ION, I just saw a trailer for Nic Cage and Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. Obviously, any movie about 9/11 comes with all kinds of issues (although I think "It's too soon" is a moot point now, that line is back there a ways), but I think I want to see it now (of all the movies that were scheduled for this year, this one is the one I've been most dubious of).
River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
'Safe'
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Sean K - Jul 03, 2006 8:28:17 am PDT #2653 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 03, 2006 11:43:44 am PDT #2654 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
It makes it both hard and inevitable that he'd be jealous--but when the woman you're in love with asks you to go back and save the man she loves, putting you and the kid you've been raising as your own in jeopardy, well, it's Superman. You have to do that.
To be fair, Superman had just saved his life, and hers, and that of the kid that he'd been raising as his own. Kinda tough for an all-American pilot-journalist to look himself in the mirror if he turns his back on that.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2006 12:08:10 pm PDT #2655 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought I was being fair. I said he had to do what he had to do, and the bit about having been rescued needn't even come into the equation. Hell, being more than a decent guy isn't even required to make it balance.
§ ita § - Jul 04, 2006 10:12:15 am PDT #2656 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it exists half-way between The Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean
He sure knows which of my buttons to push.
Beverly - Jul 04, 2006 1:24:43 pm PDT #2657 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I still occasionally get Williams theme for The Cowboys confused with Copland's Rodeo. I also love his music for The Rievers. Later stuff, NSM.
Kate P. - Jul 04, 2006 2:22:54 pm PDT #2658 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Superman Returns:
That was fun, though I don't know if I'd see it again. I thought Brandon Routh did a pretty good job; I felt like I knew who he was, as both Clark and Superman, and I could see the differences between them. The moment that Jessica mentioned, when his glasses fall off as he's helping Lois gather up the things from her purse, was nicely done and helped bridge the gap between Clark and Supes. Most of the time that Superman was on screen, he looked so airbrushed or CGI'd that it really added to his alienness; it was a little distracting, but I think it worked well for Superman. Routh's acting, similarly, was just off enough to have the same effect.
As for the rest of them, I liked both Kate Bosworth and James Marsden more than I expected to, but overall Jimmy Olsen might have been my favorite character.
One deeply geeky question: Is Zool a Superman thing? Because in the scene where Superman crashes into the field behind the Kent farm, there's a shot of a Scrabble board in the house and the word "Zool" is spelled out. I don't know if that was intentional or not (it was actually spelled ZOO L, with the space before the L, which formed the beginning of another word) .
amych - Jul 04, 2006 2:33:02 pm PDT #2659 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
As in "there is only Zool"? That's from Ghostbusters.
§ ita § - Jul 04, 2006 2:34:20 pm PDT #2660 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ghostbusters is "Zuul." Googling shows there's an Amiga game called "Zool," so if it's a ref it's tres obscure.
I thought it was just a random result of the tiles shifting.
Kate P. - Jul 04, 2006 2:43:03 pm PDT #2661 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
As in "there is only Zool"?
Yeah, that's what I meant. Is it really spelled "Zuul"? I know I've seen it spelled "Zool" before.
I thought it was just a random result
You're right. I just didn't remember where it was from, so I didn't know if it was an intentional reference or not.
Drawde - Jul 04, 2006 2:59:53 pm PDT #2662 of 10001
Wait! These aren't MY pants!
Re: Zool I didn't see zool but I could swear I saw "alienation" on the Scrabble board