(Actually it combines three cartoons. The bottom row is the one relevant to this conversation.)
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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Typo Boy - Dec 27, 2009 8:57:21 pm PST #5791 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Atropa - Dec 27, 2009 9:37:46 pm PST #5792 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I thought Sherlock Holmes was all sorts of fun. Of course, me being me, I would have preferred if they left the magic as magic, instead of tacked-on rational explanations. Yeah yeah, I know, that wouldn't have fit with the general canon. But it was marvelous fun, and the interaction between Holmes and Watson was great.
Also, my wardrobe is sadly lacking bustles. I need more.
We got trailers for Iron Man 2 (wheee!), Inception (whee?), Sorcerer's Apprentice (It'd be more wheee! about it if it wasn't Nicholas Cage), some rom-com with Jennifer Anniston that I don't even remember the title of, and some cop movie with Bruce Willis. I was hoping for a Wolfman trailer (paranormal! Vaguely Victorian-esque setting!), and I was really hoping for an Alice In Wonderland trailer. Alas, I got neither.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2009 4:41:56 am PST #5793 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The cop movie--was it the one with Tracy Morgan? That looked like a distillation of everything I found annoying. We had that one too.
Aims - Dec 28, 2009 4:43:37 am PST #5794 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The cop movie--was it the one with Tracy Morgan?
With Bruce Willis? Called A Couple of Dicks?
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2009 4:47:20 am PST #5795 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Called A Couple of Dicks?
They changed the name. It's called Cop Out.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2009 4:51:17 am PST #5796 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Speaking of which, does anyone know how detectives became known as "dicks". I have been wondering that for ages, but google (understandably) tends to send me to porn.
Aims - Dec 28, 2009 4:58:05 am PST #5797 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
They changed the name. It's called Cop Out.
Ah. When we saw Kevin Smith in September, he said he wasn't sure if the studio was going to let them keep the name.
Jon B. - Dec 28, 2009 5:13:16 am PST #5798 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Speaking of which, does anyone know how detectives became known as "dicks".
I always assumed it was a simple shortening, but a google of "dick detective etymology" turned up this interesting comment about a NY Times article:
Search the page for the word "detectives" and you find this:
For another example, his entry on “dick” ‘detective’ seems to prefer that the word comes from the “eye” logo used by Pinkerton detectives (I say “seems” because his logic is often difficult to follow):
“The Pinkerton’s world-famous logo was the giant ‘All-Seeing Eye.’ The Pinkerton private ‘eye’ and labor union spy was christened a dick (dearc, an eye) by the Irish-speaking subjects of its gaze: Molly Maguires, Fenians, Knights of Labor, and Wobblies.”
But he has only 1922 as his earliest source (though the earliest date is 1908 in the OED and the Historical Dictionary of American Slang [HDAS]), he doesn’t address the Hiberno-English travelers’ cant suggested by HDAS, he fails to mention “keep dick” in the English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) which (according to HDAS; I can’t double-check because Archive.org doesn’t have EDD Vol. II) cites it from Northern Ireland, and he makes no connection to the “deek” ‘to descry; to see’ (1784 in the Scottish National Dictionary) which HDAS suggests is synonymous with the English Romani “dik.”
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2009 5:16:21 am PST #5799 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
he said he wasn't sure if the studio was going to let them keep the name
From what I can tell the studio shouldn't have let him keep the movie.
Aims - Dec 28, 2009 5:17:49 am PST #5800 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
From what I can tell the studio shouldn't have let him keep the movie.
Which makes me sad because it's KS's first time directing a movie he didn't write. I haven't seen any trailers or anything, what is annoying about it?