Tweety is female, right?
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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tommyrot - Jul 12, 2009 9:24:23 am PDT #2942 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.
juliana - Jul 12, 2009 9:32:04 am PDT #2943 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Tweety is female, right?
Nope.
Frankenbuddha is dead on about the Bugs-ness of Clive Owen, though. I like Shoot 'Em Up as long as I remember to turn off my critical-thinking and feminist modules first. Then, it's freakin' AWESOME.
Dana - Jul 12, 2009 9:32:48 am PDT #2944 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, not really a great movie to be a woman in. But tons of stupid fun.
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2009 9:38:19 am PDT #2945 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha is dead on about the Bugs-ness of Clive Owen, though.
It's completely intentional! He even says, "What's up, Doc?" And he calls himself a wascally wabbit! And then Paul Giamatti says that he's NOT WASCALLY ENOUGH.
HOW DID THEY GET THROUGH THIS MOVIE WITHOUT CRACKING UP? Is there a gag reel? There must be so many takes of Clive Owen not being able to make it through one of his one-liners.
I like Shoot 'Em Up as long as I remember to turn off my critical-thinking and feminist modules first. Then, it's freakin' AWESOME.
Yeah, it's a very MANLY MOVIE ABOUT MEN YEAH MEN ARE AWESOME YEEEEEAH PUSSY.
Tom Scola - Jul 12, 2009 9:39:25 am PDT #2946 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Watching Shoot 'Em Up back-to-back with Children of Men is a real mind-fuck. It's the same actor, with the same plot! Except that one of them is one of the best films of the decade, and the other isn't.
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2009 9:42:11 am PDT #2947 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Tom, yes, I was thinking the same thing! It's like he was trying to balance out Children of Men. In one, he protects a baby while never shooting a gun, and in the other, he protects a baby while shooting lots and lots of guns.
Strega - Jul 12, 2009 10:56:25 am PDT #2948 of 30000
Strega, have you seen Shoot 'Em Up ? I think you'd love it since you loved the similarly awesomely ridiculous Crank.
No. I'm aware of it, but I didn't notice it getting the same love it/hate it reactions that Crank did, so it didn't intrigue me as much.
Well, and I haven't been at a friend's place when it was available on cable, which was sorta key for seeing Crank.
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2009 11:07:43 am PDT #2949 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I haven't deleted it from my DVR. Come on by.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2009 4:01:50 pm PDT #2950 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's pretty thoroughly an insane movie. Sadly, somewhere near the end, they tried to actually graft on the semblance of a plot, which took a lot of the nitrous out of the equation.
ION, saw The Hurt Locker today. OMG just amazing. Best movie I've seen this year (though my actual trips to the movies have been severely limited). It is an amazing war movie, but, although there are a few combat scenes, it's not that kind of war movie. It's Iraq, but it could be anywhere that there are hidden bombs that need to be disabled. And while a few characters do spout a bit on war is noble, it feels as anti-war, in the largest sense, of any movie on the subject i've seen in recent years.
Atropa - Jul 12, 2009 4:50:20 pm PDT #2951 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I like Shoot 'Em Up as long as I remember to turn off my critical-thinking and feminist modules first. Then, it's freakin' AWESOME.
Yeah, this. Even I thought Shoot 'Em Up was ridiculous silly fun. Death by carrot!