Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.

'Hell Bound'


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§ ita § - Jan 18, 2009 11:55:32 am PST #9525 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Cast shot from Wolverine. It's nice to see Ryan Reynolds back in shape again, never mind the other hotties.


Scrappy - Jan 18, 2009 1:39:29 pm PST #9526 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Saw Defiance last night. It's too long and suffers from over-earnestness, but the story it tells is great. There were certain stirring lines which were so obviously scripted to be "message" that they made me wince, but I found left with a lot of powerful images and the film has stayed with me. All the actors were very good and Daniel Craig remains totally yummy, even wearng rags and covered with dirt.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2009 2:59:55 pm PST #9527 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

There was someone in that photo besides Hugh Jackman?


Cashmere - Jan 18, 2009 3:02:55 pm PST #9528 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.

Oh, I noticed Ryan. Meep. I had no idea he was cast as Deadpool.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2009 3:05:49 pm PST #9529 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hugh as Logan is a constant for me. Ryan as Deadpool, plus the Gambit and Sabretooth casting is some lovely gravy.


Steph L. - Jan 18, 2009 5:07:26 pm PST #9530 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

We watched Wall*E last night (though we haven't watched the short features yet). I thought it was cute, and sweet, and wow was Jess right when she said it was John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. (At one point, after Eve shot the hell out of something, I said, "Shooting makes me feel better!")

I *loved* the massage-bot with its wildly flailing arms. Although I think my favorite was the cleaning robot (Mo?), obsessed with cleaning all the foreign contaminants.

I want to complain about the idea that 700 years in the future, all humans, if given the opportunity, will float around on hoverchairs and be all corpulent and talking to their friends on the magic screens (as I type this on my laptop, ahem). But you know? My faith in humanity is fairly low, and I don't actually find that idea so implausible.

Was is Corwood who said that, at the end, when the Axiom lands on clutter!Earth, that it should have been like the Jamestown colony, with death death death? That's *exactly* what I thought! (Along with "So WHERE are they going to sleep? And these people are not exactly prepared to repair/build an infrastructure! And that's a lot of cases of primary pulmonary hypertension about to walk around a very dodgy planet." But then maybe 700 years in the future, those kinds of medical issues were no longer, you know, medical issues.)

Anyway, all that said, I *did* like it.


Jessica - Jan 18, 2009 5:41:00 pm PST #9531 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Just thinking about all the broken robots being set free to be themselves is enough to make me a little weepy. It's possible I have robot identification issues.


Steph L. - Jan 18, 2009 5:44:35 pm PST #9532 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

And the umbrella-bot! Who deflected shots aimed their way, so -- NOT a broken robot; just one who didn't find its true calling right away.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 18, 2009 7:00:24 pm PST #9533 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I thought it was cute, and sweet, and wow was Jess right when she said it was John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. (At one point, after Eve shot the hell out of something, I said, "Shooting makes me feel better!")

I must have missed Jess saying this before, but Hells Yes, that's so true. LOVE IT! And need to share with my Farscape loving friends.


P.M. Marc - Jan 18, 2009 8:09:03 pm PST #9534 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

I have seen Wall*E about umpteenzillion times in the last couple of weeks (we have yet to send it back to Netflix, as Lillian is Very Fond of the parts with the robots). I was expecting to be bothered by the whole large people floating on chairs aspect, but it really wasn't treated like a moral issue, so I wound up okay with it.