Yeah, I guess I did suggest that Riley gets the dirt nap. Still wish I were right!
I'm actually a little sad Alane won't keep it up as an archive. What harm is it causing? There are fic there and on the BAPS companion website that will be deleted. So much for posterity.
There's a reason why I'm leaving All About Spike up, this many years after I lost interest in the fandom. It makes me so sad to see these kinds of historical records lost, especially for something that was so personal to so many of us. Leaving the archive up makes perfect sense, and if there are privacy concerns it's easy to make it members only and not accept new members. But it's not our decision, of course.
Oh, man, I so wish you'd been right. It's sad to see all the happy theories that were floating around on there about how great Spike/Buffy would turn out. It's certainly not a far leap to see how so many of us got into fanfic once the show took a completely different turn.
opinion that Edward Norton is another of those actors who is good in everything Oh, he really really is. I have watched the otherwise "okay but not all that" Keeping the Faith entirely too many times just for him.
I had a very different reaction to Wonder Boys. Of course, I'm of a different generation, so I'm seeing it through a very different filter. It's about having been a prodigy and discovering too late that you actually have to work to realize that potential. Grady has completely wrecked his life by coasting through it
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It's cool that you like the movie so much. I didn't put that much thought into it, because nothing in it really grabbed me.
It's about having been a prodigy and discovering too late that you actually have to work to realize that potential. Grady has completely wrecked his life by coasting through it.
Yes, I'd definitely agree with that.
The story has a male point of view, but what's lurking around the edges is that the women are just as smart and creative if not more so.The women were definitely smarter and more together than the men, but I think it also shows an unspoken assumption of the cliche that women are more responsible but that they lack the "creative passion" that drives men. We're shown that Katie Holmes is a great critic, not a great writer, and that Frances McDormand is a very mature person, but not a great writer. (We're never explicitly told that they're bad, it's just that their creative efforts are invisible. Meanwhile we see the creative efforts of Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Rip Torn, even Frances McDormand
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My ancient Mac here at work isn't allowing me to quote from this layout. :-) But I'll say that many of my perceptions are colored by the book. Thought, I sought out the book (and ended up reading a lot more Michael Chabon because of the strength of this book) because I liked the movie so well
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I just have to say that you were right. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is an AWESOME flick. I love the grammar arguments (and the talking monkey bit) the most. I thought of you, in particular, at the line, "What did he know? He's only the writer."
Heh.
Have you sen Home for the Holidays yet? It's my favorite RDJ movie. And because of you reminding me how much I love RDJ, I finally sat through that horrible Rodney Dangerfield movie that was on last weekend, just to see the punk Robert Downey Jr. bits.
Oh, no worries. I totally get the work typing thing.
So glad you saw Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang! I loved the "He's only the writer" line; it works on so many levels. The whole movie is brilliant; I can't believe how overlooked it was.
I did, indeed, just see Home for the Holidays. You're right; it's excellent. I think it's the only one so far that I've decided to buy my own copy of. My reaction to it is here.
I totally just sat through the same Rodney Dangerfield movie! In fact I've sat through bits of it several times, because I love catching glimpses of RDJ, and because when I was younger I had a little crush on Keith Gordon (he sucks in this, but is cool in The Legend of Billie Jean).
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I'm actually a little sad Alane won't keep it up as an archive. What harm is it causing? There are fic there and on the BAPS companion website that will be deleted. So much for posterity.
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Oh, man, I so wish you'd been right. It's sad to see all the happy theories that were floating around on there about how great Spike/Buffy would turn out. It's certainly not a far leap to see how so many of us got into fanfic once the show took a completely different turn.
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Oh, he really really is. I have watched the otherwise "okay but not all that" Keeping the Faith entirely too many times just for him.
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His commentary on Fight Club is also awesome. He's so thoughtful.
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It's about having been a prodigy and discovering too late that you actually have to work to realize that potential. Grady has completely wrecked his life by coasting through it.
Yes, I'd definitely agree with that.
The story has a male point of view, but what's lurking around the edges is that the women are just as smart and creative if not more so.The women were definitely smarter and more together than the men, but I think it also shows an unspoken assumption of the cliche that women are more responsible but that they lack the "creative passion" that drives men. We're shown that Katie Holmes is a great critic, not a great writer, and that Frances McDormand is a very mature person, but not a great writer. (We're never explicitly told that they're bad, it's just that their creative efforts are invisible. Meanwhile we see the creative efforts of Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Rip Torn, even Frances McDormand ( ... )
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Heh.
Have you sen Home for the Holidays yet? It's my favorite RDJ movie. And because of you reminding me how much I love RDJ, I finally sat through that horrible Rodney Dangerfield movie that was on last weekend, just to see the punk Robert Downey Jr. bits.
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So glad you saw Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang! I loved the "He's only the writer" line; it works on so many levels. The whole movie is brilliant; I can't believe how overlooked it was.
I did, indeed, just see Home for the Holidays. You're right; it's excellent. I think it's the only one so far that I've decided to buy my own copy of. My reaction to it is here.
I totally just sat through the same Rodney Dangerfield movie! In fact I've sat through bits of it several times, because I love catching glimpses of RDJ, and because when I was younger I had a little crush on Keith Gordon (he sucks in this, but is cool in The Legend of Billie Jean).
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