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[green_queen]

Okay, I like Bollywood and all, but those movies are long.

I watched Devdas tonight. Well, to be fair, I flicked back and forth from Devdas, so that it was interspersed with Carnivale, The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight and Object of My Affection. Devdas stars the ridiculously, painfully gorgeous Aishwarya Rai and is one of those epic tragedies about a guy who's forbidden to marry the girl he loves and then spirals out of control. It's actually quite good (and it's got some of the most gorgeous shots I've ever seen) but just so long that by the end I didn't much care what happened to anybody.

6 out of 10

Answers to the Movie Quote Meme, for those who guessed!

1. Once you been up there you know you've been someplace. - Rebel Without a Cause: one correct guess

2. Didn't I tell you about the football field in the bathoom cupboard? - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: seven correct guesses

3. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: twenty nine correct guesses

4. That's quite a dress you almost have on. - An American in Paris: two correct guesses

5. It smells like puke from a mule been ruminating on asparagus for two weeks. - Holes: four correct guesses

6. Hey, Joe, get me a tarantula. - Singin' in the Rain: one correct guess

7. The curves of your lips rewrite history. - Velvet Goldmine: five correct guesses

8. Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, Pluto is a dog. What's Goofy? - Stand By Me: six correct guesses

9. Who's scruffy-looking? - Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back: nine and a half correct guesses (general Star Wars/incorrect SW movie got half a point)

10. This young man will be caught, deep fried in a vat of hot oil and served to our first hundred customers. - Empire Records: nine correct guesses

11. If only we were among friends, or sane persons! - The Rocky Horror Picture Show: six correct guesses

12. When the French say a second, they mean five minutes. - Breathless: one correct guess

13. I'm gonna hit you so hard that when you wake up your clothes will be out of style! - The Goonies: four correct guesses

14. Nobody's perfect. - Some Like It Hot: three correct guesses (come on guys, this is the best movie quote EVER.)

15. Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. - Zoolander: nine correct guesses (compare to above number and weep for your souls, heathens.)

16. I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically. - Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl: twenty correct guesses

17. It's not like men are not surrounded by women their entire lives - that they haven't realized that behind every angry outburst is a sobbing, insecure woman who just wants to be told that she kicks more ass than any girl he's ever met. - Chance: one correct guess (totally unsurprising, as few people have had the privilege of seeing it)

18. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: six and a half correct guesses (Willy Wonka is the original, Charlie is the sequel)

19. That's just what this country needs: a cock in frock on a rock. - The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: ten correct guesses

20. At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime. - Serenity: fourteen correct guesses (because everybody loves Zoe)

Special congratulations to flamingo_killer, who got them all right.

1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
A henchman. A dehydrated, rehydrated exploding henchman. Because they're FUNNY.

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
Can't I just wipe out the entire musical career of Avril Lavigne?

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
George Bush. (<----yeah, me too)

4. What is your favorite cheese?
Camembert, baby.

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What does your dream-sandwich consist of, and does it contain the aforementioned cheese?
Herb chicken, cheese and tomato panini.

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie-celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once (they will never call you back). Who is it?
Colin Farrell. It would be too hard to let go of Dom or Maggie or Jake or anyone like that. Colin Farrell's really *good* at that bit though.

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Same rules as above. Who is it?
Curt Wild. *shifty eyes* he totally exists.

8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy shit, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
I'd buy a very expensive DVD set I'd never be able to afford otherwise.

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
The set of Lost.

10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Shit! Now that you are in the new location, where are you gonna go to spend that?
Bribing the security guard.

11. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. "Be brand-specific" it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don't drink booze there's something you can figure out... so what's it gonna be?
Bailey's, man. For all those cold nights of movie viewing.

12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
I'd go back to 2001 and go to the Fellowship of the Ring premiere in Wellington.

13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Equality and biscuits for all.

14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?
It's called "Firefly's Lost Queer as Folk Tales of Veronica Mars the Vampire Slayer." It's about a bunch of really hot gay space cowboys stranded on a deserted planet full of vampires, one of whom killed the spaceship's obligatory hot blond chick's best friend.
Duh.

15. What is your favorite expletive?
Fuck. I'm old school. Plus just saying it makes me feel better.

16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?
Wonder why Mum's shoe/Nutrimetics/other latest fad party has moved into my room.

17. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the one thing you're going to save from that blazing inferno?
Butler (my computer). Boring but true.

18. The Angel Of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel Of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
Meet Dominic Monaghan.

19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?
Teleportation.

20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
My first ever night of convention, when I first met Craig Parker and then went to a heavy metal club afterwards with my friends. That was awesome. So the half hour just before the end of the first party and at the beginning of the second :D

21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
The time I broke a kid's leg in a door. It was an accident!!

22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit... you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin'! What country are you going to live in now?
America, just because of the job opportunities. Or maybe England for the same reason PLUS gay marriage. So, you know, I could legally marry Maggie Grace. Not that she would.

23. This question still counts even for those of you who are under age. Check it out. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
The uni bar, I guess.

24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude look at me I can float!"?
Tom & Nina's, because that's where I ALWAYS go. Until they abandon me to Sydney.

25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier have given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which late celebrity will you bring back to life?
James Dean. I just like him right now.

26. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn't think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
My mum's mother, because I never met Joyce but I heard all about her.

27. What's your theme song?
It's Not Easy Being Green by Kermit.

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Yes, still legal.


This is one of those incredible, amazing pictures that has to go on my Sexiest Ever list. Along with Dom's Holy Shit picture, and the one of Maggie with the legs, and the bondage Jason Behr. I should picspam those, actually.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to drown my sorrows (namely: ALL MY BEST FRIENDS ARE ABANDONING ME TO SYDNEY) in Sims.

Arsebiscuits
Green Queen

Comments

[astralwish.livejournal.com]

Oh my god you sat through Devdas! I agree Ash looked stunning in that movie, and so did Madhuri Dixit. But the decor and dresses were the only reason i watched this movie. And the songs. The story is actually quite good, i read the book and watched the movie from 1950something, and that one was good but this movie had TERRIBLE direction in my opinion. The director made another movie (Hum dil de chuke sanam) which is way better, but also.. long. Yes, Devdas was WAY too long (XD i really don't know how you sat through it) and it was very very overdramatized. Especially the ending! Respect.

[sadasi.livejournal.com]

There's a fairly large Indian contingent in South Africa and Bollywood is incredibly popular down here. At one point there were Bollywood movies every Fri and Sat. I've seen a lot of them and most of them are cheese. Certainly not Camembert. Not even processed cheese. More like toe-cheese. But Devdas (which I've seen twice) is the rose among the thorns. It is visually stunning, the actors are pretty and the ending just kills me. None of this Hollywood 'ok something bad happens but we'll make it shiny with this bit of pretty so you can smile as you're leaving the theatre' BS. He never gets to her. She runs to the gate and the Heartless Bastard closes it. He dies. The End. Sadasi's heart goes 'splodey.

Firefly's Lost Queer as Folk Tales of Veronica Mars the Vampire Slayer
Day-umn! Can we get you in talks with a network?

I should picspam those, actually.
Yes you should. *pokes*

[jfc013.livejournal.com]

I would think that "Nobody's perfect" is the last line of Some Like it Hot. I can't say if it's in Singin' in the Rain at all...

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

*facepalms* sorry, it's like 4:30 am here, brain obviously not working.

[indilime.livejournal.com]

I agree. Bondage Jason Behr totes needs to be picspammed.

[flamingo-killer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never been able to take Bollywood in one sitting.

OMG YES EFFORT PREVAILED! Yay for actually trying! :)

Cool meme! I especially like your answer to 14. Oh my god, how did 21 happen?? Ouch that mus have sucked!

[scifinut.livejournal.com]

I'd say I wouldn't abandon you in Sydney, but given the chance I probably totally would, simply because I've never been to Australia and am such a tourist-y dork like that. But after that I wouldn't abandon you...does that help any? :)

[arabella-hope.livejournal.com]

Chris is PURE SEX! *licks him*

[leeshy-s.livejournal.com]

I must agree that Bollywood movies are sooo long. Of course having a partly Indian heritage, I've had to sit through more than my fair share of them. LOL At least when I saw Devdas it was in theatres, and there was a 15 minute intermission.

Have you seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? It's by far my favourite Bollywood movie. It's such a good romance movie.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Yup, still legal. Still hot too.

Chris Evans. Now there are actors I'm attracted to because of talent, there are actors who win me over with their sweetness, there are actors I find strikingly attractive, and then there's Chris Evans, the only actor who I really just want to throw down and do unspeakable things to. He's the only actor out there who makes me just want to yank him into the nearest room or closet and never. let. him. out. It's a sheerly physical reaction. I appreciate his sense of humor and that he seems nice enough and whatever else, but DANG...he's just like a chemical reaction with me.

And someone was highly inspired when they thought up the Jason Behr bondage pictures.

[solitaryrain.livejournal.com]

I love Bollywood movies, does that make me strange? >.>

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

I was cracking up at this: "Firefly's Lost Queer as Folk Tales of Veronica Mars the Vampire Slayer," until I right-clicked the William Mosely picture & saw the title it was saved as. XD

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

To Sydney, not in Sydney. I live in Canberra and they're all leaving to live in Sydney and I will be all alone.

I'm so rrrronery...

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love Bollywood movies. It's just that they're *really* long.

[neuilly.livejournal.com]

Bah, I can't believe I missed the second quotes meme! *smacks self*

Oh Devdas. I watched that...but in pieces. I've never been able to sit straight through a Bollywood film. Even that one which is actually fairly unconventional for one. But yeah, Aishwarya Rai is absolutely beautiful. I think what I love about Bollywood is their appreciation of visual beauty...no, I don't mean the casting! They're just so focused on visual stimiulation, it's so beautiful. I need to stop using the word.

And still happy that "boy" is still legal.

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

My performance at the quotes-guessing? Abysmal.

*slinks away in shame*

*G*