Agreed. Batman's downcast shots are very much with the tight-set jaw. He's sad but grimly determined. Spidey gets the serious blues. Peter is Bruce without nearly so many emotional defenses.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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Mr. Broom - Feb 24, 2006 1:45:49 pm PST #651 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Mikey - Feb 24, 2006 2:16:13 pm PST #652 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
Was it that bad? I survived Pterodactyl. And Bloodsuckers.It wasn't that bad. Apart from the dog's makeup, the casting and the actin'. But we realized a button with the title of any "SciFi original movie" could multiply into a series. We settled on buttons that read: I SURVIVED another SciFi "original"
Jessica - Feb 25, 2006 7:04:59 pm PST #653 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Saw V. Liked it a lot. Very different from the book, and will probably draw the wrath of many purists, but I thought most of the changes were successful ones. (I have several nitpicks and a short wish list of things I wish they'd kept, but there was only one scene that I thought completely missed the mark.)
I'll be curious to see what the general fan reaction is.
Kate P. - Feb 25, 2006 7:52:23 pm PST #654 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Sweet! I cannot wait for V (haven't read the comic yet, but I have the love for all things Alan Moore) and I'm glad to hear you liked it.
I saw Transamerica tonight and generally thought it was pretty great. I can't help but let my reactions be colored by my expectations and the fact that I wanted it to Say Something Important about transsexual people, but instead, it ended up being mostly a movie about people and their messy relationships and how they make and atone for mistakes, and it was funny and strange and touching. So it wasn't quite what I had thought I wanted it to be, but it was probably better off that way. Definitely recommended.
DebetEsse - Feb 25, 2006 8:05:21 pm PST #655 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Rottweiler lacked any "fun". It was bad, and not even in an entertaining way
I just recently read V (lets put the word vendetta in here, for searching purposes). I am looking forward to the movie. I'm glad that there is hope for the "me liking" I can think of some changes that would irritate me a lot, but I think they would likely have irritated you. There are a wicked lot of spoilers on the movie webstie, IMO
Invisible Green - Feb 25, 2006 8:51:51 pm PST #656 of 10001
webstie
Is that a new cyber fashion accessory? (Some typos are cooler than others. Yours rocked, DebetEsse!)
Strega - Feb 25, 2006 8:54:16 pm PST #657 of 10001
That makes me feel hopeful, because you liked H2G2 and then I did, too.
Very different from the book, and will probably draw the wrath of many purists
Different thematically or plot...ily? Because, story changes I can accept if the feel is right. The trailers thus far have made me alternate between "Well, they're making it clear that the hero is a terrorist, cool," and "But the baddies seem too Evil Overlord-y." So I worry that they're simplifying. I like grey.
Volans - Feb 25, 2006 11:48:39 pm PST #658 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I think the part where V and Evie, clad in shiny black PVC, expend about 7 million rounds of ammunition while tearing through the government offices to a techno soundtrack, is going to ROCK! But not as much as the V vs. Cromwell (the Big Bad, a cybernetic Margaret Thatcher) kung-fu flying extravaganza!
Fay - Feb 26, 2006 3:52:50 am PST #659 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The sequel to Batman Begins could become an Australian affair
Well, maybe, but we should still have a pretty damned good showing for the British Isles, with Batman, Alfred and Jim Gordon. And possibly Paul Bettany.
waves Union Jack.
Just saw King Kong last night and I loved loved loved LOVED it. Lots. Physically jumped when I recognised Serkis (belatedly) as 'Lumpy'. Totally failed to recognise Jamie Bell. Still awash with oost for the most lickable Evan Parke, who held my attention in every frame he occupied, right from the get go. Mmm. I think he should be the next person to be discovered on Lost, preferably shirtless.
Loved Transamerica also - saw that the other week. Rather more 'eh' about Memoirs of a Geisha, but it was pretty.
Loved Brokeback Mountain more than I can say. It broke me into tiny pieces.
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2006 4:52:43 am PST #660 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, Evan's Jamaican!