I figured, but I thought I'd ask before I brought a bunch of things to sell at Newbury Comic.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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sj - Dec 06, 2017 4:36:51 pm PST #1165 of 3463
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Vonnie K - Dec 07, 2017 6:04:17 am PST #1166 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Trailer for Andrew Haigh's Lean On Pete, one of the best films I saw during TIFF this year: [link]
The movie is a stunner - sparse and gorgeous, and strikingly unsentimental for a movie about a boy and a horse. And I have never seen a character who needed a hug more than this poor kid in the film, my God. The young actor who plays the lead is fantastic - he's named Charlie Plummer, and he's also playing the kidnapped teenager in All the Money in The World (the one in which Ridley Scott is replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer in the eleventh hour). Hopefully this will get a wide enough release in small theaters.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2017 10:18:23 am PST #1167 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My feelings on Shape of Water is that it is a lovely fairy tale romance, but because it's such a sweet, simple story, it doesn't quite have the oopmh of del Toro's other work.
Thinking more about it after a couple days' digestion, it is refreshing to see a story with such clear good and bad guys - defined by how much they help or hurt the people around them. The protagonist's fish kink is treated as evidence that she's an emotionally healthy sex-positive adult, and we the audience are 100% rooting for their love story - no antiheroes here. The bad guys are vocally racist, sexist, and homophobic - we are not asked to sympathize with their secret manpain because what matters is that they are ASSHOLES, which is a bad thing to be.
Amy - Dec 07, 2017 10:24:57 am PST #1168 of 3463
Because books.
I want to see it even more now!
-t - Dec 07, 2017 10:33:40 am PST #1169 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dang it, why is that not playing closer to me?
Atropa - Dec 07, 2017 11:09:25 am PST #1170 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It turns out I'm not seeing it this weekend, because it doesn't open here yet, just a one night only screening that I can't make it to. Grrr. I WANT TO SEE MY FISH MONSTER/LADY ROMANCE.
msbelle - Dec 09, 2017 7:38:11 pm PST #1171 of 3463
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Say Ladybird tonight and did not love it. I expected to love it and I just liked it.
Amy - Dec 11, 2017 8:07:06 am PST #1172 of 3463
Because books.
Who decided Get Out was a "comedy or musical"? [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 11, 2017 10:47:38 am PST #1173 of 3463
"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
Someone who didn't see the movie, I'm guessing. I mean the friend at TSA was comic relief, but that wasn't a big part of the movie.
Atropa - Dec 11, 2017 11:46:50 am PST #1174 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Actually, the studio and director made that decision, because the "comedy or musical" category has become a catch-all for any genre film, which helps the genre films not go up against big dramas like Dunkirk.
The year The Martian was released, it was nominated as a comedy or musical, and it won.