Warren Ellis wrote the comic it's based on.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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§ ita § - Jul 27, 2010 6:35:30 pm PDT #10195 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
smonster - Jul 27, 2010 6:43:53 pm PDT #10196 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
They showed the trailers for Red and The Expendables back to back at Inception. My gut responses were whee! and uggh, in that order.
quester - Jul 27, 2010 7:13:52 pm PDT #10197 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
No, but I think The Others was.
Huh, well, for some reason I was remembering The Other today and it was one of the scariest movies I saw when I was young.
Strega - Jul 27, 2010 7:53:21 pm PDT #10198 of 30000
I am excited about Red! It appears to be very different from the comic but the comic was basically just a fun bit of business and there is nothing in particular about it that I think needs to be held sacred. Ellis talked about the adaptation a bit here: [link] and concluded
I mean, if you don’t want to see a film with Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle, I’m not sure I want to know you.
(I am mildly excited about The Expendables but I think it is the kind of mild excitement that translates to me getting it from Netflix a year from now. Although: Statham. It may hinge on whether or not reviews indicate it reaches Doomsday levels of insanity.)
Polter-Cow - Jul 27, 2010 8:02:36 pm PDT #10199 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Expendables clips they showed at Comic-Con made me more excited than the trailers. They showed a fight scene that was just a ridiculous maelstrom of violence and also a scene where Statham is flying a plane over a dock full of baddies and he dumps fuel on them and then ignites it. Perhaps the movie is less boring than the trailers make it seem.
By the way, Strega, I tried to call you on Sunday because I was standing right next to Matt Fraction.
Sean K - Jul 27, 2010 8:49:33 pm PDT #10200 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm watching 2012 streaming on Netflix. It's. So. Bad. At least The Day After Tomorrow was HI-larious. 2012 is just painfully, stunningly, stupidly bad. I'm getting dumber by watching it.
Laga - Jul 27, 2010 8:50:15 pm PDT #10201 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
At least John Cusack's in it... but if I had it to do over again I wouldn't watch the last half hour. That just made me angry.
Sean K - Jul 27, 2010 8:52:58 pm PDT #10202 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
For me, it's the presence of Amanda Peet and Chewital Ejiofor. I'm sure I just totally murdered his name.
But everybody sucks in this movie. Because everything everybody is given to do is SO STUPID!
Sean K - Jul 27, 2010 8:54:04 pm PDT #10203 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm approaching the last half hour. Thanks for the warning.
Laga - Jul 27, 2010 8:54:57 pm PDT #10204 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Chiwetel Ejiofor.