Why did I have to learn of this Hobbit poster from Ravelry??
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 2:50:42 pm PDT #27831 of 30000
brillig
beekaytee - Sep 29, 2014 2:50:53 pm PDT #27832 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Stepping forward with trembling lip...I say loud and proud...I love Dracula 2000!
"Never, ever fuck with an antiques dealer!"
Vampire:"Sorry, Sport, I'm an atheist."
Johnny Lee Miller: "God loves you anyway."
stab to the eye
Plus, people being flipped up on backboards instead of spending money on cgi.
What's not to love?
quester - Sep 29, 2014 3:51:07 pm PDT #27833 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
And of course, every Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing Dracula movie ever made.
After Bela Lugosi, these are mine!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2014 7:17:21 pm PDT #27834 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
Stepping forward with trembling lip...I say loud and proud...I love Dracula 2000!
I really liked that movie up to the point where Dracula gets out of the coffin. If it had continued as a heist film with Christopher Plummer as a crazy old antiquities dealer trying to get his property back from the thieves, it would have been great!
Typo Boy - Sep 29, 2014 7:54:03 pm PDT #27835 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
This discussion has to include "The Fearless Vampire Killers", even if the vampire Count is not Dracula.
quester - Sep 30, 2014 5:48:08 pm PDT #27836 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I also remember the Louis Jordan version, and liked it as well, but the Hammer films hit my swoon spot.
Sean K - Oct 02, 2014 4:05:14 pm PDT #27837 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have a blu ray player now, and I picked up the blu ray of Gravity.
Watching the behind-the-scenes docs on the making of the movie is absolutely mind-blowing (to get all ViralNova about it). Gravity is basically a photo-realistic computer animated feature, starring the voices of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Even to the extent that they're using actual footage of Bullock and Clooney, it's difficult to say that that's real footage in the end product, because it's really just one more object/texture that was mapped onto the CG animation.
And truly, no film has ever been manipulated at such a fine grain level, down to the score itself, which was actually created to move around the theater and follow action or sight line. While it still is fantastic in a home theater setting, not watching Gravity in an Atmos equipped theater is really doing it a disservice. You're missing almost 50% of the effect.
Also, while watching the behind-the-scenes material, you get to see a light-up globe they marked up with the path of the story, and I finally figured out why I lose track of it at the end -- I misjudged (just slightly) the trajectory of the Chinese station in relation to the camera angle and Stone in the Soyuz capsule. She comes down in Africa. Somewhere in the central part, I believe.
Zenkitty - Oct 02, 2014 4:47:39 pm PDT #27838 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I need to get Gravity on blu-ray, then. I loved that movie. I saw it in IMax and I'm glad I did.
Sean K - Oct 02, 2014 5:23:35 pm PDT #27839 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's so gorgeous on blu ray.
sj - Oct 04, 2014 4:15:17 pm PDT #27840 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We saw Gone Girl tonight and it was brilliant! I highly recommend regardless of whether or not you read the book.