I'm pretty sure that I don't HAVE to see Clash of the Titans.
I'm pretty sure I do. I think that might let you off the hook.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
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-t - Jan 08, 2010 1:20:06 pm PST #6112 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
le nubian - Jan 08, 2010 3:55:47 pm PST #6113 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The only 2 movies on that list I'm excited about are Inception & Paul.
After that, I will of course see Harry Potter, but after the fuck up that is the previous movie, I'm not very excited about it.
I've seen 2 trailers for "The Wolfman" and I think that movie is going to suck. "Clash of the Titans" looks worse and worse and most of the rest of the movies listed are complete turnoffs.
I'm interested, but worried, about "Alice in Wonderland."
Gris - Jan 08, 2010 4:50:28 pm PST #6114 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I loved the last HP movie, though it left out enough that I'm worried about the next one. But it was so funny! Lavender was awesome!
DavidS - Jan 08, 2010 4:53:48 pm PST #6115 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I enjoyed HBP as well. (Particularly Malfoy's goth-mod suit.) Emmett and I are just starting to listen to it on audiobook so I'm curious to see what they left out.
erikaj - Jan 08, 2010 4:55:48 pm PST #6116 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
This is sort of related to our earlier conversation, but earlier today I told someone that I thought a certain detective show kind of had political messages and she sort of treated me like I was insane because a party wasn't named in it. But I think that if you make a statement about society in something, that's kind of political...it's not like I said there are subliminal messages encouraging people toward collective farming. But does there have to be before something has political undertones?
DavidS - Jan 08, 2010 5:08:21 pm PST #6117 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Everything has a subtext. Once you take a point of view about something then the presumptions behind that perspective inform the work.
Most detective shows are going to have a somewhat conservative bent. The Wire does not, as it fully lays out the social circumstances behind the criminals' decisions.
erikaj - Jan 08, 2010 5:41:20 pm PST #6118 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
We were talking about "The Rockford Files", which is pretty anti-establishment for a detective series.ETA: Well, it's good to know that I'm not crazy for thinking "political" does not equal "voting record" because of course that's not in there, but plenty of other stuff about privacy and civil liberties definitely is...Chase, in particular, seemed to want to include it.
Atropa - Jan 08, 2010 5:54:12 pm PST #6119 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead
Have you heard anything about it besides that description?
Nope. That's pretty much the only blurb Rue Morgue Magazine has had about it.
We saw Avatar today. Wow, that was pretty. Very pretty. And a decently entertaining James Cameron movie. Sure, you can play "spot the stock characters" ( Hey look, it's Vasquez! Hi Vasquez! I bet you're going to die in the third act ... oh look, I'm right. ), but it was fun. And the plot and dialog didn't make me want to stick my fingers in my ears and hum, which is better than I expected.
Juliebird - Jan 08, 2010 5:57:19 pm PST #6120 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I have to say, Michele Rodriguez surprised me in Avatar. She wasn't the angry, hotheaded, spicy Latina I've come to expect of all her roles.
Beverly - Jan 08, 2010 6:07:59 pm PST #6121 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
She didn't scowl once!
H and I saw it today, too. And in spite of its inherent script flaws, it really was exquisite. 3D makes H nauseous (something to do with his particular astigmatism), so we saw it in regular digital. The sense of otherness was wonderful, once we had let go of the wincing. While I certainly see the parallels with Lothlorien, I really want a telepathically bonded dragon. Of course, that's nothing new for me.