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.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2009 11:44:17 am PDT #3943 of 30000
brillig
DebetEsse - Aug 24, 2009 4:42:57 pm PDT #3944 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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 )
Ash - Aug 25, 2009 6:16:46 am PDT #3945 of 30000
my middle finger cooperates quite well
Best line all week.
Kathy A - Aug 25, 2009 11:40:25 am PDT #3946 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wow, The Hurt Locker is already playing at the $2 theatre near me! I might have to go see it again for that price.
Scrappy - Aug 25, 2009 5:28:26 pm PDT #3947 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We finally saw Brick, which we DVRed off of free HBO preview week a while ago. Best High School-Film Noir-Coming of Age- Comedy-Murder Mystery I ever saw. I really liked it. I am a sucker for movies which mash up genres in an interesting way.
le nubian - Aug 25, 2009 5:42:57 pm PDT #3948 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
If you like that, you likely will enjoy the director's followup "The Brothers Bloom." I liked this movie quite a bit.
Daisy Jane - Aug 26, 2009 7:42:08 am PDT #3949 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Of course, Leone's first movie A Fistful of Dollars was basically a straight-up (if not official) remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which, while a samurai movie, was Kurosawa's tribute to westerns. It had a lot of the same attitudes of the spaghetti westerns already in place.
And, of course, Yojimbo was basically a samurai version of Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest. And so on, and so forth.
Speaking of stuff like this. Can I get a little help? I'm trying to come up with a list of movies that are basically classic stories retold.
I have stuff like Twist, 10 Things I Hate About You, Scrooged...but then I get stuck in Shakespeare and can't get out (West Side Story, My Kingdom, My Own Private Idaho, Scotland, PA) and I'd like a little more diversity.
Not straight up shooting a play or a work of literature, but a different take on a popular tale.
Dana - Aug 26, 2009 7:43:28 am PDT #3950 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Clueless.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 26, 2009 7:44:45 am PDT #3951 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
What is My Own Private Idaho a take on? (I have never finished, I always fall asleep).
Sophia Brooks - Aug 26, 2009 7:46:15 am PDT #3952 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here