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15 July 2005

Warning * SPOILERS INSIDE * Warning

post by: Divine_Wino at: 12:00 | 35 comments

uh?

posted by dabitch 15 July | 12:00

Well, no point in seeing that movie now. Thanks a lot!

posted by iconomy 15 July | 12:01

Surreal, man.

posted by Specklet 15 July | 12:02

Oh shit. I'm inside. Does that make me a spoiler?

posted by papercake 15 July | 12:02

*spoils*

posted by gaspode 15 July | 12:07

Nanny-nanny-boo-boo!

posted by me3dia 15 July | 12:07

I unintentionally saw WotW if anybody wants me to spoil that, I can.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 15 July | 12:07

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by Divine_Wino 15 July | 12:07

*jaw drops*

Sweet spoiler dude! Wanna race?

posted by Schyler523 15 July | 12:09

Sorry I'm an asshole. Actually I wanted to post the Harry Potter in the voice of various other writers bit from making light, but then I didn't want to ruin anyones Harry Potter deal.

So the spoiler is that wizards do not exist, including the Washington Wizards.

Schyler523:

You know I wanna race, but you better bring AT LEAST a Wankle Rotary Engine if you wanna battle my 94 Honda Accord with super spoiler, the medium priced gas and vanilla scented air freshener.

posted by Divine_Wino 15 July | 12:12

Man, I got the new twin turbo wankle rotary installed in my super sweet camper bus...sadly i have no spoiler. :(

posted by Schyler523 15 July | 12:15

Holy Shit, Holy Shit, HOLY SHIT
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAMPER, the rear wheels will lose contact with the ground at all speeds above 30 MPH, get to a Pep Boys asap and get a spoiler, if there is no Pep Boys within walking distance, remove the door from your hallway bathroom and duct tape it to the rear roof panel on your camper. This is not a joke, my cousin Padraig got the naked lady air freshener from the car wash and it made his Le Baron so fast that it flew straight up into the air on the LIE and he totally disappeared forever, and he never saw the Wizard of OZ so likely wherever he came down he is totally fucked.

posted by Divine_Wino 15 July | 12:25

*thinks cosmetic spoilers are silly, but could get into a wankle rotary*

posted by Specklet 15 July | 12:28

Thanks Divine_Wino, I could have been injured pretty bad...but I think that if I'm playing the Grateful Dead loud enough I can actually fly that thing with enough faerie dust of course.

posted by Schyler523 15 July | 12:39

Spoiler or not!

posted by Schyler523 15 July | 12:53

Huh. Huh huh. You said wankle.

posted by goatdog 15 July | 12:58

WOTW completely sucked, btw. SPOILER: Even hypno-Fanning wasn't good in it.

posted by amberglow 15 July | 13:10

amberglow: my pregnant sister went to see it, and she said it was so intense that she and a couple other people had panic attacks and had to sit outside for like 10 minutes to calm down...I haven't seen it though, and don't really plan on it. Who wants to see crazy Cruise?

posted by Schyler523 15 July | 13:14

WotW wasn't as terrible as I'd thought it would be. It's at least marginally more faithful to the book - updated a bit to make it creepy for modern viewers.

I didn't even really notice that it was Cruise that much. There's just too much intense shit and blowing up going on.

It's worth it to see in the theaters, unless you have some kind of killer home theater rig, and even then. I'd like to see it in a THX'ed IMAX theater, just so I could see Cruise get sucked into a pulsating alien sphincter again.

It is intense. I remember a couple of times experiencing the same sensations I get on an intense roller coaster, or, say, Bungee jumping. Like "Oh, fuck, what did I get myself into? Oh well, no way out from here but through through.", complete with gritting teeth.

posted by loquacious 15 July | 13:26

pulsating alien sphincter

You mean we come from other planets, too?

How do I learn to pulsate?

posted by Hugh Janus 15 July | 13:40

How do I learn to pulsate?

Shrooms?

posted by agropyron 15 July | 13:49

Considers linking BMEzine video someone linked here a few dozen thread ago, decides strongly against it.

Uhm, you just pucker up an' whistle.

posted by loquacious 15 July | 13:53

just so I could see Cruise get sucked into a pulsating alien sphincter again.

Yeah, like Cruise has never done that before....

posted by dodgygeezer 15 July | 13:54

Maybe because i saw on my computer screen, in a window...i was totally underwhelmed.
(and the whole son and his fate thing was totally, utterly unbelievable, i thought). It seemed to me that the movie was jerky, and that tons of stuff had been cut out of it or something. The pulsating sphincter was just laughable, i thought--they suck up some people, in that part of the movie only, but not anytime else? Come on.

The Tim Robbins section was very good tho--best part i thought. I guess i need more human interest in my summer blockbusters.

The NYT review of Willy Wonka has too many spoilers, i thought.

posted by amberglow 15 July | 13:56

Dumbledore dies. Harry catches Ron&Hermione kiss. Draco leaves Hogwarts for Durmstrang. Seamus Finnigan is Half-Blood Prince because Godrick Gryffindore, the Prince of all Half-Bloods, is his ancestor.

posted by buttes 15 July | 13:58

Hah
there someone else did it and now I can post what I think is the funniest thing I have seen in a million years (Way funnier if you ride the subway in NYC and have seen the "poetry in motion" posters.) William Carlos Williams on Harry Potter:

This Is Just To Say

I have killed
the wizard
who was in
your novels

and whose death
you were probably
saving
for book seven

Forgive me
he had it coming
so beardy
and so old

Via: making light. Who got it from the Guardian.

posted by Divine_Wino 15 July | 14:28

buttes: meh. you could've been more interesting

posted by ethylene 15 July | 15:33

It's just a copy/paste ethylene, sorry. Blame some guy on ain't it cool news.

But on topic, is anyone else totally psyched about Seamus Finnigan being the Half-Blood Prince? Totally.

posted by buttes 15 July | 17:57

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by 김치 15 July | 18:35

ha
love it, kim

buttes: i so thought it would be.
phfffttt

posted by ethylene 15 July | 19:20

oh almost forgot
THANK YOU SO MUCH BUTTES YOU TOTAL ASSCRACK
at least knowing someone died last time i got to wonder at every one who got hurt
bastard

posted by ethylene 15 July | 19:57

amber, I thought the Tim Robbins part went on far too long.

That said, I think you are missing out on what appeal there is by not seeing it on a big screen. The most impressive parts of the movie are the sequence at the river/lake/whatever and the first tripod emerging. The water scene is mindblowing on the big screen. I downloaded a video clip for the hell of it and it seems like all of the impact is lost, and I have good speakers, a big monitor, etc. The movie does not translate well from the big screen.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 15 July | 22:59

Yeah, I would probably say that WotW totally sucked if I hadn't seen it in theaters. Those alien ships need to be 40 feet tall, and the explody sounds need to be explody. It's not a fine film or anything. Neither was the original.

posted by loquacious 16 July | 03:11

he's really dead
they're all really dead
it wasn't his mum
it was earth all along
soylent green is delicious
you goddamn dirty lepites
it was all a dream
or was it?

posted by ethylene 16 July | 03:14

You know that movie Titanic? The boat sinks!

posted by sisterhavana 16 July | 11:56

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