Anticipated Movies
 

What movies are you really looking forward to? What's exciting you enough to consider buying a movie ticket?

For me, it's this:

Four Lions. A Jihadist comedy.

I really wanted the HBO series based on George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books to be made.

I think the fat prick is going to cark it before he finishes the series though.

waitafuckingminute....


did this get aired?

I don't see that getting a wide release here, Dana, although I could be wrong. i'd be interested to see it. It's been a long time since I saw a truly funny movie. I still don't hold out much hope, though -looks a little slapstick.

I had high hopes for Pirate Radio. That was the last movie I waited for.

It's being made by Chris Morris and Armando Ianucci, so I am expecting there to be a razor sharp soul underneath that slapstick :P

Morris gave an interesting interview about it. He spent three years researching the film. Its podcast only, becase the only visual interview I could find was on Look North, and nobody wants to see that!

ooh Look North. Stuart Hall....

Icecream vans on a sunday....jumpers for goalposts...isn't it?

Along the same lines, The Infidel. David Baddiel script, Omid Djalili starring.

All I know of the plot - albeit the main premise - is that an East End Muslim man finds a birth certificate proving he was adopted. His original birth name? Solly Shimshillewitz. He's Jewish.

As is usual in a UK comedy, it has a wealth of familiar talent: Matt Lucas, Miranda Hart, Paul Kaye, Tracy-Ann Oberman etc etc.

On that topic - finally got around to watching Stardust. I think they made a good fist of it, for a bunch of movie-makers. Loved the fact that the cast was very Brit-centric. People in it that I didn't know were. Julian Rhind-Tutt (swoon) and Mark Heap! Even Walliams, though I admit I only saw his name in the titles and had to look up who he was. JRT got more screen time... but then everyone secretly loves a ging-er.

Back to The Infidel - Baddiel has been making me laugh since I was in my teens.
I loved, loved, loved his novels. Well, the two I read anyway - I have a feeling this might be based on one I didn't. And with Frank Skinner. So much hope is placed on British films, I'm almost afriad to watch them. Here's hoping this is another Shaun.

Not yet, but it has been picked up. Not sure when it airs.

The Runaways!
Kristen Stewart playing Joan Jett!

That should be cool.

Initially, I expected to be into that but after an NPR review of it the father of teenage girls (and one a drummer to boot) in me began to think it probably too uncomfortable.

@ Sundae: if you haven't seen it yet, check out 'Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel.'

Four Lions looks hilarious Dana.
I highly anticipated Zombieland, and finally got to see it last night. Powerfully funny.

I don't need to see the movie. The real Joan Jett is the main band playing at this years' gay pride fest here in Phoenix in 2 weeks. :-)

wtf?

Sorry Squirell :P I was referencing a popular British sketch show from the early 90s (The Fast Show). It's a line that basically conjures up nostalgic reminiscences of childhood. Monnie was referencing a regional news anchor. The manner in which she did so reminded me of the fast Show sketch.

'jumpers for goalposts' refers to the childhood practive of creating goals for playing football on the back street, or in the park, by putting sweaters (jumpers) where the posts would go.

We're almost home Dana, I figured out the jumpers (translated it into bases for pick up baseball) but Ice cream vans on a Sunday? Did they not come round all summer long?

Now I can quit anticipating the Tim Burton Alice In Wonderland -- finally saw it last night, 2-D, though it's still playing in 3-D some places. Very very good, just Tim Burton-y enough, without being too much. Best Cheshire Cat I've seen, and Johnny Depp's recital of "Jabberwocky" will probably cause everyone to use hard G's for "gyre and gimble."

Wait, what? Didn't you already use hard 'g's for gyre and gimble?

no :rolleyes: are you really surprised? I mean REALLY?

....guess how they pronounce fungi... yes, they do....

Fuck off, no...really?

mmm-hmmm. We went for a walk in the woods a couple of days ago. I mean, it's great that the kids knew so much about the stuff, but I nearly imploded....

hahahahaha. That's so funny :P

Ahem... Just to be clear, UG's pronunciation of things is not to be taken as the norm. I, for one, have always said "gyre" and "gimble" with a hard G, and I also say fungi with a hard G... because it's critical to the classic punchline, "Why not? I'm a fun-guy!"

I think I used the soft G for "gyre" until I read the Annotated Alice.

gyre is a word I don't know, but the other two have hard G's for me.

I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny.

miriam-webster says gyre with a soft G

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...?gyre0001=gyre

yebbut that's merkin. No-one says gyroscope with a hard-on. I mean hard one. g that is.

Hm. I misremembered. I just checked, and neither Martin Gardner nor Humpty Dumpty had anything to say about the pronunciation of gyre.

gyro·scope (jī′rō skōp′, -rə-)

fungi (fun′jī′, fuŋ′gī′)

You seem to forget, you guys are the ones that talk funny. :lol:

I followed the paradigm set by "gyroscope." But the switching, from first soft G then hard, tended to make me stutter, reciting. Hard G in both, all right, that should clear that up.

Webster's Third supports the soft G pronunciation, not the hard... which other pronunciation curiously enough means "a malignant spirit or spook" in Scots. Something new every day.

Hard-G for "gimble" as in "gimbal" (which goes both ways) is just fun.

I've confused myself ... yet again.

Gyroscope - - - - - - - Hard "G"
gyro as in greek dish - yee - row

What the ????

I'm going to make a point of saying yheerrrroscope from now on, with the r's rolled dramatically.

Haggis, yheerrrroscope, piss like a racist. If the English language is unrecognizable in 5 or 10 years, it'll be due to the Cellar. :D

Soft-gyre and hard-gimble here.

ELAINE: He has this power over me, okay. He has this way of manipulating every little word I say. He's like a Svenjolly.

GEORGE: Svengali.

ELAINE: What did I say?

JERRY: Svenjolly.

ELAINE: Svenjolly? I did not say Svenjolly.

JERRY: George?

GEORGE: Svenjolly.

ELAINE: I don't see how I could have said Svenjolly.

JERRY: So maybe he's got like a cheerful mental hold on you.

Yes.

starting ti sound pornographic

Or like Lewis Carroll!