Ah, Godzilla in Name Only, the movie that dispelled any affection I felt for Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 16, 2013 4:54:00 pm PDT #23894 of 30000
"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
billytea - Mar 16, 2013 6:01:27 pm PDT #23895 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have a new favourite Tim Burton movie, and it is Dark Shadows. Wait, sorry, typo. It is Frankenweenie. Mr Whiskers! The classmates! The reanimation scene! The science teacher!
DavidS - Mar 16, 2013 6:05:07 pm PDT #23896 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dark Shadows was way more fun than than I expected. Emmett has decided he wants Collinswood for his own once he makes his baseball millions.
And Frankenweenie was pretty fun too. I especially liked that instead of having one emo goth child in the midst of stultifying suburbia, everybody in Frankenweenie land was macabre.
billytea - Mar 16, 2013 6:16:32 pm PDT #23897 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I especially liked that instead of having one emo goth child in the midst of stultifying suburbia, everybody in Frankenweenie land was macabre.
All the children, at least. My favourite scene is when the science teacher is explaining himself at the town hall meeting. "Ladies and gentlemen. I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant. Is that right word, ignorant? I mean stupid, primitive,unenlightened. You do not understand science, so you are afraid of it. Like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons. To you, science is magic and witchcraft because you have such small minds. I cannot make your heads bigger, but your children's heads, I can take them and crack them open. This is what I try to do, to get at their brains!"
Atropa - Mar 19, 2013 11:34:03 am PDT #23898 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have a new favourite Tim Burton movie, and it is Dark Shadows.
That movie was better than I expected, thank goodness. And so pretty!
Wait, sorry, typo. It is Frankenweenie. Mr Whiskers! The classmates! The reanimation scene! The science teacher!
Such a fun movie. The science teacher is one of my favorite characters, and I kind of want a plush of Mr. Whiskers after he's been zapped.
Connie Neil - Mar 19, 2013 12:35:36 pm PDT #23899 of 30000
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Poor Mr. Whiskers.
sumi - Mar 21, 2013 7:20:57 am PDT #23900 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2013 5:45:09 pm PDT #23901 of 30000
"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
If anyone still has Quartet playing at your local movie theater, I highly recommend catching it while you can. I saw it earlier tonight (its last night in my hometown), and it was the best movie I've seen since The Artist. Tons of luminaries of British opera and theatre have supporting roles, and Dame Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Billy Connoly, and Sir Tom Courtenay are all superb in it.
chrismg - Mar 22, 2013 1:27:25 pm PDT #23902 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
So do we have an opinion on the Lynne Ramsay situation?
Calum Marsh has an essay on it here that I mostly agree with, so of course I'm going to nitpick something:
Would you say the word "drama" is gendered in the way he says it is? My exposure to people using it is mostly fandom_wank and similar places, so maybe it's like that in other venues, but my impression is it's mostly neutral.(Certainly moreso than "hysteria" which he compares it to.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2013 4:09:22 pm PDT #23903 of 30000
"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
No, I'd say he's way off base. I've heard "drama" used in that sense about shenanigans by men at least as much as those by women. Hysterical is definitely a gendered term, and I think "oversensitive" is historically applied to just about everyone but straight white Christian men as a way of dismissing their reactions.