Cinco DeNio

Enjoying it so far. Loving Angela Lansbury’s character. After all, nobody doesn’t like Sarah Lee!

Will be starting Blue Hawaii shortly. Ready to strap in for the ride!

Me! I went in April of 2009. Below are links to my pictures and videos. I took the VIP tour (to cut down on the waiting time) and got to see a side exhibit of the deed and a couple other things. I also took an ill-adivsed selfie but oh well. Photos Videos I was amazed how tall the room was that had the jumpsuits when I was there. IIRC it's where the Hall of Records lead to.

Little-known fact: The title of this movie comes from the first draft of a well-known song. Blue Hawaii didn't fit the meter so Blue Christmas was inserted in the song instead.

I just caught up on the episodes after watching Adore and Geostorm on Friday. Congrats on the minisode win!

I am such a dunce. I JUST got that!

On another note, I love Angela in The Manchurian Candidate. I absolutely believed she was Laurence Harvey's mother. Imagine my shock to find out

You were supposed to pick Live a Little, Love a Little because I have the hots for Michelle Carey. Oh well. At least Angela Lansbury is stunning.

Don't worry, she got reincarnated too.

Manoj Kumar, born Harikishan Giri Goswami. If he'd gone by "Govinda" maybe he wouldn't have had to cover his face.

Like in The Apple when he grabs the landlady's boob?

I must have missed that part at the afterparty. I liked how he didn't seem to be the typical bratty rich kid when his dad came out to the balcony on his birthday. He seemed to show real affection for his dad and vice versa.

I'm similar. Liked the opening number but turned it off a couple times in the first hour. Once they it picked up for me.

I loved the Bollywood stars in the middle. So glad to see the stars of the only other Bollywood movie I've seen make cameos in this film. Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji both show up on the red carpet of the Filmfare awards and both dance in the song. I think Rani is the first girl he dances with. Preity shows up around 5:20. Salman Khan has a long sequence dancing with several other men. The IMDB trivia says he filmed his own sequences then hung around for 3 hours to be able to dance with another star. He comes on around 6:25 and has the shirt that looks like a golden Texas Longhorns shirt. [media=''] [/media] I also loved the director's two appearances, in the opening number (lampshaded as "Who do you think you are, the hero?" "Well, who do you think you are, the director?") and at the end of the initial credit sequence. Here's the cover box of the Bollywood film I've seen before.

So I lucked out. Amazon Prime Video has Birdemic straight, Birdemic Rifftrax, Birdemic 2 AND Julie & Jack, another movie from the same director. I get to see them all for "free". Nguyenning!

Is it worth renting to see it straight first or is the first time with Rifftrax just fine?

Vudu has Birdemic on sale for $4.99 for streaming. I haven't seen it yet and figured $4.99 ($5.99 for HD) was cheap enough to purchase it in case I like it. Yes or no?

I was expecting

The stage soundtrack ends with a creepy line: "Money was raised to build a tomb -- a monument to Evita. Only the pedestal was completed and Evita's body disappeared for 17 years." Apparently this is quite a story. Here's a How Stuff Works link. (Side note. There's an error in the beginning of the movie if I heard it right. I think the theater manager said she died at 8:35 p.m. when it was 8:25. The stage show uses the 24-hour time, saying "20:25 hours today".) Also Juan Peron's body was desecrated in 1987, having his hands cut off and held for ransom. They've never been recovered.

Drum solo!

So I watched Evita last night. I am happy to say it holds up much better than I remember. I am sure that is more due to my maturing from this group. I can see now how the original stage show is screechy and hard to keep up with. However I was easily singing along with most of the movie since I have listened to the original Broadway soundtrack so often. I absolutely agree Antonio Banderas killed it in the role of Che. The right amount of snark, fourth-wall breaking yet participating when needed. I've only seen Evita on stage once but I don't remember Che's role being as clear as it is here in the movie. Most of my thoughts about the show are from listening to the soundtrack. I'm not sure I agree with the very ending of the movie. It was unclear to me the full point of it. It appeared to be aimed at Juan, something like "OK, now you're on you're own. Do something with your life." I did like that the "council" told Juan Evita was responsible for him being where he was. Jonathan Pryce was "ineffectual" enough to make that seem possible. Bob Gunton seemed stronger as Juan and less needing of Eva to succeed. The lyrics were changed a lot for the movie and I felt it blunted some of the barbs. However, knowing now how Patti LuPone felt about the role makes it easier to handle. Plus a lot of people viewing the movie because of Madonna might not have gotten the points so I have no real problem with them. My one exception is during Rainbow Tour. I wish they had left the line "She's a New World Madonna with a golden touch" as is instead of "She's our lady of the new world with a golden touch." I don't think that would have distracted from the overall point and been a nice little wink. Thanks for picking this!

Mine's already been done. [media=''] [/media]

I did a GIS because I wanted to make a "What is its mission?" joke. The GIS turned up this. I'm not sure i want to know what scene this was from. (It also turned up a still from Johnny Mnemonic. WTH?)

This might be a better look at Che's character since he's the only singer and it comments on what's really going on. [media=''] [/media]