Big Al's Bitches and Ho's
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wren_chan went to see HP3 again tonight. I ended up deciding to split the party and go see Mean Girls (although, moontyger, if you're still interested, Spouse still wants to see it, and I wouldn't mind seeing it a second time).
Oh, I know these kids. It doesn't hurt that the calculus teacher, played by Tina Fey, is a reasonable substitute for me. Or that the "mathletes" are my kids. Or that I know every one of those cliques, either from my home high school or Ramton or both. (Thank the gods for MSMS. At least the cliques there were based on things like common interests rather than appearances.)
"Sexually active band geeks." Hee.
Lizzie Caplan and Rajiv Surendra are now officially my Young Actors to Look Out For. Kevin Gnapoor is very, very close in feel (although not in any specifics) to this year's valedictorian/Mu Alpha Theta president. Daniel Franzese singing Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" reminded me of He Who Ain't Got No Feet in a sick and twisted kind of way . . .
Tim Meadows now joins Orlando Jones and Will Smith in my twisted-by-a-Southern-upbringing "Mmm! Chocolate!" actor list.
Nitpicks: the math class the main character is taking is supposed to be Calculus, but everything they cover - all the topics they see - are Pre-AP Precal topics. We covered them all this year. I think there was an integral sign on the board once. The limit problem she's given at the end actually isn't difficult once you realize you can just substitute - it's the limit as x->0, not as x->infinity. You get -2/0, which is an automatic "limit does not exist at that value."
Overall, a strong B movie, and pretty damned good for a teen flick. Everyone who made me watch The New Guy is sentenced to watch this - if I get subjected to your music geekery, you get to be subjected to feminist fluff.
Oh, and the Donnas do a cover of "Dancing With Myself" over the end credits. I may have to get the soundtrack . . .
wren_chan went to see HP3 again tonight. I ended up deciding to split the party and go see Mean Girls (although, moontyger, if you're still interested, Spouse still wants to see it, and I wouldn't mind seeing it a second time). Oh, I know these kids. It doesn't hurt that the calculus teacher, played by Tina Fey, is a reasonable substitute for me. Or that the "mathletes" are my kids. Or that I know every one of those cliques, either from my home high school or Ramton or both. (Thank the gods for MSMS. At least the cliques there were based on things like common interests rather than appearances.)
"Sexually active band geeks." Hee.
Lizzie Caplan and Rajiv Surendra are now officially my Young Actors to Look Out For. Kevin Gnapoor is very, very close in feel (although not in any specifics) to this year's valedictorian/Mu Alpha Theta president. Daniel Franzese singing Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" reminded me of He Who Ain't Got No Feet in a sick and twisted kind of way . . .
Tim Meadows now joins Orlando Jones and Will Smith in my twisted-by-a-Southern-upbringing "Mmm! Chocolate!" actor list.
Nitpicks: the math class the main character is taking is supposed to be Calculus, but everything they cover - all the topics they see - are Pre-AP Precal topics. We covered them all this year. I think there was an integral sign on the board once. The limit problem she's given at the end actually isn't difficult once you realize you can just substitute - it's the limit as x->0, not as x->infinity. You get -2/0, which is an automatic "limit does not exist at that value."
Overall, a strong B movie, and pretty damned good for a teen flick. Everyone who made me watch The New Guy is sentenced to watch this - if I get subjected to your music geekery, you get to be subjected to feminist fluff.
Oh, and the Donnas do a cover of "Dancing With Myself" over the end credits. I may have to get the soundtrack . . .
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Date: 2004-06-12 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-06-12 07:51 am (UTC)I would have had the same complaint, and everyone would have told me to shut up. . . . :~)
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Date: 2004-06-12 05:17 pm (UTC)I came home feeling like I'd gone back to highschool for the night since I'd seen it witha friend of mine (as his b-day gift when he turned 16).. that made it feel even more highschooley to me.
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Date: 2004-06-12 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-15 04:07 am (UTC)There's a Bi-Peds show on Saturday, so that's out for us. Will you be free on Sunday, or are you working that evening?
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Date: 2004-06-15 08:50 pm (UTC)OK, I'll admit it...
Date: 2004-06-15 09:26 pm (UTC)I LOVED it. The SNL staff running a school of young actor students was a strange thing to behold, but the details largely rang true for me. The lunch room diagram seemed largely unchanged from my days in school, but that may be because Tina Fey is a little bit out of touch with current high school trends.
It made some great points, and the fantasy sequences were brilliant. I thought is was much better than 'The New Guy'.