'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
And while it would make it a different story to a certain degree, I think you could take baseball and replace it with something else and have the same core story.
I agree. The movie uses baseball to tell the story, but it's not really *about* baseball.
I can't believe I forgot that one, too. Cranky!James Earl Jones is on of my favorite things about it.
I agree to an extent, but I think there's also a nostalgia and a sense of baseball as "America's game", as a family game, as something that brings together parents and children.
I agree to an extent, but I think there's also a nostalgia and a sense of baseball as "America's game", as a family game, as something that brings together parents and children.
True, but as I was thinking about it, it occurred to me that one of the other central nostalgic themes is that of the road trip. It could have just as easily revolved around a vintage car and Route 66 and the idealized family vacation.
Which... might make for a neat story. Hmm...
Huh. Rupert Grint is recovering from swine flu.
I wish Aimee were in San Francisco so I could GEEK OUT about seeing the next HP movie with her.
You know what was fun? The winter Tom Scola came to visit SF, and I had the day off and I said, "What do you want to do Thursday?" and he said, "Well...Return of the King is opening..." and I said "Let's go to the first show!"
And we did. And it was awesome.
I always get incredibly excited for the HP movies, even if they never quite live up to the hype. I just finished reading HBP in preparation.
I still love my triple play of Year of Living Dangerously, Welcome to Sarajevo and Three Kings. Such a weird choice for a birthday movie night.
And it was awesome.
Yes. Yes, it was.
You even had the good sense to go to the bathroom during the Arwen scene.
You even had the good sense to go to the bathroom during the Arwen scene.
I think connie neil had tipped me. Or it had already reached a status of conventional wisdom or something. But once Arwen had stopped fending off Ring Wraiths with water ponies she got less interesting.
I don't think I minded Arwen quite so much at the time, but in retrospect I think "THIS is who Jackson devoted 20 minutes of loving slow motion close-ups to when he couldn't be bothered to film the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?!?"
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