If you're setting your movie in the '80s, your soundtrack shouldn't include "Baby Got Back."
I think that rule should apply to all movies no matter what decade they're set in.
But then we wouldn't get the silly joy of A Knight's Tale!
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
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Sean K - Jan 18, 2008 11:23:46 am PST #3438 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Laga - Jan 18, 2008 11:28:01 am PST #3439 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just screened Mad Money. I gotta say it wasn't that bad for a movie I chose to watch on account of it was five minutes shorter than 27 Dresses. Silly plot with great big holes but Keaton, Latifah and Holmes play off each other well with Keaton as the criminal mastermind, Latifah as the serious one with the serious face and Katie Holmes as the crazy silly one. The interstitial scenes were set in a blues bar which provided a cool musical interlude between acts and the supporting players were strong as well. Silly, yeah, but entertaining, funny and above all: shorter than two hours.
Jon B. - Jan 18, 2008 11:36:56 am PST #3440 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
But then we wouldn't get the silly joy of A Knight's Tale!
Thank you, Sean! I was trying to remember the name of that movie earlier when I said I didn't mind if the anachronicity took place throughout the film.
Laga - Jan 18, 2008 11:41:19 am PST #3441 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Let me join the Knight's Tale bandwagon. When the anachronisms are gleefully deliberate I can relax and enjoy them. And I was reluctantly dragged to Knight's Tale but I clapped and cried with the rest of the audience at the end.
more fun with Geography: in When Harry Met Sally they drive South on Lake Shore Drive to get to New York from the University of Chicago.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2008 11:45:49 am PST #3442 of 10000
"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
I don't recall ever being thrown out of the movie by any of the songs in Grease, but perhaps the fact that Sandy and Danny exit the final scene via flying convertible left me with lower standards for verisimilitude than I might have had otherwise.
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2008 11:48:29 am PST #3443 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I enjoyed Knight's Tale, but he should have gone for the blacksmith chick, who was way cooler and not unattractive.
Atropa - Jan 18, 2008 11:50:04 am PST #3444 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But then we wouldn't get the silly joy of A Knight's Tale!
Plei keeps trying to get me to watch it. I have so far resisted. But in terms of gleefully deliberate anachronisms, Marie Antoinette is the winner in my book. I love that movie with a blind and unreasoning love. Pretty dresses! Shoes! Little cakes! Music from Siouxsie and Bow Wow Wow and The Cure and Adam Ant!
Laga - Jan 18, 2008 11:53:40 am PST #3445 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
he should have gone for the blacksmith chick
No! Kate's mine!
but seriously, have you watched the deleted scenes?
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2008 12:00:02 pm PST #3446 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nope.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 18, 2008 12:03:36 pm PST #3447 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I enjoyed Knight's Tale, but he should have gone for the blacksmith chick, who was way cooler and not unattractive
I did not enjoy the Knight's Tale because not only did I hate his love interest with a blazing hot hate that I usually reserve for Scooby Doo and George Bush, I didn't even realize until the end that she wasn't supposed to be a haughty bitch and he wasn't going to get together with the cool blacksmith chick.
I did enjoy yummy Paul Bettany, though....