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Lisa posted it way first, the how-fast-can-we-make-a-photocomic version (my estimate: five minutes in toto). I am a sneaky person who had the advantage of the original raw files to work with, so here’s mine, an hour and a half of work later:
Raiders of the Lost Ark in Three Panels
(SPOILERS)
On Saturday night, Maria, Michael and I went out and saw Serenity.
On Sunday, we went right back out and saw it again.
Topher Grace is going to be Venom.
I like Topher Grace an awful lot. I like Venom. I…
I mean, really?
They have seen Venom, ever, right?
Humans! I’ve got What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Bubba Ho-Tep (or maybe The Station Agent) just sitting there, waiting for you.
When can we have Sad and Happy Movie Day?
More than anything, really, Sister Act was a disturbing object lesson about the man-worship content of Fifties pop music.
“‘Deuce Bigalow’ is aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience. The best thing about it is that it runs for only 75 minutes.”
The DB:EG-related spat between Rob Schneider and critic Patrick Goldstein, as summed up in Ebert’s review, is attracting more attention than the movie itself. Thank heaven this thing will be protected by ironclad copyright for the next one hundred and twenty years! We wouldn’t want pirates to steal it and make all that creativity worthless!
Read the review. The smackdown at the end will make your eyes water.
I never talked about Sad and Happy Movie Day! Sad and Happy Movie Day was great! In attendance were myself, Maria, Lisa, Scott and Will; Maria’s brother Michael showed up for the second movie. We watched City of God and Shaolin Soccer, as was foretold by the ancients–first one subbed, second dubbed, but the dubbing actually worked really well for SS. It added to the goofiness of a film that takes its goofiness very seriously. City of God was appropriately poverty-stricken and filled with violence by and against children. The ending was not actually sad, but maybe that was for the best. We are still testing our toes in this format.
The next SAHMD will probably be in two or three weeks, whatever’s best for most of us. Hackers has been pretty thoroughly shot down, because all my friends are worthless Philistines, but I don’t think anybody objected to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Are there any strong objections to that? What about suggestions for happy movies? Information access protocol!
I really, really like Punch-Drunk Love.
Nobody else likes Punch-Drunk Love as much as I do (but they do tend to like it).
OKAY SO. The first Sad And Happy Movie Day is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June 25th, at… my apartment. Which needs to have a cool name for when it functions as a clubhouse. Maria, why don’t we have a cool clubhouse name for our apartment?
We hit play at 1 pm, so get there earlier if you want to kibitz. We will be watching (or, in Ian’s parlance, “reading”) City of God and Shaolin Soccer. Popcorn will be provided, but you’re on your own for drinks and candy. You may also want to bring one of those folding camp chairs, if you have one; as we discovered this past Tuesday, seating is limited.
You should come!
Possible lineup for the one after this: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Hackers?
I have seen Batman Begins, and you most likely haven’t, so this recommendation holds some temporary value:
You need to see Batman Begins.
Operation Batman on the DAMN IMAX went off fairly hitchless last night, and I think all eleven (!) of my companions enjoyed the movie as much as I did. The tickets were a couple bucks more, and the screen wasn’t as big as your typical museum IMAX, but the sound was excellent and–this is huge–we only had to sit through one preview and no commercials, not even the one with those idiots from Two and a Half Men. I’d pay two dollars extra any day for that.
Go see Batman Begins.
