Hee Hee, very funny bit:
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Thomash - May 15, 2005 6:52:02 am PDT #2760 of 10002
I have a plan.
Scrappy - May 15, 2005 7:06:14 am PDT #2761 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw Unleashed and Kung Fu Hustle last night. Enjoyed both of them. You have to be prepared in Unleashed, for a lot of simplisitc sentimental dialogue and an unbelievable plot, but if you give up your expectations, the cool fight sequences and Jet Li's performance will draw you in. Morgan Freeman is awesome, as always, even though he's pretty much a Magical Negro. Kung Fu Hustle is loads of fun--even more if you know a lot about kung fu movies and can recognize all the scenes and tropes being skewered.
Also saw the trailer for Lords of Dogtown, a fictional version of the events covered in Dogtown and Z Boys, a documentary which I loved.
Looked damn good and it was cool to see a movie about the late 60s-70s where kids and clothes and houses looked like I remember they did.
§ ita § - May 15, 2005 4:26:21 pm PDT #2762 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just saw Kingdom of Heaven. I thought Orlando did a decent job of pained and restrained nobility in blossom. Were they playing to his strengths? Dunno. Definitely not a leader through charisma -- leading through honourable action instead.
Peter Jackson has ruined me. Dude. Boromir death scene, Minas Tirith, Helm's Deep, flowering of the White Tree, mondo battering ram ... of course there are a limited number of ways to show a siege, but still. There needs to be a moratorium on heroes taking a bunch of arrows and keeping fighting, for at least a couple more years.
Orlando's got a great if narrow niche -- blacksmiths who leave the forge to fight. I wouldn't have thought there were two movies with that hero at the core, but I say he should run with it.
Betsy HP - May 15, 2005 4:28:09 pm PDT #2763 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Has he ever done a non-period movie?
§ ita § - May 15, 2005 4:30:22 pm PDT #2764 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not that's gotten wide release in the US, no. IIRC, he has Calcium Kid, Haven, and Elizabethtown done. Still, to deflect Ned Kelly, Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers, Return Of The King, Pirates Of The Caribbean 1-3 -- that'll take some doing. Seeing as people have seen some of those.
§ ita § - May 15, 2005 4:33:30 pm PDT #2765 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, and if Liam Neeson trains Bruce Wayne and then dies, [KoH spoiler] that'd make at least three mentor/corpse thingies he's got going.
Mr. Broom - May 15, 2005 7:07:44 pm PDT #2766 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Has he ever done a non-period movie?Does "Blackhawk Down" count as a period movie?
tommyrot - May 16, 2005 4:18:35 am PDT #2767 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Does "Blackhawk Down" count as a period movie?
Given enough time, it will.
Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet....
Fred Pete - May 16, 2005 4:26:52 am PDT #2768 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Does "Blackhawk Down" count as a period movie?
I wouldn't call it one, but Troy is a period movie.
Tom Scola - May 16, 2005 6:34:10 am PDT #2769 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
A.O. Scott, The New York Times:
This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That's right (and my inner 11-year-old shudders as I type this): it's better than "Star Wars."
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker:
The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.” True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.