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badideajeans, I really am liking all the things you say. I just kind of take issue with the idea that calling people out makes them stop, but I think that's largely from personal experiences. When my sister was in first grade, a supposed friend of hers had another friend hold my five-year-old sister's hands behind her back, while this girl punched her in the stomach repeatedly. And they stayed "friends" for years. I think sometimes the problem is definitely when it comes from supposed friends, and victims think they can't say anything because it's just their friends, and that whole mindset can be clearly seen played into adulthood (Harlan Ellison and Connie Willis being a prime example). #latetothepartygum #probablynotrelevantgum
It may well have been Dame Judy Dench who played with Vin Diesel, actually. I'm still pretty sure Dame Mirren plays too, though.
I think there is a certain degree of nostalgia to a lot of the love for it, but I don't think that makes it invalid. I got the first three books slightly in advance of my sixth birthday. I loved them -- loved them -- more than anything else that had existed in my life up to that point, pretty much. Now, I recognize that JK Rowling is not a particularly good writer! But it's still something that's been in my life for this long, and that's affected and changed me in a lot of ways, and thus it continues to have value for me. When the last movie comes out, it will have been almost twelve years since I first got the books. Twelve years. The only things that have been part of my life for longer than that are my family and Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. I've never even lived anywhere longer than five years. So yeah, the movies are often pretty terrible, and I can understand you not liking them! I will forever resent Emma Watson's eyebrows and their regular placement in these movies. But those of us who do love them tend to have good reason, even when they're less than quality. So now I'm going to go watch that fanvid to We're Marching On and cry some more. /nerd
Also, Vin Diesel and Dame Helen Mirren, who may or may not have played Dungeons and Dragons together.
This is everything I wanted to say and couldn't really say. People say children are terrible, and they are! They're terrible! But why are we continuing to endorse the fact that they can be awful by saying they'll grow out of it, instead of trying to make them better people now?
To butt in on your question as someone who was just on the edge of the age and demographic, I thought the original idea was a little flawed, but it brought us some really great things, like the speech Son of Gabe mentioned. I think if it had started out as a "you can make it better" campaign, it would have just generally been a better idea. It had good intentions, though.
He was the second best part of that movie, though, and everyone is always second to Alan Rickman's voice.
A family friend got really angry when someone bought Ghostbusters for his kids, because he thought they were really terrible, disgusting movies, but his children immediately fell in love with them, so he couldn't get rid of it. I never liked him.
I can not think of any way to tell you that creative writing degrees are fun and useful without sounding sad. There's a reason I'm double-majoring in Economics, I guess.
Knowing this show, though? It could have been intentional. (I saw it too.)
I've found myself doing the drunken giraffe lately. It's just so majestic. Or something.
Until a couple years ago, my sister wanted to be Jane Goodall, so I fully expect to see this movie twice in theater, and again on DVD. Sounds good!
Can we just dedicate this thread to how awesome Rebecca Black is? She donated the proceeds from the song to Japan! She was awesome in the GMA interview even when the interviewer was reading a series of hateful internet comments to her. And this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li7v08SB2I1qeuu42o1_500.png
My mother will talk about how it's not racist or problematic because Emma Stone was helping while simultaneously side-eying her (Catholic) mother for talking at great length about how much she admires the Jews, and how proud she is of what they've accomplished in the face of adversity. Mothers.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses! I saw that performed recently (admittedly in English), and it was the best.
i was kind of bummed by how brutal drogo and dany’s sex was This, always. I thought their relationship was surprisingly well-handled in the book considering how it's started. I have the feeling that after this, her dedication to him later is going to become kind of creepy and Stockholm Syndrome-y, which is kind of sad.
I totally agree. It's actually one of the things I really admire about Jesse Eisenberg. He's very willing to talk about his problems with depression in interviews, including things his therapists have talked to him about and how Zoloft affects his acting. It can be really nice to see someone that high profile talking really openly about mental illness, especially as someone with her own issues.
UBUNTU IS ALL-POWERFUL. (Am I doing this right, you guys?)
I'm going to fail my midterm. Thanks.
I think what really makes it is the Pink Panther style music. It just makes him look suave.
I liked it too, although to my surprise, the parts I enjoyed the most ended up being all of the "Hanna is disoriented by the real world' scenes, when I was expecting to be in it for the "Hanna kills everyone" scenes. Those were good, though.
Didn't you know Mighty Ducks was a romantic comedy?
See, I feel bad for God. I think his anger problems are the result of a rough childhood or something(?) and he’s just no good at handling them, like a lot of deities. Plus, he's made some really good universes. No bullshit.
My family lived in Australia when it came out, and I saw that movie in theaters six times. I regret nothing.
I have missed Thursday Night TV Open Threads, you guys! So many weeks, lost without them.
I approve of this, but I am also afraid of what Gabe will do to my childhood.
I feel the same way. A friend actually called me to inform me the outfit was horrible, and I'm inclined to agree. So metallic.
And suprise!Snafu makes this #208917 on the list of Movies I Shouldn't See And That Will Be Terrible But I Will See Anyway Because I'm A Sucker.
There is regularly better beat poetry than that at my campus' Frat Boys and Poets night. There has been better poetry than that about grilled cheese. (This is because Frat Boys and Poets sells the world's best grilled cheese, but that's not the point.)
An apt description, but I'm concerned that I think I enjoyed it.
An unfortunate truth: I will probably watch this movie one hundred times.
You watched it through to the credits?
So in the heaven dream sequence I spotted Oprah, Tweety Bird, Harry Potter from the fourth film, and the dude from Cake Boss, which I guess is his way of telling me Heaven's not the place to be. Thanks, Zachary!
I think at some point soon this evening I'm going to curl up with my laptop and reread your posts, because it's probably higher quality than anything else I was planning on reading tonight. And then I will invent a way to give you a hug over the internet.
Iambic pentameter means never asking whether you are asking too much.
Does this mean I don't have a Battle: Los Angeles? Because man, do I love Skechers.
While I admit I've never read any DFW, to my everlasting shame, my school recently put on a stage adaptation of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. It was kind of weird, because Wallace never wanted his works adapted for the stage, so what the performers were doing was reading pieces of him being fed to them through earpieces while doing a variety of things, mixed with sections of interviews with Wallace, but that's not the point. The point is that for every "interview" they performed, I was totally transfixed. Even the portions that I didn't like or I found grotesque continuously kept my attention, and all due credit to the performers involved, but I feel the large part of that was the writing. He managed to really capture the feeling you get as you're listening to someone so repulsive you can't stop, or when you're watching a trainwreck, that perfect feeling of being unable to look away. I can't say a whole lot else about David Foster Wallace, but I'd recommend Brief Interviews if you haven't read it.