Yeah, I've got until September.
If you hurry to someplace in the Orient and work hard, you have enough time to cram in some serious supernatural-ninja type skills, then you could go kick Neal Stephenson's ass and laugh in a mocking fashion.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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JohnSweden - May 19, 2005 9:34:37 am PDT #3023 of 10002
I can't even.
Mr. Broom - May 19, 2005 10:19:50 am PDT #3024 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
Yeah, but then he'd just ask me how many epic novel's I've put out, and then I'd cry and cry.
Calli - May 19, 2005 10:26:16 am PDT #3025 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
You could beat him up with one of his epic novels. Cryptonomicon would work, and quickly too.
Kalshane - May 19, 2005 11:11:07 am PDT #3026 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The training with ninja thing doesn't bother me at all, since that's pretty close to Batman's schtick (and the inspiration behind the current Robin's split-toed boots) and ninjitsu schools do still exist in Japan and elsewhere. I know there's at least one school within an hour of where I live, though I couldn't tell you how good it actually is.
I do hope we get at least some brief shots of him training in some other styles and other places as well, though.
Overall, I enjoyed the promo, though I do worry Bale's growly "Batman voice" might start to grate after awhile.
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 11:12:55 am PDT #3027 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do worry Bale's growly "Batman voice" might start to grate after awhile.
Hopefully they'll keep the Bat laconic. Or taciturn. Short-winded. Whatever.
juliana - May 19, 2005 11:15:51 am PDT #3028 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I really want Bruce to say "I know kung fu" after a particularly arduous training session.
Calli - May 19, 2005 11:17:06 am PDT #3029 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I really want Bruce to say "I know kung fu" after a particularly arduous training session.
If he did that and Liam's character smacked him on the back of the head, saying, "The hell you do," I would see the movie 17 times in the theater.
Kathy A - May 19, 2005 12:15:46 pm PDT #3030 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Heh--the news summary on the bottom of IMDB's main page has a lisping problem, in honor of "Sith"'s release.
AnthonyDe - May 19, 2005 2:28:39 pm PDT #3031 of 10002
A One that isn't cold, is scarcely A One at all.
Saw ROTS today. I had very high expectations based on the buzz. Easily the best of the prequel trilogy although I don't know if it's as good as it's being made out to be.
Sean K - May 19, 2005 4:58:32 pm PDT #3032 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So, in all that reading through the last few days, with talk of RotS and the new Batman movie, this is what caught my attention:
One of Seattle's radio stations has been playing that Queens of the Stone Age song mixed with the SNL "more cowbell" sketch. Pretty funny. Well, the first 10 times, anyway.
Just for the record, that's not a cowbell being heard in that song. That's a wood block. Cowbells make more of a clangy sound, and wood blocks make that dull cloppy sound.
You can hear a cowbell in the theme song for King of the Hill, though.