Category Archives: cinema

are you threatening me?

Alas, “The Complete Beavis and Butt-Head” (six DVDs) apparently includes none of the boys’ commentary on music videos. One understands the copyright problem, but gee whiz, that’s some of the best bits gone.

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live and learn

QOTD: I’ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies. Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional … Continue reading

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what won’t be in RotK

The cutting-room floor: Houses of Healing: . . . . It’ll be on the DVD. Saruman: Jackson filmed [Saruman’s death] – and then cut it because it felt like old business, which slowed the new movie. A shame. Again, that’s what DVDs are … Continue reading

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Agent Ridge

What if The Matrix was guarded by Homeland Security? (Linked by Paul Hsieh, whom I don’t read nearly often enough.)

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a fleeting allusion

Northcote Parkinson wrote (“Parkinson’s Second Law”): In 1957 Mr John Applebey remarked that those responsible for the [British] public accounts seem to confuse themselves as well as everyone else. Presumably the creators of Yes Minister, and thus of Sir Humphrey … Continue reading

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today’s youth!

I went to a party as a Tall Blond Man In Black With One Brown Shoe but apparently nobody there had seen the movie.

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anthropomorphize much?

Wasn’t there a movie in the Eighties whose tagline on the posters was “The most erotic thing in their world was money”? 2006: The Ananova story, if memory serves, was about a Russian newspaper being penalized(?) for a cartoon of … Continue reading

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