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I've only watched the first part so far, but this is both hilarious and accurate and well worth your time if you call yourself a Star Wars fan (but are afraid to say it too loudly lest people think you liked the prequels):


The most damning bit is towards the end. The narrator asks people to describe characters by their personality attributes, not their physical/societal ones (i.e. what they behave like, not what clothes they wear or what jobs they have), and all of the people in the video can come up with a multitude of things to say about C3PO, but can't think of one word to describe Queen Amidala. Just...wow.

(Although? That montage? Reminded me of just how fucking fabulous that bitch's clothes were. Fuck yeah. That crazy Kabuki makeup ought to have been permanent. Make it part of her "alien" aspect or whatever. If Star Trek can paint spots on a human and call them an alien, you can pasty-ify Natalie Portman and dye her lips red with the blood of her enemies and say she's a cannibal alien. Would still have been a better character than the one we got.)

HA HA HA

Sep. 22nd, 2009 09:12 pm
trinityvixen: (win!)
Okay, so the last Resident Evil movie sucked, and I haven't been able to finish Prison Break as yet because, wow, they brought back a decapitated character (and I heard that's hardly the worst abuse of the "if they didn't die onscreen..." rule). I'm still excited by this news, even if it's yet another bit of bullshit from i09.

I also haven't stopped laughing at the part where they put the crazy break-into-jail-to-break-out-of-it guy...in a prison at the start of the apocalypse. Perhaps Michael Scofield determined that it was better to sit in prison than risk infection breaking out. But I'm totally sure something CRAZY and DRAMATIC will necessitate his leaving soon enough...
trinityvixen: (vampire smile)
...this would have made for a much more interesting Sixth-Year DADA class...

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trinityvixen: (thinking Mario)
Veronica Cartwright was not told about a significant plot point involving her character in two movies. You might have heard about the trick that Ridley Scott pulled on her (and the rest of the cast save John Hurt) in Alien. But did you know that she was also not informed about what would happen when she ran into Donald Sutherland in the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? (Um, spoilers at that last link!)

Is that a salable talent or an insult to her abilities as an actress?

The remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) was decent. I enjoyed Kevin McCarthy's cameo, but it really made me wish that Donald Sutherland had had half of McCarthy's suave slyness at the outset. I guess they didn't want a lead actor who would compete with Leonard Nimoy for having the most soothing, slick voice. Nimoy, for reals, yo, that shit is distracting. I know people with British accents who can't schmooze so gentle. (Regarding that link: I will fight to the death over Virgina Madsen's superior Dune intro. I don't care which version of the movie you like better, but I will fuck your shit up if you don't get props to her Irulan versus Princess Whiny from the miniseries.)

I even really liked the change to the ending from either of the two the original had. The original original ending was awesome. (The studio-demanded reworking, with its reCOCKulous frame story, was less so.) So I consider it doubly impressive that they went the route they did and had it work. (Well done, Ms. Cartwright, I might add.)

I think I'm ready to move onto the less-well-received remakes of this classic. I sincerely doubt that Body Snatchers will be notable for much more than the fact that it stars that awesome IRA chick from Burn Notice, but what the hell? I'm going to watch The Invasion at some point (probably), so I might as well watch them all. While this logic has led me, in the past, to watch some truly tedious bullshit, I will point out that being thorough got me to see the Dolph Lundgren version of The Punisher which is possibly the most wonderful bit of schlock action ever, so there's that.
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Have some videos. I am so bored, you have no idea. )

Yesterday's UNFORTUNATE MUSICAL SELECTION from the guy two benches behind me also puts me in a mood to make a poll. So, true believers, what do you think?

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