I'm still totally pessimistic, but the trailer has gotten me to the point where I do intend to pay for a ticket for X3 when I see it.
Ultraviolet didn't prescreen for critics. Anyone know how bad it was?
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§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 6:49:40 am PST #799 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Mar 07, 2006 6:53:12 am PST #800 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ultraviolet didn't prescreen for critics. Anyone know how bad it was?
DH saw it to review, and said it was fun for the first 20 minutes or so, and then got really stupid. He thought it was better than Underworld: Evolution. (He *really* hated Underworld.)
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 6:54:35 am PST #801 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a lot better than I'd have imagined, but the trailer drove me up the wall.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2006 7:01:13 am PST #802 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
Honestly, the trailer made it look like some weird combination of The Matrix and Pink's "There You Go" video. Which might have interested me more if I liked Mila Jovovich (as I do Kate Beckinsale) or if there had been any evidence of y-chromosome hotness (as Underworld: Evolution had in spades with Speedman).
Jessica - Mar 07, 2006 7:05:33 am PST #803 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The plot description makes it sound pretty much identical to Underworld -- hot vampire chick in tight pants torn between her vampireness and whatever the other option is gets caught up in a very silly plot and blows a lot of shit up for some reason.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 7:06:51 am PST #804 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do like Nick Chinlund and love William Fichtner. I might be able to learn to love Sebastien Andrieu.
And there's a chick kicking ass.
Yet? The trailer even made me dislike Aeon Flux more.
I'm also irrationally indisposed to Medea. Black men dressing up in fatsuit drag to play maternal characters is a hotbutton I didn't know I had.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2006 7:12:18 am PST #805 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
I've thought about seeing the plays when Tyler Perry was putting them on locally, but the movie ads strike me as quite off-putting. I like my sassy grandmother characters to have at least an undercurrent of grumpy warmth (i.e., Vicki Lawrence), and I'll I've picked up from Madea is generalized hostility.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 7:19:47 am PST #806 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Right. Not Medea.
The last trailer I saw showed one of the female characters as a victim of domestic violence. It also showed Madea threatening to kill a kid.
Now, I have no problems with the principle of corporal punishment of kids (some of the applications bother me), and I teach women to defend themselves against situations such as those depicted in the trailer.
The juxtaposition looked so bad, though. I doubt that Madea will be judged for the violence within the story (although I'm sure she'll come round and love the little tyke, who will be transformed by said love, but still a little sassy) and that the husband will be, sorely.
bon bon - Mar 07, 2006 7:37:49 am PST #807 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I do like Nick Chinlund
Yeah, me too. He has a goofy thing going on kinda but...the voice!
Or maybe it's because he played a creep.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2006 7:56:13 am PST #808 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Donnie Pfaster! I'm sorry, but I just can't see Chinlund as anything else after that. Every time he pops up my screen, I wig out, wondering when he will ask me if he could shampoo my hair. Acck.
I watched an interesting little movie called Nine Lives via Netflix last week, and William Fitchner was in one of the segments (the movie is composed of 9 separate segments, each about 10-15 minutes long) as a deaf guy who totally gets it on with his ex-wife in the wife #2's funeral. I never quite got the Fitchner thing, but he was great in this little section of the movie. Bonus: I learned how to say "jerk off" in sign language and... yeah, it's exactly as you imagine how it'll look.