That was my exact reaction to the Sky High trailer, ita. I leaned over to Consuela and said, "so it's a live action Incredibles. Yawn."
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
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Lee - Jul 10, 2005 6:19:35 am PDT #5456 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Fay - Jul 10, 2005 6:20:44 am PDT #5457 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Thank god for the young hot Chris Evans.
nodnodnod
I bet that Billie Piper's kicking herself for wedding the wrong one. Poor lass.
Jessica - Jul 10, 2005 6:25:20 am PDT #5458 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I leaned over to Consuela and said, "so it's a live action Incredibles. Yawn."
That was kind of my reaction to F4, actually. (Except for the part where the F4 characters predate the Incredibles, but they do have almost the exact same set of powers, and the Incredibles did them better. Also, the Incredibles had a plot.)
Jesse - Jul 10, 2005 6:26:06 am PDT #5459 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That was kind of my reaction to F4, actually. (Except for the part where the F4 characters predate the Incredibles, but they do have almost the exact same set of powers, and the Incredibles did them better. Also, the Incredibles had a plot.)
Ditto.
Tom Scola - Jul 10, 2005 6:38:53 am PDT #5460 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Re: Sky High
Kurt Russell's career really has gone full circle, hasn't it?
§ ita § - Jul 10, 2005 6:40:41 am PDT #5461 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For me, powers aren't what made The Incredibles The Incredibles. It was the dynamic. The alienation of the younger generation, the discovery that they aren't that different from their parents after all, and participating in their rescue and the whole unity thing. Spy Kids and The Incredibles did the same thing, but differently, and entertainingly. Which matches the Sky High trailer, and isn't at all similar to F4. I don't know how many times they can go to that well.
Gris - Jul 10, 2005 7:56:23 am PDT #5462 of 10002
Hey. New board.
ita's making me want a Spy Kids DVD again. I keep resisting because it actually markets "interactive menu" as a special feature, which annoys. Want special edition!
tommyrot - Jul 10, 2005 9:29:53 am PDT #5463 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.
And the quotes! Caddyshack quotes are so pervasive that most people forget they are from a movie.
Sorta like Hamlet....
Mr. Broom - Jul 10, 2005 10:58:37 am PDT #5464 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
Or the Bible.
Polter-Cow - Jul 10, 2005 11:41:26 am PDT #5465 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
People quote the Bible?
You don't say.