Pajiba

sadly, none of these releases are making me run to my netflix Q....maybe I shouldn't be that sad?

hello? where is everyone? am i *gulp* by myself?

i am going off to curl up into a fetal position

I'll play with you Gunter :)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly looks interesting, and after all the hoopla over Schnabel's direction I'm kind of psyched to see this.

My Netflix offerings at home right now are pretty good...Battlestar season 3 disk one, Undeclared disk 2 (reliving its awesomeness, I've been in a Jason Segel's Crazy Eyes mood), The Assassination of Jessie James, and The Hoax. Fun stuff.

There, there, gunter. The Spambot will undoubtedly be here shortly to keep you company!

I am so meh about all of these movies, I'd have to put in effort to work my way up to ambivalent. It's probably for the best, since my queue hit the 600 milestone yesterday.

Julie, that's so funny, because I'm watching BSG Season 3 right now, too. I'm waiting for disc 3, though. If Netflix knows what's good for them, it will be in my mailbox when I get home.

YAY!
i am still netflixing my way thru freaks and geeks - the last 2 disks should be showing up today - so until it is over (and the tears dry) i can't get too excited about 27 puffy meringues

I am with Julie in that The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the only movie up there that piques my interest

I am also with Julie in being in a Jason Segel's Crazy Eyes mood....but I am sating it with How I Met Your Mother, as I do not have Undeclared at home at the moment

and it's the weather Gunter, Pajibians are more likely to post during good weather than bad
no idea why that is, but it seems to be true (at least based on recent low comment numbers and the crap-tastic weather the north-easy has been getting)

I'm psyched to see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as well.

I am also intrigued by The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - i just think it may be one of those things that requires careful watching w/o alcohol, which, let's face it, requires some work.

Sarina, I had watched the 1st two episodes as they aired, but then missed enough that I had to wait for the dvds. I am so excited. I missed my Starbuck.

Bethy, did you watch last night's episode of HIMYM? The scene in the limo broke my heart. And I loved Barney's obsession with the Skymall catalogue, that is one of my favorite things about flying.

no idea why that is, but it seems to be true (at least based on recent low comment numbers and the crap-tastic weather the north-easy has been getting)

Word. The weather here can suck it so. HARD.

She's so pretty! and I hear she can be found on manny-hispanicatthedisco.blogspot.com. She's pretty open and doesn't mind if you come home with glittery makeup on your collar and lipstick on your pork javelin.

Golden Compass got me in trouble.

I own the books, don't think they're as brilliant as most do but was pretty sure they'd make for a good cinematic experience.

So i sat through the whole movie, got to the end....and then it ENDED. Totally cut out the book's ending, which gave it a dark, creepy twist and IMHO was the best part of the book.

So in my shock and horror, I yelled out "What the F**K"...right into a theater full of tweeners. The parents were NOT happy.

I really need to catch up on BSG. I just got into it and barely know what's going on, but I can't look away. Julie, I agree, Starbuck is badass.

Every time I think of Julian Schnable, I think of Sean Young's drunken heckling during his speech and how Schnable handled himself quite nicely.

Meh, I think you are my hero.

So in my shock and horror, I yelled out "What the F**K"

Meh, I did that at the ending of The Mist. I was alone in my living room, but the ending still elicited an audible yelp of disgust.

I know Julie...poor Barney
and I loved it when he shredded his cell phone :)

and the flashback to 1776 was priceless (I always knew Ben Franklin was a perv!)

SO fed up with this weather, and it is not supposed to be getting better till like next week
only my mother is semi-happy about this, apparently her gardens were getting wicked dry...

and I just noticed I typed "north-east" as "north-easy"
hmmmmmmmmmm

My husband and I walked out of "Diving Bell" within a few minutes because it was making him nervous. We went to watch "Persepolis" instead.

Hee...I love when George Washington referred to our capital as "Me, DC." Heh.

Where is TK?! I need to have words with him and his contagious zombie hordes. I woke up feeling perfectly fine this morning, and I am slowly developing a scratch in the back of my throat, my chest hurts, and every muscle is slowly wearing out. Which means tomorrow when I wake up? I will be deathly ill. And I blame YOU my sinister friend. You.

and I just noticed I typed "north-east" as "north-easy"

Hahaha! Bethy, I thought you did that on purpose. I read it, and was like: *sigh* I guess that's fair.

Hee, J_Capri, I thought to myself, "Yep, that's about right." :)

OFF TOPIC LETTER TO BUFFY FANS
Dear Buffy Fans,
Thanks to all of you, I went out and bought Season 1 of Buffy. It's definately not bad (except for the special effects), but I'm not crazy in love with it either. Sarah Michelle Gellar does a pretty decent job. When she overheard Giles and Angel talking about how she was going to die (might have been the last episode of the season), and she totally freaked out and "quit" her slayer job, she almost made me lose my shit - especially when she started crying. And Angel is hot, though I'm not sold on David Boreanaz's actin' skillz. I do like Willow a whole bunch - she's a very endearing character. Again, though, so far it's not a life-altering show. Does it get better after season 1? Please advise.
Thanks,
TT Marie

Random observation: When just skimming through the comment section, the anagram for How I Met Your Mother reads as "hymen".

Even thinking about "Diving Bell" scares the crap out of me. Will not watch!

Dear tt_marie:

Yes, it gets way way way better. You need S1 so you will know what is going on later.

BTVS pretty much follows a bell-curve model: It gets better and better, peaks around the middle of its run, and then tapers off. However, I loved every bit of it, even the less-than-great final seasons.

Soldier on.

And by anagram, I mean acronym.

well, you know what they say about Freud and all that stuff! :)

tt_marie
it does get better, but if you are unsure if you want to spend money on it yet, the first 2 seasons are up on hulu.com, you can watch them free there (with minor commercial interuption)
thats what the Boy and I did, and now we are netflixing season 3

we enjoyed it a lot

I was state champion in the pork javelin my senior year.

I was state champion in the pork javelin my senior year.

And I have coffee all over my monitor...yet again. My coworkers are starting to think I have unseemly fetishes that I bring to the workplace. Seriously, stop being funny. It's getting me in trouble.

And I blame YOU my sinister friend. You

As you should. He's infecting all over the place. You'd think he had some shame...but no. However, I'll get him for you...

Bethy..I wish I had known that before I blew through my first two season disks, Any chance the third is up there, as I'm starting that right now?

And to stay on topic...The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the only one I'm actually interested in seeing, since I've already watched The Golden Compass in theatres. I'll buy it, but that's only because of my obsession with collecting anything fantasy related and hoarding it over others...taunting them with my extensive knowledge and laughing when they ask to borrow it.

That's what everyone does...right? I mean, why else buy DVDs?

no Shadows...bastards haven't put the third season up yet. we had to netflix it

but I am sure if someone paid them a visit in the MurderTank, they could be, shall we say, pursuaded to speed the posting process up?

just sayin....

and Kolby, that just made me snort very hot hot chocolate, hee!

Too bad Golden Compass didn't do better in North America. No sequels. Sigh. I really wish they hadn't spent so much on getting Nicole Kidman. Or they had marketed it better here.

Bethy, I think part of the problem may be the weather, but I'm pretty sure it's the tease aspect of it all. In my part of the north easy we had 2-3 lovely days (like people started putting away their winter clothes) and then mother nature is all "gotcha!" and we get grey rainy cold.

Also, I may be checking out hulu, as I was late to jump on the Buffy train until Angel was a knockoff and Summer (was that her name? The bratty little sister) was all up in the plotlines. That was my version of a thank you.

I haven't checked, but sidereel may have something like that up too.

hmmmm, must check out this "sidereel", I had never heard of it

I did the same thing artificialsweet!
winter clothes were all packed away, summer clothes were coming out and then this happened. although I don't know what I expected really...this is New England after all

and I am forever forth refering to the north-east as the north-easy
I like that much better

My husband just finished the third season of Battlestar, so Netflix should have plenty to send out by now. However, by the end, he was referring to it as Battlestar, 90210, and I was just calling it his "stories" (as in, "grandma needs to go home and watch her stories now"). Does season 4 get any less f*ing melodramatic and more, say, battle-y?

and I am forever forth refering to the north-east as the north-easy

Does that mean girls in the north are easy? That's it, I'm moving...

It means we're...experimental, Shadows :p

I mean, what else are you supposed to do when winter lasts 10 months out of the year?

a girl gets lonely and bored :)

It means we're...experimental

Oh, Julie, let's not be modest. Martian aliens with ass-probes are experimental. We girls up in the north-easy are something entirely undocumentable.

It's actually Locked-in Syndrome, not trapped in. But who cares, great film

Huh, now I don't know WHAT to do as my home state of Maryland is considered southern by northerners (below the Mason-Dixon line) and northern by southerners (we don't talk quite as funny and actually sent troops to BOTH sides of the civil war). Am I easy? This question will bug me all day.

My mom's been threatening to Netflix 27 Dresses just to fast-forward to the montage of the 27 Dresses themselves. She's an occasional seamstress who's worked a few weddings. I'm only slightly embarrassed to be related to her for this desire.

tt_marie

Season three is my favorite. If I'm not mistaken, Joss Whedon started working on other projects in season four. The series sort of went downhill from there.

I miss Skank Cancer and don't find an entry for Rainbow Killer in the Urban Dictionary. To remedy this deficit I hereby nominate Cleaveland Steamer as the new nick name in honor of her acting prowess.

tt_marie:

Oh PLEASE stick with Buffy. It will pay off in huge ways. Season 1 is kinda like nostalgia for me...it's not my favorite, but it lets you know how it all began. I think 2 and 3 are the best, then 4 and 5 and 6, then 7 is the worst, but still completely worth watching. Soldier on, my friend!!

I'd get her drunk and donkey punch her,but I,m not gonna spend any money on her craptastic flicks.

I gotta disagree with the Diving Bell review, as fair an analysis as it may be. I was captivated the whole time and thought it was a lulling, very human masterpiece all the way through.

But that's just my personal opinion, and hardly my professional one. So carry on. Keep up the good work.

tt_marie: The very best of Buffy is ahead of you. The show was not really expected to last past season one, having been a midseason replacement. In subsequent seasons, the writers further discover and write to the actors' strengths. You are already exhibiting the early signs of Buffy addiction (e.g., SMG tugs at your tear ducts, Ally Hannigan makes you love Willow.) By the time you're well into season two, you'll be hooked and very happy.

Oh,so cute!I love her.Maybe she want to find more new friends,she is on "S e e k i n g R i c h . c o m ".On "S e e k i n g R i c h . c o m",there are many beautiful girls and rich,handsome men,they want to find more friends,find their lover.On that site,they make friends each other.If you are single now,I think you would come to the site.Please believe yourself,you will
find your lover.Come on!

vic: I'm with you - I really enjoyed Diving Bell from start to finish. The camera work at the beginning was at times nausea-inducing but it gave me a real feel for what he was going through (I think) and I thought his long-suffering ex wife was beautifully played.

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