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| lissa |
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| Thanks, Joe - not letting anyone else deter me. You're right - I like what I like. And believe it or not, I've yet to see Rocky Horror... |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:44 pm |
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lissa wrote: Thanks, Joe - not letting anyone else deter me. You're right - I like what I like. And believe it or not, I've yet to see Rocky Horror...
Neither have I. But I've seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch which makes up for it a little. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Repo: The Genetic Opera is going to make it here. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:04 am |
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Syd wrote: lissa wrote: Thanks, Joe - not letting anyone else deter me. You're right - I like what I like. And believe it or not, I've yet to see Rocky Horror...
Neither have I. But I've seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch which makes up for it a little. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Repo: The Genetic Opera is going to make it here.
Syd, you haven't seen Rocky Horror? Your education has been sadly neglected. I'll have to do something about that. It's a classic. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:05 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: No one else's opinion should deter you from a work you love. Who cares what others think? I'm the only person here to defend The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I always will. I think it's brilliantly done (written, performed, designed, directed), and it speaks to me. What more could one ask for?
I agree! It's delightful. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:06 am |
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Syd wrote: Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Repo: The Genetic Opera is going to make it here.
I think we are going to have to wait for the DVD, alas. Not for much longer, though; the DVD comes out Jan. 20. Amazon has it for $13.99 plus shipping, and Deepdiscount.com has it for $15.11, shipping included. This is for the regular DVD, not the overpriced Blu-Ray one. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:17 am |
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Lissa wrote:
...am constantly amazed at the lack of basic skills (grammar, punctuation, coherence)...
Some of us could have used you here a short time back when there was a debate between the defenders of English grammar and the "well, everyone says it that way now, so it's accepted," crowd.
I haven't seen Rocky Horror either. From what I do know about it, it sounds like fun. |
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| Rod |
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| Hellboy II: The Golden Army is hands down last year's greatest comic book/FX/action movie. It far excels Iron Man for humor and spectacle, and easily outclasses The Dark Knight for depth of feeling. Melds the best elements of the first film with Del Toro's deeper, more meaningful Pan's Labyrinth mythos, and achieves both a lunatic poetry and high comedy. Ron Perlman and Doug Jones have magnificent chemistry. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:04 am |
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I liked Hellboy II well enough but I was disappointed that it was not up to the first one's story, depth or emotion. The leads and secondary characters were all top rate as they were in the original, but for me the movie was much more one note than the first.
We seem to disagree on this.
Perlman is exceptional as Hellboy. Just perfect. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:19 am |
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Quote: Lissa wrote:
...am constantly amazed at the lack of basic skills (grammar, punctuation, coherence)...
Some of us could have used you here a short time back when there was a debate between the defenders of English grammar and the "well, everyone says it that way now, so it's accepted," crowd.
We can pick up that debate if you wish  ...I'm a huge proponent of proper grammar; we may not necessarily need to speak the Queen's English but if we don't model proper modern-day grammar, we're going to raise a generation of illiterates. I won't allow my kids to use chatspeak ("U R" or "plz") and I won't stand by while the language gets bastardized because "everyone says it that way". |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:24 am |
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When I text people, I sometimes use "u" for "you" and "2" for "to." simply because I have a cell phone, not a BlackBerry, and must type two or three times for certain letters. It saves time.
As most here know, I am a spelling and grammar demon. And my peeve of peeves is the omnipresent "between you and I." |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:36 am |
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After more than 40 years, Bonnie and Clyde (which I just saw for the first time since 1967) holds up as an very worthwhile movie, though nowhere near the groundbreaking exploration of the nature of violence in society that it seemed when Bosley Crowther lost his NYTimes gig for dissing it.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are every inch the epitome of glossy movie stars in the title roles of real-life 1930s gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Oscarwinner Estelle Parsons provide solid support. But the acting is only serviceable for the most part. Arthur Penn's direction and the photography by (?) are the main attractions. The movie looks and sounds great, but it's not great overall. It's not so much disappointing as just a tiny bit so-what. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:57 am |
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lissa wrote: and I won't stand by while the language gets bastardized because "everyone says it that way". [/color]
Olde English --> Middle English --> Modern English --> American English
Language evolves. And the trend is towards more informality and breaking of rules. Look at the way people around you dress. When a majority uses English in a new way, the grammar books start to take notice and slowly get re-written.
I don't mind if someone gets annoyed by "irregardless" or something else, but to expect others to worry about one's own pet linguistic peeves is silly. While some mistakes are worse than others, and some pretty horrendous, is anyone's English grammar book perfect? I'd submit that everyone's English is different and contains variations, reflecting regionalisms, informal or emerging usages, common mistakes, idiosyncratic behavior, etc.
Actually one thing I dislike about being in China is that you can't use language in fun and non-standard ways, because Chinese won't understand. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:59 am |
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| OOPS, lang gang over to da Lobby. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:56 pm |
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| Well, The Labyrinth of the Faun (Fuck you, American title translators!) was simply boffo. More later. Perhaps. On to Bruges. |
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| lady wakasa |
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Rod wrote: Hellboy II: The Golden Army is hands down last year's greatest comic book/FX/action movie. It far excels Iron Man for humor and spectacle, and easily outclasses The Dark Knight for depth of feeling. Melds the best elements of the first film with Del Toro's deeper, more meaningful Pan's Labyrinth mythos, and achieves both a lunatic poetry and high comedy. Ron Perlman and Doug Jones have magnificent chemistry.
If I remember correctly, you really liked Iron Man so you must have really liked this.
...Well, it I remember correctly - nothing that's guaranteed these days. |
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