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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:33 am
Shoujo Phoenix AzurePaleSky I refuse to watch America's Next Top Model unless Rave is on AIM.
I'm gonna tell Rave now and she's gonna be so mad.*gasp* Oh no she di'in't.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:35 am
RaeRae Rave AzurePaleSky I refuse to watch America's Next Top Model unless Rave is on AIM. ... eek I'm ... there?? Which season? ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:36 am
Shoujo Phoenix AzurePaleSky I refuse to watch America's Next Top Model unless Rave is on AIM.
I'm gonna tell Rave now and she's gonna be so mad.You b***h!!! gonk Don't listen to these lies!
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:37 am
RaeRae Rave Well of course. And I wasn't saying all Parisians are rude. Just that I certainly managed to find my fair share of not-so-enjoyable people.
It's pretty though. Definitely a good place for some romance. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:43 am
Lori Zechlin RaeRae Rave Well of course. And I wasn't saying all Parisians are rude. Just that I certainly managed to find my fair share of not-so-enjoyable people.
It's pretty though. Definitely a good place for some romance. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:45 am
AzurePaleSky Shoujo Phoenix AzurePaleSky I refuse to watch America's Next Top Model unless Rave is on AIM.
I'm gonna tell Rave now and she's gonna be so mad.You b***h!!! gonk Don't listen to these lies! *loves on* heart
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:45 am
RaeRae Rave Lori Zechlin RaeRae Rave Well of course. And I wasn't saying all Parisians are rude. Just that I certainly managed to find my fair share of not-so-enjoyable people.
It's pretty though. Definitely a good place for some romance. 3nodding By the way, Paris, Je t'aime is a great movie! You all should check it out if you're interested in Paris, great movies, good directors (the people from Run Lola Run, Y Tu Mama Tambien/Harry Potter 3, and a million others) and... HAWT Natalie Portman.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:47 am
RaeRae Rave AzurePaleSky Shoujo Phoenix AzurePaleSky I refuse to watch America's Next Top Model unless Rave is on AIM.
I'm gonna tell Rave now and she's gonna be so mad.You b***h!!! gonk Don't listen to these lies! *loves on* heart
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:49 am
AzurePaleSky RaeRae Rave AzurePaleSky Shoujo Phoenix AzurePaleSky I refuse to watch America's Next Top Model unless Rave is on AIM.
I'm gonna tell Rave now and she's gonna be so mad.You b***h!!! gonk Don't listen to these lies! *loves on* heart
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:29 pm
RaeRae Rave Christmas from Kin arrived in the form of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Invisibles: Entropy in the U.K. whee
Unfortunately... he also injured himself D:
His foot got stuck under a cart at work is what happened. He told me to tell you guys since he's not around atm.
Edit: And the Princess Bride!!!! *squee* Tell him I'm keeping the zombies away while he's not able to fight em off. Or don't... if you don't think it'll help.
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Streamjumper Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:48 pm
My mom makes an excellent point..
Skizz: *walks into the room*
Skizz: Whatcha watchin'?
Mom: Eh, some ghost movie.
Movie: *thunder cracks, window drapes blow in the wind, house creaks*
Mom: You know what..
Mom: Why all the ghosts gotta be angry?
Mom: You got, like, a poltergeist.
Mom: Movin' things around..
Mom: I'd be like, if you can move things, do the damn laundry!
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:50 pm
Sweeny Todd review, brace for spoilers, epic.
[ Made invisible for spoiler courtesy. ]
How do you define a "date movie"? The traditional way of handling this question seems to be in acertaining if there's a romantic subplot, and if there is, it's a date movie. Either that, or if it's the sort of movie that the man would only go see if it was in the context of a date. So romantic comedies and musicals tend to make up the bulk of the category, allegedly making Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street solidly a date movie.
Even so, I got some of the funniest looks from my friends when I announced that I'd be taking the beautiful and enigmatic young woman I've been wooing to see it on opening night. I guess some people think a blood soaked revenge epic about turning people into meat pies isn't the best thing for a first date. Some people are boring.
Katrina, my date, proved just how not boring she is once and for all by laughing uncontrollably in the middle of a dead silent theater while Johnny Depp, as the titular demon barber, slit Sacsha Baron Cohen's Signor Pirelli's throat open.
The movie is, as should be expected, very bloody but it's really almost exclusively the same act of violence so it's fairly tolerable even if the first time is a bit much for you, or if your date keeps giggling whenever someone's throat gets slashed and the chair upends and drops them into the basement for Mrs. Lovett to prepare for her famous meat pies. I thought the giggling was endearing. She claims not to giggle. She apparently chuckles.
For those not familiar with Sweeny Todd, it's best known as a broadway musical with ambiguous roots. The oldest appearance of the character goes back to 1846, with claims that the real life Sweeny Todd committed his murders around 1800. The existence of a real Sweeny Todd has since been dismissed as there is no historical record of a matching case. Nonetheless, the urban legend of people being used to make meat pies in seedier establishments was alive and well in the era, leaving its footprints even upon the works of Charles Dickens.
The first stage adaptation of the story appeared in 1847, bearing the title that has remained through to today, but Todd was not given a true motive for his crimes until Christopher Bond's 1973 stage adaptation, which was the basis for the award winning Broadway musical.
Burton's adaptation takes full advantage of the angle of Todd being wrongly imprisoned in Australia to drive the pathos at the core of the movie, which in turns richens the movie into more than simply a darkly humorous satire of Victorian England, and into a brilliant tragedy, giggling dates notwithstanding.
Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd is the quirckiest and most entertaining musical since Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, the difference being that while Luhrmann bent and twisted his subject matter into a collision of the mores of the era and contemporary pop, Burton retreats back to the roots of his artistic influences to create a darkly gothic vision as idiosyncratic as any of his prior work yet comfortable and familiar for the original material.
As with any musical, the quality of the signing is always the killer app, and Sweeny Todd delivers in spades. Depp and Carters' on screen chemistry pulls together great musical numbers that both drive the plot and make up some of the funniest, most entertaining sequences of the movie.
Sacsha Baron Cohen, the name behind the ubiquitous Borat, supplies little more than a cameo in the role of the con man barber Signore Pirelli, but is so memorable and hilariously over the top, it's a horrific chore to imagine anyone better suited to the role.
If there's a downside to the film, it's that the slowly building pathos and final confrontation between Todd and the object of his revenge Judge Turpin (played by the peerless Alan Rickman) comes together in a fountain of blood that doesn't do true justice to the twisting and turning plot. Despite the poetry of the closing scene of the movie, my date grumbled that the fates of the survivors were left to the wayside, and despite my love of the film, I had to agree.
But even that was a grudgingly admitted weak point for both of us as we danced out of the theater arm in arm singing "No Place Like London."
[/ End review. ]
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:50 pm
3.14
Okay. My Anime bone is starting to itch again.
I need recommendations. I like comedy/romance/shoujo. I'm really not a huge fan of mecha/shounen, but I will give it a chance.
And I probably won't have time to watch a longer series. 26-30 episodish. Romantic Comedy: Goshousou-sama Ninomiya-kun. Good stuff, and funny as all hell. I'll sum it up this way: a harem comedy lead that isn't an indecisive sack of crap or disappointing specimen? MADNESS! And succubi. Also, Mayu is cute as all hell. Just ended at the 13th episode. Action/Comedy: Night Wizard: Just ended at 13 eps. A team of modern-day magical heroes (including the epically ill-fated Hiiragi "Falling Man" Renji) gather the seven Jewels of Virtue to seal the path to the world of the evil Emulators and prevent the return of the demon lord Shaimal. Comedy/romance/shoujo: Shugo Chara. Cool and spicy magical girl with three cute mascots saves the inner potential (embodied by their heart's eggs) of children around her from the depredations of a bunch of villains out to corrupt and harvest them in hopes of finding the legendary wish-granting Embryo. I know you're not fond of mecha and don't want a long series, but I have to recommend Gundam 00. They're only on episode 12, and it will be going all the way to about 52 eps, but this show is excellent. They scrapped the usual Gundam formula of two sides of one conflict and went with a more realistic (and clearly post 9/11 influenced) 3 major political groups (coalitions of countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia) along with dozens of independent nations/smaller coalitions, and all the conflicts that implies. And then there's the mysterious organization Celestial Being, dedicated to stopping all conflict on Earth with superior force. This is some good s**t, just ask the other AGers watching it. Two short and unlicensed mecha shows that were both good fun are Kotetsushin Jeeg (thank God for Go Nagai) and Dancouga Nova. Both are super robot shows with some awesome action, eye candy for either gender, and more than enough lulz for anyone. There's more I can suggest, but I can't remember them all at the moment. Oh, and when you have the money, School Rumble is up to disc 4 and Buso Renkin's first dvd (with 13 episodes) will be coming out sometime in February.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:52 pm
FanFicGuru 3.14
Okay. My Anime bone is starting to itch again.
I need recommendations. I like comedy/romance/shoujo. I'm really not a huge fan of mecha/shounen, but I will give it a chance.
And I probably won't have time to watch a longer series. 26-30 episodish. Have you seen any Minami-ke yet? Or Bamboo Blade? Minami-ke is really funny, it's like Azumanga Daioh, but with 3 sisters instead of the troupe of students. Bamboo blade is pretty entertaining as well. Those are the only two I can think up at the moment. sweatdrop Those are two of the ones I forgot... and Pi would love Minami-ke. I just wish it went longer than 13 eps. And I think Pi would identify with Saya from Bamboo Blade.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:53 pm
Lori Zechlin hilaroma Ok...umm, I'm really glad you guys enjoyed Sweeny Todd and everything, but I'm sure I'm not the only person in the guild who hasn't seen it and would appreciate not being spoiled further. I'm not trying to sound mean at all, but it's a movie I'd rather like to see and it's very discouraging to have parts of it ruined by spoilers. That's all. Thanks guys. Hell, they're the premise.
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