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Is there a character called John Carter in ER? I never watched it. There are lots of people who see "John Carter" and think Dejah Thoris first.
I liked all the Aliens movies, and killing off Newt was a daring place to go. Original Ripley's death was very fitting in a old saga-type of way.
So, John Carter is directed by the guy who made Wall-E and Toy Story 3, and co-written by Michael Chabon.
... and yet I still expect it to be a great big stinker.
I didn't know it was co-written by Michael Chabon, but yeah. I want it to be good! But it doesn't actually look good, and I LIKE THOSE KINDS OF MOVIES. But the trailer just seems so blah and cliché. Can't aliens ever fight for themselves? Why is it always one human who has to save them for them?
Original Ripley's death was very fitting in a old saga-type of way.
It's stuck with me.
Is there a character called John Carter in ER?
Yeah, Noah Wyle, one of the main characters for most of the many seasons.
But the trailer just seems so blah and cliché. Can't aliens ever fight for themselves? Why is it always one human who has to save them for them?
Well, because all the cliche's started with this story. The original came out in 1911.
Watching Misery with CJ. I thought I remembered how messed up the story is, but I really didn't remember the extent.
Well, because all the cliche's started with this story. The original came out in 1911.
Eh, I'd say that for "What These People Need Is a Honky" you could go back to James Fenimore Cooper. But A Princess of Mars is certainly one of the classic iterations of it.
Although as I pointed out to Nutty in chat earlier today, Superman actually works in that format, too, except ordinary Earthlings are the people who need help from the overpowered alien who adopts local ways. IOW, Superman is A Princess of Mars from the POV of the Martians...
Wow, I just watched Warrior, and even though as I was watching it was thinking it wasn't maybe objectively good, what with every ridiculous movie thing they could throw into one story, I'm still catching my breath, and the credits are almost over.
I'm so glad someone else saw it. I was fucking shameless, but I understand that I wasn't crying at the precise spots where it was expected (although I sure covered those too). Every fight of the big tournament had me sobbing like a child. Bell to bell.
every ridiculous movie thing they could throw into one story
They kinda did, didn't they? But I thought most of the performances were very sincere, even though you knew with a fair amount of certainty how some things had to go in order to make the movie have a point, never mind live up to the trailers.
Oh yeah, the performances made it. There were a couple of forks I could have imagined, but no.
I don't remember having seen Edgerton in anything else, and I was definitely there all for the Hardy, but I ended up really liking him.
The scene where Hardy's character pulls his drunken father up onto the bed and cradles him was apparently improv. That was one of those moments where I felt them root around for traction in my heartstrings. Although it didn't slay me like some of the other moments, I thought it was an interesting thing to show about his character, and I wonder how the writing and directing had originally intended it to go.