I need some kind of acceptable premis to explain people doing super-human things or it else it just takes me right out of it
Me too. Although "Hong Kong" is acceptable to me.
Maybe that's the last city! Hong K...nah, doesn't fix things.
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
'War Stories'
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 11:23:09 am PDT #6571 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
beekaytee - Aug 18, 2005 11:54:01 am PDT #6572 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
The first scene's fx screamed X-Men on the Statue of Liberty to me.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 11:58:50 am PDT #6573 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was Underworld to me.
Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2005 12:12:11 pm PDT #6574 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was Underworld to me.
That's what it was!
It looks cool enough, but I'm easily pleased when things are blowing up.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 18, 2005 1:05:09 pm PDT #6575 of 10002
"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
At least most of Underworld made a sort of sense once you accepted vampires and werewolves with superhuman powers. (Though I still wonder what kind of magic allows you to support multiple 500 lb.-plus monsters from ceiling plaster in rat-trap tenements...)
Maysa - Aug 18, 2005 1:08:31 pm PDT #6576 of 10002
I saw 2046 last weekend and was disappointed. I loved In the Mood for Love but this movie was just... wacky. Most of it was a retread of ITMFL, which while pretty, is still a retread.
I didn't like 2046 that much when I was watching it (besides being glad because of the prettiness), but as I thought about it later, I liked it more. It was interesting to see how Chow is so caught up in his past that all his stories, and all the people he meets in the present, echo his relationship with Su Li Zhen. I loved how all the women had some aspect of her. But it wasn't near as good as ItMFL.
Apropos of almost nothing, I just read a really stupid review of 2046 in the New Yorker. Anthony Lane's reviews are so petty. He dislikes almost everything but never offers any insight or interesting commentary.
Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 1:11:36 pm PDT #6577 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Yes, Maysa. I agree with your whitefont. When the movie was in the "present" time (60s), I was intrigued and thought it was pretty fabulous-looking, especially Ziyi Zhang (yowr!). I pretty much had no use for the novel/future time. It was worth seeing, but I was expecting greatness after all of the glowy reviews I've read.
Maysa - Aug 18, 2005 2:08:09 pm PDT #6578 of 10002
It was worth seeing, but I was expecting greatness after all of the glowy reviews I've read.
What's weird is I really wasn't expecting all that much, because the reviews I had read on the internet from real people over the past year said pretty much the same thing, "not as good as ItMFL." Then suddenly it opens over here and the critics start swooning. I think they must not have been as attached to ItMFL.
Sean K - Aug 18, 2005 2:15:34 pm PDT #6579 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I will NEVER click on that link.
Yes, I will stand strong, and refuse to join in Vonnie and PC's sickness.
Eddie - Aug 18, 2005 9:34:52 pm PDT #6580 of 10002
Your tag here.
(I did like the cartoon, complete lack of understanding aside)
Oh good, it wasn't just me.
It was Underworld to me.
Likewise. With a dash of The Island, or perhaps Gattaca. Which for me isn't a bad thing... I LIKED Underworld. You suppose I'm repressing S&M tendencies? I should ask Tim about this.