Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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billytea - Jun 24, 2009 6:27:51 pm PDT #2585 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

The DVD I have out from Red Box has an early 2012 trailer that actually looks kinda cool... monks in Tibet sounding the bell of their mountaintop monastery as the giant tidal wave swells up over the Himalayas.

Oh, it's that movie! I saw that trailer in the cinema earlier this year. That Tibetan tidal wave was awesome! If totally unbelievable.


Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2009 7:56:30 pm PDT #2586 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So (500) Days of Summer is hilarious and sweet and sad and lovely, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are great, and I recommend everyone sees it whenever the hell it actually comes out.


Strega - Jun 24, 2009 8:31:48 pm PDT #2587 of 30000

Within its first few seconds, the trailer for 2012 identifies the Mayans as mankind's oldest civilization.

IJS, if you're finding fault with the movie's physics, I don't think you're in their target audience anyway.


Fay - Jun 25, 2009 4:53:00 am PDT #2588 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

The Daily Mail has a feature today claiming that Megan Fox is a thimble brain. Hard to know, coming from a gossip rag. I've never seen her interviewed.

If this is The Daily Mail from my country, I would automatically assume the opposite of anything they print. It is a vicious, hate-filled, scurrilous excuse for a newspaper. I grew up with it in my house, and the reason that, as a child, I ruled out being a journalist as a career option was because I thought that meant writing the sort of xenophobic, homophobic, everydamnthingphobic shit contained within the Daily Mail.


Volans - Jun 25, 2009 5:25:26 am PDT #2589 of 30000
move out and draw fire

The DVD I have out from Red Box has an early 2012 trailer that actually looks kinda cool... monks in Tibet sounding the bell of their mountaintop monastery as the giant tidal wave swells up over the Himalayas.

When I saw this I hoped that it was The Last Airbender: The Break-Up and Kitara was really really pissed at Aang.


DavidS - Jun 25, 2009 7:35:02 am PDT #2590 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

When I saw this I hoped that it was The Last Airbender: The Break-Up and Kitara was really really pissed at Aang.

Heh. We were just watching the end of S3 the other day and as Kitara and Zuko went looking for her mom's killer and she had her water arms on, we both had to acknowledge she was totally Beast Mode.

Though Toph taking out the airship crew in her metal-door suit was about the beastiest thing ever.


beekaytee - Jun 25, 2009 9:04:10 am PDT #2591 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

You are completely right Fay. The Daily Mail is indeed dreck. Still, not too long ago, I read a book excerpt about a Brit soldier rescuing Iraqi dogs. And some great gluten-free baking tips. I tend to scroll over the hate and try to glean the interesting bits.

I also read the Guardian and the Scotsman. I can't help myself.


erikaj - Jun 25, 2009 9:07:09 am PDT #2592 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

I like the Guardian, although maybe that's because they wrote about The Wire a lot and only rarely dashed out the cursing?


DavidS - Jun 25, 2009 9:18:41 am PDT #2593 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

In case you needed reminding, the greatest female action star of all time is Michelle Yeoh.


§ ita § - Jun 25, 2009 2:48:05 pm PDT #2594 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Anyone seen Transformers II yet? Are Mudflaps and Skids as racists as reports have said?