'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
I'm just intrigued that all these things were considered German, when it seems to be more of a Continental/Anglo-Saxon divide.
Well, technically, the comment that was made on the fingers was that a German would never do the "index, middle, ring" gesture, not that the other was German per se. And it was specifically a region-neutral German accent that started the whole thing off.
ION, Top 10 forgotten and underrated Sci-fi movies
Cool that eXistenZ and Gattaca are in there. But is Brazil underrated?
Nearly every film on that list has a devoted cult following that I feel disqualifies it from being "forgotten."
to catch up, my middle finger cooperates quite well, I just can't get the little finger to do anything without the ring finger getting involved, either up or down. They're so co-dependent.
There seems to be more of a sense of isolation/desolation in Spaghetti Westerns, ie, the long establishing shot of an empty landscape and one guy on a horse. A lot of SF has the same feeling.
My ex-husband would screw the three finger hypothesis all to hell; he used the little, ring and middle finger to indicate three. I've been known to do that myself, occasionally.
My Dad does that too.
That's what I do, too--see previous co-dependent finger issues.
Of course, now we're revealed as alien spies, so we'll have to kill you.
I have seen 3 fingers counted from either side of the hand, or the middle. I go back and forth between thumb and middle 3, but usually do the "German" way (because the middle 3 mean "W" t /ASL )
my middle finger cooperates quite well
Best line all week.
Wow, The Hurt Locker is already playing at the $2 theatre near me! I might have to go see it again for that price.