Unfortunate news item of the day

[uberreiniger]

Stolen from reverend_betty


You're Last Year At Marienbad! You are a
hopeless romantic, emphasis on hopeless.
One year, at Marienbad, you took the whole
"Haven't we met?" line a little too
far. In the end, your romantic ways work
against you. You lay it on too strong. You're
also elusive - what are you really
about? People can't figure you out - maybe you
need to lay off the deep focus....


Which classic European film are you?
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I was hoping for a movie I'd actually seen. Guess I'll have to go check this one out. On to the point. The unfortunate news item lies in a review of the film "Timeline" I just read in a newspaper. It describes the movies climax which involves an attack on a castle which involves "trebuchets (a kind of large catapult.)"

Man, time was when even the tiniest tot knew what a trebuchet was. Now we need to put a definition in parantheses just so the masses can grasp the concept. Give it another fifty and I'll bet we'll need a second set of parantheses to define the word "catapult."

Comments

[ksracxe.livejournal.com]

BAH! I knew what it was :)

I also got that result. FINE!

Timeline

[meggmoon.livejournal.com]

"A perfect mix of explosions and mushy, girly stuff."

My boyfriend, reviewer extraordinaire.

I liked it. It wasn't Academy quality by any means (I suspect this is obvious just by watching the preview)- but it was fun.

Re: Timeline

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

To be fair, another newspaper review was clever enough to comment on the 14th century's "remarkably good orthodontics" :) Generally, all the reviews I've seen are making it out to be nowhere near as gawdawful as its own previews make it out to be, which is so rarely ever the case it might just make it worth checking out.

[nolens-volens.livejournal.com]

Gee, not only are we both mushy this time of year, but we're the same European movie with an emphasis on "hopeless" romantic. I get the feeling that we're in for a long winter.

I'll let you know if I hear anything back from the bears . . . :)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yet again, I lament the fact that we do not live closer.

[nolens-volens.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

[equusk.livejournal.com]

:::snippers:::

>>"trebuchets (a kind of large catapult.)"<<

People need to watch more Junkyard Wars... I know what a trebuchet was way back in the day when I was a lowly tech hs freshman.

Y'know what's worse. "I LOVE THE EIGHTIES." I'm telling you, in ten years, VH1 is going to have "I LOVE THE NINETIES," and we're all going to be sitting around a tv, musing about how "We remember Saved By the Bell, Family Matters, and, oh, heaven forbid, the ominous dread of the Y2K bug."