That's right.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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sumi - Aug 13, 2004 10:19:13 am PDT #2760 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Kate P. - Aug 13, 2004 10:33:25 am PDT #2761 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Watchmen is considered one of the greatest comic books of all time. X-Men screenwriter David Hayter wrote the script for Watchmen, the site reported. Filming is tentatively scheduled for late 2005, allowing Aronofsky time to finish The Fountain, his SF epic starring Hugh Jackman.
The what now? What do we know about The Fountain? I don't think I've heard of it until now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 13, 2004 10:37:30 am PDT #2762 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
Given Hugh's recent film script choices...my instinct is that there won't be an Oscars sweep involved.
P.M. Marc - Aug 13, 2004 10:38:29 am PDT #2763 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ozymandias, I presume?
Oh, Cripes. That would be perfect casting.
alienprayer - Aug 13, 2004 10:56:15 am PDT #2764 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
I think The Fountain was going to be Blanchett and Pitt, but Aranofsky (sp?) argued with Pitt and he left, and Blanchett got pregnant and left. Aranofsky got the movie going again by cutting out the big expensive sets (and Pitt leaving was probably quite a savings). So it is now being made for half the original budget, and with Jackman and Rachel Weisz starring.
For a man who made Pi and Requiem for a Dream fairly fast and cheap the Hollywood thing must be a nightmare. He was on a Batman: Year One at one point and a WW 2 film ended in pre producion before or during the whole Fountain thing.
I think the plot of The Fountain is something about the fountain of youth, and maybe time travel.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 13, 2004 5:20:32 pm PDT #2765 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Ha! Just popping in the say, just watched Hellboy on DVD, and enjoyed it muchly. As I knew I would but somehow just couldn't get my ass to the theater to watch it when it came out.
My favorite, favorite part is when the Nazi SuperAssasin comes at the Jeffrey Tambor FBI guy wielding his deadly blades, and JT trips backward, falls, looks at SuperAssasin Nazi in complete shock and says, "WHAT is WRONG with you?"
I love that that's his reaction to supernatural, evil, deadly force. Heh. I'm still laughing!
Anyway.
askye - Aug 13, 2004 5:58:48 pm PDT #2766 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I finally saw Master and Commander and now I'm kicking myself repeatedly for not seeing it in the theater.
Although I have a feeling I might have felt seasick.
beekaytee - Aug 13, 2004 6:05:11 pm PDT #2767 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Manchurian Candidate this evening, despite one of the worst, longest running headaches of my life. (ughamug)
Okay. If the implants were so all-fired complex and stuff, why then, did their removal have no effect?
plus when did the conversation containing the phrase 'kill us both' take place?
and if my headache wasn't making me queasy enough...and believe me, it is, the incestyay was so, so, so creepy. Meryl pulled that off with extra special sauce.
And, I think her makeup was enhanced to make her look mondo-creepier right then.
The best parts? The soundtrack and Liev whom I only wish I could dream about being my sooper sekrit boyfriend.
Anybody have a blunt heavy object handy to knock me unconscious? Ascriptin has not helped, and my head is splitting.
I feel like I've got an implant!
Scrappy - Aug 13, 2004 6:11:32 pm PDT #2768 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Beej--The chip in their shoulder was a tracking chip--like people put in pets. The implant is way the hell inside the brain.
I hope your head feels better soon.
§ ita § - Aug 13, 2004 6:30:46 pm PDT #2769 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
As for the conversation you're missing, they cut away after Raymond hands the phone to Ben. I assumed Raymond added onto the instructions there.