I’m afraid you’re going to have to be satisfied with the vote right now
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Dina Merrill and Glenn Ford in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963).
Archive for April, 2008
“Once More, With Feeling” revisited
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
In July 2006, I made my first attempt at admitting my addiction and I thought I’d do another montage to see if there was a marked difference in the images I chose from Screencap Paradise.
Boo who
Friday, April 4th, 2008Sigh. I have mentioned before that if I was the mother of a girl my blood would boil and erupt through the roof every time I went to the cinema to see a children’s film (or even just when I read about them). This may only be a slight exaggeration. The latest outrage is Horton Hears a Who at which Peter Sagal of NPR eloquently and, may I add, movingly expresses his dismay at the subplot involving 96 girls and one boy.
Have the clowns who made this movie ever met a daughter? Have they dated one? If they did, did they meet the daughter’s father? Did they then ask that daughter’s father if there was anything more dramatic, interesting, arresting, and moving to him than his relationship with his daughter? Did they ask him if he might find that a close relationship with said daughter might be something he would care about? What do they imagine that we do — sit around, and watch our daughters grow and change and suffer and fail and triumph — and idly wish for something more INTERESTING?
This comes after the male bees in Bee Story and the diminishing of the girl’s role in The Water Horse in favour of the boy’s role (in the Dick King Smith original, as far as I can tell, she is the main character). I’ve just done some research on The Water Horse and I am struck by the lack of indignation on this issue. I was also struck by the fact that no-one seemed to care that Princess Fiona was the rightful heir in Shrek the Third.
Well, I do.
Random BtVS screencap #15
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
I haven’t done one of these for ages.
Ah, happier times.
Oh my God. I’m cured! I want the boys!
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Once More, With Feeling (Joss Whedon)
“Going Through the Motions”
“She ain’t got that swing” “Thanks for noticing!”
“How can I repay you?” “Whatever!”
Sarah Michelle Gellar looks lovely when she sings that she “just wants to be alive”.
“I’ve Got a Theory”
Jazz hands!
I love the crickets just after Anya makes her bunnies suggestion.
“Hey, I’ve died twice.”
“Well, I’m not exactly quaking in my stylish yet affordable boots”
“Under Your Spell”
Poor Tara - she can only think in terms of reflected glory and can’t see her own worth.
I love Amber Benson’s dirty laugh sneaking through.
Those lyrics are outrageous perhaps a little too much so.
How uncomfortable does Amber look lying on that plank as she is elevated by, what exactly? Willow tickling her feet? That dress sure isn’t being ruffled.
“I’ll Never Tell”
“She eats these skeezy cheeses that I can’t describe.”
“His penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe!”
Emma Caulfield’s voice is just beautiful as she sings the above line.
“It’s just, clearly our number is a retro pastiche that’s never going to be a breakaway pop hit.”
“Work with me, British man.”
“I was able to examine the body while the police were taking witness arias.”
“Rest in Peace”
“So, you’re not staying then?”
I always skip this one when I listen to the soundtrack.
“What You Feel”
“What I mean, I’m fifteen, so this queen thing’s illegal”
Michelle Trachtenberg’s voice is so sweetly reedy.
Hinton Battle is so Broadway.
“Standing”
I’m not to keen on this either.
“Under Your Spell/Standing Reprise”
This I adore.
“Walk Through the Fire”
This is my favourite song from the musical. A great ensemble piece.
“First he’ll kill her, then I’ll save her”
“Everything is turning out so dark”
“No, I’ll save her, then I’ll kill her”
“I think this line’s mostly filler”
“Something to Sing About”
“She needs backup. Anya, Tara.”
I can’t explain but this line is simply brilliant.
Amber bangs into a pole and they don’t reshoot it. Were people watching Buffy rather than Tara? Weird.
I love the flatness in SMG’s voice as she sings “I think I was in heaven”.
I always sing (in my head) “so give us a kiss” after the line “life isn’t bliss”.
“The hardest thing in this world…is to live in it.”
This is awesome stuff. Chock full of amazingly clever and witty lines (and that is just the dialogue). It is often referred to as a standalone episode but the plot is advanced a great deal - after all it ends with Buffy and Spike kissing… I like that because Willow doesn’t sing we don’t hear her innermost thoughts. Crafty or coincidence?
I don’t like that Xander’s little summoning costs the life of at least one (two?) people and he isn’t ever called to account. I also don’t get Giles’ motivation in not initially helping out Buffy after her sister has been kidnapped and held to ransom.
Otherwise, a bona fide classic.