Posts by giovanni tiso
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To be fair, Lucy, you're not the only person who found Penny The Hot-But-Borderline-Brain-Damaged-BimBlonde the least appealing thing in BBT.
She's not the neighbour, is she? I saw only one episode of BBT, where she threw a birthday party, and she was the only one in the show that appeared to have half a functioning brain.
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It's a good read, especially if you hate Jerry Lewis. And let's face it, who doesn't?
That does it, I'm going to rent King of Comedy today.
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and also very heavily closeted until she got involved with Melissa Etheridge, one media dyke you can't really date from inside a glass closet.
Wait: Melissa Etheridge is gay?
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I think it was called "Myst" or something.
Funny story about Myst, I swear it is true. During my dissertation I wanted to look at it but I was having a hard time sourcing it, being already an ancient game at the time. At one point during the search I happened to run out of blank CDs, went to buy a 10-disc packet and for some bizarre reason it came with a free copy of Myst. Spooky.
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"Probably the film industry has been guilty" has to be the most disingenous line in the history of film commentary! :-)
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Previously posted in the wrong thread, for I am stupid:
"I still can't get past Jackson's observation that blockbusters don't even need to be good any more. I find this abdication of any sort of relationship between cinema and critical thinking somewhat troubling. It also comes from the guy who cast the Arabs as the bad people in The Return of the King and got Mortensen to deliver the awful "us people of the West" speech just as Iraq was being invaded, as if the important thing at that moment in history was not to disappoint Tolkien fans. But that's a whole hornet's nest obviously. And of course I'm not discounting that enjoying the film without thinking too much may be the most sensibile response (I wrote as much this week) - I just don't like to be told I have to."
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I posted a rant about the Lord of the Rings which was really about Avatar in the wrong thread, meaning the Lord of the Rings post belonged in the Avatar thread.
Ops.
(Too late to delete it, maybe Russell can.)
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(Executive summary: Videogames = the good stuff. Avatar = still sucks.)
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I give you John Lanchester and then (from the stars to the manure-filled stables, as we say back home) since it's Friday and I have no shame I give you also Dr. Tiso.
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I still can't get past Jackson's observation that blockbusters don't even need to be good any more. I find this abdication of any sort of relationship between cinema and critical thinking somewhat troubling. It also comes from the guy who cast the Arabs as the bad people in The Return of the King and got Mortensen to deliver the awful "us people of the West" speech just as Iraq was being invaded, as if the important thing at that moment in history was not to disappoint Tolkien fans. But that's a whole hornet's nest obviously. And of course I'm not discounting that enjoying the film without thinking too much may be the most sensibile response (I wrote as much this week) - I just don't like to be told I have to.