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I will dispute the status of WWATCF as a classic. I didn’t watch it as a child, so I came to it as an adult (this is an important caveat for many films).
I find it profoundly dull. The pacing sucks. Gene Wilder is awesome because he always is. That doesn’t mean I’m going to ever rewatch fucking See No Evil, Hear No Evil. The music is fine in places, but mostly it’s dated. Again, I acknowledge I came to this with an adult mindset.
I thought Burton’s version was amazing. Johnny Dep’s bonkers acting choices, aloofness and casual cruelty were terrific. The set design was gorgeous. I really enjoyed myself.
It’s not as if I would own or regularly rewatch the film, but I think it stands up well to the ‘classic.’
“Uh, thanks, I guess?” -Dad
TV does win. Pretty soon cinemas will basically just be middle school boys locker rooms with killer sound systems.
Why are you guys all being bitches?
You’ve come a long way, cat avatar.
It’s worse than the piece implies. The mere presence of women — even in a lead capacity — doesn’t necessarily end the larger issue: gender parity.
Take most female-starring films and apply the mind-blowingly simple and revealing Bechdel Test. How many would pass these three simple points?
The film is NOT gender biased if it fulfills the following:
It has to have at least two women in it,
who talk to each other,
about something besides a man.
Cyberdyne just made me Donna my own Darko.
Uh, why are we not talking about the Alan Partridge/Steve Coogan Alpha Papa trailer?
“That was soft-rock cocaine enthusiasts Fleetwood Mac.”
Uh, why are we not talking about the Alan Partridge/Steve Coogan Alpha Papa trailer?
“That was soft-rock cocaine enthusiasts Fleetwood Mac.”
Way to bury the lede, Celebitchy. You actually located two nudists one would actually not mind seeing nude. Basically, you just found Sasquatch.
“You don’t want to get spagetti sauce on your birthday suit.” Yes, that is definitely the event that will get you to stop cooking naked.
EXACTLY.
I had a third-act Sid & Nancy wedding.
UM, SPOILER ALERT!
ALSO: MM writes her own shit. So she doesn’t have to be the fat friend for her entire career.
Now I’m just imaging your hood being a Being Rachel Leigh Cook scenario.
Leigh Cook? Leigh Cook. Leigh Cook. Leigh Cook!
Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy might use their weight as a comedic device, but they’re both extremely weird comedians, not entirely unlike John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell. People are distracted by weight because we have the most intense issue with body image, but the fact is their real strength is the weird internal logic and absurdities that they play with.
Mike and Molly doesn’t let McCarthy work with that, thus that show sucks. On SNL, she gets to be awkward and strange. It’s great. The difference in each instance isn’t weight, it’s what she’s allowed to draw from.
I love Nan Goldin, but this is pretty dull.
He appeals much more in Europe, where his image is actually being used. *
*Not a funny comment. I work in fragrance and know how much this matters to a brand, even though a casual observer would (reasonably) wonder what the fuss is about.
Dumb baby.
I deal with many Indian firms and will never stop laughing when email sign offs read “please do the needful and obliged.”
Well, the TV show does start right after the credits, so you could find out that way.
Are you just copying passages out of the DSM?