Polter-Cow, have you seen the Be Kind Rewind youtube channel? The sweded trailer is... well I'm not quite sure but I love it.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
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Laga - Nov 23, 2009 10:40:24 am PST #5145 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Polter-Cow - Nov 23, 2009 10:43:51 am PST #5146 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, yeah, I saw the Sweded trailer when it came out. I loved it too.
Fiona - Nov 23, 2009 9:55:43 pm PST #5147 of 30000
One of the things about genre studies is the difficulty of defining your less obvious genres because of the degree of subjectivity. I'd say that horror definitely needs a touch of that great German word, "unheimlich", which translates as something like eerie, sinister, uncanny.
To an extent, "The Arrival of the Train..." would have qualified for contemporary audiences, but it's still a smart-alec choice.
People's reaction to the film was already being parodied just a couple of years later, so I guess that makes "The Countryman and the Cinematograph" the 1900s equivalent of "Scary Movie":
bon bon - Nov 25, 2009 12:23:26 pm PST #5148 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Bob and I went to Twilight last night with a theatre full of girls and their moms and long-suffering boyfriends and we both enjoyed the experience. The movie is not terrible, and the audience made it fun -- there was an audible sound of one girl hitting puberty when Tyler Lautner took off his shirt for the first time -- like a strangled shriek. (The whole audience tittered in appreciative relief when she did that.) But I can't really complain about the ridiculousness of having Lautner unnecessarily shirtless throughout the movie.
Polter-Cow - Nov 25, 2009 3:54:50 pm PST #5149 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just saw Edward Scissorhands for the first time (I know, I know). I loved it.
Burrell - Nov 26, 2009 7:53:26 pm PST #5150 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
But I can't really complain about the ridiculousness of having Lautner unnecessarily shirtless throughout the movie.
IIRC he's unnecessarily shirtless through much of the book as well.
Jessica - Nov 28, 2009 4:25:39 am PST #5151 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Finally got around to Men Who Stare At Goats last night - what a giant steaming pile of horseshit.
I tried my best to separate it from the book, but turning the journalist into a believer at the end? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, MOVIE???!?!!!! I can't believe Jon Ronson is being so polite about this film in interviews. It's just so fucking insulting.
My in-laws who hadn't read any of Ronson's stuff were also not impressed, but they weren't actively angry at it like I was.
[edit: Jon Ronson, not Ron Jonson.]
tommyrot - Nov 28, 2009 5:57:04 am PST #5152 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.
From Yahoo News: Top 10 movie flops of the decade
Some I'd forgotten about, and some I've never heard of. There was a 2007 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
le nubian - Nov 28, 2009 6:18:47 am PST #5153 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
here's a question: how many of those top 10 movies have y'all seen?
My number: 0
tommyrot - Nov 28, 2009 6:21:03 am PST #5154 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.
I saw part of Battlefield Earth on cable, but it doesn't count, as it was an accident.
So my number is 0 as well (although I did want to see Grindhouse - maybe I still will).