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We are watching The Mist.
There are really two strategies for disaster zombie/swarm/monster coping in the movies. Either "we have to get the hell out of here" or "we need to stay here and dig in".
I am definitely a "dig in" person. Especially if you're holed up in a shopping mall or supermarket.
I watched The Savages last night. Great performances by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. I felt like there was a deeper meaning than the struggle to deal with family issues that I wasn't latching onto. I kept feeling like small things were symbolic of a larger theme but that I wasn't understanding the theme. I watched the documentary afterward and they didn't say anything about symbolism so maybe I was reading too much into it.
Twilight made $70.6 million. That's bigger than the Bond opening.
It's also the biggest opening ever for a female director, so there's a bright side.
the biggest opening ever for a female director
That's cool. Bond is kicking the sparkly vampires' asses over here but they've got Twilight on four screens down the street so they're probably taking a lot of our business.
Ple, the article includes a particular appreciation for Nothing Sacred.
As is right and good!
Hec, I think we're on a similar place regarding QoS. I loved it, thought the acting and pacing were improved over all from the last one, but DAMN, it was grim and more Bourne than Bond.
New Moon was greenlighted as a result of the box office take this weekend.
DH's write-up of the Star Trek preview clips
So it sounds like they're completely ditching Robert April as the first captain of the Enterprise (which is fine, I guess, since his place in canon is debated) as well ditching as Number One as Pike's first officer, which is pretty lame, IMO.
::gives Paul Greengrass the stinkeye for general steadicam ruination::
If the camera is shaky it is by definition NOT steadicam. Sam Raimi perfected shaky cam in the Evil Dead movies, but NEITHER is what you're thinking of. Your talking about hand-held. BIG DIFFERENCE!
Examples of steadicam (or a similar equivalent) action sequences? See Children of Men.
Examples of steadicam (or a similar equivalent) action sequences? See Children of Men.
I am corrected. Actually my favorite steadicam action sequence is in Raising Arizona.
as well ditching as Number One as Pike's first officer, which is pretty lame, IMO.
Well, they've already fucked with canon by making Kirk and Spock the same age, haven't they? Or having them at the Academy at the same time.