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.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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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
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.
Jesse - Mar 22, 2013 4:11:58 pm PDT #23904 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm inclined to say it is gendered in that way, but don't have any data to put my hands on.
erikaj - Mar 22, 2013 4:32:23 pm PDT #23905 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I have said it about men, but I'm not sure the culture does.
Juliebird - Mar 22, 2013 4:34:01 pm PDT #23906 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm now on a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kick, and so rented The Lookout. For some reason I was afraid of watching that movie. I can't recall if I was afraid of the abuse of memory-loss as a plot point ("we're making him our point man because he'll never remember that he helped us rob a bank!") or because I was afraid of a sad ending (seriously, the trailer is the last half-hour of the movie). I want to rewatch Brick, but am sure that I bought that already, and am hesitant to buy it again because it's no longer on this current iteration of laptop.
But, Lookout was good. I'm not sure it was consistent with the cognitive stuff, and the chicks dropped off the radar fast (but they made that easy to bear by making sure Luvlee got dumber and dumber the more screentime she got).
Fiona - Mar 23, 2013 9:38:02 am PDT #23907 of 30000
flea - Mar 24, 2013 6:29:04 am PDT #23908 of 30000
information libertarian
We're watching The Hobbit for the second time in 24 hours, and I am quite glad we didn't take the kids to see it at the theater, because of the length. The only thing that really scared Dillo (6) was the ringwraith bit (not the wargs, which surprised me - those are scary!).
I think Martin Freeman is very, very good. I keep saying, "I love Bilbo." He has such excellent timing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 24, 2013 6:31:51 am PDT #23909 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
I hope the franchise propels him on to a prominent career.
Scrappy - Mar 24, 2013 7:31:35 am PDT #23910 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Went to Olympus Has Fallen last night and it pretty much SUCKED.