Confession may be good for the soul, but it can be bad for the public image. While our loyal readers may think of us as the font of all b-movie knowledge – no, no! don’t bother to pretend! – the fact is that sometimes we’re just…well, winging it. But no more! For our next Roundtable, we B-Masters will be risking our reputations, baring our souls, and publically ‘fessing up to some of the more embarrassing gaps in our resumes.
#1 by Thomas on July 31, 2009 - 8:37 am
Hooray! This looks like a promising one.
#2 by Blake on July 31, 2009 - 11:09 am
Yeah, I can’t wait to see how well this roundtable goes.
#3 by El Santo on July 31, 2009 - 3:34 pm
We didn’t do the usual round of pre-roundtable coordination and dibs-calling, either, so we get to be just as thoroughly flabbergasted as the rest of you at the things we’ll be owning up to over the next month.
#4 by DaveCausey on July 31, 2009 - 5:05 pm
I can’t wait to see this one! 🙂
#5 by The Rev. D.D. on August 1, 2009 - 12:21 am
Ooooo, I think this’ll be a neat one.
Not just because of the mocking that will no doubt take place, either. There’s also the….hrmm….the, uh….
OK maybe just for the mockery. 😀
#6 by Baron Scarpia on August 1, 2009 - 4:01 am
I wonder what Ken hasn’t seen. Personally, I’m waiting for his review of Myra Breckinridge…
(Yes, I’ve seen it. It’s one of the only three films I’ve seen that I find absolutely intolerable.)
#7 by Gentle Benj on August 2, 2009 - 11:37 am
The b-movie fan in me wants to get stoked for this, but the linguist in me won’t stop geeking out about the “themself” in Lyz’s post.
#8 by lyzard on August 2, 2009 - 4:31 pm
I throw myself on the mercy of the court and plead the fact that WordPress hates me: every minor update like this takes me almost as long as writing a review. By the time I get done, I’m so frazzled I don’t know what I’m saying.
#9 by ProfessorKettlewell on August 2, 2009 - 7:02 pm
This reminds me of the game “humiliation” which David Lodge describes in ‘Changing Places’…..anyone familiar?
#10 by Gentle Benj on August 3, 2009 - 12:44 am
I was not getting all Grammar Police on you, Lyz, I promise! The emergence of the word “themself” as the reflexive form of the ungendered singular “them” is just really really interesting to me.
#11 by MatthewF on August 3, 2009 - 2:40 am
Will the confession be along the lines of ‘actually I’ve been making these films up for years, there is no studio in Romania’? because that would explain a lot.
#12 by lyzard on August 3, 2009 - 5:21 pm
Grammar Police away, Benj – it’s usually me doing that, so I can hardly object! 🙂 Using “themself” in this instance is similar to using “their” in place of “his or her”, a cheat to reduce the cumbersomeness of the sentence…which doesn’t make it any less incorrect, o’ course…