I’m opening this thread a bit early today because holy crap is there a lot to talk about.
In the meantime, I’m going to prepare for the debate by taking a nap.
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@PI: Shit…I stand corrected!
Also 1000% agree with you on Hellfire…I like because it shows how horrible he is…also it’s kind of catchy
> Dalillama
Really ? Nice ! I wonder if they also do them in France. We have our own Octopi-based diches (like tielles), but i would not mind try others.
I just googled too see if there are jokes about “Dora the Deplorer”. Apparently not.
I never really liked the singing, dancing Disney villains. Frollo was at least somewhat serious in his job. Also scary as hell, but I think there isn’t much point in having evil villains otherwise.
Based on reviews and Youtube snippets, Anastasia seems both more awesome and more cringey than the Disney movies of same era. Damnit I want to see it but not.
My favorite villain’s song is “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo.” (I take a dim view of teenaged marriage, especially with the possible subtext that the prince is homosexual and being “cured” by this naive marital draftee who has zero experience with court politics or aptitude for psychic self-defense.)
I’d say it’s worth a watch at least once. I remember it being really good, one of my favorites in fact, but I haven’t seen it in years so I don’t know if it’s held up at all. Christopher Lloyd plays Rasputin, if that does anything for ya.
Also, one of the main songs, Once Upon a December is really beautiful in its native Russian.
@Vis, I know, I’m pretty irritable with him right now, too, for all sorts of things. The honeymoon is overrrrr. But still, I don’t think he could possibly look more Canadian in that picture without being drizzled in maple syrup.
(sorry again)
@SFHC: Hah, was just coming here to post the Weird Al songified video. That’s about the only way I was able to watch any of this debate.
Croquembouche of patriarchy- OMG! You’ve got the anthropomorphic croquembouche pic as your avatar!!
*swoons*
@PI
Oh, I didn’t think you were being mean at all. I do agree with what you’re saying. I would like to add that I was more thinking of the definition of pitiable in the sense of “contemptibly poor or small.” Frollo is pathetic and that is actually what makes him so scary. He’s not a Sea Witch or an Evil Faerie or anything like that. He’s just a man with zero self awareness and too much power available to him, and that allows him nearly unfettered ability to hurt the people around him. So my pity is more of a contemptuous “What a waste” and my compassion would be towards his victims. Does that make any sense, or am I just digging myself in deeper?
@ Hambeast, you and guest made it illogical for me not to do so…
@Paradoxical Intention: Ugh… I have strong opinions about that movie. Once the rant got up to four paragraphs though, I decided to delete it and spare everybody.
I re-watched the ballroom scene though: the flaws that made me motion-sick in the theater aren’t as bad as I remember on the small screen. I forgot how horrible the lip-synch was, though.
I have love-hate for Trudeau.
Love: MMIW inquiry is actually happening and myriad other incremental improvements for First Nations are on*, Paris accord happened — instead of lobbing handgrenades, the Canadian delegation helped –, carbon pricing is seemingly actually going to happen, and many very dumb little things Harper did are cancelled (e.g. muzzling scientists).
Hate: pipelines are still on, that LNG project he got snookered on, selling weapons to Saudi so it can better blow up Yemen, the all too predictable flip on voting changes, and not reversing the idiot decision to centralize IT for the whole government in a single department (hint to anyone listening: outsourcing IT to people off site is a way to pay a bit more for far worse service, so in the end it costs you double because you pay IT to be unresponsive, then you pay your employees to be unproductive).
* including increased funding, which helped get my SO a position, so this isn’t purely altruistic.
I think I have it.
The man to Trump’s immediate right as he bloviates from the podium appears to be wearing the pendant cross of a Knight of the Order of Saint Hubertus.
They were last in the news as the hosts of Antonin Scalia on what turned out to be his last hunting trip.