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Amen! One of my biggest pet peeves is when a really great movie series feels that it has to either A) never let the romance resolve (like what happened in X-files), or B) kill the woman off.

Cases in point for B): pretty much every Bond movie; the Bourne movies; Chronicles of Riddick; Batman; Aliens (where it’s the male love interest that gets killed off… and Newt. Poor Newt. Why?! WHY?!)

At least some movies try to “get rid” of the love interest without KILLING her/him. Like (((Spoiler Alert)))) Mission Impossible (she’s not *really* dead!), or Die Hard (they’re divorced!), or Indiana Jones (where they don’t even bother to tell you what happened to the previous female love interest… except for the blonde Nazi. She deserved to die.).

There are a few movies that don’t do this, and they work just fine. Like Rocky, Back to the Future, Romancing the Stone, Toy Story (although they better bring Bo Beep back in part 4), Star Wars (Epis. IV-VI; I pretend the other 3 don’t exist)… but these movies are few and far between.

If more writer had the guts and the skills to do it, they’d be able to create much deeper stories and avoid the Bond-cliche. A male hero doesn’t HAVE to have a different chick in every movie in order to be sexy/heroic. In fact, it kinda makes him look shallow. (Even if they killed the girl off).

” —Comment of the year from Laura Sheehan, on this week’s LTF.

Feb 29, 20122 notes

Feb 18, 20129 notes

“And then… The opening scroll happens. “The taxation of trade routes to outlaying star systems is in dispute.” Frank, this is (in Lucas’s mind) the first moment of the first movie of his most epic franchise. “The taxation of trade routes to outlaying star systems is in dispute.” This is the note that starts out the greatest space adventure of our generation. “The taxation of trade routes to outlaying star systems is in dispute.” MOTHERFUCKER.” —Liz Tells Frank Stuff She Forgot Happened In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace « Liz Tells Frank What Happened In… (via jaybushman)

You’re very kind, sir.

Feb 14, 201212 notes

“Time for sexytimes! Naked sketching and then doing it in a car and then cutting back to the present for the first time in like an hour. Nothing like watching an old lady tell her granddaughter and a bunch of strangers the story of “the most erotic moment of my life — up until then, at least.” Such a weird scene.” —

Liz Tells Frank Stuff She Forgot Happened in Titanic « Liz Tells Frank What Happened In…

I saw Titanic at the giant Astor Theater in New York. When this scene happened, as the shot disolved from young, naked, post-coital Rose to old lady Rose, somebody in the back of the audience shouted out:

“Grandma was a ho!”

(via jaybushman)

Jay’s story is my new favorite story.

Feb 08, 20123 notes

Liz Tells Frank What Happened In...

February 2012

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