Another dragon movie trailer: [link]
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'The Message'
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Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2006 1:27:37 am PDT #4494 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Nutty - Sep 23, 2006 5:17:08 am PDT #4495 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
But a blown ACL is fairly significant.
Right, but, people do come back from it. Come back to their former glory, even (or as much former glory as you can get out of Aaron Boone). (Who did it to himself in the offseason, playing basketball.)
he didn't retire because he had creaky knees--he retired because he blew out a joint.
I, uh, don't have any idea how these are different? "Knee(s) made of cheese" and "creaky knee(s)" and "blew out his knee(s)" all mean roughly the same thing to me: bum knee(s). There are bum knees you come back from, and bum knees you don't; but is there something in the elocution that makes that distinction, to you?
flea - Sep 23, 2006 6:05:26 am PDT #4496 of 10001
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There are chronic knee injuries - athritis, which ita has, and inflamed cartiledge, and stuff like that - that I would call "creaky knees" (or, I suppose, "knees of cheese.") There's not much that can be done for them, and they tend to slowly get worse, and lead to pain and stiffness, and gradually reduce ability.
Blowing out a knee - usually slang for an ACL injury, though I think other ligaments can go - is a catastrophic injury. I am pretty sure you can't walk after you do it - it requires surgery. You may come back okay, or you may never be the same, and I think it sort of depends also on how knee-y your sport is (baseball or golf, nsm with requiring the good knees; soccer or basketball or skiing, more knee action.)
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2006 6:11:09 am PDT #4497 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What flea said.
Volans - Sep 23, 2006 11:00:48 am PDT #4498 of 10001
move out and draw fire
OK. I just read the first Temeraire book. My word, does that have Peter Jackson and Weta written all over it. I wasn't sure at first, but the climatic battle scene is just so PJ.
And with Napoleonic uniforms and brightly colored dragons, it should be easy to tell who's who.
sumi - Sep 23, 2006 11:22:33 am PDT #4499 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Speaking of - EW interviews Peter Jackson about many things including The Hobbit and Temeraire - here.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2006 3:40:42 pm PDT #4500 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
The Matrix: Revolutions slow-motion rave music videosequence was just on. How is it that Budweiser hasn't bought the footage from this to air as a commercial?
Kalshane - Sep 23, 2006 3:47:22 pm PDT #4501 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.
The whole scene? That takes some dedication by the network to devote that much of their daily programming to one thing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2006 3:50:34 pm PDT #4502 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
They did split it up with a commercial break in the middle.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Sep 23, 2006 4:20:55 pm PDT #4503 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
So, Children of Men is one of the best films of the year. Not only does it quickly abolish the emotional distance between the audience and the film's world and characters but it also has one of the most overwhelming, nerve-shredding sequences I've ever seen and one of the most graceful.
I adore Cuarón and several the film's actors (in particular Julianne Moore and Peter Mullan, though their performances here aren't that memorable) so I was expecting to like it but I was expecting to like it in more of an entertaining Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Az... Harry Potter 3 way than a rapturous Y tu mamá también way. And it's definitel the rapturous kind of like I'm feeling.
In places, the sound design and editing are top-notch. I say 'in places' because the absence of both is, in places, much more striking.