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?
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
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Aims - Dec 28, 2009 5:17:49 am PST #5800 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2009 5:19:01 am PST #5801 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow, that is interesting, Jon. I had always wondered if it came from Dick Tracy.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2009 5:20:49 am PST #5802 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
what is annoying about it?
In a nutshell, Tracy Morgan. Though I don't know if another actor could have redeemed the character any--he seems to have been written expressly irritatingly. And Bruce Willis's exasperation with him isn't enough--he doesn't seem sympathetic either.
Aims - Dec 28, 2009 5:24:27 am PST #5803 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah, Tracy Morgan is one of those actors that people either love or hate. A lot of the time it's him I can't watch on 30 Rock.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2009 5:38:06 am PST #5804 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 think I'd have been a regular watcher of 30 Rock for years if not for him.
Polter-Cow - Dec 28, 2009 6:14:32 am PST #5805 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I find Tracy Morgan hilarious on 30 Rock, but he wasn't funny in that trailer.
Volans - Dec 28, 2009 6:27:24 am PST #5806 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I was really hoping for an Alice In Wonderland trailer.
We got that at Avatar. Looks all kinds of awesome.
SailAweigh - Dec 28, 2009 7:47:36 am PST #5807 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The Online Etymology Dictionary (pretty much my one-stop shopping place for period slang) has this to say about dick:
"fellow, lad, man," 1553, rhyming nickname for Rick, short for Richard, one of the commonest Eng. names, it has long been a synonym for "fellow," and so most of the slang senses are probably very old, but naturally hard to find in the surviving records. The meaning "penis" is attested from 1891 in British army slang. Meaning "detective" is recorded from 1908, perhaps as a shortened variant of detective.
That takes it back a little bit farther, but it doesn't give a reason why or any history behind it.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2009 7:59:22 am PST #5808 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've only been in genre-type places reading Sherlock Holmes reviews, but they've been more positive than I was expecting, and many are defending the canonicity of Ritchie's interpretations and not slamming the slashy overtones.
flea - Dec 28, 2009 2:39:42 pm PST #5809 of 30000
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Watching "Up" on DVD. I started crying the instant Ellie comes on the scene, and freaked out my kids I was crying so hard during the life review. Ugh.