Get Smart, and other stories

[osprey_archer]

I think the makers of Get Smart intended Steve Carrell to seem charmingly awkward rather than totally obnoxious, but, uh, they missed. And why are he and Anne Hathaway together at the end? Were the moviemakers under the impression that they had sparkling banter, in which animosity only thinly covers an undercurrent of attraction? Because I see no

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[entwashian]

My main grip with Get Smart -- from before I even saw it -- was that there's yet another scene of "oh, men kissing! FUNNY!"

Bruce & Lloyd is where it's at.

[osprey_archer]

By the time we got to that scene I was so over the whole movie that I was just like, "Yet another reason for me to be disappointed? Really? Did you not feel that you had already given me enough?"

Who are Bruce and Lloyd?

[entwashian]

It was in the previews, so I was waiting for it & waiting for it, hoping I'd be wrong. (I was also disappointed that they decided to make The Rock's character a bad guy, because it's so much more unique & interesting to have a guy be nice to someone who's considered a dork by everyone else simply because he is a nice guy.)

They're the lab rats who gave Max all his tech stuff! They have their own movie with Hymie the robot! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1018723/

[osprey_archer]

*headdesk* Of course I remember them! *headdesk*

Yeah, I was disappointed about that too. It just seemed so random that he was the bad guy! I do not see how being nice to Max fit into his evil plans, anyway.

[asakiyume]

I would *love* your novel. Please finish it and get it published so I can read it.

I can't believe the grad schools. They need to be kicked in the teeth.

[osprey_archer]

Working on it! It's taking place over the course of a school year, and right now I'm halfway through March, so I'm chugging right along.

[asakiyume]

Excellent. We can shop around for agents together (you may well finish before I do).