I just gotta admire someone who can make a career out of having such totally jacked-up hair.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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Steph L. - Apr 19, 2010 11:22:56 am PDT #7737 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2010 11:31:18 am PDT #7738 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've always loved her.
I went to school with her (she was the year above me), and I didn't really like her then, so it biased me on her movie career. Aside from that, I never got the Room With A View love. Though I think I should give it another try, with more distance from high school.
flea - Apr 19, 2010 11:48:47 am PDT #7739 of 30000
information libertarian
I had SUCH a thing for Freddy Honeychurch.
Amy - Apr 19, 2010 11:50:28 am PDT #7740 of 30000
Because books.
I went to school with her (she was the year above me)
I can see that coloring your perspective.
My biggest movie concern right now is getting to the theater Friday night to see The Losers before my head explodes with anticipation. Mostly to see JDM being hot and blowing shit up, true, but still: anticipation.
Hayden - Apr 19, 2010 12:24:12 pm PDT #7741 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I started working on a list of 100 movies I loved from the last 20 years, but I'm getting pretty weary of it. Maybe I'll finish it out later, but it's bogged me down enough for the time being (and I'm only at 82).
javachik - Apr 19, 2010 12:27:24 pm PDT #7742 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Kubrick could have begun and ended with Dr. Strangelove and be hailed as a genius. It regularly trades places with Yojimbo, Bicycle Thief, and Network as my top movie of all time. But my top ten change places with eachtother based on my mood.
Daisy Jane - Apr 19, 2010 12:28:31 pm PDT #7743 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
What about Full Metal Jacket?
Sean K - Apr 19, 2010 1:09:57 pm PDT #7744 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
2001, Full Metal Jacket, Strangelove, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange. And while I find it flawed, I still love The Shining.
I cannot get on the Kubrick hate train.
Sue - Apr 19, 2010 1:21:16 pm PDT #7745 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I never say Fight Club because before I saw it, someone was telling me about how the twist of the movie had been leaked and it was pretty crazy, and I said, thinking of the stupidest twist I could think of, "What? Brad Pitt's character is really part of Edward Norton's split personality?" That kind of killed my desire to ever see it.
I just saw Runaways. I want to like it, but it bothered me deeply that the only character who was at all interesting, and was given all the best lines, was their male manager. The rest of the Runaways were barely present in the movie--they didn't even rate a where are they now--but the manager did. I would have much rather seen more about the other band members than the mostly filler stuff about Cherie Currie's family. And all the "woo-woo I'm so high and it's so rock and roll" visual effects got boring really fast.
On the plus side, the look was great, and the actors were all good. Dakota Fanning wasn't recognizable as her former child star self.
Strega - Apr 19, 2010 5:48:17 pm PDT #7746 of 30000
Apparently I'm into macho nihlism.
I realized recently that the last four movies I saw in a theater were Dark Knight, Terminator: Salvation, Surrogates, and Inglourious Basterds. So I'm into... explosions.
I don't think of Kubrick as nihilistic, but I can sorta see it. I view him as humanistic, but in a very detached, clinical way. Sort of a "Here's something humans do. Isn't that interesting/funny/terrible?" attitude.