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
100% my reaction, up to and including the Bettany love.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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§ ita § - Jan 18, 2008 12:07:33 pm PST #3448 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Jan 18, 2008 12:10:50 pm PST #3449 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I hate his love interest with a blazing hot hate that I usually reserve for Scooby Doo and George Bush
How DARE you speak the name of Scooby Doo in the same breath as George Bush! Defame not the name of that beloved pooch.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2008 12:11:24 pm PST #3450 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How DARE you speak the name of Scooby Doo in the same breath as George Bush! Defame not the name of that beloved pooch.
Yeah, if you wanna pick on a dog, pick on Scrappy Doo.
Scrappy - Jan 18, 2008 12:15:28 pm PST #3451 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
pick on Scrappy Doo.
Hey!
Volans - Jan 18, 2008 12:31:40 pm PST #3452 of 10000
move out and draw fire
100% my reaction, up to and including the Bettany love.
Thirded.
I'm from Roswell, and I work in embassies. There's a lot of movie stuff that's just silly, especially regarding what embassies are like. Bourne Identity did a good job with the consular officer ("This isn't a menu, miss") but was otherwise silly...although we all laughed when Bourne took out the RSO.
There's a lot of Roswell stuff that's silly too, but that's an improvement.
Scrappy - Jan 18, 2008 12:33:57 pm PST #3453 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It always bugs in theater movies when they show actors reheasing in full costume on a finished set.
juliana - Jan 18, 2008 12:40:44 pm PST #3454 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
when they show actors rehearsing in full costume on a finished set.
ZOMG, yes. Actually, Shakespeare In Love is a pretty good depiction of the process (it was pre-director era, but still). I choose to believe that there are still occasionally grandly silly-yet-serious actor fights like that somewhere. (Not that we don't have such things, but it mostly consists of sniping at each other behind each other's backs. A full-on melee would be much more civilised.)
P.M. Marc - Jan 18, 2008 1:44:54 pm PST #3455 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Plei keeps trying to get me to watch it. I have so far resisted.
I'll bring it over next time I see you. Or IO it, but IO takes forever from the bowels of my part of campus.
Did I mention there is dancing to Bowie??? Did I? Cause there IS.
Oh, and you can judge the demon/Satan chick from Devour's acting ability in something that doesn't suck! Sadly, as pretty as she is, and she is pretty, Devour was pretty representative of her skills.
On a note related to my earlier post on Juno, which is two fatfingers away from Jump if you're touch typing with a headache like I am, I'd just like to point out something I think got lost in the shuffle of Stuff Movies Get Wrong, I think there's a HUGE difference between handwaving factual accuracy and reinforcing commonly held potentially damaging/harmful ideas, and it's the latter that has the Juno critics twitchy.
megan walker - Jan 18, 2008 2:05:13 pm PST #3456 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think there's a HUGE difference between handwaving factual accuracy and reinforcing commonly held potentially damaging/harmful ideas, and it's the latter that has the Juno critics twitchy.
Well, yes, but often how movies present history and what they get wrong (wars, patriotism, etc.) is just harmful, if not more so, in the the long run. For one thing, it's far more pervasive.
Beverly - Jan 18, 2008 2:56:33 pm PST #3457 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The Knight's Tale haughty bitch is on Moonlight, too.
And I'm in total agreement with the "Nooooo! You go with the smith chick. She's an actual person. And can fix your armor!" and the Bettany love. And the Alan Tudyk love. The out-of-era music makes the DH grind his teeth, but I love it. How not? It's Bowie! And Queen!