What was the last movie you saw?

[J-Sun]

District 9. Once was enough, thanks.

Originally Posted by Interference

Curtis was indeed doing an impression of Cary Grant's slightly Americanised Bristol accent in SLIH, later parodied by numerous impressionists and in such popular entertainments as Fancy in Top Cat.

Forgot to reply. Good to know - glad my suspicions weren't completely off base.

[AE35Unit]

Watched a lovely film called All in the Family with Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas and his son Cameron. Great to see kirk still acting in his 90s! Legend!

Later will be watching Warhorse

[No One]

There's no dedicated Avengers thread that I see, so I'll ask here and hope it's not too much of a derailment, but there was something in the film I initially forgot to mention, something that frankly shocked me (and the friend I was watching it with). I was wondering if anyone else thought so too.

I'm referring to the use of the, um, "Q" word

Don't know what I mean? It's in the scene with Loki talking to Black Widow. It's a word that seemed to be relatively common at one point some years ago, but has, as far as I know, fallen away into obscurity since. I hadn't heard it used in many a year, but when it came up my jaw practically hit the floor. Granted, my understanding of the word is slightly different to how it's precisely defined online, but the connotations are very much the same.

I know that Joss Whedon is up on his English lingo, and maybe US audiences and younger UK viewers simply aren't familiar with the word at all (I've no idea), but how he managed to sneak that one by the censors is beyond me. Not that I'm complaining - it helped lend some real weight to Loki's despicableness in the scene.

Alas, me and my friend were sat at the front of the theatre, so I couldn't see if anyone else reacted to it around me.

[JunkMonkey]

"the Q word?" What the hell does that mean? "the Q word?" If you mean 'Queer'? why don't you just say it? Queer. Queer. Queer. I just typed it three times and the world didn't end. This is getting ridiculous - sorry if this sounds trollish* but if we are going to carry on like this not using words but referring to them instead only as 'the insert letter here' word, then that is going to limit the euphemisms available to the English speaking world to 26.

So far the letters C, F, and N are pretty well spoken for so in this regard we're down to 23. And I can't see many sweary words on the horizon starting with Z or X. So were down to 21. What happens if someone decides that another word (ie not '****') starting with the letter F is derogatory, insulting, belittling, or a bit NSFW? Does it become 'The other F word'?

Fword2 that for a game of soldiers!

Mind you, I'm still smarting over the fact that my wife didn't allow me to call my son Cnut.**



Oh, and I watched a film today. Snow White with Miranda Richardson. Not terrible. The kids liked it. Though the presence of tarmacked roads and racoons in Generic Euro Fairytale land was a bit odd.



* - or even Daily Mailish - I am, by inclination, a raving lefty, ban the bomb, tree hugging Guardian reader.

**Cnut the Great (985 or 995 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden.

I wanted to call him 'Toshiro Thundercats' for a while; she vetoed that too.

[No One]

Hehehe, I'm sorry about that JunkMonkey! It didn't even occur to me what someone else might read into it. No, I was most certainly not referring to the word Queer.

I guess I'll just have to spell it out, though I really tried avoiding it because for me it feels like I might as well be typing, well, Cnut.

The specific phrase used by Loki is "mewling quim". There. I'll leave it at that.

[JunkMonkey]

I think that proves my point.

Aha! 'Quim'. Good word. Fred Quimby's name on the Tom and Jerry cartoons always got a giggle out of me.

[HoopyFrood]

Yeah, someone asked Loki himself (well, the actor) about that on Twitter:

@twhiddleston 'mewling quim'? Really?

Tom Hiddleston ‏ @twhiddleston
An intensely inaccurate description of darling Scarlett. But kudos to Joss for smuggling medieval rudes into blockbustings.

Also, queer has hardly fallen out of use in recent years. It's been taken back and had its derogatory nature stripped. Now it's used by people to avoid those annoying binary labels. Lots of people identify as queer.


(And I think general avoidance of swearing isn't on the person's behalf, but because of the family nature of the site).

[No One]

Whedon finds a way. Gotta love him.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by woodsman

Also saw Avengers in 3D.

Actually really enjoyed it - can't beat a few huge guys running around hitting things and Scarlett, oh wow. What I really enjoyed was the the humour although it may have just been me, when you're the only person p&*$"@# themselves laughing you do wonder! Nice to see a hero film which seemed to embrace not being taken seriously!

Now I just want Serenity II, Please??
Not convinced about 3D though. Not sure it adds anything and at times seems to detract.

The humor isnt surprising really the guy who wrote Firefly with Mal,Jayne and co can make even Hulk funny.

The 3D didnt add much but it didnt look bad either.

[JunkMonkey]

I watched the first episode of Buffy the other day - I've never seen any episodes before - and was surprised and pleased to find how funny it was.

[Foxbat]

The Final Programme (1973) As far as I'm aware, this is the only Moorcock book adapted for the big screen. Jon Finch stars as Jerry Cornelius in this very 70s film. Sometimes a bit of a mess but worth watching if you're a Moorcock fan (which I am).

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

I watched the first episode of Buffy the other day - I've never seen any episodes before - and was surprised and pleased to find how funny it was.

All of the Buffy episodes are available on Netflix streaming. I'm trying to catch up also (not to mention the Angel episodes as well).

[JunkMonkey]

Reverting for a moment to the subject of sneaking words into scripts. Tonight I watched Alfonso Brescia's La guerra dei robot (1978), I can't help wonder how or why the translators called one of the characters 'General Gonad' but I'm sure they had their reasons.

I can recommend La guerra dei robot for many many reasons: the delirious script, "It's crazy! A harvest of human flesh!"; the music, which is dead pure early experimental synthcrap; the 'climactic' space battle, which is one of the dullest and most repetitive pieces of film making ever committed to screen - and I do include some of Andy Warhol's early efforts here; but mostly I recommend it because its got Yanti Somer wearing skin tight wet-look leather. And that can't be bad.

vlcsnap-269528 by the_junk_monkey, on Flickr

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

Reverting for a moment to the subject of sneaking words into scripts. Tonight I watched Alfonso Brescia's La guerra dei robot (1978), I can't help wonder how or why the translators called one of the characters 'General Gonad' but I'm sure they had their reasons

Sort of like Larry David playing the snarky nun, Sister Mary Mengele in The Three Stooges.

[JunkMonkey]

Thinking about it, the phrase 'General Gonad' pretty well sums up the movie.