Colin's story is annoying and definitely my least favorite of the movie, but I find the movie overall just so charming. It makes me happy. And once in a while, that is absolutely sufficient criteria for my liking a movie.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
zuisa - Dec 07, 2010 6:04:17 am PST #10384 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2010 6:20:43 am PST #10385 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The storyline with Chiwetel Ejiofor is the one that sent my eyes crossing and hard.
slayeroshadow - Dec 07, 2010 6:21:29 am PST #10386 of 30000
And what's with all the carrots?
"I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
Love the song, AND have the shirt!
Vortex - Dec 07, 2010 6:22:00 am PST #10387 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
(I know I mention it a lot, but I really am having a hard time dealing. It's...not what I expected. Sorry for the whole "death likes carrots" thing.)
No need to be sorry, love. I wish that I could do something to make you feel better. Um . . . boobies?
Barb - Dec 07, 2010 6:22:27 am PST #10388 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
It is annoying, but it fits within the spectrum of stories that Curtis was trying to tell. I'm just sad that the story of the school principal was cut for length.
Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2010 6:26:17 am PST #10389 of 30000
brillig
I like U2's Baby, Please Come Home as Christmas music, and some of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's really bombastic stuff. I will claim my love of the '80s power ballad to my grave.
beekaytee - Dec 07, 2010 6:48:44 am PST #10390 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
(I know I mention it a lot, but I really am having a hard time dealing. It's...not what I expected. Sorry for the whole "death likes carrots" thing.)
Aw, honey...I'm so there with you. Just yesterday, I 'saw' my beloved Kim driving down the road. I asked her a question and she answered with her characteristic energy. The fact that she died in September '09 doesn't seem to have diminished my need for her in my life.
Peace to your heart, balanced meds and every warm wish coming your way.
Burrell - Dec 07, 2010 7:17:00 am PST #10391 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Steph, you still get Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby," which always makes me happy.
Y'all are reminding how much I hated the Colin Firth story line in Love Actually. Really, the only characters that redeemed that movie were Thompson and Rickman, but then I'd watch it again for them alone.
DCJensen - Dec 07, 2010 7:46:15 am PST #10392 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Rickman is always an excuse to watch a movie, even January Man.
DCJensen - Dec 07, 2010 7:54:30 am PST #10393 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Andi and I have today and tomorrow off together, then she has the weekend off without me. Sigh.
Work is getting sucky for me, they have changed so much and are regimenting a process by which all info and troubleshooting is codified and eventually to be scripted. Um, I'm a good troubleshooter *because* I am not regimented. I can take disparate elements in what they say and synthesize a whole path of repair. It's one of my strengths. It also bodes ill for pay raises when any schlub and read a troubleshooting guide and do my job, badly. (Not that I've had a raise in 3 years, or a bonus in the past several months.)
sigh, but I'm home now and andi is napping, and I'm trying to scrape together cash to pay for my $2000+ in copays.
OTOH? I have paid off all of my debt from back in diabetic unemployed days, no more cc debt, and now the credit repair may commence.