My Terminator Salvation review is up on Nerdabout.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Polter-Cow - May 21, 2009 6:14:00 am PDT #1635 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cashmere - May 21, 2009 6:35:32 am PDT #1636 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I should warn you - the 6 year-old sitting next to us had a lot of trouble following the plot. I think he still enjoyed it, but he was constantly asking his mom what was happening.
Owen zones when he's in the movies. No chatter or questions at all. I can practically see the wheels turning in his head. He usually can answer plot questions I ask him about later and he reenacts scenes with his toys so I can tell he's following.
Even if he can't grasp the nuances, he'll be distracted by the shiny stuff on the screen. My biggest issue is that he's ready to leave after the climax. I still haven't seen the last two minutes of Monsters vs. Aliens because once they stopped Galaxar, he stood up and announced he was going home.
Volans - May 21, 2009 10:38:37 am PDT #1637 of 30000
move out and draw fire
LOL.
Mal is right between Ellie and Owen on this - he will constantly ask what things are or what's going on, but he usually groks the movie right away, despite the chatter. Like I said, his life is a watch-and-post.
It means I don't want to take him to an actual theater tho, as I'm afraid other viewers would kill us.
ION, I just got back from Star Trek. Man, that was fun! Best shout-out to previous canon may have been Nero yelling "SPPAAAAWWWWCCCKKK!" like "KHHHAANNN!"
Although, the first instance of that I swear he said "FUCK."
§ ita § - May 21, 2009 10:40:13 am PDT #1638 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am so in love with Leonard Nimoy. Undiminished. Foxy foxy.
DavidS - May 21, 2009 2:53:49 pm PDT #1639 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Please please please let the moon chicks have purple hair....
It's gotta be!
juliana - May 21, 2009 3:09:51 pm PDT #1640 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Raq, I agree about that moment. I laughed at that moment. It was funny!
I want Kirk's motorcycle. I may or may not want the Sea-Doo on steroids that the cop was riding, but it seemed pretty awesome, too.
Volans - May 21, 2009 4:02:09 pm PDT #1641 of 30000
move out and draw fire
So it occurs to me that the scene of the Enterprise being built - the first trailer I saw for Star Trek - wasn't in the movie. But the Enterprise was new in the movie...so a year before the events of the movie, she was under construction...like when we were watching her being built.
Not quite as viral of marketing as Cloverfield, but whatever.
I'm not sure what to make of Pixar - every premise is so amazingly sad that I tear up just reading about it. And I always swear I'm not going to go see the movie because I don't want to bawl in public. And yet, they always pull it off.
Even in the case of Up! where they are re-telling Monster House in a more whimsical way.
§ ita § - May 21, 2009 4:34:09 pm PDT #1642 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We did see the ship being built. Kirk looks. But not the footage we'd seen before.
le nubian - May 21, 2009 5:12:05 pm PDT #1643 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, I just saw Terminator.
IMO, this is not a good movie. It is better than Wolverine, but not good. This movie has a whole lot of cliches and is predictable.
On the other hand, the movie wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was a bit boring in places.
Atropa - May 21, 2009 7:02:47 pm PDT #1644 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I know this is Buffista Converstation #something, but oh, Moulin Rouge. Yes, the characters are paper-thin. Yes, nothing but a re-telling of La Boheme. But it's So. Damn. Pretty.