I'm good. I mean, talk amongst yourselves for sure! But I just need to dash off 500 words, and I've got a decent list.
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I had completely forgotten things like The Paper Chase.
Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Amy - Aug 23, 2013 7:12:33 am PDT #25274 of 30000
Because books.
le nubian - Aug 23, 2013 7:36:05 am PDT #25275 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Amy: "you all can stop with the list now!"
I go off in a huff! "I will take my list of education related movies elsewhere!"
(Flounce!)
Amy - Aug 23, 2013 7:41:05 am PDT #25276 of 30000
Because books.
No, no, not like that!
;-)
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:23:46 am PDT #25277 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
That might be exactly what shrift said. Verbatim.
Followed by me going rigid with horror and rage while my brain shouted, "I have coveted a Batman/Superman movie for so very long, it's been a treasured dream and you've ALREADY RUINED IT I HATE YOU I HATE YOU YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD I'm preemptively erasing this from my personal canon nope nope nope never happened."
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:24:43 am PDT #25278 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In other news, this review of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is pretty great: [link]
Dana - Aug 23, 2013 9:27:06 am PDT #25279 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I should probably not be quite so gleeful that the movie is getting terrible reviews, but I am.
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:30:05 am PDT #25280 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Let us be gleefully petty together.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2013 9:33:03 am PDT #25281 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ok that was hilarious.Team Elderly Woman Who Walked Out Of This Movie!
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2013 9:47:32 am PDT #25282 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I cannot imagine how Affleck could have the slightest effect on the quality of this project.
Seriously! I have been in "uh, I think it's gonna suck" mode for a long time now. The idea of Affleck in the role is entertaining! But I've already seen a good actor be a crap Batman in a crap Batman movie. This is nothing earthshattering or anything. He's nigh tangential, except for how funny the geek rage is right now. That's a price above rubies.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2013 10:16:43 am PDT #25283 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
said Snyder, whose filmmaking specialty is definitely “layered portrayals,” of the need to cast someone who could seem just slightly more charismatic than Henry Cavill.
I don't think Affleck's the man for that particular job, at least not since the days of Dogma.
One thing, this news does make me thankful I've always been way more a fan of Superman than Batman. I suspect I'm going to enjoy Cavill's portrayal at least as much as I did in Man of Steel (which was quite a bit), so a even a Gigli level pratfall on Affleck's part won't necessarily ruin the movie for me.
Plus, Batman not as likely to be knocking Superman through buildings packed to the rafters with screaming bystanders, and Pa Kent unlikely to have made a holographic copy of himself so he can continue to be distant and advise Clark to disregard innocent lives in peril in favor of looking out for #1.