I agree with Connie. I found Siegal and Adams to be annoyingly over the top and arch. I wanted to love that movie so much!! I should watch it again, see if it improves on a second viewing.
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
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smonster - Sep 16, 2012 3:10:48 pm PDT #22508 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Connie Neil - Sep 16, 2012 3:13:02 pm PDT #22509 of 30000
brillig
I agree with Connie.
I shall love this sentence, and squeeze it, and call it George.
smonster - Sep 16, 2012 5:20:15 pm PDT #22510 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I shall love this sentence, and squeeze it, and call it George.
Ha!! I feel like one of the keys to making the Muppets feel real is to have the humans interact with them naturally, and I found Siegal and Adams cloyingly over-earnest. It pulled me out of the movie.
Connie Neil - Sep 16, 2012 5:45:44 pm PDT #22511 of 30000
brillig
It was like a weird Ozzie and Harriet meet the Muppets. Or a candy-colored Pleasantville.
Scrappy - Sep 16, 2012 8:07:25 pm PDT #22512 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just saw The Master. I loved it and thought it was subtle and unique and thoughtful and beautifully acted, but the peeps I was with thought it was "too long" and "not about anything." So, you takes your chances with this one.
Fiona - Sep 16, 2012 8:30:33 pm PDT #22513 of 30000
The Muppets was a surprisingly bittersweet and hard movie. I really liked it.
That's interesting, because I found it surprisingly soft and over-sentimental, but I still really enjoyed it.
Also, I really liked the presentation of Segal and Adams's characters. I mean, these are people who hang out with Muppets and initiate dance numbers in the middle of the street, what are you going to do? I also loved the fact that Gary and Walter's being brothers was never elaborated.
Vonnie K - Sep 17, 2012 6:41:39 am PDT #22514 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hilarious and awesome interview with Chris Evans at Toronto Film Festival (where he's so exhausted that he's lost all brain-to-mouth filter): [link]
erikaj - Sep 17, 2012 7:54:45 am PDT #22515 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I really enjoyed HTTM more than I expected to.
Consuela - Sep 19, 2012 6:24:11 pm PDT #22516 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
OK, so I just saw the new/extended Hobbit trailer, and I'm all peeved. Because in it, Thorin says, "We shall take back Erebor!"
Which is totally wrong! The Dwarves were a company of 13: their only goal was to steal back some of their inheritance which Smaug had stolen. The days of the great dragon-slayers were over, and they had no power, no army, and no hope of defeating Smaug. They just wanted to get in and out quietly and quickly, and get as much gold and gems as they could.
That they did, in fact, cause the end of Smaug and the revival of Erebor was a completely unintentional result. Thorin is a (mostly) practical Dwarf, and he knew better.
Oh, PJ, why do you do this to me?
flea - Sep 20, 2012 3:13:09 am PDT #22517 of 30000
information libertarian
See, I still can't get over the fact that there are hot dwarves. It's just WRONG. (I mean, I do appreciate the hotness, but WRONG for dwarves.)