Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.

Willow ,'Bring On The Night'


Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Sean K - May 25, 2009 10:42:39 am PDT #1744 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And a no e way to when away a couple of hours.

I detect the "help" of an iPhone in this post.


Barb - May 25, 2009 10:47:24 am PDT #1745 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

I detect the "help" of an iPhone in this post.

Yep. I was trying to fix the cable connection at home. Fixed now.


Frankenbuddha - May 25, 2009 2:24:09 pm PDT #1746 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Foul! I'm afraid that the newly accepted bylaws of The Intertubes hold that "hipster" is no longer a noun and can only be used as an adjective modifying the word "douchebag."

I never received that petition and therefore have never signed on to it. However, I would never in a million years use the d-bag tag on you, so if this is, in fact, geek law, you are hereby cleared of all hipster charges.

Hipster cocksucker!


Steph L. - May 25, 2009 2:45:31 pm PDT #1747 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

The best thing about a Green Lantern movie with Nathan Fillion is that Adam Baldwin could be Guy Gardner.

I can totally see Adam Baldwin pulling off "That's right, baby girl. I'm the crazy one." Oh yeah.

ION, Star Trek was excellent. John Cho is a badass.


Polter-Cow - May 25, 2009 3:38:21 pm PDT #1748 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I just watched The Apartment. What a perfect movie.


Jessica - May 25, 2009 4:33:38 pm PDT #1749 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Here is a very detailed account of the changes that were made from the original Terminator: Salvation script, who made them, and when, and why. The writer is an ex-colleage of DH's (ex because he now lives and works in LA) and as far as I know all of his information is good.

The article assumes you've seen the film, and so is on the spoilery side.

I really wish I'd seen the original conception of this movie. It still would have had massive problems, but at least they would have been interesting ones.


Juliebird - May 25, 2009 5:25:06 pm PDT #1750 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Thanks for that link, Jessica. Eeenteresting. Fucking Bale. And, seriously, they brought on the writers that did T3?! Fucking Bale and his fucking ego.

I am still waiting for the fanfiction that rewrites the ending.

And I am so onboard with the STAF, they so should have done it. For exactly the reasons stated in that article.

It really still kills me. That trailer that I am still besotted by implied promises of deep thinky things, radically changing everything we thought we knew about the war with the machines, sweeping epic love, and none of that. Fucking nothing as advertised. Fuck you, McG, fuck you Bale.

I would, and will, however, go see it again for Worthington. And Yelchin.

I wish I could just hate it and walk away, no skin off my back. But it's fucking Terminator. It's not a reboot like Trek, it's a continuation, and that's just a damned disgrace. As bad as SCC sometimes got, they never got that low.


tiggy - May 25, 2009 5:37:19 pm PDT #1751 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

as a Terminator aficionado, i'm really not getting the hate on people have for Terminator: Salvation and there is NOTHING about the stuff in that link that i would have liked to see. well...except maybe Blair and Marcus getting it on. </shallow>

this movie was rare for me in that it had it had me rooting for a terminator over John Connor, but still. i loved it.


Juliebird - May 25, 2009 6:12:43 pm PDT #1752 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

the things in that link that I would have liked to see would have been the less John, more Kyle.

But otherwise, the original script was also ridunkulous.

I only half-hated it. The Marcus stuff was 90% fab, but the Connor bits bored me to tears and were rather underwhelming and had me groaning and rolling my eyes a lot, and the end was just a huge WTF, but not in a good way, and certainly not in a way that the "original" end would have been.

The more I think about it, the more things fall down. Not in a plot, timey-wimey way.

Okay, I'm walking away from this before I start tre-peating myself.


Laga - May 25, 2009 9:29:05 pm PDT #1753 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I loved Huckabees and The Apartment. After I saw the latter I watched every other Shirley MacLaine movie I could get my hands on. The Trouble With Charlie is one of my favorites.