I loved Joan Fontaine. And Peter O'Toole. Sad.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
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Amy - Dec 15, 2013 4:42:51 pm PST #26040 of 30000
Because books.
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2013 5:16:57 pm PST #26041 of 30000
brillig
I don't know Eleanor Parker.
megan walker - Dec 15, 2013 6:23:24 pm PST #26042 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Peter O'Toole is one of those people I somehow thought died long ago.
Joan Fontaine too, I guess. And I had no idea she lived in Carmel (probably because I thought she was dead).
Fiona - Dec 15, 2013 8:01:13 pm PST #26043 of 30000
I don't know Eleanor Parker.
Her most famous role is as the Baroness in The Sound of Music. She didn't get many big roles because she refused to be typecast.
DavidS - Dec 15, 2013 8:07:56 pm PST #26044 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know her best from the 40s Women In Prison Noir, Caged.
Vonnie K - Dec 16, 2013 5:08:55 am PST #26045 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I have a big soft spot for The Naked Jungle, in which Eleanor Parker plays a mail order bride Charlton Heston brings to a... I think, a plantation of some sort in South America. Instead of a docile innocent he was hoping for, Parker turns out to be a sophisticated bombshell and Heston is so freakin' repressed, he does not know what to do with her, and they have incredible seething UST for the entirety of the movie. Well, then they get attacked by a swarm of killer ants, as you do. It's ridiculous and pulpy and awesome.
Kalshane - Dec 16, 2013 5:15:18 am PST #26046 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Finally watched Pacific Rim over the weekend. I enjoyed it a lot despite some of the rampant silliness. Not sure what purpose was served by the one kaiju being pregnant. The secondary brain could have just as easily been undamaged for the sake of the story. Plus it seemed like these things were grown and then sent through the rift, so I'm not sure how it got pregnant or why it had a functioning reproductive system to begin with.
Of course, in a movie full of scientific impossibilities, the one that bugged me most was how does a winged creature fly high enough to leave the atmosphere and cause re-entry burn?
Still, some great visuals and some enjoyable moments.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 16, 2013 9:58:21 am PST #26047 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
I was helpfully spared being bugged by that particular scene in the theater by someone in the audience loudly yelling "WHEEEEE!" when the kaiju first took flight with Gypsy Danger. I think hysterical laughter shuts down the physics-aware part of my brain.
P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2013 11:01:57 am PST #26048 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Even the King of Bitchface is no match for Thorin Emoshield and his feels. And his hair. Which also has feels.
OMG, YOU WERE NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE HAIR FEELS.
There's a scene where it's going all Pantene and I almost burst out laughing, thinking of you.
I now need to see it in 3D. Because I *REALLY* want to see Smaug dripping gold everywhere in 3D. And by want, I mean need.
Of course, I also need to avoid the fucking spider scene if I see it in 3D, so maybe I'll just GO GET POPCORN DURING THAT OVERLY-LONG HORROR SHOW.
Kalshane - Dec 16, 2013 3:44:25 pm PST #26049 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Matt, that's hilarious.
I was actually surprised by how emotionally invested I was in an over-the-top story about giant robots. For the most part. There were certainly parts, like those I mentioned above, where I was thinking "Well, that's just silly."