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Jessica - Feb 16, 2009 8:55:01 am PST #9966 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

"THIS is ALL stop-motion??? Holy shit!!!"

Well, some of it was CG. (Like most of the mouse circus.) But I've never seen CG and puppets so well integrated before, anywhere.


Jessica - Feb 16, 2009 8:57:44 am PST #9967 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Re Let The Right One In, it didn't occur to me until after the movie was over that Hakan had met Eli when he was Oskar's age too, and that he wasn't her first either. Eli's been doing this a long time.


Steph L. - Feb 16, 2009 8:59:54 am PST #9968 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

"THIS is ALL stop-motion??? Holy shit!!!"

Well, some of it was CG.

Okay, the mouse circus was specifically what blew my mind, thinking it was all stop-motion.


Tom Scola - Feb 16, 2009 9:37:15 am PST #9969 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

The trilogy meter: [link]


Amy - Feb 16, 2009 9:50:16 am PST #9970 of 10000
Because books.

I'm just sitting over here wondering (from B'cracy) why people hate Se7en. I loved it.


DavidS - Feb 16, 2009 9:52:43 am PST #9971 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The trilogy meter: [link]

Oooh, I concur with those assessments. And it's interesting to see them bar charted.


lisah - Feb 16, 2009 10:10:15 am PST #9972 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate

I'm just sitting over here wondering (from B'cracy) why people hate Se7en. I loved it.

Honestly, I don't remember a lot of it other than being really, really pissed that the wife was killed offscreen without being given a chance to defend herself.

She was just an object not a human being. It infuriated me.


Jessica - Feb 16, 2009 10:17:46 am PST #9973 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Se7en was overwritten and overdirected and BORING.

I'm glad it didn't cause me to write Fincher off completely, though - he redeemed himself a billion times over with Fight Club.


Juliebird - Feb 16, 2009 10:22:45 am PST #9974 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I love Se7en, although it never fails to send me into a major funk after watching. As for the ending, I appreciate that we were along for the dawning realization of horror with Brad Pitt's character. I don't see why it was necessary to show her final moments. I can imagine, but I disagree (with my imagination).

"What's in the fridge!"

(lisah, I don't mean to imply that that's where you're coming from, only that this is my gut reaction to where I might wrongly think you're coming from, and is my own issue)


Hayden - Feb 16, 2009 10:25:11 am PST #9975 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I hated Se7en, too, although I can barely remember why. I hate everything Fincher's done, although I still haven't seen Zodiac.