oy ... I had loaned a co-worker a couple of DVDs, one of which is Elmer Gantry. We spoke about it and it turns out he thought it was a comedy (!) because we'd been talking about actors and he thought Burt Lancaster was who I was talking about when I told him about Danny Kaye (!).
My food is problematic.
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Toddson - Apr 26, 2017 11:36:35 am PDT #714 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Fred Pete - Apr 26, 2017 12:00:32 pm PDT #715 of 3455
Ann, that's a ferret.
Toddson, (!), indeed.
tommyrot - Apr 27, 2017 7:32:44 am PDT #716 of 3455
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone seen The Girl With All the Gifts ? I love the book and liked the movie, though not as much as the book.
The film had a limited release here in the US. I either missed it or it never came to Chicago, but now it's on iTunes.
I'm curious if anyone saw it who hadn't read the book first.
One major change in the movie struck me: In the book, there's basically no cure for the zombie pathogen and humans and zombies are stuck in a war that will see most of them killed.
But in the movie, Dr. Caldwell can make a cure for the pathogen, but Melanie has to die to produce it.
So Melanie's action at the end, while producing the same result, has a very different meaning in the movie.
(Spoiler fonts because of the limited release before it became available to purchase.)
Zenkitty - Apr 27, 2017 12:48:48 pm PDT #717 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Thanks for spoiler-fonting, tommyrot, even though I read them anyway... I have the book on a shelf waiting to be read, and I never knew there was a movie. Time to move that book to the top of the stack.
JZ - Apr 27, 2017 5:51:25 pm PDT #718 of 3455
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Is it wrong that I thought Dan Stevens was hotter as the Beast than after he turned back into the prince?
As Hec noted, everyone thinks this! Although, God, Stevens was absolutely perfect as the post-transformation prince. The moment when he looks at his transformed hands, then turns and looks at Belle? He had clearly watched the animated version roughly a frillion times.
But, yeah, the animated version was better. And because I am (along with Plei) lyric's bitch, it annoyed me no end that when the villagers stormed the Beast's castle they left out Ashman's searing line, "We don't like/What we don't/Understand/In fact, it scares us."
Connie Neil - May 02, 2017 6:12:36 pm PDT #719 of 3455
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An ad for Wonder Woman on Agents of SHIELD!
Consuela - May 02, 2017 8:21:12 pm PDT #720 of 3455
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And an ad for WW during the NBA playoffs.
Toddson - May 03, 2017 5:47:11 am PDT #721 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Zenkitty - May 03, 2017 7:15:03 am PDT #722 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
GASP
I didn't like the books, didn't even finish the first one. This movie? OMG. This is right up my alley, specifically the dark one with the cobblestone street behind the NYC apartment complex in my mind.
Toddson - May 03, 2017 7:19:53 am PDT #723 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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