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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?


Jessica - Jun 25, 2009 3:13:23 pm PDT #2595 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

According to DH, yes:

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tommyrot - Jun 25, 2009 3:18:42 pm PDT #2596 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The only Transformers that do stand apart from the rest of the cannon fodder—and not in a good way—are Mudflap and Skids, who have already correctly been ID’d as the film’s Little Black Sambots. Sporting crooked metal teeth and talking like refugees from a UPN sitcom, these Autobots are such brazen, breathtaking caricatures, you gotta wonder if Bay has lost his damn fool mind.

Heh.

I've heard these characters compared to Jar Jar Binks. But they sound worse.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 26, 2009 4:33:37 am PDT #2597 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I've heard these characters compared to Jar Jar Binks. But they sound worse.

Yeah - I've heard comparisons to Amos & Andy which is definitely worse.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2009 6:23:15 am PDT #2598 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

Jar-Jar scaled new heights of annoying, but I think it was mainly on his own merits rather than as an insulting stereotypical caricature.

Does Bay have Mudflap and Skids sing "Mammy" in the credits?


Strega - Jun 26, 2009 7:24:57 am PDT #2599 of 30000

Cracked has Storyboards from Michael Bay’s The Great Gatsby

Now, instead of Gatsby and Daisy being separated from the general population by their considerable wealth, they’ll be separated as a byproduct of them being the only property owners in an apocalyptic desert wasteland. And instead of having that fancy, eye-catching car, it looks like Tom will own a rocket-equipped school bus, which is equally memorable.