nutso when he wrote that one, just getting there. Kind of like Ayn Rand with We the Living, which is actually a pretty straightforward anti-Russian-style-communism book, with a much more reasonable and moderate take on pro-capitalism/libertarianism than she eventually worked up to.
Double fuck!
Fucking Lasseter.
Same thing happened with Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch).
Selick shouldn't have left Laika.
From an AVClub question about movie marathons. This sounds pretty great:
Every year since 2004, a friend of ours hosts The Kegger Of The Rings, a back-to-back marathon of all three Peter Jackson LOTR films—full, uncut versions, so about 12 hours total—with beer and themed food provided. (I don’t think she’s ever made lembas bread, but she makes a mean rabbit stew.) These days, she and her husband live in a two-story townhome, so they show the films on both floors, with the upstairs as the MST3K chat-along room, and the downstairs set aside for Shut Up And Watch The Movie Dammit types.
Okay, everyone was right, 21 Jump Street was really fun and surprisingly hilarious at times.
Okay, everyone was right, 21 Jump Street was really fun and surprisingly hilarious at times.
Ha! Told ya.
Basically the movie had me at Ice Cube yelling, "Hey! Stop fucking with Korean Jesus! He ain't got time for your problems! He busy...with Korean shit!"
Hot Tub Time Machine is mostly really dumb with some very brilliant writing moments. And Rob Corddry's performance is a hard-to-watch masterpiece.