From iwatchstuff, I realize that letters cut from a New Yorker might feel too ransom-notey, but is Scrabble really the best way they could find to identify "smart people"? Since when is Scrabble a game of the intelligentsia any more than Monopoly is the game of wealthy real estate moguls and pewter schnauzers? Maybe it's just me, but I think of Scrabble more as the game for those who have lost their electricity, and need some way to entertain their visiting parents without the aid of CBS's primetime lineup.
And why are they pretending that's Dennis Quaid in the jacket? We can all see it's obviously Steve Carell reprising his role from Little Miss Sunshine.
27 comments:
They're trying to play Sarah Jessica Parker as one of the "Smart People"?!
Whose dumb idea was that?
maybe they will outfit SJP for the role with a pair of glasses. isn't that how one indicates female intelligence in movies?
since road house was mentioned recently, the topic of women acting smart in movies makes me think of kelly lynch's character. if memory serves, we were expected to believe she was an MD primarily because of her specs. i work with a lot of female MDs, and while many are cute enough, none of them resemble kelly lynch in the slightest. if they did, being truly intelligent, they would do something more lucrative than medicine, like modeling.
LOL, AC! Yeah, didn't they do the same thing to TARA REID in some crappy movie? Just put some glasses on her, no one will realize it's the same girl who let her boob hang out on the red carpet!
Who is the smartest woman in cinematic history?
I'm sorry but I fucking love Scrabble and we play it all the time. And not just Scrabble but Super Scrabble (twice the tiles and spaces as Scrabble, and it includes the unprecedented quadruple word scores). Not only that, I recently gave my old Super Scrabble to my mother to make room for Deluxe Super Scrabble. You see, I had to buy it because my game store is going out of business and it was 20% off. (The deluxe edition holds the tiles in place so if you accidentally bump the table the game won't be ruined.)
You mean the smartest woman character, or the smartest actress?
Character, I guess.
That's a noodle scratcher.. Hmmmmmmmmmm.....mmmm....mm..
thanks dcd... i feared my rant was a bit harsh, but i should know by now no rant is too harsh for this site.
i'm with you, johnny! i've always got a few scrabulous games going and my most recent gift to husband (at his request) was a professional-style timer for our brutal, no-holds barred, real-time, real-board scrabble matches. husband has designs on superscrabble but i am frankly scared of it.
Is it like a chess timer?
Someone's mouth is starting to water!
I love Scrabble. But thinking that someone is too pretty to be a doctor is a bit sad. "What are you doing in this emergency room saving lives? You should be out selling that hot ass!"
"She just wanted to save lives...."
"...but the one life she couldn't save..."
"she sold her hot ass for."
yes jsp, it's a lot like a chess timer. the one we have is called a "sam timer." do you and rf play untimed games, or use another type of timer, or just yell at each other when you take too long between moves?
more importantly, which dictionary do you use as arbiter of challenges?
and where is jordan? he'll know the answer(s) to johnny's noodle scratcher.
Wow, that's crazy! I just ordered a Scrabble dictionary as well as Jordan's Object Lesson book from Amazon and came back to see both mentioned in one of AC's comments.
Currently we use an old beat up dictionary with the cover ripped off. We're very strict about words. Personally I don't much care for the real Scrabble word rules. According to them, everything's a damn word - prefixes and all that bullshit.
The timer is never an issue with Lauren and I but my mother is notorious for taking forever. And she aborts the game if she's losing. I vowed many times never to play with her again but always cave. What about you?
julie- i shouldn't have implied that women can really be too pretty to be doctors; my thought was more about entertainment media representations of female doctors (and female lawyers and female LOST survivors) as skewed toward an unnecessary (not to say unreasonable) standard of gorgeousness.
can you tell i'm cranky today? :)
and johnny, after considerable marital warfare i caved and we now use the "official" (or as i like to call it, the "cheating") Scrabble dictionary. initially this was a boon for husband, but as i am now learning "cheating" words (za? ae? wtf?) and learning to gamble on plausible-sounding words his advantage is slowly eroding.
Yeah, I figured it was time to learn the proper rules so I can go pro someday. Currently we play that you can look at the dictionary whenever you want, the logic being that it can only improve our vocabulary.
I got my entire family (aside from JPX who hates games because he's terrible at them) addicted to the card game Quiddler, including my 90 year old grandmother. I recommend the hell out of it if you don't already own it.
Another comment thread blooms hugely while I'm not looking! Love it.
Topic 1: I find myself a little split on the hot babe/scientist thing, because while I agree with all the comments so far I still kind of dig it because it means there will be a hot babe in the movie.
However, it's almost always ridiculous. I can't recall if glasses are deployed, but the worst examples I can think of are Elizabeth Shue in The Saint and Denise Richards in The World is Not Enough. If I can think of an actress or role that actually pulls it off, I'll be back, but I know it ain't either of those two.
Having just been subjected to the trailer for the Sex in the City movie again, I just hope Sarah Jessica Parker doesn't strip down to her underwear in this movie. She looks like beef jerky.
Topic 2: This cracked me up: "do you and rf play untimed games, or use another type of timer, or just yell at each other when you take too long between moves?"
I'mnotMarc is a mean Scrabbler, and is responsible for raising my competitive streak -- although at the moment I can't recall if I've ever beat him.
I love finding a thread with 19 comments! It's like getting multiple presents from the same person at X-mas.
Aren't glasses used on women in the movies the same way Superman uses them? The girl is smart and not so attractive with her glasses on, and nobody notices she's smokin'. Then the glasses come off, and suddenly she's a babe.
I always hated that Louis Lane was a super investigative reporter, but a pair of glasses stymied her, even though she was in love with Superman. WTF. (on both counts)
"Louis" Lane? You're thinking of Lois Lane's counterpart from the parallel world known as Earth Gay.
That'll teach me to spell check and not self-edit. Although, if you put a pair of glasses on Lois, she could pass as a Louis.....
(And hasn't Superman always been a little gay?)
"A little" is being kind, especially after that period with his new outfit.
Why is Superman steaming?
jsp- i now plan to buy quiddler; thanks for the tip! i also love the image of jpx skulking around the house while everyone else in the family happily plays board games.
octo- topic 1, point taken. you'll never hear me complaining loudly when some hot guy is the scientist/lawyer/cop/LOST survivor.
"after thanksgiving dinner, the family sat down as usual to a quiet game of quiddler..."
Man, I missed all of this stuff when I had to do some actual work today! Bastards!
I, in general do not like to play games w/certain members of my family, *ahem*Landshark*cough*Octo*hack*other sister* because they are so competitive and I'm just not. There was once a Gin game played in Italy...
Post a Comment