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The Boob Tube, The Silver Screen, The Count of Monte Cristo & Me

Apr 03, 2006 03:28

Jim and I were curled on the couch watching the amazing Gankutsuou (part 3) when Chris called and asked us to meet up with her and her expat-Aussie friend Kelly for V for Vendetta ( Read more... )

friday five, film

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leemoyer April 3 2006, 08:24:21 UTC

Delighted to hear how much you liked V ( ... )

fileg April 5 2006, 11:34:28 UTC

I'm still not sure why I am so captivated by this movie - the prooaganda aspect alone ought to be pushing my buttons, let alone not being able to embrace the side that ought to be *good* --

but, it does...

Fantasia was a fovorite of mine as well, but not until I was a little older. The 6th is my favorite part, and I still haven't come to terms with tacking the Ave Maria onto Bald Mountain.

I love the Daily Show, but usually manage to miss it. Colbert though - I just don't find him amusing.

Val Kilmer? Ok, I could see that... I would have said a young Rutger Hauer but maybe thats all the white boy genes....

leemoyer April 6 2006, 16:14:24 UTC

The Ave Maria graft seemed phony to me at the time.
It's lovely, but hardly germain

Haven't seen that much Colbert, but he was responsible for my favorite moment on TV this year in the "Gravitas Off":

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002488.html

His weight gain and whiteness in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang make Val then man. :)
I'm sure all of us (esp.Rutger himself) would most like to be a young Rutger, but that door is closed. :)

sinful_caesar April 3 2006, 08:40:26 UTC

hey, we went and saw v for vendetta today too! God, wasnt it overwhelmingly amazing? pinky and me and brownbear were all crying by the end of it. So many metaphors, visual and literal in it. Just an unbelievably good film.

fileg April 5 2006, 11:35:08 UTC

not all of what it did to me was good, but boy, I am ready to pay to have it done again!

aspidites April 3 2006, 18:13:07 UTC

I loved "V for Vendetta"... It was emotionally satisfying (as are a lot of movies with big explosions, come to think of it), and also a bit unsettling. Do I really believe that V loves Evie, after putting her through that torture? This freedom from fear was a strange, sharp and uncomfortable gift to give her, and the sort of "love" that would force that on another person makes me uncomfortable. And V chooses to be the monster, the bogey-man in the closets of the powerful, instead of staying with the person he says he loves... One could argue that he's the only man for the job, but still... uncomfortable ( ... )

fileg April 5 2006, 11:39:12 UTC

I'm not sure I *liked* it, as it was unsettling to me to be pulled so strongly into obvious propaganda, but I did love it.

aspidites April 3 2006, 19:44:58 UTC

Ooh, ooh, I want to play too ( ... )

fileg April 5 2006, 11:45:11 UTC

UNCLE is high on my lost as well, but I was 11 by then. I adored Dark Shadows (I probably still have a bot of a thing for barnabas)

We never managed to get into Invasion. Stargate is fast becoming an old friend. Law and Order is losing me since Briscoe left, but Goren rocks me socks. Jim mentioned anime on his list, which I hadn't thought about as tv since we watch so much of it on DVD. I actually have grown to like Vegas, too - mostly for the music, but it makes me laugh.

Wow, Christopher Walken! I wouldn't have gone there, but yeah, I can see that. I think you may be more suited to anime.

aspidites April 5 2006, 17:12:04 UTC

Invasion was slow to build... they would have a couple of eps of slow, boring character development, then an ep with creepy story development, then back to boring character stuff (because these characters are NOT very interesting, and a number of them are really annoying!). They are way into the story development now, though, with more stuff going on (spawn! there's gonna be spawn!)

At first I didn't watch CI because of Goren, but he's grown on me. I like SVU for many reasons, one of which is watching for slashy moments between Fin and Munch. I'm convinced they're playing them up mre in the last couple of seasons. (The bit in the hospital where Munch has been shot in the ass, and he asks Fin if he wants to kiss it and make it better, made me spit Pepsi all over myself!)

How far along into Stargate are you? Do you want me to bring up some season DVDs?

notarysojac April 4 2006, 18:40:32 UTC

1) When you were little what was your favorite TV show?
Indeed - when was "little"? When I cast my mind back to those early years the TV speedbums that I encounter are: Speed Racer, Fireball XL5, Planet Patrol, Topper and Spunky & Tadpole.

2) What was your favorite movie?
The first movie that I recall seeing in an actual theater was at the Calderone in Hempstead with my dad. I loved Those Magnificant Men in Their Flying Machines and it had an intermission. The second movie I asked to go to was Thunderball which we saw in the big theater at the Roosevelt Field shopping center. He never took me to the movies again.
I remember being very excited when I heard The Giant Beheamoth was going to be on TV, and being very disapointed when I saw it. I think Godzilla may have been my favourite to watch the times it appeared on TV. I used to look forward to The Wizard of Oz and Rudolph as holiday traditions too.

3) What is your favorite TV show currently?
Probably House though the plots are becoming formulaic, I still like the personalities. CSI ( ... )

fileg April 5 2006, 11:48:30 UTC

I hadn't even considered anime for the TV answer since we do so much of it on dvd - but yeah, enough that I get pissy when Adult Swim shoves things that aren't "anime" into the Saturday lineup.

I loved Topper, too...

and I am amused that your first answer was Spunky & Tadpole and the last was Ron Jeremy... sensing a pattern here.....

you forgot modern farmer

leemoyer April 6 2006, 16:16:54 UTC

Spunky & Tadpole???

Not only have I never heard of it, I wonder if you just made it up (like Bunnies and Burroughs). :)

notarysojac April 6 2006, 19:37:45 UTC

How I wish that I had a photo of the B&B piece...
Several of the PortPhoglio commemorative paper plates we did were pretty good too as I recall.

SpunkTad -
http://www.toontracker.com/spunky/spunktad.htm

I was not really counting the insert-shows that appeared within other programs: Diver Dan was shown during Sandy Becker, Big World of Little Atom was shown during... gaah... not Officer Joe Bolton (he had The Three Stooges shorts)... not Wonderama... aaaah! I can't remember now!

mmmm... Modern Farmer

And how could I have forgotten You Asked For It and The 20th Century with Walter Cronkite?

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