I'm almost never in the junior lust club around here but...Patrick Fugit?
Very, very bad thoughts.
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
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beekaytee - Aug 05, 2004 1:06:10 pm PDT #2170 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2004 1:30:34 pm PDT #2171 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There are pretty much two reasons to see Equilibrium :
1. Christian Bale
2. The kickass fights
It does a pretty crappy job of actually being a sci-fi movie, but the fighting is pretty fucking cool.
erikaj - Aug 05, 2004 1:35:48 pm PDT #2172 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, Vonnie, wrod.(I just watched that this weekend again.) ita, you know I love hit men. But he'd be too busy doing little jobs for me to handle the president of Paraguay, fork or no.
Gris - Aug 05, 2004 1:36:39 pm PDT #2173 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I hate movies that make me tear up 3 times in the same movie.
I mean, I don't REALLY hate them. Really, I love them.
This movie is totally awesome.
beekaytee - Aug 05, 2004 1:43:59 pm PDT #2174 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
P-C
A puppy?
The evil empire is finally defeated because of a Burnese Mountain Dog puppy? (which, of course, we never see again after it's rescued by CB...until the last minute when it's shown licking the hand of the character's daughter...who less than an hour before was willing to turn his emotion-having ass into the burners.)
And the whole gunkata thing. I've said it before...I'll say it again...lame.
comeon
Oh, and a thousand apologies (again) for the misattribution last night. My brain had you attached to Blood + Flesh for no actual reason at all. My bad.
§ ita § - Aug 05, 2004 1:46:05 pm PDT #2175 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked the gunkata. Interesting theoretical exercise, and very pretty.
beekaytee - Aug 05, 2004 1:48:44 pm PDT #2176 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I could see it as a set piece for an otherwise interesting film but it seemed to me that the entire enterprise was constructed around that one cgi explanation of the technique. Didn't seem like enough to hang an hour and a half on.
And? How could they kill Sean Bean off so soon?
Maybe THAT's why I hated it.
Must contemplate.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2004 1:49:00 pm PDT #2177 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A puppy?
I might have slept through that part. I was in and out for a stretch there, cause you know, nothing was happening.
I liked the gunkata. Interesting theoretical exercise, and very pretty.
Oh yeah. It was wicked cool. I mean, I couldn't think of any reason why it should be in this particular movie as opposed to some other action flick, but it was still wicked cool. At least in The Matrix, they had fighting styles downloaded into your brains, which was more plausible as far as Movie Plausibility goes.
§ ita § - Aug 05, 2004 1:51:04 pm PDT #2178 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I couldn't think of any reason why it should be in this particular movie as opposed to some other action flick
Because it's rigidly mechanical? If you're going to extrapolate the divestment of human expression, add a tool to the mix, and a highly engineered one to boot. And then make damned sure it's the purest of kata -- programmed responses to stimuli, no improvisation.
beekaytee - Aug 05, 2004 1:52:11 pm PDT #2179 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
The puppy was found with a bunch of dogs being extreminated because they caused feelings of love and caring. Our hero rescues one, puts it in his trunk and then tries to set it free in the perimeter. It lurves him and won't leave. Hero sighs exasperatedly and then leaves. We don't see the fuzzball again until the explosions happen at the end. The daughter looks up, smiles creepily and we see the dog licking her hand...thus affirming the just-having-been-rightedness of the world.