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Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.

Jayne ,'The Message'

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Calli - Jun 13, 2018 2:00:32 am PDT #1573 of 3463
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I've read various Ocean's 8 reviewers say that they wanted an "oh, shit" moment where things looked like they would spin out of control, but that the team would resolve/turn out to have planned for/turn to their advantage and they didn't think the movie gave them that. But my hyper-competency fetish was well served by watching Sandra Bullock's character tick items off her list as her five years of planning came to fruition.

As I think about it, the fact that I and a lot of other people keep referring to [actor's name]'s character instead of the character's name probably points to something, too.

I still had tons of fun, and the show opened number one at the box office, so presumably, we'll see Ocean's 9. Yay!

Jesse - Jun 13, 2018 2:28:56 am PDT #1574 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think the "oh shit" moment was supposed to be/could have been when she comes out of the bathroom with no necklace on, but they didn't play that up enough, I guess.

Tom Scola - Jun 13, 2018 5:12:58 am PDT #1575 of 3463
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Calli, you're not the only one with that Cate Blanchett dilemma: [link]

Jon B. - Jun 13, 2018 5:42:22 am PDT #1576 of 3463
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I didn't understand Cate Blanchett's purpose in Ocean's 8. What did she do, other than provide a lair?

Also, I thought the "oh shit" moment was when the waiter wheeling the necklace stopped to talk about weed with the other waiter, but that was pretty weak as well.

Consuela - Jun 13, 2018 6:25:48 pm PDT #1577 of 3463
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yeah, for all that I enjoyed the movie, there wasn't a lot of tension or narrative drive in it. And I did think the Gala dresses weren't nearly weird enough.

Toddson - Jun 14, 2018 9:48:38 am PDT #1578 of 3463
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

They're filming Wonder Woman 1984 in DC today - in Georgetown - and to be period appropriate, they've recreated the facade of the Commander Salamander store.

lisah - Jun 14, 2018 12:35:46 pm PDT #1579 of 3463
Punishingly Intricate

It's right by my office but I had too much work to go in this week.

Steph L. - Jun 16, 2018 5:54:38 pm PDT #1580 of 3463
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

We saw Solo tonight, and it was worth the $9. I would have preferred more Lando, but even so, Donald Glover was great. And L3 was awesome.

DavidS - Jun 16, 2018 7:00:02 pm PDT #1581 of 3463
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And L3 was awesome.

L3 was awesome but I'm a little concerned about gendered robots.

Atropa - Jun 16, 2018 10:42:05 pm PDT #1582 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I watched the scary clown movie! I didn't pass out or die!

The changes from the book didn't annoy me, the character design for Pennywise was impressive, and the way Pennywise moved was impressively full of DEAR G-D NO THAT IS NOT OKAY.

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