Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell  

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§ ita § - Jul 03, 2006 4:59:31 am PDT #2616 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I saw where the emotional moments were, I just didn't feel most of them. I think Parker Posey's character got to me more than anyone else's.

When his glasses fell off, all I could think of was how lousy a disguise that was, if they came off that easily. As for suits, I wondered how the medics (who I supposed hooked up monitors to him for their own peace of mind, since he's a fricking alien, and who knows what healthy looks like? STAR labs, how we miss ye) got his suit off in a way that let him put it back on so tidily. Unless he was wearing a backup. I didn't check for the wound tear.


DebetEsse - Jul 03, 2006 5:25:31 am PDT #2617 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I was very much in the WHY are you taking him to a hospital? Ok, sure, no where else to go (although I'd go with a sunny field somewhere), but for the love of Krypton, what possible good are the doctors in the ER going to be able to do for him? camp. It confused me, so logic and the movie had already parted company before I got to that bit, ita.


sumi - Jul 03, 2006 5:41:33 am PDT #2618 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Animated Dragonlance movies well - at least one - is coming.


Kalshane - Jul 03, 2006 5:43:40 am PDT #2619 of 10001
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.

I chalk up to the authorities don't know any better. I felt it was a sort of "We have no idea what to do, so we're just going to do the best we can" thing. The various superhero movies tend to ignore the rest of their respective comic universes. So no other heroes, no Star Labs etc.

Still, I was sitting there watching the movie going "Open the damn window and let some sunlight in."


Kalshane - Jul 03, 2006 5:46:00 am PDT #2620 of 10001
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.

Animated Dragonlance movies well - at least one - is coming.

This part of the article doesn't exactly overwhelm me with confidence:

Helmed by Meugniot (the animated X-Men TV series) and written by Strayton (Cleopatra 2525, Xena: Warrior Princess),


Jessica - Jul 03, 2006 5:47:30 am PDT #2621 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Still, I was sitting there watching the movie going

At the very least, Lois should have known to pull the shades up.


tommyrot - Jul 03, 2006 5:47:32 am PDT #2622 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Saw Downfall over the weekend. (It's the movie about Hitler's last days in the bunker, told largely from the POV of his secretary.) Damn, but I don't think I've ever seen a movie with half the suicides as this one. Very well made and acted. But there were many times I just wanted to yell at the TV, "You people are all insane."


erikaj - Jul 03, 2006 6:15:33 am PDT #2623 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Considering in every bit of trouble I've ever been in in my life, some kind soul wanted to take me to the hospital whether there was anything medical at issue, or not that part of Superman would feel like life, to me.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 03, 2006 6:17:11 am PDT #2624 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

When reading about Hitler's lemming-like girlfriends, I always wondered how much Eva Braun knew about his track record. Then again, I suppose turning Der Fuhrer down wasn't exactly a safe course of action...


Sean K - Jul 03, 2006 6:19:58 am PDT #2625 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Animated Dragonlance movies well - at least one - is coming.

Ooh. Interesting. I liked the books when I was in high school, though they lost their shine for me after a while. Mostly because, as with most gaming books, you can kind of hear the dice rolling in the background, but also because they were rather simple and shallow (though still better than most D&D novels). Still, I think that's a quality that will lend itself well to an animated movie. ANd they had decent plots, so that will be good, too.