What flea said.
I'm a big girl. Just tell me.
Inara ,'Objects In Space'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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§ ita § - Sep 23, 2006 6:11:09 am PDT #4497 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2006 6:27:25 am PDT #4504 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw the Last Kiss last night. It was an odd combination of really true, intimate and well-acted scenes and lame plot contrivances. Big problem for me was the younger chick was patently uninteresting--they needed someone like Faith to make that attraction work.
Blythe Danner, looking absolutely beautiful and exactly her own age, and Tom Wilkinson were amazing.
Narrator - Sep 24, 2006 8:25:49 am PDT #4505 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I saw "Flyboys" yesterday. A movie that cliched should not take that long to end.
DavidS - Sep 24, 2006 5:14:50 pm PDT #4506 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My favorite podcast is Out of The Past: Investigating Film Noir.
Two film professors doing deep analytical commentary on their movie of the bi-week. They get stronger as they go on. Unfortunately for this board's interest their coverage of Batman Begins is one of their least interesting. (They navigate between classic noir and more recent examples, but their best work is on classic noir.) The Bladerunner commentary was excellent They're best on classic noir, though, like Sunset Boulevard and D.O.A. Lots of good research material on Rififi.