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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 11/22/2010 : 08:38:08
Originally posted by Se�n
Four Your Consideration - Treasure Hunt
Sean Says: Put on a happy face 
- Put any five reviews you like in your F.Y.C. list.
- Do not use reviews from the previous round - you must change them every round.
- Post here to declare that you've done it. Sooner is better than later.
- Provide a spoiler warning in your post when appropriate.
- You must read the F.Y.C.s of all participants.
- The next round starts on Monday or Thursday at 6:00 a.m. FWFR time, whichever comes next.
- The initiator of the next round will name the thread "FYCTH - #***" or "Sean's FYCTH - #***", "***" is one integer greater than the number of the current round. The initiator of the next round will copy this post verbatim and it will appear as the opening post of the next round, the only things that may be changed are fonts/colours and smileys (which may be removed altogether if desired) and the inviso comment after "Sean Says:"
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| ci�nas |
Posted - 11/25/2010 : 13:57:44
quote:
Originally posted by Cracovian
quote:
Originally posted by lamhasuas
Cracovian, your review of the excellent A Single Man just doesn�t hang together for me. Goode (having died) is being mourned, not doing the mourning. Grammatically, I can't make the review fit the film.
It's totally fine grammatically: it's a proper noun + gerund, rather than the proper noun + present participle structure that Firth mourning would have if applied to that film, i.e. the head noun is mourning whereas in the latter it would be Firth. It's just like ice-cream flavouring meaning the flavouring of ice cream and not that some ice cream is flavouring something else.
But no problem that you don't like it.
Yes. I understand that. But it doesn�t mean that you can legitimately use that construction with any & every gerund in English. No doubt I should have referred to usage rather than grammar. And I grant that some poetic licence applies to reviews. But: after the death of a friend, as it might be, friend mourning has never yet occurred.
The reason I brought this up is that this same review occurred to me after I saw the movie but I decided not to submit it, for the above reason & because its apparent meaning � that Goode is mourning � is so different from its actual meaning.
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| Josh the cat |
Posted - 11/25/2010 : 07:54:19
Time to admit the truth I just finished getting round this morning but I have visited everyone.
Josh the cat |
| demonic |
Posted - 11/25/2010 : 01:45:16
That was a good round everyone. VV |
| [matt] |
Posted - 11/25/2010 : 01:11:06
V+V
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| lemmycaution |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 23:55:24
Yep. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 23:29:03
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I think it was Bafta who pointed out the biggest problem in that how did a universe populated only by cars build that world?
I think that's the level of question that all animated films would fall down on, but I agree that the story is not too engaging. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 23:23:44
quote:
Originally posted by rockfsh
Spoilers in Whisper
Max's such-and-such can only mean such-and-such of Max and not Max is such-and-such, since Max ends in /s/. More importantly, doesn't BaftaBabe already have those Sunnyside puns covered? |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 23:15:08
quote:
Originally posted by lamhasuas
Cracovian, your review of the excellent A Single Man just doesn�t hang together for me. Goode (having died) is being mourned, not doing the mourning. Grammatically, I can't make the review fit the film.
It's totally fine grammatically: it's a proper noun + gerund, rather than the proper noun + present participle structure that Firth mourning would have if applied to that film, i.e. the head noun is mourning whereas in the latter it would be Firth. It's just like ice-cream flavouring meaning the flavouring of ice cream and not that some ice cream is flavouring something else.
But no problem that you don't like it. |
| ci�nas |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 22:50:37
Thank you, Baffy.
Cracovian, your review of the excellent A Single Man just doesn�t hang together for me. Goode (having died) is being mourned, not doing the mourning. Grammatically, I can't make the review fit the film.
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 21:38:38
vv
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| randall |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 21:26:18
V&V |
| Larry |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 13:07:00
V I E W T E D. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/24/2010 : 09:02:43
quote:
Originally posted by Cracovian
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Whoa! Are they really making a Cars 2 movie? Why? It was Pixar's least good film!
That's what I thought when I heard about it too, as much as I love Owen Wilson.
In homes, though, I've often seen kids watching it on D.V.D., so perhaps its post-cinema sales have been stronger than others and it has built up a big audience for a sequel. The story is more tangible for young children than some of their others, so that probably helps.
Not crazy about Owen Wilson myself, but that wasn't the problem with the movie. I think it was Bafta who pointed out the biggest problem in that how did a universe populated only by cars build that world? And I found the eyes of the cars very annoying to watch. The story line was okay, I guess - had a fairly good lesson to it, but for me, it was, on the whole, blah. Still, I guess kids like that sort of stuff.
However, with Paul Newman no longer with us, I truly doubt I'll bother to see it. It was his voice that made me want to see the first film, and he was great.
(Voted!)
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 11/23/2010 : 12:04:59
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Originally posted by lamhasuas
Is it 22nd November already? Time for another shot at this, then.
money money money
Possibly a slight spoiler for The Joneses, in the middle.
Fab five, Mr Spinny-chair 
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| demonic |
Posted - 11/23/2010 : 02:02:36
Some very random 80's Horror
Spoiler for "Dead and Buried"
NB:
In "City of the Living Dead" somehow a zombie invasion occurs because a priest commits suicide.
The Boyle family move into "The House By the Cemetery"
There's no way to describe "Society" really... um... well... the upper class in an American town are revealed to be inhuman creatures who absorb, melt and eat the lower classes. Great film.
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