I figure they're thinking if they just paint him metallic, they won't need expensive prosthetics.
I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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§ ita § - Jul 09, 2004 12:55:42 pm PDT #23 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 09, 2004 1:02:04 pm PDT #24 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
OK, I've tracked down internet rumors that the secret woods-dwellers in Shyamalan's The Village might be Indians, or alternately modern construction workers.
Please tell me the twist isn't that everyone's being menaced by The Village People.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2004 1:05:02 pm PDT #25 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's very scary, Matt. More scary than the individual scenarios.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 09, 2004 1:09:49 pm PDT #26 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
On the plus side, it would get me to not only be happy I paid my money, but also to drag other people back for repeat showings.
Sue - Jul 09, 2004 1:13:12 pm PDT #27 of 10001
hip deep in pie
So, claiming I had errands to run before five, I skipped out of work twenty minutes early to see an afternoon matinee of Arthur. Sigh...I felt a little sorry for the actors and some of the lines they had to say. They weren't given much to work with that's for sure.
I don't think I care about it enough to actively dislike it, but it was the least of the Arthur movies. A big old meh. Worse than campy old MoA? It was so dour, it's hard to compare the two. Some beefs:
Don't you think the Saxons, over Britains, would know how to deal with crossing a frozen lake? Or and sure, one guy with an axe can cause the lake to break up when a couple of hundred Saxons walking in time can't.
There was no apparent reason for the loyalty to Arthur, beyond him being a good soldier. The story was set up so that he was aloof from the other knights and the filmmakers left him absent from the few scenes of camaraderie. Obviously it was deliberate, but to what purpose? To show that it was his leadership qualities? It wasn't working for me.
Little, tiny, ropey-armed Guinevere didn't look like she would have lasted a second in hand to hand if she hadn't been an above the title star.
Was that Brian Blessed as a Saxon extra? ye gods! Get that man some real work.
Lots of smoke seems like a lame way to stage a battle
Clive and Keira had almost no chemistry.
My god, why a perm on Clive? Why!?!?!? Clive in leather pants, however, mreow!
tommyrot - Jul 09, 2004 1:14:14 pm PDT #28 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I apologize if this has been posted before...
...but Star Trek XI is going to be pre-TOS, about the first Human/Romulan war that led to the formation of the Federation.
Reportedly.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2004 1:14:49 pm PDT #29 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it was the least of the Arthur movies.
Worse than First Knight?
That's a lot of damnation.
But I'm seeing it tonight anyway.
Hayden - Jul 09, 2004 1:18:27 pm PDT #30 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Worse than Arthur 2: On The Rocks? 'Cause that movie was known to blind the unsuspecting.
Miracleman - Jul 09, 2004 1:18:48 pm PDT #31 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Worse than First Knight?
That's a lot of damnation.
There is nothing worse than First Knight.
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2004 1:20:08 pm PDT #32 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There is nothing worse than First Knight.
Yup. Even the porn ripoff (Fist Night) is far superior.