Something fun: explaining the backstory of Eowyn vs. the Witch King in a few short sentences.
Woah. I don’t think I ever realized before what an awesome word “both” is.
*gets back to work, which is probably more like play, as its analyzing the 1980 and 2003 versions of RotK, but is still work nonetheless*
Oh — you know how I was saying that the 1980 animated version of RotK is the scariest thing I have ever seen in my 19 short years on this earth? Here are some screencaps. Share the fear!
It’s that time again! Film Noir Class quotes!
“The appeal for Matrix is in great special effects and… great leather costumes…” –Chris
“Rufus Sewell. He’s not really let’s see Rufus!” –Chris, regarding the popularity of Dark City versus The Matrix
“Cool people deserve to live. Other people… don’t matter much.” –Chris on the moral of The Matrix
“Why were there so many rhetorical questions?” –Chris
“What does the word ‘maudlin’ mean? Like ‘I’m maudlin these clothes’?” –Arjun
“I can’t say I know much about the history of the zither.” –Chris
Me: He was the singing voice of Jack in “The Nightmare Before Christmas”!
Chris: Thank God we got back to Tim Burton.
–regarding Danny Elfman
“I remember back in Catholic school–I try not to remember back in Catholic school–on the playground, we would act out the bearing of the Cross. We would get one self-important kid who would volunteer to be Jesus, and the rest of us would beat the crap out of him.” –Chris
Me: (incredulous) You mean… there are movies based on books that don’t accurately portray the source material?
Ian: That would be a great segue to “Lord of the Rings”!
Arjun: I love how we don’t even talk about Lord of the Rings anymore, we just talk about talking about it.
–regarding “Kiss Me Deadly”
Me: It’s a film class! What were you expecting?
Chris: It’s not an Oscar class! Oscar has nothing to do with film!
–post-oscar excitement
Arjun: Did erotic dancers really dance like that in the 20’s?
Chris: I’m not going to pretend to be an authority on the history of erotic dancing.
–giggling about “Night of the Hunter” and reflecting back on “Metropolis”
All of Malibu would be wiped out! *wipes away imaginary tear* –Chris, “Kiss Me Deadly”
“She’s not a prostitute! She’s woobait!” –Me, “Kiss Me Deadly”
“Oh, screw The Matrix.” –Chris, “Dark City”
“The first time I saw Zoolander, I didn’t really like it, but the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh times, I really liked it.” –Arjun
“I think it will take decades to truly appreciate Dude Where’s My Car… all the subtle nuances.” –Chris
Okay, I win! If Wicked can use the word “calumnies,” I can use the word “lycanthropy” in MAA.
Edit: Not to mention “hoi polloi”! Yeah, no problems with “lycanthropy” then.
I just watched “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” last night, in which a kid, worried about the potential of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, writes a letter to Superman and asks him to destroy all the world’s nuclear weapons. After a bit of pondering over the issue and generally not listening to the Kryptonian elders, he gathers all the nuclear weapons in a giant space-net and hurls them into the sun.
The world could use a Superman now. No, instead we get Dr. Strangelove.
Anyone not listening to Air America Radio really needs to.
The sad thing is that the people that most need to hear this stuff are the people that are least likely to.
Kerry is on the O’Franken Factor and I have to go to class. Thank gravy for repeats! Five minutes of listening to him talk and I already feel better about him.
GAH RENATA IS FAR TOO AWESOME FOR WORDS!!!!!!!!! Clicksee! The second half of her post!
It kind of makes me want to get “What’s in a Name” published. Maybe I’ll look into that again. Eventually.
In the meantime, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE RENATA IS AWESOME!
And as for Wicked, I would have gladly typed up the summary of the plot in the little booklet that came with the CD, except that there is no plot summary. Stupid. Read the book, I guess, or see the musical? It stars Idina Menzel, of RENT fame, and Kristin Chenoweth, of… um… the ABC version of The Music Man. And Joel Grey as the wizard! (Does that mean what in the revival in 30 years, it’ll be played by Alan Cumming?)
So yeah. Renata is cool!
Bush always said that he was a uniter.
Is it just me, or is Harry’s hair significantly more unruly in these images than it was in the first two movies? Little things, but ever so meaningful to the fans! Now if you could be so kind as to find Percy some glasses, we would be much obliged.
(But whatever happened to absolutelyhideous!Crookshanks? In the trailer… man, that cat was UGLY! Deliciously ugly! Here, he could be construed as cute by some! What’s up with that?)
Heehee, that reminds me. When I was doing the DMD Drexel Interview Thing, I brought with me my Sandman project images and my big Magsby!Remus VSP collab. Being thorough interviewers, the Drexel kids asked me who the people in the images were supposed to be. There just isn’t a way to say that you collaborate with friends to make calendars of Harry Potter fanart that doesn’t make one sound like a complete and utter dork. :D
Oh! And ladies! Is VSP2005 still on? Mags, are you going to have time this summer to work on anything? Mon, how long will you be working on that children’s book? Aliceboo, what about you? I know we promised that we’d get started earlier this year, so that we wouldn’t have a time crunch, but starting earlier requires actually starting earlier. XD