You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.

Glory ,'The Killer In Me'


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Polter-Cow - May 20, 2009 9:12:41 am PDT #1601 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I've now seen a couple of reviews saying that Salvation is awfully grim and depressing for a summer action flick, not like the previous Terminator movies. Now, I didn't see the third one, so maybe it had a lot of musical comedy numbers, but: huh?

Ha, I know! I saw a bunch of reviews like that too, and my response was, "...What were you expecting?" But it does have less humor than, say, T2. And some unintentional chuckles.


Volans - May 20, 2009 9:37:47 am PDT #1602 of 30000
move out and draw fire

(starts penning Terminator: The Musical)

Pitch: High School Musical WITH STUFF BLOWING UP!!!

I thought Wrath of Khan was about how obsession destroys the obsessed. All that "to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" stuff. Which makes it a whaling yarn, when you get down to it.

Brilliant.


Hayden - May 20, 2009 10:19:06 am PDT #1603 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

(takes a bow)

Pitch: High School Musical WITH STUFF BLOWING UP!!!

With the studios involved, this would quickly turn into Showgirls With An Unkillable Elizabeth Berkley.


Tom Scola - May 20, 2009 10:27:10 am PDT #1604 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Inglorious Basterds: a "colossal armour-plated turkey from hell".


DavidS - May 20, 2009 10:32:44 am PDT #1605 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Inglorious Basterds: a "colossal armour-plated turkey from hell".

Wow. I thought it would at least be entertaining.

It's funny too because this has been Quentin's dream project for years, and he's often mentioned in interviews that most director's careers wreck on their dream project.


Tom Scola - May 20, 2009 10:35:05 am PDT #1606 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Most of the reviews I've seen about it have been lukewarm. That was the first overtly hostile review I've seen.


amych - May 20, 2009 10:37:44 am PDT #1607 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I thought the previews looked absolutely godawful, but that's the first review I've seen.


§ ita § - May 20, 2009 10:47:40 am PDT #1608 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I found the trailer perplexing. And damn, does Brad Pitt look old. He deages pretty well, for things like Benjamin Button. But he's had those lines forever.


DavidS - May 20, 2009 10:53:15 am PDT #1609 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But he's had those lines forever.

That's what he gets for walking around Africa saving little kids. Hey, Guero! SPF a thousand!


Strega - May 20, 2009 10:55:16 am PDT #1610 of 30000

Also Jujitsu. And after someone showed off strength by tying a Poker into a knot, Holmes demonstrated his own stregnth by UNknotting it. So not just athletic, but freakishly strong. In short, a superhero.

Pedantry: Baritsu (or bartitsu). And there wasn't any knot-tying. Roylott bent the poker; Holmes straightened it out.