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Don't worry, everyone thinks you're a fangirl anyways <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, good. Glad to clear that one up. HOUSE*ROBBERY~!

Hugh Laurie did not win. Can I call robbery without seeming the fangirl?

Damn straight. I'm hoping they replay the emmys...I'm missing it all save for the final hour.

When do they usually hand out the awards for best actor in a drama series? Basically, I only have interest in Hugh's nom/win, and don't feel like waiting three hours for it.

It is if you have Windows Movie Maker. Simply drag the clip into the 'audio' portion {at first, I don't think it will let you. It'll insist the clip go in Video--THEN you can drag it down} and 'save movie file' highest quality audio... It'll save as wma, which in my experience is unburnable. Get an audio converter...Xilisoft is good for that.

House • Three Stories • FOX • Heel and Toe Films and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with NBC Universal Television Studio David Shore, Writer I am pleased this ep is getting nominated and recognized for its greatness; if anyone has watched it, you'll know what I mean. The editing is kick ass, too. Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House More than -anything- else, I'm hoping he wins. He totally -owns- the show, character, and everything else. House is a character full of snark and smarts, impatience and intellect; he doesn't beat around the emotional bush, he gets right to the point with the facts. Penchant for breaking the rules and a grey area of morality also help the greatness of the character. Hugh plays him so wonderfully.

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Parents who use the tv as a babysitter; they buy it so the kid can zone out for a while and don't feel like dealing with the clunky extras. My thread, therefore I say...elaborate? Please? ^^ *thanks to the power of IMDB...* I'm guessing the film is 'Full Grown Men', which has Alan as 'The Hitchiker', ja? Along with being a raging ball of jealous fangirl But I'd love such an occurence for the simple braveness that took...along with the voyeuristic opportunity I missed out on. I do? You're just reading into it. What could be gay about Floop and Wonka...and swirls...and prettyness...and a rainbowesque gradient on top?

I've checked the system's sounds and it is not in there and the sound - reminding me of a raindrop... sounds like a 'blip!' - seems to occur only on certain 'net pages. The odd thing is that it didn't happen earlier today. The computer was shut off and the fam went off to the fair. Came back...and this odd sound is there. Anyone else have this difficulty? I can't figure out what the hell it is.

Tisn't 'Cummings' just... 'Cumming'. He has a fragrance out. Here's the commercial.. Go on... have a look-see. And, after a few experimentations, I figured out what the problem was. Pest Patrol - anti-spyware program - has a thing entitled 'Cookie Patrol'. It made a blip every time a cookie was added. Hence why it would beep on yahoo mail, yet not some other sites.

Nothing the lame-ass TV show can do will EVER compare to the original movie. Nothing.

"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo". It kinda rhymes in a poetic, same-syllable way. Deuce and Male being one syllable; Bigalow and Gigolo being two. Deuce Bigalow: Gigolo seems too... awkward, purely in a title sense. Or maybe I've simply toyed with alliteration too much in my writing.

Nuttin' wrong with blind love, mein freund ^^ I can see Fishy's point...and I can see yours, too. I liked his (or her) comparison of the old man with a walker comparison. Give that guy a chainsaw and he's still not scary (hell, probably slow him down even further). A fast zombie *could* be scary, but hell, anything rushing towards you - group or singular - is bound to get an OMG,WTF?! reaction. But I'm not sure if one would be "Fucked before you even [knew] what hit you." It all depends on how fast that undead creature is goin', really. Still, that summary was beautiful. Wonderful point, too. Although a fast zombie's speed would get slowed down a bit, given that the person is fighting for its life. Which would make the 'fast zombie' example become the 'slow zombie' example.... which makes the argument circular, as someone pointed out. Now, let us draw the argument away from speed. How might a zombie (lets say... average height/weight in life) successfully withstand the fighting/struggling of a live person? As a dead thing, there's no heart to pump the blood, no blood to feed the muscles, no strength, no energy. My anatomical knowledge might be a bit off, but you get the point. Its Dead Thing Walking, with or without rigor mortis, but the dead thing really doesn't have the strength or energy to do much else. My experiece with zombies is, obviously, limited. (The last ones I saw liked to enjoy singing about how reefer killed them.) I'm coming into the debate as an on-looker.

....This is actually true. I've read through the thread as a passer-by, not really partaking in the argument. I applaud both of the debating skills presented and, no matter which side one is on, *hopefully* they can step back and say 'Well this person made a good point, although this person is also correct'... Zombies are scary, fine, acceptable, particuraly in their plural form. Get a horde around you, well, its all over but the cryin' (and eating... and chewing...) But, it seems to me, Fishyswa is discussing just *one slow zombie*. Not a group, not a pair, just one. Scenario: walk into a graveyard, see a person rise from the grave (for debate purposes, lets say it is your dear old, I don't know, Granny Fran. {Walken-SNL fans might get that one} Been dead... oh, lets say six months). You're scared shitless cuz, bleedin' jesus on a pogo stick, ITS A DEAD PERSON!!! MOVING!! What do ya do? Well... two things: stare. scream. run. Okay, sorry, three. Moving on. Running, running... turn back to see if its close. Is it? No. Its...............way back there. Shuffling about in your general direction. Noone around for it to infect, noone to assist in this hunt. A snail passed by it ten minutes ago. Going up and drop-kicking is, I'm sorry Fishyswa, a bit on the implausible side. The smell, the sight...one couldn't really get used to a walking dead thing that quickly. I mean, your average Joe. Is the suddenly-un-alive-and-walking Granny Fran scary? Fuck yeah. The sight alone is atrocious. But would one fear for its life from that ONE ZOMBIE (again, not a group, just one) .....perhaps.

"you should at least of seen the movie" at least have seen the movie.

"People will say we're in love." - Silence of the Lambs "Would you ever say to me 'Stop... if you loved me, you'd stop.'?" - Hannibal "Could he, dare he feel a stab of hunger for her, find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bowels of his plight, and ache for him?" - Hannibal "Do you dream much, Will?" - Red Dragon "You must have quite the collection [of scars] by now. But never forget who gave you the best of them, and be grateful." - Red Dragon "A robin red breast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage. Ever been a redbreast, Will? 'Course you have." - Red Dragon "No, I'll shoot the cook. My car's parked out back, anyway." - Once Upon a Time in Mexico "Its not a rocket, you sick fuck, its a COCK!" - Death to Smoochy "One might say grass, while the other says snatch!" - Death to Smoochy "Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size never matters when you want some friendly patter!" - Death to Smoochy "He was jacked up worse than a prom dress in June!" - Death to Smoochy "My stepdad's not mean, he's just adjusting..." - Death to Smoochy "Now, you must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one, HEADLESS!" - Sleepy Hollow "Guys, its my dick, I pick." - Suicide Kings "Creeping like a communist, its knocking at our doors//Turning all our children into hooligans and whores!" - Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical "Mister Hurst is a VERY wealthy man who attended Harvard University, where did YOU metriculate?" *blank stare from the citizen* "Me-tric-u-late." *blank stare* "It means.....where did you go to college?" - Reefer Madness: Movie Musical "If you insist on smoking, soon you'll be floating in the river Styx//What a fix//sulphur pools//torture tools//seperation from your family jewels!" "Ramalama, they're gonna cut your ding dong!" - Reefer Madness: Movie Musical "Frankincencse. WOW!!" - Reefer Madness: Movie Musical "How can they see where they're going?" "They can't. There's no knowing where they're going." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Let's boogie!" - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable. But that is called 'cannibalism', my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Don't touch that squirrel's nuts!" - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "All you had to do is check the manufacturing dates, offset by weather, and the derivitive of the Nikkei index. A retard could figure it out." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Mr. Wonka, I'm Violet Beauregarde!" "Oh." *long pause* "I don't care." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "MUMBLER!" *pause* "Seriously. I can't understand a single word you're saying." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Where is my son? Where does that pipe go to?" "That pipe... it just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious kind of strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge." "Then he will be made into strawberry-flavored, chocolate-coated fudge, and they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world?!" "No. I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Could you imagine Augustus-flavored chocolate-coated gloop? Ew! Noone would buy it." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Improvisation is parlor trick." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most." - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "I've tried it on, like, twenty different Ooompa Loompas and each one's ended up as a blueberry. Hee...its just weird!" "But I can't have a blueberry for a daughter. How is she supposed to compete?" "You could put her in a county fair!" - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "You mean if I go with you, I could never see my family again?" "Yeah! Consider that a bonus!" - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "The ICE is going to BREAK!" - The Dead Zone "Ain't no Mort here. Mort's dead." - The Secret Window "I would be lying if I said I wasn't on the verge of doing snoopy dances." - The Secret Window Aaaaaand, thats all I can think of for now.

In no defense of the movie, I have to agree with Fishyswa. Ebert just says its bad but doesn't particuraly say why, aside from a sparse few examples. Then, clearly with nothing else to say, he reports on something that is not really his business. With that said, the movie poster alone doesn't garner any interest from me. It looks so damn Photoshopped as to be inhuman (Rob's head alone looks pasted on... hell, the expression is the same from 'Hot Chick', I think). I didn't particuraly care for the first movie, so the sequeal just induces a groan. A sequeal to the Hot Chick, though? Well, my opinion would certainly be different.

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...Man oh man I gotta start saving. Returns is *definetly* at the top of my wish list. Forever is too, but Returns gets top priority.

The Hot Chick Red Dragon Sleepy Hollow X-Men

Estimates for Friday, July, 22, 2005 Title Daily Total 01 CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY $9.0 million ($94.9 million)

*sigh* Fanofcoils, can you not let the movie stand on its own merits? Comparing a new thing to one of nostalgia really brings it down, as nostalgia makes anything better. Although... can't say I blame you. If they were to ever, god forbid, do a remake of Silence of the Lambs then I would be just as intolerable of the new one as many fans of the old WWatCF are to CatCF.

There's a listing for it at IMDB but very little has been said. Depp is the only cast member, and the writing/director credits go to Bruce Robinson. Hunter S. Thompson is also listed in the writing credits, naturally. I think Benicio Del Toro was listed somewhere in the movie but, apparently, no longer.

(posted in my journal on the 19th) After having watched the first 40 minutes of my downloaded bootleg Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I am happy to say that I still do not see the Jackson references. Is it the boyish nature of them both? Similar, perhaps, but I am certain there are many others of the man-boy psychology; one need not refer instantly to Jackson. They both have daddy-angst... fine, I'll accept that point, but that is where the similarities end. Jackson's psychology lends itself to slumber parties, overly-extravagant gifts for his children, and other activities a young boy might engage in. Wonka, on the other hand, cannot stand to be around children, cannot utter the word 'parents' let alone envision himself being one. Again, I say while their psychologies are similar, that does not mean they are the same in any form of the imagination. Besides, has it not been reported that the way we see Jackson is only a front for the media? In any case, I am sick to death of the Jackson-Wonka comparisons, and furthermore, I am ashamed that I've spent two paragraphs on this icky judgement. Though my copy looks as though someone cropped it terribly, I'm still getting most of the movie. I've read some complaints about the ticket-winners being rushed, to which I say, well duh! We know from the trailers how bad they are, what their faults are...that's really all the time that needs to be spent. The focus of the movie is Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the Chocolate Factory. I enjoy the time spent with Charlie, and how close his family is. I also read some complaints that he was too wholesome and that his type of child/character did not exist. Another stupid review. I find him very much believable, perhaps because I can see myself in that situation. After receiving the Golden Ticket, and once the shine of it wore off a bit, it makes perfect sense that he would want to sell it. And it makes sense, in a way, that the one grandfather would say no. The realism associated with the movie is really its defining attribute, I think. For instance, the toothpaste factory 'modernizing' and eliminating the father's job and, of course, Wonka's parental issues. The latter I look forward to exploring. (posted on the 20th) Once again, I continue to say that I saw nothing of Jackson. As a matter of fact, I did not see Depp, either. Willy Wonka is one of those rare characters – like Sands & Ichabod – that I forget about the actor, and the character becomes a person entirely separate. In the beginning, during Grandpa Joe’s story, he reminded me of Raoul Duke with the voice – a parallel further enhanced during his tasting of the caterpillars – but for the rest of the time Willy Wonka reminded me only of… Willy Wonka. Like another of Burton’s great creations – again, I reference Ichabod – we see through flashbacks the reason for his social abnormalities & weirdness, therefore, it is acceptable. He’s not just some weird person like, say, Wilder’s version. He has psychological issues that, like any person, he builds walls around, guarding that terrible secret. But to only discuss Willy Wonka would be a crime to the children actors. Via IMDB.com, one learns that only Annasophia Robb (Violet Beauregarde) has had prior film experience, appearing in two movies prior CatCF; however, Julia Winter (Veruca Salt), Jordan Fry (Mike Teavee), and Philip Wiegratz (Augustus Gloop) are entirely new. Also, Ms. Robb is the only one of those four to have another project lined up. Given their small parts, the children were well-chosen, in my opinion; only Mr. Wiegratz did not stand out to me, but then, the role of Augustus is so small. I’ve read where the characterizations of the children were a bit extreme, but I do not believe so. I’m sure there really are spoilt rich brats who expect to get what they want. We know from such TV shows as Bravo’s ‘Show Biz Moms and Dads’ that pushy parents unfortunately exist. And, I know from my own personal experience, the joys of being a video game addict. Of the four, I think Mike Teavee was the smartest. He did, after all, calculate which candy bar was needed. Of the four demises, I have to say I dislike Violet’s the most… which is ironic, since the Oompa Loompa song that follows is my second favorite. To me, the extent to which she transformed seemed a purposeful one-up of the former movie attempt. One can argue that the entire movie was a show-off of the technical prowess and, in a way, they just might have a point. I suppose it is the flagrant use of CG for Violet that rubs me the wrong way; the same goes for Mike’s exit at the end. They were both far too…cartoony. Speaking of the end, I enjoy that we got to see a glimpse of the children’s lives after the factory. Augustus has not changed; Violet still seeks her mother’s approval (thought it will be much harder to gain now); Veruca is still a brat however her father has changed which, consequently, means she will; Mike… well, I’m not sure. He was made taller, which might enhance his uppity, ‘I’m smarter than you’ attitude, yet the slightly psychedelic TV channel trip would surely affect him. Somehow, someway, Deep Roy needs to win an award, as do the numerous computer artists who multiplied him that many times. I mean, seriously, can you imagine the work that was put into both?! All the motion capture Roy did, all the tweaking done by the techies to ensure the lighting/movements/etc were perfect. If I had to pinpoint to anything that took my mind out of this fantastic world, it is the black-and-white striped tree that can be seen behind Charlie in the chocolate room. It would not be a Burton movie without his stripes, most commonly found on a villainous person (Beetlejuice, Katrina van Tassel). Nor could there be Burton without Elfman, and vice versa. I do not know how they do it, but those two create magic together. All in all, I enjoyed the movie very much; in spite of the awkward close-ups/cropping (not a fault of the movie’s by any means, but whoever recorded my bootleg copy). On a side note, could anyone – besides me, of course – imagine Raoul Duke in the chocolate room?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Johnny Depp-Benicio Del Toro-Laila Nabulsi /// Hunter S. Thompson-Laila Nabulsi Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Robert Rodriguez* X2: X-Men United - Lauren Shuler Donner-Ralph Winter-Michael Dougherty-Dan Harris-David Hayter *By the by, any news on a Special Edition/2-disc set for Spy Kids? He mentioned it in SK3 but that was the last I heard of it.