Doesn't Bela start out with Teri-Hatcher-as-Susan-Mayer level clumsiness in the first book? Like, walking and chewing gum at the same time is a choice between tripping and spraining something or choking?
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 21, 2009 12:50:32 pm PDT #3805 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
erikaj - Aug 21, 2009 12:52:46 pm PDT #3806 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. And it's like a theme, throughout. It's what Bella has where other girls might have a personality. Endearing gaffes and flowery blood
Amy - Aug 21, 2009 12:52:47 pm PDT #3807 of 30000
Because books.
Matt, yes. It's unbelievably annoying.
§ ita § - Aug 21, 2009 1:27:20 pm PDT #3808 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bryan Singer to remake Excalibur.
Warner Bros. has closed a rights deal to remake the 1981 “Excalibur,” with Bryan Singer producing and developing the picture as a potential directing vehicle.
Dana - Aug 21, 2009 1:27:51 pm PDT #3809 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
So at some point, there won't be any new movies, right? Just remakes and franchises. And remakes of franchises.
Tom Scola - Aug 21, 2009 1:30:21 pm PDT #3810 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I think we're way past that point already.
Amy - Aug 21, 2009 1:36:55 pm PDT #3811 of 30000
Because books.
I think we're way past that point already.
I agree. I thought Land of the Lost would be as low as we could go, but I somehow doubt that.
§ ita § - Aug 21, 2009 1:43:43 pm PDT #3812 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, Singer's also got a Battlestar Galactica film in the hopper. There is apparently nothing new left.
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2009 4:08:40 pm PDT #3813 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I just listened to this interesting book involving Autistic savants, Chernobyl, a Masons-lite organization, special ops and a Chimpanzee with a metal plate in her head. There were kidnappings, secret vaults and lots of daring-do. Not to mention a few Eliot-awesome fight scenes.
Why can't somebody make a movie out of that?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 21, 2009 7:49:00 pm PDT #3814 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bryan Singer to remake Excalibur.
OK, this strikes me as dumb as remaking Suspiria. Why remake movies so intrinsically tied to their directors? And honestly, I'd have more respect if he tried to remake Zardoz instead.
At least Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho I understood on a theoretical level - it was an art project, not a movie, whatever he said publicity-wise to the contrary. It was a BAD, completely wrong-headed art project, but I respect that kind of craziness.