So Ariel asked me to take her to this movie called "The Other Bowlin' Girl, " and how could I resist a film with that title?
Well, I have to say, this film was NOTHING like what I was expecting. It was some sort of lengthy historical thing with Natalie Portman playing a queen, and you can probably guess the ending because it never goes well for Natalie Portman when she plays a queen.
I haven't been this disappointed in a film that I thought was about bowling since I saw "300."
PAD
Posted by Peter David at March 8, 2008 06:44 PM | Other blogs commentingA friend of mine is reading over my shoulder, and I think he just broke. Let me reset...
There. I hope you're happy, Peter.
*grin*
You should have seen some of the unhappy folks at the premier of Snatch.
The Black Hole wasn't exactly what they expected either...
As for Ariel, go rent Ninja Strike Force or 5 Seconds to Spare
Well, you should probably also not rent Split (1989), Strike! (1998) or The Golden Bowl (1972).
Now, 7-10 Split (2007) may be ok depending on how you view some of the content of the film.
"Well, there's one strike against this movie."
That could be a really bad pun I you're not in the right frame of mind for it.
To take your mind off this why don't you go see a play with Nathan Lane.
To take your mind off this why don't you go see a play with Nathan Lane.
Is Nathan Lane looking for someone to see a play with?
...sorry. >_
How about Kingpin? Bowling For Columbine? Oh never mind, I get it now. NOT about bowling, NOT about bowling...
[insert funny intro for] Splitz?
How about Jesus Camp? According to Wikipedia, "Rachael...is seen praying over a bowling ball early in the film."
THis reminds me of several years ago when movies were being made from popular board games. Clue and Jumanji were both pretty good, but I never saw any colored dots in Twister.
Having never heard of the movie, it took me a minute to put together the "historical queen" references and get the bowlin'/Boleyn pun. Well played, PAD.
There's always Mystery Men, probably the best film on bowling I've seen, even though it didn't strike movie goers as that great, and half of them split before the end.
I will hang my head in shame now.
Bowling movies are notoriously hard to pin down for some reason.
How about "Paradise Alley"? :)
There is a fine bowling movie called League of Ordinary Gentlemen which Peter has talked about on this very blog.
I return to your usual scheduled puns.
PS: I love Mystery Men!
How do you think I felt when I saw this film a few years back called Mystic River, which I thought was about some metaphysical fantasy and instead it's a movie about a Boston Murder with Sean Penn.
Ah, Peter, a girl can't bowl for her entire life. It's good to see Ariel has an historial bent! As for 300...They were kind of lined up like bowling pins in their phalanx and they sure as heck looked like they were carrying some...NO I can't make giant bowling balls pun as much as I want too. I just can't.
Yeah Mary, try and keep your mind out of the gutter.
Reminds me of when I read Catcher in the Rye for the first time in eighth grade because I thought it was going to be about baseball.
You should have seen some of the unhappy folks at the premier of Snatch.
True story. While I was in college, I was taping ST:TNG somewhat obsessively (big shock, I know). SP speed, 2 shows to a tape. I labeled them with episode titles only, since I knew the series.
One day, our landlord let a couple of workmen into our apartment to fix the compressor.
A few days later, I noticed a tape was missing and wondered what happened to it. The only people we could think of who might have taken it were the workmen in question, but we couldn't figure out why they'd take a single TNG tape and nothing else.
Then we got the phone bill. As long as they were there, they made several calls to phone sex lines.
Suddenly, the titles of the episodes became relevant. They were The Bonding and Booby Trap.
That made losing them worthwhile, just to picture the looks of disappointment on these idiots' faces.
TWL