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By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/29/00 4:49:30 PM
# Replies: 75
The Seattle Gray Season has started, which means: Renting lots of movies! So, with that in mind:
Mission To Mars
Sucks.
When they're not displaying superhuman smugness, the characters of this movie are throwing a party in their space capsule. They reach Mars to find out that, just as in 2001: A Space Oddessy, mankind has a more important role in the universe than could have previously been imagined. They're never really in danger, there's no suspense, the characters are people I'd never want as friends. Kudos for being hard science fiction, but COME ON.
Head
I'd never seen this before. I'd never had access to drugs before, either. Now, thanks to a supply of one or the other, I'm totally fascinated by this movie, co-produced by Jack Nicholson and starring The Monkees. It's wonderful in so many ways, and yet so completely and utterly stupid as to scarcely warrant any attention at all.
Still, though, it's inspiring. Fame didn't ruin those four kids.
Magnolia
Utterly amazing film. It creates just enough tension to keep you interested in all of the many sub-stories, while not overwhelming you. And it has a rain of frogs. Warning: It's 4 hours long.
Terror 2000
One of the most obscure movies I've seen in a long time. It's ostensibly the complex tale of two police officers attempts to find a missing Polish immigrant to Germany and their social worker, but it's really about xenophobia and hatred.
Basically, imagine if you got a dozen or so German punk weirdos together, took some drugs, watched a few Fellini movies, channeled the ghost of John Waters' earlier work, and tried to make a socially relevant splatter flick. Hard to watch, but there's one sterling moment: One of the cops tries to seduce the neo-Nazi leader's girlfriend by stripping naked, doing a dance, and singing 'Springtime for Hitler.'
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould was an acclaimed pianist. He was a genius, in the real, meaningful sense of the word. The 26th was his birthday, so I rented this movie about him.
It's equal parts dramatic re-enactment, biographical documentary, and music video, and very much worth seeing.
Response #1
By: Da Sissop
Date: 9/29/00 7:55:51 PM
I've been doing some rentals lately, too.
Mission to Mars
Awww, it wasn't *that* bad. I mean, sure it was really stupid and heavy handed, but it was a visually interesting 2 hours of meaningless crap. I give it one thumb up and one thumb down.
High Fidelity
It's a John Cusack movie. You *can't* go wrong with a John Cusack movie. And if you've ever worked in a record store, or known people who've worked in a record store, or asked questions of employees of a record store, you will love this film.
Any Given Sunday
Decent football movie with Al Pacino & Jamie Foxx. Jostling camera techniques made me puke, but in a good way.
Zelig
Woody Allen's early 80s mockumentary about The Chameleon Man. Zelig changes his physical characteristics to blend in with the people he's with. Great premise. Funny funny funny, but after about 45 minutes I had seen enough.
Response #2
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/29/00 11:15:34 PM
I, too, have been doing some rentals after discovering DVDOvernight.
Run Lola Run
It's like Roshomon meets The Twilight Zone. Great German flick which actually does feature the lead actress running quite a bit, but in a comedic way. And no, I don't mean like at the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Happiness
Todd Solondz's second film after the critically loved "Welcome to the Dollhouse". It's about anything BUT being happy. Kinda creepy, but I still thought it was well worth the rental.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I actually saw this on cable and really enjoyed it. I'd heard of it and think I heard a reference to it in some film, but had never seen it. Now I'm one of the proud few. It took some getting used to, but it's worth the effort just for the set design and cinematography.
Response #3
By: Ralf
Date: 9/30/00 7:43:26 AM
Mission to Mars was just plain dumb. The science was BAAAAD. The acting was bad. Spaceships bad. COmputer systems unbelievably bad. Bad casting, bad script, bad ufo mythology, bad bad bad.
Cool visuals though. You can see where all the money went: on screen, and not for research. And DePalma is still an awesome cinematographer.
Magnolia was brilliant. Like Homey said, it's low key but has this underlying thrum of tension that spans two VHS tapes and 4 hours, feeling more like 30 minutes. When it was over Mary and I just looked at each other and went "wow".
The frog rain is one of my favorite moments in movie history, ever. I would suggest a new law REQUIRING a frog rain scene in every movie made after 2000, but that would only cheapen Magnolia. Awesome, wonderful, sweet movie.
Erin Brockovich was interesting, although I kept wondering how the protagonist could be THAT BITCHY and survive puberty. This woman is the loudest, most obnoxious, foul-mouthed person I've seen in a movie since South Park, and she's supposedly based on a *real person*. She was supposed to be "feisty" and "no nonsense" but frankly, Julia could have cranked it down a few notches and still scared the kids. Her situations of helpless poverty I can identify with, and the whole lawsuit thing was pretty cool. I'd say rent it if Magnolia's not available. Oh, and she DOES NOT get naked at any time. Feh.
The Messenger surprised me. I was expecting it to be excruciatingly dull with a downbeat ending (SPOILER ALERT: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake!) but instead it was quite exciting. Lots of nifty fight scenes with decent effects and good acting. The reaction of the french military when Milla weilds a sword and charges the enemy *by herself* is priceless. It's a decent chronical of an obsessed hero who is ultimately punished for her success. They also left the issue of her relationship with God nicely ambiguous -- it's never made clear whether she's REALLY receiving instructions from God or is simply nuts. Oh, sadly, she never gets naked.
Response #4
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 9/30/00 11:39:38 AM
No, Mission to Mars truly sucked!
Response #5
By: Roxanne
Date: 9/30/00 1:16:01 PM
Saw Mission to Mars at the theater and thought it sucked big donkeys.
Response #6
By: Ralf
Date: 9/30/00 1:30:11 PM
Now see, if I'd read reviews like that I would never've rented it.
Response #7
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/30/00 1:56:08 PM
I think that in the future, film students will be required to watch Magnolia, just as they're required to watch Citizen Kane now.
I also think that in the future, Brian DePalma will renounce his involvement with Mission To Mars, just as David Lynch did with Dune.
Response #8
By: The Professor
Date: 10/2/00 12:01:12 AM
I liked Erin B* because I enjoy the films and books that deal with big corporations getting caught and the little guy getting justice (I also have some interest because of a paper I did in college on superfund sites)
While the book "A Civil Action" was really good, John Travolta's movie sucked. I did like the Erin B movie though.
Response #9
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/2/00 4:50:37 AM
Did anyone see Insider?
It was really good, damn good!
Excellent performances from Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer (who was GOSSLY overlooked for an Oscar) and Russel Crowe.
Although it did take a little getting use to, seeing Russel Crowe with that stark blonde hair.
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 10/2/00 7:13:40 AM
Waving a sword and shield.
Response #11
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/2/00 3:54:36 PM
"Do you think that you can defeat Caesar's tobacco interests? He has bought off all seats in the Senate!"
"While I do breathe and hold a sword, I shall!"
Response #12
By: Ralf
Date: 10/3/00 5:52:26 AM
Incidently, I just read The Horse Whisperer which I also understand was made into one of them hollywood movies. Which I haven't seen, so NO SPOILERS.
...because... you know, the book... isn't a spoiler...
Ahem. Anyway...
The book was pretty darn incredible. I really felt for the characters, and understood their motivations and thoughts. The author did a good job of getting inside the heads of these people. Too often child characters are so obviously written by 40 year old men trying to think childish thoughts, and it comes off wrong. Not this time, thankfully, because even the kids seem real. Good job, oh nameless mystery writer who's name I have forgotten but which is plainly emblazoned on the cover of the book which I am too lazy to go find so I can type the author's name.
So, anyone seen the movie?
Response #13
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/3/00 7:41:59 AM
Nicholas Evans.
I haven't seen the movie or read the book. I got the impression it was very _Bridges of Madison County_ and you can see where that might keep me for having anything to do with it.
Response #14
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/3/00 4:36:49 PM
Just stop at 'A River Runs Through It,' and you'll be OK with Redford.
Response #15
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/3/00 5:29:30 PM
Quiz Show wasn't bad and The Legend of Bagger Vance actually looks good.
Response #16
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/4/00 11:07:25 PM
Last night we watched American Psycho, which was a big letdown, though very creative, and especially eerie when he went into the schpiel about Phil Collins and Genesis ("...I was first introduced to Genesis through their 1983 album 'Duke,' which represented..." Duke was the first Genesis record I had).
But this post isn't about that, it's about the trailer for Shadow Of The Vampire, with John Malkovitch and the guy who played Jesus for Scorcese, about the '30s filmmaker Murnau who made 'The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari.' I am eager.
Response #17
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/5/00 7:15:09 AM
Willem Dafoe.
Coming to a theater near you on December 29th.
Response #18
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/11/00 9:37:56 PM
Willem Dafoe Homer. He was Jesue in The Last Temptation of Christ.
Which was still a damn fine movie if you ask me.
I kind of liked American Psycho, if you could get passed the OBVIOUS fact that the chick that wrote it REALLY has a thing against rich white men. Even that wasn't so bad for me, because I do too.
:)
Response #19
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/11/00 10:07:54 PM
A man, Bret Easton Ellis, wrote the original book and
co-wrote the screenplay with the director.
Response #20
By: sooz
Date: 10/12/00 6:13:39 AM
The hatred for rich white people (men OR women) is something that's come to interest me of late.
Because I'm white, Spas, should I purposely try to do badly in business? Were you attacked by a rich white male as a child?
I'm really trying to figure out where all of this is coming from. I wasn't born rich. Most everyone here knew me when I was deep in the throes of broke-assedness. I give to a lot of people and causes... I'm certainly not greedy with my money. I'm not rich, but I'm doing alright.
Where's all the anger coming from?
Response #21
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/12/00 5:45:45 PM
Actually, I think the mean-spiritedness of American Psycho isn't misplaced. It's aimed at a certain *kind* of rich white person, and at the world which supports them.
Response #22
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/12/00 6:04:04 PM
And it's set in the 80s when everyone was an asshole anyway.
Response #23
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/12/00 10:50:05 PM
Wrong Gowan. He wrote the book.
The director and another woman wrote the screenplay.
Mary Harron & Guinevere Turner, Ms. Turner also wrote Go Fish,and played Elizabeth in AP and was also recently in Dogma.
You may remember Mary Harron's name from working on Oz and Homicide on TV, and of course I Shot Andy Warhol.
Response #24
By: sooz
Date: 10/13/00 7:54:26 AM
Why is it PC to hate white people, but no one else?
Help, help, I'm being repressed!
Response #25
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/13/00 12:12:51 PM
I'm being repressed too! I thought I posted a reply in here yesterday and now it's gone...
Response #26
By: Ralf
Date: 10/13/00 2:31:14 PM
Either hate everyone or hate noone. Anything less is bigotry.
Response #27
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/13/00 9:04:08 PM
I will continue to despise the rich until I am one. :)
Seriously doubt that I would ever be one either.
Response #28
By: The Professor
Date: 10/14/00 9:10:19 AM
It seems to be ok to bash Christians as well as whites. Everything else is prohibited under PC law.
Response #29
By: sooz
Date: 10/14/00 12:25:28 PM
I'm a white Christian. I'm doomed.
Response #30
By: Ralf
Date: 10/14/00 1:44:58 PM
Oh please. There is enough bigotry and hatred for everyone without citing reverse discrimination.
But since you brought it up...
Christianity as a faith is fine. Christianity as a cause is a disaster. Historically more people have suffered at the hands of christian zealots than just about any other organization.
Defend that.
Response #31
By: Fung Swazy
Date: 10/14/00 7:34:00 PM
Now the pointer has moved up to the top right of this reply box.
Response #32
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/15/00 1:18:59 PM
What?
Response #33
By: sooz
Date: 10/15/00 1:28:50 PM
Why would I defend something I wasn't involved in?
It's kinda like saying "White people enslaved Blacks for years. Defend that."
You can't defend it. It was horrible. But it doesn't mean you're gonna stop being white, because so much idiocy has been done in the name of white supremacy.
And I'll still be a Christian, even if there are idiot Christians.
Response #34
By: Ralf
Date: 10/15/00 6:49:37 PM
Thanks for replying, but I was really guiding that to the Professor.
But if I understand your reasoning: it's okay to affiliate yourself with an organization that has done dispicable things in the past because they say they no longer do those things?
Why the loyalty? Would it not be better to start a new organization that preaches the things you believe in and leaves behind all the baggage you don't?
Right now you're in the same crowd as Billy Graham and Jim Falwell!
Response #35
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/15/00 10:43:56 PM
Well, you're in the same crowd as... well, it wouldn't matter what white people I compared you to, Ralf, since you're Pure Evil(tm).
One of the interesting things about identity politics is that no matter what you identify yourself as, there's someone who immediately disparages you for being it. It's a kind of political sadomasochism. That's why I'm getting into politics. Oh, yes. Hurt me!
Response #36
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/15/00 10:50:05 PM
And.. Speaking of movies...
Bedazzled(1967)
Trailers for the remake of this movie prompted me to rent the original.
I originally saw this movie a long, long time ago, and on reflection I think it's one of the reasons I was an Anglophile as a kid. Monty Python + Anything With Peter Cook And Dudley Moore = Homer Going Back Across The Pond (in a spiritual sense). I remember going to a Wimpy's in London with my parents and being all excited. "Wimpy's... Like in Bedazzled!" What a strange kid I was.
Peter Cook, I hope you're in heaven!
Wing Chun
Michelle Yeoh rules. I want to get in a fight with her so she can knock the shit out of me and then I'll be able to say, "Michelle Yeoh knocked the shit out of me once!"
Anyway, she stars in this movie, where a comedy of mistaken identity leads to a lot of fighting. And there's a scene where she fights off a bad guy with a big batch of tofu. We like.
Dead Man
The Seattle Gray Season Film Festival presents: anything by Jim Jarmusch!
When it's gray, and you've drunk more coffee than you should have, and you smoked more pot than you should have, and you still can't get to sleep, it's time to head down to Rain City Video and get some Jim Jarmusch.
The un-Jim-ified should not start with Dead Man, but instead Mystery Train or Ghost Dog. Then they should go ahead with Dead Man, which stars Johnny Depp and has a soundtrack by Neil Young, which he improvised while the movie was playing on a screen in front of him. We like, also.
Response #37
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/16/00 4:51:58 AM
Since when can you really seperate the faith from the cause?
Seems like down through history, they have pretty much gone hand in hand.
Realy, it's not just christianity either. It's all religions. More wars have been started, and people killed under the auspice of a religous belief, discipline or dogma that any other reason.
In my opinion, there is no defense for religion. I just don'y get or have much faith in someone trying to sell m an idea of what my faith in god should be, and how I should believe.
And Ralf. I agree with your association ideal. Kind of like saying, "Well, 15 years ago, I wouldn't have joined the KKK, but now, today, the NEW KKK is a different story. They're a kinder, gentler KKK."
With something as spiritual, intimate and personal as god, I just don't get why people feel to need to subscribe to someone else's ideal of what that is.
Response #38
By: Ralf
Date: 10/16/00 5:28:54 AM
Being a member of the Pure Evil Party does simplify things. For instance, we rarely spend money on advertising, since what's the point? Everyone hates us anyway, and anything less represents a violation of our charter.
Oh! We still have some bumper stickers left...
"Save the Baby Seals for Product Testing"
"My God can beat up your God"
"Get Back At Your Parents: Commit Suicide"
"Support Mandatory Gun Ownership"
"Fur Doesn't Kill -- it's Already Dead"
"If Homosexuality isn't a Crime, Why is it the #1 Prison Liesure Activity?"
"Hitler had the Right Idea: Blow Your Brains Out Before They Haul Your Ass Off"
"Jesus Has Been Dead for 2000 years. Get Over It."
"Believe Nobody. Hate Everyone. Have a Nice Day."
Response #39
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/16/00 10:01:28 PM
Loved them!
Mind if I borrow those?
Response #40
By: Ralf
Date: 10/17/00 5:46:39 AM
Sure.
Only I stole "Mandatory Gun Ownership" from the Duke2000.com campaign site.
If you actually make bumper stickers, I want one.
Response #41
By: The Professor
Date: 10/17/00 6:24:14 AM
There's a difference between being a 'member' of Christianity versus being a member of the KKK - whether it is the new improved reformed one or not. The first one believes in love, the latter believes in hate.
The problem is that people tend to judge others by what group they belong to (Christianity, Muslim, white race, black race, slacker, gen x'er, etc) and not by the individual.
Everyone discriminates - it's just that some groups get away with it (because they have made it politically correct).
I guess I'll try to steer the reply back to the subject of the thread. When I was much younger, I thought "Blazing Saddles" was hilarious. Now I find it racist and offensive.
Response #42
By: sooz
Date: 10/17/00 6:58:16 AM
Uh oh. THe older I get, the funnier that movie is.
Response #43
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/17/00 7:47:25 AM
I think remembering it's A MOVIE might help.
It's a guide book to live by.
In between the jokes, though, I thought it happened to have made a very good point. If you actually look at the humor, you see that Blazing Saddles made fun of racists. Cleavon Little was the hero of the movie, and was by far the most intellgent chracter in the movie. He was surrounded by baffoons. Gene Wilder, a white jewish guy, was stoned and drunk through most of the movie. Quite a reverse really.
Response #44
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/17/00 9:46:56 AM
Can you elaborate, Professor on what was racist and offensive in "Blazing Saddles"?
Response #45
By: Ralf
Date: 10/17/00 2:15:29 PM
When I was in my teens, I thought Blazing Saddles was the funniest movie of all time. But I didn't like or understand Young Frankenstein at all.
Now I think Young Frankenstein is the funniest movie of all time, and Blazing Saddles is just... silly.
Response #46
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/17/00 5:36:51 PM
I remember seeing Blazing Saddles on broadcast TV once, and they cut the sound of all the farts out of the fart scene. So basically there was this long scene of a bunch of guys sitting around a fire, eating beans. And yet the whole rest of the movie remained.
Response #47
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/18/00 4:26:15 AM
That is definitely a movie that loses something when "edited for television."
I've only seen one movie that ever actually got *funnier* when edited for television, and that was "The End" starring Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLouise. Some guy who sounded almost but not entirely unlike Burt Reynolds got a lot of work saying "shoot".
And there was the classic line: "Gosh darned son of a buck!"
Response #48
By: Ralf
Date: 10/18/00 8:48:54 AM
You just KNOW when you hear "Gosh darned son of a buck!" you replace all the words in your head: "Goddamed Sonofabitch".
Likewise, "shoot" plays back as "shit" in your internal soundtrack. It's human nature. You hear "-damned" and KNOW it's really "goddamned".
"Mother Kicker" or "mother humper" really means "mother fucker".
And so on.
So whom do these TV censors think they're fooling? Even the KIDS know what the replaced dialog is replacing. Why bother? Even the worst lip-readers can tell what Eddie Murphy's saying in his movies, even if the soundtrack *is* overdubbed by Ned Flanders.
So on top of all this profanity nobody's being protected from, we're being LIED to. And we KNOW it.
Response #49
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/18/00 10:35:11 AM
So what's worse in edited-for-tv movies?
A) The re-dubbed "PG" dialogue like Ralf mentioned
or
B) The silenced out editing that makes it seem like the sound is going out on your television
*or*
C) The whole concept of editing an "R" movie so that it is suitable for television broadcast.
Response #50
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/18/00 6:11:11 PM
D) Living in a country of fucking PRUDES.
Response #51
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/18/00 9:54:59 PM
Most of the time they forget to change the closed captioning when they sanitize for television.
Response #52
By: Ralf
Date: 10/19/00 6:29:57 AM
Really!
It must be fun transcribing closed captions. I bet when you get bored it's easy to slip some gratuitous profanity in there.
Julie Andrews (singing): Let's start at the fucking beginning...
Response #53
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/19/00 10:14:43 AM
Homer's comment edited for television:
D) Living in a country of friggin' PRUDES!
Response #54
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/19/00 1:01:35 PM
Shoot!!
Response #55
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/19/00 11:14:19 PM
People, come on. In this day and age, there is NO REASON what so ever that you ever HAVE to watch a redited movie for TV. Video rentals are a block away.
Response #56
By: Ralf
Date: 10/20/00 3:56:51 AM
But I want instant gratification! Driving to the video store is SO HARD!
Response #57
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/20/00 3:02:19 PM
There's a company here in town called kozmo.com who will rent you videos and deliver them. They might be in Houston, too, I dunno. They have a billboard that says: "kozmo.com: Because the corner store is, like, three blocks away!"
Response #58
By: sooz
Date: 10/20/00 5:51:28 PM
Oh, wow. After I made that other post, Spas really DID say "in this day and age."
Holy shit.
Response #59
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/20/00 7:13:27 PM
We have Kozmo in Houston. I don't know a single person who's ever used it though.
Response #60
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/22/00 11:51:28 PM
I am so glad to be such a constant sorce of entertainment for Sooz.
Response #61
By: Ralf
Date: 10/23/00 12:40:11 AM
Those who remain a constant source of entertainment for Sooz receive a 100,000 point bonus plus the home-version of our game.
Response #62
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/16/01 4:59:58 PM
So the Seattle Gray Season is almost over, but I rented some flicks last night and thought I'd comment on them.
The Cell
I'm glad I watched this one first. My main disappointment with this one was that it didn't make the leap from wondering what's going on in the subconscious mind of a serial killer, to wondering what's going on in the mind of a filmmaker who's making a film about the subconsious mind of a serial killer. It's obvious to me that we're only being shown such horrors as a horse being sliced into thin sheets or a guy getting his intestines ripped out of his belly is in the hopes that we'll get off to it. Much like the killer gets off to making women drown and then watching it on video tape as he masturbates over their corpse while hanging from the ceiling by chains attached to steel rings embedded in his skin. Are we ever asked to acknowledge that our role as audience is similar to his? Nope. That would be far too interesting.
The eye-candy's great, but the characters are flat and interchangeable and I didn't really care what happened to any of them. Kind of like the killer.
Wonder Boys
Ahh! Human beings who aren't murderous monsters! True, Tobey Macguire kills a dog, but it was in defense of his professor. It turns out to be the worst thing he could have done, but how else do movies happen? I liked the subtly-shaded way the relationships between the characters shifted around. It's masterfully written.
And, most importantly, there's a character named Oola.
Response #63
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/2/01 1:11:16 AM
Meanwhile, my hi-fi VCR that I got for $20 at the thrift store broke *again,* and I fixed it *again.* So to celebrate, I rented:
Spice World
Fun is good. We like fun. There are many, many worse things than fun. There are many, many worse movies than Spice World. There are many, many better movies, too, but that's beside the point. Gurgle another hit off the bong and watch the pretty girls.
Quatermass 2
Apparently, there is a series of novels about this character Quatermass. They're sort of science fiction why-is-its, instead of mystery who-done-its. Britain's Hammer Films made a couple of them into movies, including this one, which is your basic alien invasion that takes over the will of otherwise normal people. Strong dialog, stupid story, amusing hideous creature that breathes ammonia.
Quatermass and the Pit
I saw this in the store after watching Quatermass 2, and I thought I recognized the blurb on the back as belonging to a movie I'd seen as a kid on TV. However, it turns out that the movie I'd seen was a remake of this one, which was a 6-part, 3-hour black-and-white British TV series from the 60s (it was remade as '5,000,000 Years To Earth').
The first hour and a half is good TV. After that, it's obvious they don't have a budget, and instead of seeing, for instance, a crazed mob, or the giant glowing creature made of energy, you see a guy looking out a window saying, "Look at that mob! They're going crazy!" or "It's a giant glowing creature made of energy! Look!"
Response #64
By: Roxanne
Date: 4/5/01 5:36:31 AM
I'll confess to watching "Spice World" too.
It was a movie that just had fun with itself and it was hard not to be amused by it. Of course, watching it with a delightfully gay male friend was even more amusing!
Response #65
By: sooz
Date: 4/6/01 7:46:32 AM
Watching it with a delightfully gay male friend just sounds FUN. In fact, many things are better done with such a friend... like shopping for shoes, for 'zample.
Response #66
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/6/01 5:26:35 PM
Hmm. Maybe I could start dating guys, teach myself to have a lisp, and say "FAAAAAbulous!" a lot. Then I could hire myself out as Rent-A-Flamer.
"Call Rent-A-Flamer, when you're lonely and want to watch Spice World or Breakfast at Tiffany's, or when you want to shop for clothes!"
Response #67
By: Da Sissop
Date: 4/6/01 8:54:42 PM
The word "delightful" has been hijacked by the gay male demographic.
You never hear a woman talk about her "delightfully straight" boyfriend, or that "delightfully non-threatening" co-worker. Russell Crowe wasn't "delightful" in Gladiator.
*I* wanna be delightful, dammit. Does that make me gay?
Response #68
By: Roxanne
Date: 4/7/01 6:17:00 AM
You'll always be delightful in my book, Fang. Wanna go see Ice Capades?
Response #69
By: sooz
Date: 4/7/01 10:56:04 AM
Ice cream can be delightful, or a nice bubble bath. Hmm. Now I gotta go ponder this word.
I'll test it by calling the janitor here at work "delightful" and seeing what he says. He really DOES flame, so he may think it's grand. Then I'll test it on the macho, scracth-cuz-I'm-manly computer guy, and see what happens.
Response #70
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 4/11/01 9:17:27 AM
Sissy-Op
"*I* wanna be delightful, dammit. Does that make me gay?"
Yes...yes it does.
Fang, just so you know...I think this is a DELIGHTFUL web site.
Response #71
By: Roxanne
Date: 6/26/01 6:17:55 PM
Disney's Atlantis.
*SUCKED*
Response #72
By: Xtopher
Date: 6/28/01 1:32:56 PM
Oh Brother where Art Thou : Rented it the other night, loved it... Who know George Clooney could act? Or sing?
Heard that Tomb Raider was horrid, or more specifically, "I never want to have to see that chick's breasts again in my LIFE!"
Response #73
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/28/01 7:11:15 PM
Hell, you didn't get to see them anyway.
It really wasn't that good.
SOME good effects, but that was about it.
Response #74
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/29/01 3:39:36 PM
Back in the early 40s, when the newly-developed Technicolor met sound, some truly awful sound-and-color-oriented movies were made. Think Ethel Merman.
Today is the day of computers meeting theatrical movies, so many truly awful only-possible-in-a-computer-oriented movies are being made. Think Tomb Raider.
Response #75
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/30/01 10:47:43 AM
George Clooney, although great in O Brother Where Art Thou, did not sing his part.
Actually, that's not entirely true. He *did* sing while filming so that his mouth would coincide with what would be playing on the soundtrack.
The Soggy Bottom Boys actually consists of members of Alison Krauss' backup band, Union Station. They are: Dan Tyminski, John Hartford and Norman Blake.