I'm accepting billytea's canon. Haven't actually seen RoS yet, but I am here for Palestine being part sponge
As an added bonus, in his final scenes when he's hanging on a stick he'll be good for cleaning all those hard-to-reach places as well.
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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billytea - Jan 05, 2020 3:46:10 pm PST #2463 of 3429
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
-t - Jan 05, 2020 4:30:28 pm PST #2464 of 3429
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yes, that feels right
Vonnie K - Jan 06, 2020 12:16:20 pm PST #2465 of 3429
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I dragged my 10 yo niece and sister-in-law to see Little Women over the holidays. The niece was sadly indifferent to it, but the SiL cried buckets and declared herself a fan. I loved it just as much the second time around and am seriously thinking about going to see it the third time (I mean, I have the AMC A-list membership so technically it won't cost me anything extra). The world is terrible and apparently this is my happy place now? I am OK with that!
A bit sad that I don't have any wish to go see TRoS again. (I went to see TFA like 5 times in the theater, and TLJ 3 times.) I had been much more fannish about the sequel trilogy than the original and now am feeling very meh about it all. Ah well. *philosophical shrug* Fannish circle of life, etc.
So, Golden Globes was last night and the big winner was Sam Mendes' 1917, which is opening wide this weekend. On one hand, the news cycle is REALLY not making me want to see a war movie, no matter how well-made. On the other hand, Roger Deakins!
I did go see Bombshell before I left for the holidays. It was alright.
Vonnie K - Jan 10, 2020 5:23:25 am PST #2466 of 3429
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Jesse - Jan 10, 2020 7:40:15 am PST #2467 of 3429
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do not need an explainer on the economics of folding pizza boxes.
-t - Jan 10, 2020 8:30:57 am PST #2468 of 3429
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What?
Jesse - Jan 10, 2020 8:36:29 am PST #2469 of 3429
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I'm just assuming that's what would come of that partnership?
-t - Jan 10, 2020 9:08:28 am PST #2470 of 3429
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, okay. I could not connect the dots.
Vonnie K - Jan 10, 2020 9:20:43 am PST #2471 of 3429
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Neon has been running an amazing award campaign for Parasite and this is the first time I went, "oh God, no." It also feels weird to see this news coming at the heels of Bong's Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Foreign film, where he humorously ribbed at English-speaking movie-goers for their reluctance to see subtitled films.
And there is the Adam McKay of it all. Bong's films are deeply humanist. The first word that pops in my head when it comes to McKay is "glib." If I recall, Adam McKay was also involved in an attempt to do an American remake of Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann (a brilliant, weird, deeply moving 3-hour German comedy of discomfort about an estranged father-daughter relationship set against the backdrop of globalized corporate culture). It doesn't look like that film is happening, so here's hoping the same thing will happen to this misguided notion.
(UGH, go make your own freakin' films instead of trying to drag down my favourite movies, Adam McKay!)
Vonnie K - Jan 10, 2020 5:46:13 pm PST #2472 of 3429
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
1917 is spectacular. It's harrowing and starkly beautiful, an all-around immersive experience. Roger Deakins is gonna get that second Oscar, yo.
Lots of cameos by Who's Who in British acting cabal in this. My favourite was probably Andrew Scott, a.k.a. Hot Priest, who's in it for like 2 mins but makes an impression.
I've seen one of its leads, George Mackay, in several films now and have always been impressed by him -- he's very fine in Pride and Captain Fantastic in particular -- but he may finally break out big after this one. He's such a lovely subtle actor and this movie puts him through a wringer. What a punishing shoot this must have been.