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Film quote quiz

Shamelessly stolen from : An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a nose for a nose. I don’t know what the Hell that means, but it sounds brilliant. My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw ****** pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Do you know the meaning of propriety? Shoot it off! Shoot! With the gun! That’s what the bullets are for, you twit! Do you believe, Mr. Martins, in the stream of… Read More »Film quote quiz

And now, the 1998 Show!

A little over a year ago, I commented that I hadn’t heard that the Wachowski brothers were working on an adaptation of V for Vendetta. Yesterday, Warner Bros put out a press release stating that they’re going ahead with the project. There’s a poster image for people to drool over: For what it’s worth, they appear to have cast Natalie Portman as Evey, which might work.

I live under a rock

I hadn’t heard that Alan Moore was retiring from the (mainstream) comic industry. I hadn’t heard that the Wachowski brothers are to make a film of V for Vendetta. I am deeply worried by both of the above.

Went to see Minority Report last night with various TotL folk, and was pleasantly surprised. Without giving any plot details away, the art direction is excellent (although the future product placements are a little heavy-handed in places), and Spielberg manages to restrain his sentimental urges for the most part (compared to the horror that was AI, that is). On the other hand, the PKD short story didn’t have any sentimental sequences, so they aren’t really a necessary part of the narrative. As a PKD adaptation, I’d rank it on a par with Blade Runner (possibly slightly higher, given that Blade… Read More »