Robin, I have to freak out a cheery 17 year old. But I want to like the movie too. Is Bug it?
Zoe: Captain will come up with a plan. Kaylee: That's good. Right? Zoe: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
'Safe'
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§ ita § - May 24, 2007 3:34:08 pm PDT #8712 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scrappy - May 24, 2007 4:00:30 pm PDT #8713 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It's very VERY dark. In a real disquieting but fascinating way. Might be a bit much for a 17-year-old--but I prolly woulda liked it at that age.
Sean K - May 24, 2007 4:21:02 pm PDT #8714 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I really want to see it. It looks creepy.
§ ita § - May 24, 2007 5:11:54 pm PDT #8715 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If it's a bit much, it might be just right.
Laga - May 25, 2007 1:07:49 pm PDT #8716 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Just saw World's End. I agree with all the critisicms and embrace them. It is terribly plotty in a way that I just adored. The set designers do feel the need to fill every frame with minute details and I ate them all up. Yum!
sumi - May 25, 2007 1:11:54 pm PDT #8717 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I hear that there is a post-credit epilogue -- was it fun?
Laga - May 25, 2007 2:53:38 pm PDT #8718 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It was pretty much note-for-note the epilogue I was expecting. The whole movie is great fun. I especially loved all the new characters. In my opinion this is also the monkey's best work.
askye - May 25, 2007 3:12:44 pm PDT #8719 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I'm spending my weekend watching Dolph Lundgren movies, something to cheer me up.
First up was Bridge of Dragons. I have no idea why it's titled that since there are no bridges or dragons. It's a post apocolyptic future where Ruechang is a general forcing Princess Halo to marry him. He dispatches his favorite warrior, Warchild, to go after the Princess. At one point, before the wedding, she snuck out to fight in some weird stick fighting while standing on posts thing. She fought Warchild who beat her.
Anyway, Halo runs, Warchild goes after her but ends up falling in love with her. I think, we only get one kiss and she calls him Soldier all the time. Not at all like "Farm boy" Princess Bride way, more because it has to be better than calling him Warchild.
I think maybe this was made for tv because the violence was very A Team ish and the kiss was fairly chaste.
It was bad, but bad enough to be MST3K worthy. Luckily I could fast forward through the boring parts.
Dolph is only shirtless once but the military uniform is mostly a vest and pants with no shirt. And all of RueChang's helicopters, jeeps, etc have 666 on the side, but no mention one why.
beekaytee - May 25, 2007 8:02:52 pm PDT #8720 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Argh.
I saw World's End but did not stay for the epilogue. Can someone whitefont? Or email.
t smacks head sharply
What was I thinking?
I totally agree that it was the monkey's best work. I liked the film more than I expected to and was struck by the political commentary, the existential sadness and unexpected lack of slapstick.
The performances were good though I felt Yun Fat was not given enough to do.
My favorite gracenote was a very small one...but in my favorite pirate history, Under the Black Flag, there is an entire chapter on female pirates including one of the most successful of ALL pirates, Madame Cheng, I believe her name was (need to find the book and check that) who appears in the movie! Very cool detail.
Laga - May 25, 2007 8:27:18 pm PDT #8721 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
The credits end and a title screen comes up, "Ten Years Later" A (presumably ten-year-old) kid is running through a field towards a seaside cliff singing, "A Pirates Life." The camera draws back and we see Elizabeth Turner (she hasn't aged a day!) she puts her arm maternally around the boy's shoulder and looks out to sea. We follow her gaze to the mast of The Flying Dutchman. Will Turner hugs the mast staring towards the shore. The camera pulls back majestically and we fade out.