I just noticed that the acronym for Air America Radio is AAR! It’s like… liberals and pirates, together!
This just in: Nick and Mary Yankovic found dead from smoke inhalation.
Ugh, poor Al… that’s so sad.
Wow. You don’t truly appreciate a movie’s editing until you’re assigned to watch a scene at 1/4 speed, painstakingly counting the number of cuts. Craziness. I’m glad the scene I chose was only a minute long. Well, the Rankin/Bass scene was 2 minutes and four seconds, but that was easy to count.
In case anyone cares, editing speed for Eowyn’s confrontation with the Witch King (or in the Rankin/Bass version, Malibu Barbie vs. The Knights of Ni):
Rankin/Bass: 1 cut/3.1 sec (40 cuts in 124 seconds)
Jackson, 1st half: 1 cut/1.05 sec (36 cuts in 38 seconds)
Jackson, 2nd half: 1 cut/1.8 sec (15 cuts in 27 seconds)
Jackson, overall: 1 cut/1.27 sec (51 cuts in 65 seconds)
Mmm, break time!
Something fun: explaining the backstory of Eowyn vs. the Witch King in a few short sentences.
Woah. I don’t think I ever realized before what an awesome word “both” is.
*gets back to work, which is probably more like play, as its analyzing the 1980 and 2003 versions of RotK, but is still work nonetheless*
Oh — you know how I was saying that the 1980 animated version of RotK is the scariest thing I have ever seen in my 19 short years on this earth? Here are some screencaps. Share the fear!
It’s that time again! Film Noir Class quotes!
“The appeal for Matrix is in great special effects and… great leather costumes…” –Chris
“Rufus Sewell. He’s not really let’s see Rufus!” –Chris, regarding the popularity of Dark City versus The Matrix
“Cool people deserve to live. Other people… don’t matter much.” –Chris on the moral of The Matrix
“Why were there so many rhetorical questions?” –Chris
“What does the word ‘maudlin’ mean? Like ‘I’m maudlin these clothes’?” –Arjun
“I can’t say I know much about the history of the zither.” –Chris
Me: He was the singing voice of Jack in “The Nightmare Before Christmas”!
Chris: Thank God we got back to Tim Burton.
–regarding Danny Elfman
“I remember back in Catholic school–I try not to remember back in Catholic school–on the playground, we would act out the bearing of the Cross. We would get one self-important kid who would volunteer to be Jesus, and the rest of us would beat the crap out of him.” –Chris
Me: (incredulous) You mean… there are movies based on books that don’t accurately portray the source material?
Ian: That would be a great segue to “Lord of the Rings”!
Arjun: I love how we don’t even talk about Lord of the Rings anymore, we just talk about talking about it.
–regarding “Kiss Me Deadly”
Me: It’s a film class! What were you expecting?
Chris: It’s not an Oscar class! Oscar has nothing to do with film!
–post-oscar excitement
Arjun: Did erotic dancers really dance like that in the 20’s?
Chris: I’m not going to pretend to be an authority on the history of erotic dancing.
–giggling about “Night of the Hunter” and reflecting back on “Metropolis”
All of Malibu would be wiped out! *wipes away imaginary tear* –Chris, “Kiss Me Deadly”
“She’s not a prostitute! She’s woobait!” –Me, “Kiss Me Deadly”
“Oh, screw The Matrix.” –Chris, “Dark City”
“The first time I saw Zoolander, I didn’t really like it, but the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh times, I really liked it.” –Arjun
“I think it will take decades to truly appreciate Dude Where’s My Car… all the subtle nuances.” –Chris
Okay, I win! If Wicked can use the word “calumnies,” I can use the word “lycanthropy” in MAA.
Edit: Not to mention “hoi polloi”! Yeah, no problems with “lycanthropy” then.
I just watched “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” last night, in which a kid, worried about the potential of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, writes a letter to Superman and asks him to destroy all the world’s nuclear weapons. After a bit of pondering over the issue and generally not listening to the Kryptonian elders, he gathers all the nuclear weapons in a giant space-net and hurls them into the sun.
The world could use a Superman now. No, instead we get Dr. Strangelove.
Anyone not listening to Air America Radio really needs to.
The sad thing is that the people that most need to hear this stuff are the people that are least likely to.
Kerry is on the O’Franken Factor and I have to go to class. Thank gravy for repeats! Five minutes of listening to him talk and I already feel better about him.