I can’t remember, do we know how exactly the baby died (i.e. what killed him)? I’ve been assuming that it was an accident -the kidnappers weren’t paying close enough attention, baby dies through misadventure, they sew his eyes open so they don’t lose out on the money.
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Except, the how of it says so much about the character. It would have been entirely out of place for him to act off-the-cuff, or to cause a mess, or to take a painful way out. He wanted to put his best foot forward, to do his best to make it pleasant for himself and for whoever found him. (I asked my mom why she…
Aaaah - why are shows/movies incapable of casting actual musicians? It’s not like the acting pool is short on musical types. If you’re hiring someone to play The Fiddler, maybe find an actor that can, you know, fiddle? Or at least convincingly fake it? Or if all else fails, film it from the back with a ‘stunt’ double?…
aaaaaaah *sticks fingers in ears*
I call that storytelling approach “the Barry Allen.”
Part of what makes it so perfect (and is a characteristic of good spoofs/satire generally) is that they do actually know their stuff. We watched the witch scene in high school when we were learning about medieval scholasticism, and the whole ‘no basis for a system of government’ joke is way funnier because its kinda…
I tracked down some episodes of the original show after the movie came out, and the show holds up surprisingly well.
I always read that slight embarrassment as intentional, since it was showing his early days as superman and flying around in tights saving people has got to be slightly weird the first few times. “Nice outfit.” “My...mother made it for me?”
We knew my nephew would do just fine in life when he asked ‘Santa’ for a particular robot toy for Christmas, was told Santa couldn’t afford such an expensive present, and promptly went around asking every relative for $20 for Christmas.
I actually thought it served a very useful purpose in 1917 - the poor guy kept having to push through with barely a minute to breath, and the point of the movie was to make us feel it. The (false) single take approach really helped keep the energy up - having long takes made it feel like a single race to the finish…
If by “in a long time” you mean a decade (or two), just a heads up - the misogyny in the early Bond films is probably worse than you remember. Admittedly I don’t have any strong nostalgia for them, but I found them very difficult to re-watch as an adult. I can forgive a fair amount in the name of “different times,”…
Oh man, I tried to rewatch Last Unicorn recently and it is sooooo sloooow, I just couldn’t stick with it (Secret of NIMH holds up a bit better). About 5 years ago I watched Conan and Beastmaster for the first time - Beastmaster was a ton of stupid fun, but I couldn’t handle the misogyny in Conan. I know the “times…
I remember a specific day (I was in middle school, brothers were home from college) where my mother announced that having to decide what to cook for dinner was exhausting and after 20 years she just couldn’t do it anymore; from that point forward she’d happily cook us whatever we wanted, but if we didn’t ask for…
...or a “my five year old is going through a phase” thing.
My mom: “Hey Baba, what was your mom’s name?”
Her Grandma: “I don’t know.”
My mom: “How can you not know!?”
Her Grandma: “...I always called her Mama!!!!”
It looks an awful lot like Czech bublanina (in my family it’s a breakfast food rather than a dessert).
Also, what happens if I change my mind and want to take something out of my cart? Half the time I’m shopping for a specific recipe, can’t find a key ingredient, and decide to start over for another recipe. It’s a lot easier to just put things back on the shelves without having to worry about clearing things from a…
Generally agree, but I do appreciate the 2003 live action version for giving us Jason Isaacs as Hook/Mr. Darling. (In fact, I thought the 2003 version was perfectly fine overall. It didn’t do anything startlingly new, but it was a quite visually pretty remake of the standard story).
So it’s the unknown 1990s editor that has Nostradamus-like powers - Now we need to figure out what other hidden messages (s)he put into books over the years!