Log In

Home
    - Create Journal
    - Update
    - Download

LiveJournal
    - News
    - Paid Accounts
    - Contributors

Customize
    - Customize Journal
    - Create Style
    - Edit Style

Find Users
    - Random!
    - By Region
    - By Interest
    - Search

Edit ...
    - Personal Info &
      Settings
    - Your Friends
    - Old Entries
    - Your Pictures
    - Your Password

Developer Area

Need Help?
    - Lost Password?
    - Freq. Asked
      Questions
    - Support Area



Serai ([info]serai) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-11-13 20:56:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Current mood:Unrepentant

I come bearing brightly colored eggs...
...and it's only November!

Over at the www.dvdeastereggs.com forum, film fans get together to discuss those little treasures that are stashed away on DVDs. People discuss the odd bits of documentary footage, or outtakes, or pictures of pets, that can be found if you look hard enough. Pretty much any popular disc has these...

...except for one.

One recent release that was proudly released with NO features of any kind, because it was Too Important A Film. That's right, I'm talking about Mel's Opus.

So over at the board, user "pollywog" asks if there are any eggs on this release. A couple of wags snark about how they'd like to see a blooper reel (interesting thought that - lightning, anyone?). So of course this attracts "dvdjunkie", a member in good standing of the Humorless Tribe, and the wank ensues. Both Albert Einstein and Michael Crichton are invoked (gotta love those science references), the Bible is compared to both Peter Pan and Star Wars, aliens get dragged into it, and so forth. (User "Myk"'s list of prequels and sequels is a special hoot.) Eventually, user "rhuckuz" tries to inject a little chill the fuck out people!, but by then I think it's a bit late.

The really amusing revelation (heh) for me as a DVD fan is that apparently, despite the whole thing about The Film Standing On Its Own, there are plans for "POTC" to be resurrected, er, re-released this coming Easter with - TADA! - Special Features! Much like Jesus himself, you could say.

Enjoy!


(Post a new comment)


[info]telesilla
2004-11-14 07:23 am UTC (link)
Wow! Pirates of the Caribbean is just like Jesus in a way? I wanna see Orli as Jesus and Johnny as Judas in an all gay version of that beloved tale.

(Reply to this)(Thread)

(Reply from suspended user)

[info]bubosquared
2004-11-14 02:13 pm UTC (link)
*blinketyblink* Duuuuuude! I have *counts* Close to £5 in change to contribute to the fund to have that movie made.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]serai
2004-11-14 06:51 pm UTC (link)
I'd be up for that. Elijah could play John the Beloved. Talk about a sandwich!!

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]msilverstar
2004-11-14 07:59 am UTC (link)
My favorite bit is hearing that it can't be nominated for Best Picture because it's in a foreign language (Aramaic). As if all great films must be in English. Maybe that will get them to finally change the rules.

(Reply to this)(Thread)


[info]cleolinda
2004-11-14 08:25 am UTC (link)
Wasn't Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon nominated for Best Picture? I don't think it's against the rules--it just doesn't happen much.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2004-11-14 09:14 am UTC
I was bummed, too. - [info]serai, 2004-11-14 07:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlemisspiss, 2004-11-14 03:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tyraarane_, 2004-11-14 06:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]seppuku, 2004-11-15 01:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlemisspiss, 2004-11-15 07:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]prettypinkkitty, 2004-11-16 12:40 am UTC

[info]darkrose
2004-11-14 08:56 am UTC (link)
I don't know that it can't be nominated for Best Picture, but it can't be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film because the nomination would have to be submitted by the country where the film was made, and whose language is spoken in it.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-14 06:53 pm UTC

[info]txvoodoo
2004-11-14 09:36 am UTC (link)
It's actually only at the Golden Globes that it can't be nom'd for best picture. They have a different catagorization system that the Oscars

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]j_crew_guy
2004-11-14 09:37 am UTC (link)
The Golden Globe rules are weird that way. Should be interesting to see what happens when the Oscars come around.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Ah, the icon - (Anonymous), 2004-11-14 07:51 pm UTC
small, but if anyone wants it...
(Anonymous)
2004-11-14 09:02 am UTC (link)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/yaoi/1473583.html

http://www.livejournal.com/community/yaoi/1473984.html?style=mine

http://www.livejournal.com/community/yaoi/1474070.html

Guy makes dumb joke then throws fit when people don't like it, making post after post on the yaoi com.

*attempt to be on topic* Oooh, eggs.

(Reply to this)


(Anonymous)
2004-11-14 09:07 am UTC (link)
*snorts with laughter*
Guess Who's Coming To Passover?
Jesus, Live in Judea (the Farewell Tour)?
You Only Live Twice?

Fucking genius.

(Reply to this)


[info]kinneas
2004-11-14 10:17 am UTC (link)
I remain firm on my stance that if Jesus ever met Mel Gibson, he would be horrified.

(Reply to this)(Thread)


[info]vassilissa
2004-11-14 10:28 am UTC (link)
Who would, Jesus or Mel Gibson?

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]kinneas, 2004-11-14 10:28 am UTC

[info]serai
2004-11-14 06:49 pm UTC (link)
I think we've already had that encounter. It's really rather incredible that, despite all Mel's jawing about how the production was supposedly inspired and encouraged by God, there were three, count 'em THREE, lightning strikes on people there. And one of them was Caviezel himself!

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't being struck by lightning supposed to be a traiditional sign of God's DISpleasure with you? "May lightning strike me if I lie", and all that? How is it that God himself can throw lightning bolts at these people and they don't pay attention? You gotta wonder what they would have done had God actually gotten out the ol' Biblical Marker Set and started writing on the wall. Probably claimed it was aliens.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2004-11-14 08:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-14 09:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hephaestoschick, 2004-11-15 12:55 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kinneas, 2004-11-15 01:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-15 04:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kinneas, 2004-11-15 04:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-15 04:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-11-15 06:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]zarla, 2004-11-16 01:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-11-16 04:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]zarla, 2004-11-17 12:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-11-17 04:08 am UTC
*visualizes*
[info]lurker32
2004-11-14 08:00 pm UTC (link)
"Dude, I didn't put up with all that just to get your rocks off."

"Security! Get this hippie freak off my lawn!"

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: *visualizes* - [info]kinneas, 2004-11-14 08:05 pm UTC
Re: *visualizes* - [info]lurker32, 2004-11-15 12:35 am UTC
Re: *visualizes* - [info]kinneas, 2004-11-15 12:37 am UTC
Re: *visualizes* - [info]lurker32, 2004-11-15 02:06 am UTC
Re: *visualizes* - [info]serai, 2004-11-15 04:29 am UTC
Re: *visualizes* - [info]lurker32, 2004-11-15 05:48 am UTC
Re: *visualizes* - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-11-16 04:51 am UTC

[info]teratologist
2004-11-14 08:00 pm UTC (link)
I love how dvd-whatever's all like, 'yeah I'm cool with everyone's right to their opinion but only if they admit that the gospel is THE MOST LEET STORY EVER and never say anything even remotely amusing about it.'

(Reply to this)(Thread)


[info]kinneas
2004-11-14 08:31 pm UTC (link)
Preach it!

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]serai
2004-11-15 04:27 am UTC (link)
Which is, like, SO not Jesus. I wonder what dvdjunkie would say if the jokes Jesus made in the Bible were ever pointed out to him?

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]tempslut
2004-11-15 05:04 am UTC (link)
That reminds me. I was talking to some random guy in Borders the other day after overhearing him and his wife (I'm assuming) talking about how Wal-Mart's banned George Carlin's latest book because of the cover being too "sacrilege". I started talking to this guy about the whole thing and how it was being blown out of proportion, and he mentioned that he was a Christian, but he had a sense of humor and found the cover funny.

Jesus wasn't all serious. He was divine and human, after all.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]rhi_silverflame, 2004-11-15 08:19 am UTC

[info]hellespont
2004-11-14 09:21 pm UTC (link)
you would know that this film is a word for word depiction of what happened in those last hours of Jesus' life.

OK, I did the whole daily-reading Gideon thing two years running, and I'm pretty sure the part where the fetchingly androgynous Satan's wig blows off, Jerry Springer-style, was Mel with the poetic license.

(Reply to this)(Thread)


[info]serai
2004-11-14 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Yes, and all those gory horrifying details? Uh, I don't remember those in the book. Although, I DO remember them in some hideously creative catechisms that I had to read when I was wee. Imagine giving a eight-year-old kid a book that describes how the "crown" of thorns was actually a cap, and how it torn up the veins in Jesus' scalps so the blood ran down into his eyes and blinded him, etc., etc., etc. Yeah, great reading for third grade there.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]mistressrenet
2004-11-14 10:06 pm UTC (link)
I saw "Mel's Opus" and thought "Spaceballs"?

...I'm going to hell.

(Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-14 10:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-14 11:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2004-11-15 12:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-11-15 01:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]j_crew_guy, 2004-11-14 11:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-11-15 11:38 pm UTC

[info]jrs1980
2004-11-14 10:11 pm UTC (link)
Somebody needs to stage an intervention to wean dvdjunkie off of their rolling eye emoticon. Poor emoticon is going to get a headache.

(Reply to this)


[info]hephaestoschick
2004-11-15 12:55 am UTC (link)
"Jesus!"
"Where?"

And all that this thread will do is continue to evoke scenes from Orgazmo.

(Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]goldberry, 2004-11-15 02:25 am UTC

[info]starherd
2004-11-15 10:21 am UTC (link)
The really amusing revelation (heh) for me as a DVD fan is that apparently, despite the whole thing about The Film Standing On Its Own, there are plans for "POTC" to be resurrected, er, re-released this coming Easter with - TADA! - Special Features!

Actually, I just saw it at Costco packaged with a third "Lost Disc" containing still yet even more making-of featurettes... could that be what was meant?

(Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - [info]jrs1980, 2004-11-15 11:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]starherd, 2004-11-16 12:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2004-11-16 12:37 am UTC

  
   
Privacy Policy - COPPA
Legal Disclaimer - Site Map