L. Marcus
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L. Marcus reacted to Cygnia in "Neat" Pictures
Normally, I put the big cats (especially snow leopards) in the Cute Pics thread...this one, not so much...
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L. Marcus got a reaction from Old Man in RIP Friends' Matthew Perry
... Miss Chanandler Bong, actually ...
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L. Marcus reacted to Starlord in Random Television Quotes
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
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L. Marcus reacted to Pariah in The Academics Thread
If I see you copying someone else's work and specifically tell you to stop, and you go ahead and turn in an exact word-for-word copy of your BFF's assignment, what grade do you suppose is coming your way, hmm?
Play silly-a$$ games, win silly-a$$ prizes.
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L. Marcus reacted to Chris Goodwin in [Cat] Catalina
We had to say goodbye to our cat tonight. We're all pretty wrecked.
2008 - October 22, 2023. ❤️
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L. Marcus reacted to death tribble in General Sports Thread
From the Rugby World Cup semi-finals
New Zealand beat Argentina (no surprise there)
South Africa beat England by a point (this was supposed to be as easy as New Zealand's win against Argentina)
so the final will be New Zealand vs South Africa and I want New Zealand to win.
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L. Marcus got a reaction from Cancer in And now, for your daily dose of cute...
I had a Great Tit fly into my apartment yesterday. Took me almost fifteen minutes to convince it to leave via the wide-open window rather than try to exit through the thoroughly-closed one.
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L. Marcus got a reaction from Ragitsu in A Thread for Random Videos
Mel Gibson's mullet got to it, huh?
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L. Marcus reacted to Michael Hopcroft in What Have You Watched Recently?
I finally, thirty years after its release, saw The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I saw it the right way -- in an actual theatre with fifty other people on a large, clear screen with a fantastic sound system. Which is the best way to see a film for the first time if you can be lucky enough to pull it off. And when the lights went up and it was time to head out into the night, one word and only one immediately came to mind.
Masterpiece.
The absolutely unique use of stop-motion with doses of CGI of a quality that matches more advanced modern technology, the exquisite craftsmanship, some of the best VA performances I've ever heard (the combined forces of Chris Sarandon and Danny Elfman bring the anti-hero Jack to life with style, grace, and even a bit of gravitas. Elfman's score is genius, from the various Jack soliloquies to the Fleischeresque Oogie Boogie (and the magnificent voice performance and singing by Ken Page). The film was a wild fantasy, whose completely bonkers premise because surprisingly reasonable. I can't think of anything Burton and Sellick got wrong.
And I saw it for the first time in that manner in which it could be most appreciated. Heavens, I needed this.
