i remember the first pair of hispanics my mom bought me. they were from sears as i recall, and they had reinforced knee patches on the inside. memories...
Heathers, yes... wasn't the pool floatie thing kind of Heathers-ish? and also Little Murders meets the Bucket List. I don't care if you call it dark comedy, black comedy, whatever, that trailer alone was absofucking cathartic! If they can keep up the pace for 90 minutes, this thing will be a national treasure. ( just nothing like the actual movie, National Treasure, of course.)
can i call cross-dressers 'dragsters?' 'cos i'm gonna. i like the way it sounds. and i like the image in my head when i think about the hot rod magazines of my youth.
re. tone et al.--
what if it hadn't been a graphic novel to begin with and were just a movie? i could see it getting an even harsher reception then. however, viewing it as a translation to screen, i am reminded of how much i liked tim burton's Batman Returns, as it seemed the most like a comic book of any translation then or now. this really isn't a defense of AHOV, though, as i am not settled on the source material even-- just an examination of how a movie might have a tone that only makes sense within the context of familiarity with a certain medium.
okay, that explains a lot. i watched it straight and am ambivalent to the stoner genre-- raised on cheech & chong, and of course was straight while watching those, too, as i was, oh, say-- twelve at the time. that was family viewing for us, so stoner humor was just regular humor to me (see also: richard pryor in general and steve martin on comedy albums-- dirty! and long before parental warning labels-- good times!)
Mans, i will consider you to be my official spokesmonster on the matter of "the walking dead." i can go back to lurking and and barely paying attention while you keep making sense.
"dead set" was short and sweet and funny; "the walking dead" just SMELLS funny*.
*depressingly-to-horrifically misogynistic, depending how far into the story you go.
"there are some serious deficiencies in the characters/sexism department"-- yes: http://mindlessones.com/2010/10/28/notcomics-walking-dead-episode-1/ -- the show is still misogynistic but will it get as bad as...
http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57306 (?)
the tone was established early on and sustained throughout enough that i knew i'd be putting up with the he-man-woman-hater's-club if i were to continue. this fact relegates it to the type of show that's on if i have to get shit done and not watch TV, but hey, the noise helps me look up once in a while to keep track of the time-- thanks, TV!
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