When We Were Soldiers
That's the one to avoid, then. I might give TTRL a shot. I'm trying to expand my choices now that I have Netflix. I don't feel that guilty spending the chump change it costs to rent anymore on a potential loser.
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
'Life of the Party'
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SailAweigh - Feb 05, 2008 7:06:41 am PST #3840 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
erikaj - Feb 05, 2008 8:00:29 am PST #3841 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
well, yeah, because it's prepaid, right?
JZ - Feb 05, 2008 8:11:40 am PST #3842 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
On a completely different war-movie note, I have to ask if anyone else saw 1927's Wings last night on TCM. Not only was it an amazing film with incredible aerial sequences, and not only did Clara Bow kick all kinds of ass with a tremendous performance, but it had the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie. A tender, mournful, genuinely moving and wrenching and utterly slashtastic death scene (right after this moment, when I groaned, "Oh, just kiss him already!", he kissed him already -- according to Wikipedia, the first known M/M kiss on film ever, anywhere). Slashier and more tender than that one Sam/Frodo near-death near-embrace, possibly slashier and more tender than anything in Brokeback Mountain, where there wasn't even any sub to the text.
I'm now incredibly curious about whether that scene pinged reviewers or audiences in 1927 at all, but my Google-fu for 8-decade-old film crit is apparently lacking.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:14:15 am PST #3843 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2008 8:17:06 am PST #3844 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"This movie needs way more gay"
Indeed.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:19:02 am PST #3845 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did you read the alt-text?
i wanted more MANLY ADVENTURE NARRATIVE and less WEAK ROMANCE WITH ILSA where the breen censorship code at the time forbade depicting a woman leaving her husband for another man anyway! we already know you will stay with your husband, ilsa! can we cut back rapid-fire quips between the captain and rick now please
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2008 8:20:46 am PST #3846 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
On a completely different war-movie note, I have to ask if anyone else saw 1927's Wings last night on TCM. Not only was it an amazing film with incredible aerial sequences, and not only did Clara Bow kick all kinds of ass with a tremendous performance, but it had the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie. A tender, mournful, genuinely moving and wrenching and utterly slashtastic death scene (right after this moment, when I groaned, "Oh, just kiss him already!", he kissed him already -- according to Wikipedia, the first known M/M kiss on film ever, anywhere)
I didn't, but back when AMC used to be allowed to show classic movies, I watched that one a couple of times, and I less than three it SO MUCH.
Sparky1 - Feb 05, 2008 8:31:19 am PST #3847 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
JZ, I just sent you the NYT review of the picture from Aug. 13, 1927. The word, "HoYAY!" does not appear in the article.
I just love the name on the byline: Mordaunt Hall.
Tom Scola - Feb 05, 2008 8:35:42 am PST #3848 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The NYT review is online.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:39:59 am PST #3849 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The last chapter, that concerned with the return of Powell to his home in this country, is, like so many screen stories, much too sentimental, and there is far more of it than one wants.
Things haven't changed since 1927, have they.