Sometimes it&#39;s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

Yeah, why not? They have Starbucks and McDonald's too; it's just like America these days.

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strangeidea.livejournal.com

They have soccer in America now?

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That's the major difference; America doesn't have soccer. So they have to have their fights at the basketball games.

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Aww! But BiLB is so sweet!

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Yeah, that movie kicks ass! The makers of that movie are coming out with another cool-looking movie revolving around Indian heritage.

You don't like many movies I like, Holly. What are your favorites?

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I actually like that one better than most others. If you wanted to watch it while I was around, I wouldn't complain. Is that good enough? :-) I'd, in fact, probably tell you about how excited I am by all the references to English stuff I understand these days.

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Yes, that is good enough.

We know what we're doing Saturday night! Hehehe...

We should rent Elf. That's a cute movie.

And you never told me what your favorite movies are...

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Well, I didn't get to see the second half this time ... :-) (When I got up to make some tea, my brother took over the television.)

I hadn't seen Elf until a couple of weeks ago; I watched it with Ali and Matthew (ah, just like old times, that was). Ali was the only one who'd seen it before, and she was laughing most. I asked her why and she said, "It was a year ago! I forgot!" And Matthew hid from everything remotely embarrassing to the characters (which, in that movie, is a fair amount of stuff); he always does that. He feels bad for them, so he put a pillow over his face so he couldn't see what was happening during the bad parts. That was hilarious. So, in other words, I think my friends were more amusing than that movie. :-)

It's hard for me to define a certain kind of movies I like. I like lots of old movies, I like Cary Grant and Danny Kaye. I like "weird" things, like most of the Coen brothers' movies (one or two of those could even qualify as romantic comedies!). I like funny movies, but that doesn't usually mean "so stupid it's funny" movies (though I like some of those as well, like Zoolander, I'm very picky about them).

It's probably easier to say what I don't like, actually: I don't like action movies because special effects do not a good movie make. I don't like most romantic comedies because they're boring, too, being all of one plot (or maybe two). The "stupid" comedies are also boringly predictable. I guess I just don't like boring movies. :-) And I have a rather short attention span when I'm watching them, so sometimes it takes a lot for me to think a movie is worth watching.

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The problem is, boring is relative. :)

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Your icon is reminding me that I starve and making me drool and suchlike. I hate it when that happens.

(Usually it's just you making me drool, sexy Rachel. :-))

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You flatter me so. I still think you'd have a threesome with me. :P

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What, I can't just like paninos now?! :-)

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You said you were drooling over me!?!?

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I would never say a thing like that! Why Rachel I am shocked.

:-D

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But sweet = cheesy. That's all I'm saying.

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The Beckhams did a publicity tour of America last year....supposedly they're dumb-founded that Americans don't worship them the way the rest of the world does.

I swear, whenever I'm in England, the Beckhams are on the front page of the newspaper *at least* every other day. No exaggeration. It's probably more like 5 out of 7 days......

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Yeah, but those aren't *real* newspapers - that's the tabloids. You only get real news in the broadsheets...

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Okay, but one question.....where can one buy broadsheets in the UK? Every store I go into that sells newspapers only has tabloids, it seems.

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Pretty much any newsagent. But they tend to get in fewer copies of the broadsheets than the tabloids because they don't sell as much, so if you go in in the late afternoon they're often sold out...

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at least england can manage to make a movie about indian people that's not a horrible parody of actual film, like the guru.

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Yeah, I did like it for that. I mean, here in the States, we can't even make movies about British people that aren't a horrible (because unintentional) parody.

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Erm, wasn't the Guru a british film?

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no. most definitely american. starring heather graham and about the american dream.

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Heather Graham and Jim Mistry, who is most decidedly british.

And it was produced by Working Title films, which is a british company, and did such movies as Billy Eliot and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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but it was made in america with all american actors (except the indian ones) and was based on the american dream.

while the production company was british, i'd still consider it an american film.

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You can consider it a United Statesian film if you want, but you'd be wrong.

It's style, it's movement, were all typical of british cinema. It reeked of Channel 4.

Even if you do consider it a US film, it's hardly something to hold up in comparison to a UK film, due to its heavy influences.

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there aren't really that many american films made with indian subjects.

you're really argumentative.

you can be right, if you want. it's ok.

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It's really not up to you if I'm right, but thank you.

Do have a nice day.

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You are really argumentative. Give her a break.

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She was rude!

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I didn't read her as being rude (but then I know her very well, and know her manner). But then again I didn't read *you* as being especially rude either... maybe I just like to see the best in everyone who isn't George Bush...

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It does look, to me, like a Channel Four Film, but it has a far more American flavour than almost anything else Working Title have done, even though they obviously aim almost exclusively at the USian market. Certainly, unless you were aware of Channel Four/Film4 as a seperate genre (for want of a better word) it would be easy enough to think of as an American film, in the same way one could think of, say, Quills as a British film (filmed in Britain, mostly-British cast with one USian star (and one Australian) doing a reasonable approximation of a British accent, Merkin screenwriter, can't remember who the director is, USian funding), even though it's 'really' an American film.

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Yeah, I seem to remember having an argument with you over what country some movie belonged to; the actors, directors, writers and money can all come from wildly different places now and it makes it hard to tell.

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Roughly one in three British films is about Asian people, and it's always the same film in essence, to the extent that I actually liked the Guru just for not being the same as every other British film about the 'immigrant experience' and the 'clash of two cultures'...
East Is East, My Beautiful Launderette, The Buddah Of Suburbia, there's millions of these films, and most of them are, frankly, crap.

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Hell, even 'Splitting Heirs' had John Cleese as an adopted Asian.

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You shoudl watch 'a touch of pink'

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You've made me all suspicious now.

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