Or "Oh, here comes the Requiem for a Dream music again!"
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
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Polter-Cow - Feb 03, 2014 10:26:19 am PST #26340 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aims - Feb 03, 2014 2:03:37 pm PST #26341 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Also known as the Jilli points at the screen and goes "Hey, that's the music from Dracula!" or "They're reusing that Danny Elfman piece again?" effect.
This phenomenon has spread to the Midwest, infecting a tall, handsome fellow who will, upon hearing the notes from any score, stop, listen for a few bars, and then declare the name of the composer. With 95% accuracy.
Atropa - Feb 03, 2014 3:38:41 pm PST #26342 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
We finally saw Hobbit: Hey, It's a Dragon! yesterday. That was ... very bloated. My main reaction was that I want all of Thrandul's clothes (or at least the fabric), and makeup/skincare products.
Also, I made the mistake of opening my eyes ONCE during the Mirkwood spiders scene (I heard elves! I thought the spiders were gone!), right when one of them leapt at someone. I NEVER NEED TO SEE ANYTHING ELSE FROM THAT SCENE, EVER EVER EVER.
Connie Neil - Feb 03, 2014 3:40:23 pm PST #26343 of 30000
brillig
No, you don't.
Atropa - Feb 03, 2014 3:45:25 pm PST #26344 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Tho' Pete said he thought Shelob was much creepier. Whatever, still don't need to see anything from it.
Connie Neil - Feb 03, 2014 4:31:45 pm PST #26345 of 30000
brillig
Yes, Shelob was worse. But sheer numbers make up for it.
le nubian - Feb 03, 2014 5:24:31 pm PST #26346 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jilli,
I am glad you made it through, I nearly screamed in the theater.
P.M. Marc - Feb 03, 2014 8:13:45 pm PST #26347 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
From WAY back
I saw the version with Cumberbatch as the Creature and I left feeling like the actors were probably more suited to the opposite roles. Cumberbatch is a more heady, intellectual actor and Miller seems to be more instinctual and in touch with his impluse, so I really wish I saw with the casting you did. I mean, they were both fine, but I felt that their characters were making them work against their natural tendencies as actors.
I've seen both versions at least three times. (I actually have lost track), and far prefer the Cumberbatch creature to Miller's, because I thought Miller as the creature was a far less fluid, less organic performance in terms of physicality. Paul preferred Cumberbatch in both roles, but I narrowly prefer Miller as Victor.
Miller was good in the creature role, and excellent as Victor, but Cumberbatch as the creature was astonishing. And while some of it came down to line delivery, most of it was really down to the way he moved. Which I would explain in depth, but I'm being called upstairs. Jilli's heard me go on at length about it, though.
Kalshane - Feb 04, 2014 4:25:54 am PST #26348 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 the new Captain America and Spider-man trailers. I liked them both, but I don't think either made me more excited to see their respective movies than I already was. I still think Spider-man 2 could suffer from too many villains syndrome, and the fact they seem to be pushing hard to setup the Sinister Six for the next one doesn't help.
Zenkitty - Feb 04, 2014 7:42:18 am PST #26349 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I think I preferred (it's hard to tell!) Cumberbatch as the Creature and Miller as the Doctor, because in that version they both felt caught up and lost and struggling to understand. With Cumberbatch as the Doctor and Miller as the Creature, somehow, they both felt more cruel and more deliberate in their awful choices. It's definitely as much about their physicality, and their voices, as their line readings.