Actually the movie made it out to be a pretty dumb tradition too, and in the end when she finally got to Dublin on the right day, he proposed to her first. But she ended up with a different (Irish, YES) guy in the end end because her fiancé ended up being a douchebag. Sorry about the spoilers, but really, I don’t think anyone here cares.

I just found out that Mackenzie Crook is in The Merchant of Venice! I am SO watching it!

Has anybody seen Whip It with Emily Blunt?

Saw the second half of Master and Commander with my parents. The doctor is a whiny bitch. Boohoo, you want to study natural history, but in the meantime, FRENCH SHIP IS ATTACKING YOUR WHALERS, STUPID! Grrrrrr.

...I want to watch it again now. Mmmm. :3

No, no you don’t. Get back to work, Jeni. D:<

No, no you don’t. Get back to work, Jeni. D:<

Hush, boy!

How dare you not mention Pippin?

I don’t really follow Billy Boyd as an actor. However, I do Chaucer and James D’Arcy.

Hush, boy!

Yes, Jeni. D:

One of these days I will stand up to you. Just you wait.

Of course. Who else?

Don’t worry, they’re making a sequel.

So, Peter Jackson’s doing a Tintin movie. Thoughts?

Tintin, as in hero reporter with sidekick/dog Snowy?

Indeed.

I still think Thomas Sangster would have been a better choice than Jamie Bell. I’m not writing Jamie Bell off, I just think Thomas Sangster is a better actor and visually suits the role better. Although, duh, it is motion capture, so however that works out.

I am pleased Edgar Wright has been a part of the scriptwriting, though. I like him. :D

Don’t worry, they’re making a sequel.

That does make me feel better. If only we knew when, exactally…

Karate Kid. It ruled.

The remake? I didn’t know that it was out yet, much less that it was actually awesome.

Is it as good as the original? Will we be seeing a remake of Back to the Future any time soon?

I’ve never seen the original, actually.

Blasphemy! It’s the cheesy ’80s teen movie!

Yeah, I was never exposed to stuff from the ’80s, as my parents were living in a hole at the time. Sorry.

Watch it now. And see Back to the Future while you’re at it.

What about the sequels? Those hoverboards looked fun.

Also, go watch The Breakfast Club.

Friedberg & Seltzer are back…

eww, the Scary/Disaster/Hero/Date/Epic Movie guys? I forsee that there will be much failing and gnashing of teeth.

Just watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory. I LOVED that movie as a kid so much. Sure, the songs are subpar and it’s not like the book…

But I don’t care. Gene Wilder is just awesome.

He’s scary as hell, though.

But wonderfully so.

I am not opposed to this idea.

Yeah, 3 was like four hours ago.

Toy Story.

Parently, Joss Whedon was a writer? Why didn’t I know this?

I still need to see Toy Story. Please don’t kill me, because then I will never see it.

Please don’t kill me

I don’t know. Can you watch Toy Story in the intervening time between an ICBM launch and your total annihilation?

Excuse me, but how on Earth do you propose we go about acquiring cyanide?

No theatrics necessary, I swear!

bq. I think you could get some free DVDs out of this, Spanman.

Viewing those films will constitute the entirety of any benefit she receives, with or without my involvement.

Know what made my draw drop? Finding out that the original voice actors for both Andy and Sid will be returning for Toy Story 3.

I haven’t watched Tarzan in absolute ages, and yet I remember almost every line.

“Then I was saved, I was saved by a flying wildman in a loincloth!“

Oh God I’m watching Disney movies I have no life oh God.

DAMMIT! Back to the Future Part I deleted itself on my DVR! URGH.

Just threaten it. Or hug it. Whatever seems to work.

Also, rewatching Tarzan gives me Pocahontas vibes, specifically that the villian is violent and mustachioed and the invaded tribe feels threatened specifically because they’re different from the invaders.

I really liked Turk as a kid, especially because I figured out she was a girl. “The FUUUUN has ARRIIIIIVED! Yeah, thank ya very much.”

Mind = Blown.

Nothing can equate the mind-blowage as when I discovered who did the Joker's voice.

You haven’t seen Toy Story, you are in no position to criticize, m’dear.

Joker’s voice.

That is far better than Ellen Degeneres doing Dory. That was really obvious, you didn’t even have to look for it.

Well, we’re talking over a decade ago. My prepubescent mind was blown to smithereens when I found out.

My mind was blown when I realized that he did the voice of Muska in Castle in the Sky.

Aw, I never saw the English dub.

It’s actually a well-done dub, up until the climax, at which point it stops making sense for a bit, then goes back to awesomeness.

Just saw the Karate Kid remake. It’s a “remake” of the original in the same way that Blade Runner is an “adaptation” of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – the plot’s similar, but literally everything else is completely different.

Also, there was no karate. It would have made more sense to call the thing “Kung-Fu Kid” as its true title, and not just some bonus for the European market.

How does it compare to the original? Eh, I liked the original more. That said, the remake was surprisingly good, especially with the scenery and fight choreography. The cinematography, though, vacillated between brilliant (the view through the car window near the beginning) and awful (bright lights shining directly into the already shaky camera in many scenes). I didn’t find the characters nearly as likeable as the originals, although that may have been because they were all 12-year-olds and I’m a child-hating misanthrope. (A few are fine, but I’m not sold on completely populating a film with them.) There were a few cool references to the original, but the lack of car-waxing IN A SCENE WITH A CAR AND WAX was unforgiveable. (Maybe the fact that the scene contained both items was itself the reference, but I was still disappointed.) I really hated the “romance” aspect of the movie – when did you ever see 12-year-olds get all mushy like that? Heck, the kid looks closer to 10!

And why is there a song-and-dance number featuring Lady Gaga’s “Pokerface”? (I swear that I didn’t make that up.)

So, yeah, decent movie, but the original was way better.

The A-Team. Loved it, but don’t expect it to sweep the Oscars.

Ah, but kung fu have similar techniques, such as tarnsao and justsao (“rising wrist block” and “jerk-hand”), which correlates to paint-the-fence up-down; some styles of southern kung fu and tai chi have a technique that correlates to wax-on-wax-off, and others have techniques that correlate to scrub-the-deck. Snake style kung fu famously has a jutsao-bilsao (“jerk-hand” and “thrusting-hand”) combination that correlates to paint-the-fence side-side, and wing chun and many styles have the garnsao (“splitting hand”) that is roughly the same as the karate low-side block, which I don’t remember the name of in the movie.

At any rate, there was ample opportunity to use wax-on-wax-off, but the technique would have been applied differently.

Those movies are teh awesomest. :D

Or its knock-off kid brother, Zathura. (it’s Jumanji… IN SPAAAACE!)

Which is probably the most depressing thing about both books.

Maybe if it’s LotR Monopoly, like I have.

I have that too.

I don’t even remember what happened in the book, I just remember that I didn’t like it.

It made money, didn’t it?

Money is money. They will run it into the ground until they start to lose money on it.

I’ve never actually seen Prince Caspian, or read it, but I did see and read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Everyone grew up. D:

But there’s a different director, so I’m willing to give this one a chance, even after Prince Caspian, which really left something to be desired.