Trisha’s Quote of the Day: When movie critics stop being neutral and start having opinions
After I saw the movie, my 13-year-old daughter asked me if I was “team Peeta or team Gale,” referring to the District 12 boy who is Katniss’s “star-crossed” lover in the Hunger Games arena and her hunky best pal back home. The question also evokes Twilight,” of course, which has gotten a lot of fan-girl [...]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: A.O. Scott, heroines, quotes, The Hunger Games, twilight
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: PlayStation’s latest “game” gets rave reviews
The [Firmware] game features a robust moral choice system, where your actions really do affect the world. Do you accept the User Agreement, or don’t you? This was an agonizing decision, since you never know what could happen later. I remember that unbelievable moment in Firmware 2.0, where I accepted the User Agreement and the [...]
In: Around the Intertubes, News · Tagged with: hack attack, PlayStation, quotes, satire
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: On the different flavors of geek
I enjoy doing outdoorsy-type activities in addition to playing games, and I have a big, yellow off-road vehicle that I like to drive into the mountains when I go camping and hiking, etc. I was recently looking for tires for this vehicle and so spent some time on web forums for off-roading geeks. Imagine my [...]
In: Around the Intertubes, Quips and Quotes · Tagged with: different kinds of geek, quotes, Russ Pitts, there's someone arguing on the Internet
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: When flavor text goes wrong
Meanwhile, Wilhelmina the gnome wound up at the bar with a hoary ancient mariner, who had a very strange story involving albatrosses, and kept buying him drinks, with the end result that poor Kevin had to read most of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in character, which he did with great style, except that [...]
In: Around the Intertubes, Games: Board and RPG, Quips and Quotes · Tagged with: d&d, quotes, rpgs
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: Figuring out Michael Bay’s id
Could you sum up the film in one line of its dialogue? “I am standing directly beneath the enemy’s scrotum.” —Topless Robot‘s Rob Bricken (and my former managing editor at Anime Insider) tries to explain everything you never needed to know about Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: Michael Bay, quotes, Transformers 2
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: How to foretell your own doom
“Most of my films have disturbed people,” he says. “They are being taken down roads they don’t want to be taken down. That’s why they get angry. They go to films to be reassured — the car chase, the fireball, like pop songs they are comfortable with. One of the reasons I was never into [...]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: quotes, Terry Gilliam
Trisha’s Link of the Day: Observe and Report’s rape controversy
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a prude when it comes to sex in films. However, apparently there’s a scene in Seth Rogen’s newest film Observe and Report and which is featured at the end of the red-band trailer that makes even me a little bit squeamish. Jezebel.com explains one reaction to the [...]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: Jezebel, Observe and Report, quotes, Seth Rogen
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: 3 erotic movies you haven’t seen yet
There is a shot of bare flesh. It shows her fingernail lightly running along his spine. The shot is held only as long as that would take. It is incredibly erotic. There is a fade after they finish, and then she is standing by the window and saying she is hungry. Do they go to [...]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: erotic films, quotes, Roger Ebert
Trisha’s Link of the Day: How to make the perfect global disaster film
With the success of Roland Emmerich’s The Day the Earth Stood Still this weekend and his upcoming 2012 focusing on the apocalyptic end of the Mayan calendar, Paul Owen from the Guardian’s Filmblog thought it would be a most excellent time to dismantle the global disaster movie genre to find out what makes it tick. [...]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: disaster movies, quotes
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: Even actors aren’t free from homework
That’s what was fun about [Frost/Nixon]. I’ve grown up with Watergate; I’m a little bit older than you, but I think I was 12 when Nixon resigned. But I grew up with the specter and the aura of it. But in drilling down in the research, I realized there was so much I didn’t know [...]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: Frost/Nixon, Oliver Platt, quotes, Ron Howard