A coworker is at Sundance [link]
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Daisy Jane - Jan 22, 2010 12:56:54 pm PST #6300 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Jessica - Jan 22, 2010 4:09:16 pm PST #6301 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Technically Dances With Dragons has a release date (April 2010, I think?) but I don't trust it since it also had a release date of October 2009 and god knows how many before that over the last five years.
Sean K - Jan 22, 2010 4:21:18 pm PST #6302 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'll believe a release date when Martin says he's actually finished the damned thing.
Jessica - Jan 22, 2010 4:40:47 pm PST #6303 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
No no, you can pre-order it from Amazon! It's totally a real book that really exists!
...you know...eventually...
It wouldn't be so frustrating if he hadn't put the author's note at the end of Storm of Swords that said the second half of the story would be out "sometime next year." IN 2005.
shrift - Jan 23, 2010 3:06:33 pm PST #6304 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, man. Chak De! India was awesome and gave me allergies at least three different times.
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2010 3:09:29 pm PST #6305 of 30000
brillig
Saw Planet 51 at Ye Old Dollar Movie. What fun!
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2010 7:41:19 am PST #6306 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Chak De! India was awesome and gave me allergies at least three different times.
Girl power sports movie!
I sleepily watched Doubt last night. I have concluded that it was not very good. Also, that people had doubts.
Juliebird - Jan 24, 2010 4:29:43 pm PST #6307 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Good god, Pitch Black is a hard movie to vid. I never quite appreciated the plethora of changing lighting and atmosphere and elements segmenting until now. Red light on the ship, overblown planetside, blue sunshine, orange eclipse/sunset, green flares, blue wire light, orange torch light, blue phosphorescent bugs, blue blood, rain... I'm sure I missed something.
Went on a Twohy kick and watched The Perfect Getaway. I was spoiled inadvertantly going in (thank you IMDB with your "Continuity/Goofs/Trivia" having a spoiler right there on the main page. But that was fine, because it saves me from having to watch it a second time. But even then I missed some things, and on further inspection, they held up. So, tight writing, even if the overall feel left me a bit cold, and this is the first time that I haven't been turned off by Olyphant. He was wonderfully crazy. Coulda done without the overly long flashback. There's a sequence near the end where the editing gets kinda awesome for a minute or so with the sound effects.
But I didn't feel like I was watching a Twohy movie until the end with the helicoptor flying over the island at sunset.
Okay, no, I take it back, it didn't leave me cold, I was totally invested in Nikko and Gina making it out alive and felt the Hollywood jokes worked here far better than in Lady in the Water (which I still adore). soem good laughs.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 24, 2010 5:42:40 pm PST #6308 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
I went and saw Loss of a Teardrop Diamond this afternoon, the movie made by Memphis local Jodie Markell from a lost and rediscovered Tennessee WIlliams play. Turns out an angsty Flapper-era period piece was just what I needed. Bryce Dallas Howard was great as the heroine, Fisher Willow. There was also a great performance by Ellen Burstyn, and Ann-Margret... was there too. And happily Chris Evans didn't embarrass himself while attempting a Mississippi accent.
SuziQ - Jan 24, 2010 6:59:11 pm PST #6309 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
The kids and I watched Persepolis tonight. I wasn't sure if CJ would get into it with the subtitles, but he was very attentive all the way through. We had to pause it a few times to talk about what was happening. I enjoyed it but was having a bit of a cognitive dissonance in that it is a French film, all the dialogue is in French, but the characters are mostly Persian and "should" be speaking Farsi. There was also an Iron Maiden call out. Made me happy.