The worst audio-abridgement I ever heard of was when somebody told me they cut LaTonya Wallace(Adena Watson) from the Year On the Killing Streets audiobook. Is it weird that I have a crush on Straithairn since I watched him play Murrow? Well, I guess I have a crush on Keith Olbermann and I've watched him play Murrow for years.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
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erikaj - Apr 10, 2010 2:04:13 pm PDT #7511 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Glamcookie - Apr 10, 2010 3:58:55 pm PDT #7512 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Reading the wikipedia entry really made me appreciate what a fantastic job Hanson and Helgeland did on the script.
Seriously. DId that script win the Oscar that year? Because it totally should have.
ETA: It did!
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Brian Helgeland
Curtis Hanson
Fiona - Apr 10, 2010 10:49:07 pm PDT #7513 of 30000
The script and Kim Basinger were, I think, the only things that did win Oscars. It was Titanic's year.
I'm still bitter.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 11, 2010 12:56:33 pm PDT #7514 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
Just back from Hot Tub Time Machine. It was intensely stupid, but also hilarious, as one would expect from the title. Did we know Christophe Beck was scoring this?
Daisy Jane - Apr 11, 2010 1:08:33 pm PDT #7515 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Has anyone here seen The Class? It was one of our movies this week. I absolutely loved it.
Also saw The Appeared and The Soloist. Both were ok, however one got better, the other...did not. I will leave you to ponder which is which.
megan walker - Apr 11, 2010 1:17:36 pm PDT #7516 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has anyone here seen The Class?
Is it French ?
javachik - Apr 11, 2010 1:19:08 pm PDT #7517 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
It is French and it is divine.
Daisy Jane - Apr 11, 2010 1:37:10 pm PDT #7518 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
What java said.
megan walker - Apr 11, 2010 1:46:06 pm PDT #7519 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh okay, I've seen that (and liked it very much). The teacher is basically playing himself--he's a former teacher and the movie is based on his novel.
Gris - Apr 11, 2010 2:02:33 pm PDT #7520 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I found it rather painful, especially when my dad, afterwards, said "I hope your students act better than that!" to which I could only reply: "Oh, mine are WAY worse."
It may have been part of my decision to leave urban public schools.
It was a good movie, though.