Rotten Tanx wrote: At first all the lame/cool retro crap was annoying. The racer bikes, the hamburger phone, the Atari (or whatever) t-shirts, "Thundercats are go!" and so forth.

WTF? "Thundercats are go?"

Look love, it's either "ThunderBIRDS are go" or "Thundercats HOOOOOOO".
You can't have it both ways.

I just saw this film. Not Crap, but not great either. I enjoyed 'Superbad' more.

The trailer makes me want to punch myself in the throat.

Not crap. Dr. Awkward and Linus already said what points I would have made, so I will not repeat.

However, maybe it's because I'm not a disillusioned 30-something who lived through the 1990s and the rise of hipsters, but I like the soundtrack. Call me crazy.

Robert G wrote:However, maybe it's because I'm not a disillusioned 30-something who lived through the 1990s and the rise of hipsters, but I like the soundtrack. Call me crazy.

You're fucking crazy.

I enjoyed this film this evening. I thought it was sweet, and reminded me of a lot of the things that I like about American indie cinema of the '90's.

I don't think that it is a great film. Leaving the cinema, I realised that it hadn't changed my perspective on anything significant. Which in turn made me realise that the ability to introduce striking new thoughts to an audience might be a requisite for great art. However, I liked the characters, I liked the way it was filmed, I thought it was witty, and the ending was fresh to me. (Though a friend I saw it with countered that he thought it well signposted.)

I understand how all the talk of the Melvins, Sonic Youth, the Stooges et al might seen mannered, but it is a mannered film, and I think that is part of its charm.

Not crap.

richterbjack wrote:Actually, the movie did galvanize quite a few people of that persuasion; there are more than enough articles and op-eds in national newspapers to attest to that.

You're kind of right - I guess I should have said the film shouldn't have been galvanizing. Both sides had their main points (the need of a woman to be able to choose/life should be cherished) presented and, ultimately, celebrated in a way where everyone won.

richterbjack wrote:Maybe we're on different wavelengths here, but I don't see the role of the single working mother as particularly controversial, either. Considering that half of all marriages end in divorce now, many having produced children, it's the demographic reality. I think most people who still harbor some kind of animosity towards single mothers are considered the fringe by everyone else, and rightly so.

We are on different wavelengths. I'm not saying being a single working mother is controversial, I'm saying giving a baby to a single parent through adoption is less common than giving it to a couple of parents. It definitely still happens, but there's a lingering stigma that single moms can't do it as well as a mom and a dad.

My point was that the movie outlined the fallacy in that kind of automatic thinking. The ending struck me as extremely feminist in a very positive way as it presented a young woman who saw one other lone woman as all the baby would need to grow up happy and healthy.


A great book about a different-from-the-norm adoption is Dan Savage's The Kid. Very educational, very funny, very resonant.

cwiko wrote:More nice photos of one Diablo (emphasis on 'blo') Cody for your viewing pleasure. BTW: NSFW

So, what's with the hair?
http://media.egotastic.com/media/pictur ... ude-01.jpg

Are these all wigs?
http://media.egotastic.com/media/pictur ... ude-12.jpg

Does she strip out of the poolocks?
http://media.egotastic.com/media/pictur ... ude-04.jpg

Jewno.

I'm halfway through it.
I watched the first ten minutes and then spent the rest of the time reading what you guys wrote about it.
I also took out the trash and smoked a cigarette.
I need to find something to do for the rest of the movie.
Oh, I need to put a new light bulb above the stove.
Three cheers for chores.

I liked when I first saw it but it does not stand a second viewing. Too forced and novelty-ish. And the cutsey music isn't listenable outside of the film.
Superbad was way better.