Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Jon B. - Jul 06, 2010 4:36:05 pm PDT #9606 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Quick-edits on the iPhone are HUGELY annoying because of the auto-corrects.

Ahh, thanks for the explanation.


Jon B. - Jul 06, 2010 4:36:48 pm PDT #9607 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

No, it's Tom

Does he work for the Smithsonian?


Strega - Jul 06, 2010 4:42:31 pm PDT #9608 of 30000

Yes -- and I just called to ask, and his sister's name is indeed Liza. Small internet!


Jon B. - Jul 06, 2010 4:58:37 pm PDT #9609 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Small internet!

Indeed! We went to see the film with Liza when it opened and thought it was great fun!


Polter-Cow - Jul 06, 2010 5:01:53 pm PDT #9610 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Haaaaa. Awesomesauce.


sarameg - Jul 06, 2010 5:16:57 pm PDT #9611 of 30000

. Sara didn't seem too scared, but she generally trusts that everything is going to work out okay, so.

This was my nephews. Well, Dominic. Tyler was mining the bottom of the popcorn bucket. I have an insane attachment to childhood toys (I have my dad's beloved teddy bear from when he was 1! and am still not over losing PinkHippo on the plane back from Prague when I was 20) and so the whole damned movie was a cryfest. At one point, I looked over at my SIL and she mouthed "I'm sorry, do you have more napkins?" through her tears.


DavidS - Jul 06, 2010 5:30:23 pm PDT #9612 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

didn't get to you?

I'm with Sara and Dominic; I figured they wouldn't be burnt up.

Though that scene made an interesting narrative/dramatic decision to let the inevitability of their doom go on long enough so that even if I wasn't worried about them, I could feel their despair and then connection in the face of that.


Liese S. - Jul 06, 2010 7:50:32 pm PDT #9613 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I didn't see any of the Toy Storyses and never can, because my toys are all alive and somewhat put out at having been sitting in my closet all this time.

I am trying to have a discussion on Facebook about the racebending issues on the Last Airbender, but keep getting swept off into other narratives about it, and am now unsettlingly angry. Again.


Jessica - Jul 07, 2010 3:57:57 am PDT #9614 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I did assume they were going to make it - I really didn't think, deep down, that Pixar would end this franchise with "and they all died horribly in a fire, the end" - but the scene JUST KEPT FREAKING GOING and I'll admit to being pretty worried. I mean they kept NOT ESCAPING! AAAAAAA!!!!!!!

But the Deus ex CLAW was pure awesomecakes with awesomesauce.


Volans - Jul 07, 2010 4:31:22 am PDT #9615 of 30000
move out and draw fire

Though that scene made an interesting narrative/dramatic decision to let the inevitability of their doom go on long enough so that even if I wasn't worried about them, I could feel their despair and then connection in the face of that.

Exactly this, but it made me cry anyway, because I started seeing them as symbols for all the people who've ever faced inevitable horrible death and chosen to face it together.