What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!

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Polter-Cow - Nov 14, 2008 8:30:19 am PST #8630 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Didn't Vin Diesel make a random appearance at the end of the third movie? I think the new movie does count the sequels as canon.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 14, 2008 8:49:25 am PST #8631 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I can't wrap my mind around a Van Damme movie not sucking in one respect or another.

I liked both Hard Target and Timecop, but that was mostly in spite of JCVD, not because of him.

Random aside: one reviewer of JCVD pointed out how much he's starting to resemble Buster Keaton. I'm never going to be able to get that out of my mind now. Not sure if it's a bad thing - I have a feeling his movies would play better silent. Though in the two I referenced we'd lose out on Lance Henrickson and Ron Silver chewing the scenery so enjoyably.


Polter-Cow - Nov 14, 2008 8:53:28 am PST #8632 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I liked both Hard Target and Timecop, but that was mostly in spite of JCVD, not because of him.

I'm pretty sure I liked those movies too. I don't think I saw Double Impact, but I saw the trailer enough times, and I sometimes like to break out the ol' "There are two of them!"


P.M. Marc - Nov 14, 2008 8:54:48 am PST #8633 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Hey, I still love Double Impact. Mmm. Cory Everson.

Don't judge me more than you already do.


§ ita § - Nov 14, 2008 9:02:08 am PST #8634 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was a big time fangirl. Didn't like Timecop that much. Preferred Universal Soldier, Double Impact, and I just adored Double Team. I also have a shameful soft spot for Nowhere to Run.

I liked that his character didn't always ride off into the sunset with the girl.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 14, 2008 12:48:59 pm PST #8635 of 10000
"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

Naturally, I enjoyed Sudden Death. It had Luc Robitaille, the fate of the nation being decided by a Stanley Cup Finals game, and JCVD getting his ass kicked by a giant foam penguin.


Atropa - Nov 14, 2008 3:12:27 pm PST #8636 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Just got back from the new Bond movie. It was kinda meh. There wasn't much of a plot (even for a Bond movie), and the action sequences were a mess.

We saw the new Watchmen trailer on the big screen. Ooooooh. And the trailer for the new Star Trek movie, which brings the slash right away, bless 'em.


Cashmere - Nov 14, 2008 4:30:08 pm PST #8637 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.

Jilli, a friend of mine in Wales said about the same thing. He was unimpressed.


Juliebird - Nov 14, 2008 5:19:58 pm PST #8638 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Bond:

I too found it a bit meh. But I *adored* the action, even if I found it a bit confusing (2 too many sequences intersplicing the action with other "action"). Emotionally, I didn't feel it. And when it got to the end, I wasn't sure if it was ending, and before it ended, I thought it was about to end. The end I thought the pacing and structure fell apart.

I liked that the whole movie was Bond working through his feelings about Vespa, but I didn't feel the end. I didn't feel closure, or, um, that he'd obtained his measure of peace, or even that he hadn't. I liked M going on about not knowing who to trust, and that if you can't tell your enemies from your friends you should get out, and then putting her faith in Bond.

I wonder that if there are more Daniel Craig Bond movies, that they'll keep searching for this organization that nobody knows exists (or did I miss that in my confusion and that matter is resolved?)

Did the actor playing Greene remind anyone of Gaius Baltar?


Juliebird - Nov 15, 2008 8:42:42 am PST #8639 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

cereal

I put this in Boxed Set by mistake: [link]

Video review of Quantum, hits upon some of the issues that I had.

Not really spoilery, deals in very vague terms.