Oh my.
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Beverly - Jun 27, 2009 11:16:37 am PDT #2677 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Sue - Jun 27, 2009 12:26:24 pm PDT #2678 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Speaking of Point Break. The director has a new movie out this weekend, The Hurt Locker, set in Iraq. From the NYT Review: [link]
There is more friction between James and Sanborn: competition, incomprehension, but also a brand of masculine love similar to the passion between Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in “Point Break.” In one scene Mr. Mackie and Mr. Renner trade stomach punches in a ritualistic display of affectionate aggression that looks as if it will end in either sex or murder, and Ms. Bigelow’s insight is that the tense comradeship of soldiers rests, often tenuously, on barely suppressed erotic and homicidal impulses.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2009 2:10:56 pm PDT #2679 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Clues about moviemaker Michael Bay's decision to leave the Transformers world behind have been revealed in a leaked email to Paramount studio bosses.
[...]
He said, "After the three and a half years I've spent making these movies, I feel like I've had enough of the Transformers world. I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."
tommyrot - Jun 27, 2009 2:28:22 pm PDT #2680 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.
something without any explosions
Where is the real Michael Bay, and what did he do with him?
Barb - Jun 27, 2009 2:35:30 pm PDT #2681 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Aliens. Has to be.
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2009 8:32:29 pm PDT #2682 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched The Wrestler. I'm not sure what I think of it.
Laga - Jun 28, 2009 8:43:51 pm PDT #2683 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I don't think I'll ever watch another Aronofsky.
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2009 8:48:54 pm PDT #2684 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Pi was good and interesting, and I loved Requiem for a Dream, but The Fountain was just nonsense. The Wrestler was a very different kind of movie, and I couldn't even see what was so Aronofsky about it except for the occasional editing quirks. There wasn't a lot of narrative thrust, but it was still interesting to watch the guy's life, just as it was. I didn't like the end, though. I guess I was expecting something more uplifting?
javachik - Jun 28, 2009 10:00:30 pm PDT #2685 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I loved Requiem too, as much as it was difficult to watch. Ellen Burstyn gave the most acutely egoless performance I've ever seen.
The director whose movies I'll never see again is Lars von Trier.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2009 5:48:55 am PDT #2686 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I remember really liking Dancer in the Dark, but I haven't seen anything else.