The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[RealAlHazred]

I am willing to be corrected on this.)

What‽‽‽ You can take THAT right off of the Internet, thank you very much! What would the Web look like if everyone went around with that attitude, I ask you?

 

[prabe]

What‽‽‽ You can take THAT right off of the Internet, thank you very much! What would the Web look like if everyone went around with that attitude, I ask you?

Civilized?

 

[niklinna]

This is another one of those like "drow", isn't it. The "R-O-W" is correctly pronounced by genteel people exactly like it is in "row;" and definitely not like in "row," you'd sound like some gutter-dwelling Luddite.

Wait what? Since when does puncutation next to a word affect its pronunciation?

 

[dragoner]

This is classic: Meihem In Ce Klasrum, by Dolton Edwards

 

[Guest 7034872]

So I'll switch to a topic that isn't redundant: has anyone else been eyeing the Elvis movie trailers? (I daren't call it a "biopic" because that has connotations that I think would be unfair to this movie.) I haven't felt a compelling need to go see a movie in the theaters in a very long time, but this one has me pretty amped.

 

[Deset Gled]

There are some threads I want to distribute bingo cards for.

 

[payn]

So I'll switch to a topic that isn't redundant: has anyone else been eyeing the Elvis movie trailers? (I daren't call it a "biopic" because that has connotations that I think would be unfair to this movie.) I haven't felt a compelling need to go see a movie in the theaters in a very long time, but this one has me pretty amped.

This post fills me with questions. Why not a biopic? Why does this movie in particular want you to get back in a theater?

 

[Mannahnin]

So I'll switch to a topic that isn't redundant: has anyone else been eyeing the Elvis movie trailers? (I daren't call it a "biopic" because that has connotations that I think would be unfair to this movie.) I haven't felt a compelling need to go see a movie in the theaters in a very long time, but this one has me pretty amped.

I have not; but I love almost everything Baz Luhrmann does, so I'm definitely looking forward to it.

 

[Cadence]

I always like it when one thread is so ridiculous that it makes all the others seem well reasoned by comparison.

 

[Guest 7034872]

This post fills me with questions. Why not a biopic?

Luhrmann has balked at calling it that, I'm told. The concern is that "biopic" too strongly connotes cleaving to the already-known history of the person and depicting it somewhat in a "paint-by-numbers" approach. Luhrmann consciously chose not to do that.

Why does this movie in particular want you to get back in a theater?

From what little I've seen, the acting and writing look really, really good. I'll always favor a good story told well over one that gives me something I was already looking for. Also, Elvis was the King, man. For all that was wrong with him, he did show us that the actual limits of human potential are a lot higher than we suppose. Kind of like Mozart did, but this time with the blues and rock and roll.