Seriously? Way to milk it, Hollywood.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Amy - Nov 02, 2011 5:03:34 pm PDT #16622 of 30000
Because books.
DebetEsse - Nov 02, 2011 5:04:54 pm PDT #16623 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The last Twilight book is, I think, going to be in two parts, a la Harry Potter.
le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 5:35:11 pm PDT #16624 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The ONLY question I have is in which part will that put that birth scene? Because that is the only part of the movie I will see.
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2011 5:43:25 pm PDT #16625 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Nov 02, 2011 7:41:49 pm PDT #16626 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The ONLY question I have is in which part will that put that birth scene? Because that is the only part of the movie I will see.
Yeah, same here.
le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 8:12:46 pm PDT #16627 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am hoping someone puts it on youtube.
Burrell - Nov 02, 2011 8:32:12 pm PDT #16628 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Isn't Katniss white? I didn't realize her race was in question. I think what threw me is that the photo really is just two blacks and a bunch of white folk, and race in America seems so much more complicated than that. Like I was surprised there were no Hispanics, although now that I think of it none of the characters depicted were overtly written as Hispanic so I shouldn't actually be surprised.
eta none was? none were? damn, I'm tired.
Kate P. - Nov 03, 2011 8:31:24 am PDT #16629 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Burrell, I did read Katniss as basically white, but a little darker than Jennifer Lawrence -- olive-skinned, possibly with some nonwhite heritage. Some Native American blood seemed a strong possibility. But I also read Prim as very fair-skinned, and I think we're meant to assume they have the same father, so it doesn't really bug me that she's cast as white.
It does seem odd, as you point out, that Rue and Thresh might be the only tributes of any race other than white (as far as we've seen, anyway). *That* contradicts my image of the characters and the world of Panem pretty strongly.
Vonnie K - Nov 03, 2011 8:39:36 am PDT #16630 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I wonder who they'll cast as Finnick? I can't think of any young actors I know who'd be pretty enough for the character. In my head, he looks sort of like Jude Law circa "Talented Mr. Ripley" -- like an impossibly golden god.
It was interesting to see Jude Law and Matt Damon again in "Contagion" and see how they aged. Damon's become sort of stocky and solid, but in a good way, whereas Law became skeevy and squirrely, although that may have just been the roles.
erikaj - Nov 03, 2011 8:46:37 am PDT #16631 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I just watched "The Conspirator" and I think it's a film made for Buffistas in that it's sort of a procedural for West Wing geeks. highly reccommended.