'Dirty Girls'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
You don't have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas and Easter!
It's more than a little rude to insist that anyone who isn't does, though. If you are backing things up to the the events they're co-opting, you're still excluding a fuckload of kids.
And if I'm to believe Ethan, the premise seems to be that if you do not believe, you're fucking the world over.
I'd flip the movie the bird too.
I was rolling my eyes at the people who would say that, because fuck them.
I was actually disappointed not to see (there might be by now, there should be) the "Actually, Easter ... Eostre ... stuff yadda" arguments, but I still think they are poopy heads.
Wikipedia says the following:
hence the saying, "to breed like bunnies"
Uh, that is not my bunny saying. Who are you, my grandmother? Mr. Bowdler?
Interesting conflation, tho.
Thanks, Jilli. Next time I'll ask before I buy tickets. Maybe it will at least be pretty? Our local theater was having a black friday sale, and it was the only musical I could get TCG to agree to. We're also going to see another silent film with the live Wulitzer like we did last year, and at least I know that will be fun.
It will be very pretty. Just ... go in with lowered expectations for the storyline.
It will be very pretty. Just ... go in with lowered expectations for the storyline.
Jilli, I read the white font, and I will.
Musicals!
I... agree with things!
Les Miz was my One True for a long while, then I went through a Phantom-and-Les-Miz-inspired anything-epic-and-overwrought phase (Jeckyll and Hyde! The Scarlet Pimpernel! Miss Saigon!), then, of course, there was Rent. Then I discovered the smaller-and-funnier (Urinetown!), the kind-of-traditional-but-not-quite (Thoroughly Modern Millie!), and Sondheim. Well, Into the Woods anyway - the rest of Sondheim came later. Then I saw Spring Awakening 17 times in one year, started a fan club and forum that got a shout-out on the Tonys and only shut down about a year ago, burned myself out on it a bit. Finally I did an intensive summer musical-theater training program where I realized that I didn't know much about musical theater but I liked it, got a lot of it out of my system, and now I just happily listen or watch whatever I'm in the mood for and don't stress about it too much.
Sorry about that paragraph. Rambling, but I think therapeutic.
I want to see the Les Miz movie, though. That's the takeaway.
Re your whitefont: That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
I don't know about the original, but the Platonic ideal movie version of the character wouldn't so much chant as set about ensuring the killing in some Rube Goldberg-esque manner, capped with a hilarious and disturbing deadpan comment.
Regarding the white font, it sounds like they were going for a metaphor. I think it's nearly universal that teenagers think their family is weird and wish they were normal.
That said, the Addams Family was probably the wrong property to do that story with.
Anybody who's seen Skyfall - is it worth it to see in IMAX?