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Post by Dil Bert on Oct 30, 2016 6:41:14 GMT
Finally made it through Orange. First hour was so bad I had to stop watching a few weeks ago and only finished the film yesterday. The first half reminded me of Ishq (1997) in the way it tried to give one a headache with all the running around and screaming. I found it improved after the break, but the subtitles clearly weren't good enough to do justice to the thoughts they were trying to express. The filmmakers also had spunky, goofy Genelia D'Souza playing a character who is unhappy through most of the movie, which may not a be a crime against humanity but is certainly against the Genelia Convention. Brahmanandam is wasted in a generic friend role. Nearly 2h43m of this. Very little of this.
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Post by Dil Bert on Oct 26, 2016 0:30:06 GMT
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Post by Dil Bert on Oct 23, 2016 21:50:22 GMT
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Post by Dil Bert on Oct 19, 2016 11:10:45 GMT
NI vs SI, romantic taglines edition:
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Post by Dil Bert on Sept 28, 2016 1:07:49 GMT
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Post by Dil Bert on Sept 27, 2016 9:18:10 GMT
It's that time again! Pick a movie you really don't want to watch and watch it in October. Doesn't have to be a horror movie. If you make it through the movie, post about it here.
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Post by Dil Bert on Sept 16, 2016 10:31:28 GMT
Now, I am still wondering about Snoopy's reflection. First, he is engaged in a junior competition. Then, he doesn't care to win. And he wants to be low. In the last two cells, we see Snooppy about to throw his ball, then Woodstock flying. I now imagine that: Snoopy is mischievous, and wants to be the "school bully" (he tries to hit Woodstock for example). Is this possible? I'm afraid I misread the last panel in my haste, taking it as "I don't want to be...." So I still think it's a play on low man, but perhaps as Dancelover says the scoring is lower == better. The humor is in "low beagle" -> "low man", I'm sure of that. WRT the Snoopy throwing the ball and Woodstock flying, perhaps it is just to add some visual excitement to the strip. If Woodstock had a reason to be angry at Snoopy, Woodstock would probably be looking at Snoopy, wearing a different expression, and perhaps have some lines radiating from him indicating agitation or quick movement.
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Post by Dil Bert on Sept 15, 2016 10:58:57 GMT
Having searched ont he web, I found an expression with "the low man on the totem pole": someone who has the least important position in an organization. It could be all right for Linus. But why would Snoopy be (a) low beagle? Is there a pun? Yes, the first strip is a reference to the totem pole phrase; someone who gets the worst of everything, or sometimes as in this case, nothing. Low beagle is like the first strip a substitution, in this case for low man. Googling, it looks like low man is someone in bowling who has the worst score in a competition, which fits with the story in the cartoon.
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Post by Dil Bert on Aug 27, 2016 9:49:25 GMT
"I like you because of your creamy white personality."
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Post by Dil Bert on Aug 18, 2016 1:49:01 GMT
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Post by Dil Bert on Aug 18, 2016 1:35:07 GMT
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36924617One of Bollywood's leading stuntwomen is used to taking risks and leaping into the unknown - and it all began when, still a teenager, she ran away from a violent husband with two children and nowhere to go. [...] Struggling to survive as a single parent in Mumbai, she said yes to everything else, which is why when one day a woman asked "You seem like a bit of a tomboy, can you do stunts?" she answered with an enthusiastic "Yes!" At the time, Tandon had never performed a stunt in her life, but she wasn't going to turn down the chance of a paying job. Before long she found herself on the set of an Indian serial called Shakira to perform a stunt that involved launching herself off the edge of a building with absolutely no training. [...]
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Post by Dil Bert on Aug 6, 2016 10:49:39 GMT
Nayanthara and Venkatesh star in "Honey, I Shrunk the Hero"
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Post by Dil Bert on Jul 17, 2016 21:51:16 GMT
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Post by Dil Bert on Jul 14, 2016 19:14:03 GMT
Not familiar with nose rain; perhaps a regional expression. I assume it refers to a runny nose. Only other thing I can think of is that in places such as Florida, a rainstorm can be very localized. I've seen a cartoon showing rain in the back seat of a convertible while the front seat is dry.
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Post by Dil Bert on Jul 8, 2016 10:18:33 GMT
It is a play on words; there is a phrase "more than one way to skin a cat", meaning there's more than one way to do something.
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