eta: in response to Scrappy: Seriously.
So far, Jonah Hill's onscreen appearances have all been pretty custom designed to make me itch and scream.
Zoe: We're getting him back. Jayne: What are we gonna do, clone him?
'War Stories'
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§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 4:52:34 pm PST #17720 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 22, 2012 6:14:51 pm PST #17721 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I went to see Underworld: Awakening today thinking it would be a cheap rip-off of Ultraviolet from the previews. Instead, the story held together pretty well (J. Michael Straczynski had a story credit) and almost everything made sense except the budget-mandated necessity of having everything happen in the same nameless Eastern European city that the first one was set in .
However, the cinematography was for shit - the whole thing looks like it was shot through murky blue filters that only let other colors through for fiery explosions. And the tacked-on 3-D is a decidedly unspecial effect.
Consuela - Jan 22, 2012 6:28:04 pm PST #17722 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I saw the trailer for 21JS during the football game, and I couldn't believe it. Because seriously: no WAY do those guys look 17. Not even in tv-land. So, basically, they're doing the same thing they did with Starsky & Hutch and turning it into a comedy?
Pfeh.
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 6:29:37 pm PST #17723 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why am I okay with S&H being a comedy? Because I liked the actors more, maybe? I don't know.
Possibly also because S&H is prominent enough that skewering felt like you could do it with great affection and as an offhanded tribute to the original. With 21 Jump Street, it's relatively obscure, and it feels like mocking to me instead.
le nubian - Jan 22, 2012 6:33:26 pm PST #17724 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
no WAY do those guys look 17
right? they would be arrested at any HS I know.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 22, 2012 7:16:50 pm PST #17725 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe Channing's character convinces them he was held back multiple times like Jethro Bodine? I'd buy it.
Burrell - Jan 22, 2012 7:26:19 pm PST #17726 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
Ah sing it, sister!
chrismg - Jan 22, 2012 7:48:56 pm PST #17727 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
ita !, did you say Colombiana didn't suck? I saw at least one review that made it sound like she spends most of the movie moping over her boyfriend, and all the cool stuff from the trailer is in the last 10 minutes or so. Was the guy just not paying attention?
ETA: And really, "not complex emotionally, or psychologically meaty" kind of sums up my feelings on Contagion too.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 8:23:34 pm PST #17728 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, the boyfriend is pretty irrelevant until the later 1/4. At first he's there to show how conventionally she can't manage a relationship, but she manages. And then he gets drawn in and...basically a threat of fridging. I'd like to see the fight parts distilled down.
She's not particularly cheery--traumatised as a child and turned into a killer at about age 9.
Man, I miss Dustin Nguyen.
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2012 9:33:26 pm PST #17729 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, Alien: Resurrection is much better than Alien 3. It feels more like an Alien movie, and it's pretty fun. Not groundbreaking like the first two, but pretty solid. I can see a little of the proto-Serenity aspect, but I wasn't really able to see the movie Joss claimed he wrote that got fucked up. He was mad that they took his script and played it seriously? The rest of the franchise is...serious. That's kind of a thing.
I wonder who's going to be the token android in Prometheus. And whether we're going to see any Xenomorphs. I wonder, but I don't actually want to know. What was that one article that said that Christopher Nolan's started this new thing where not knowing anything about a movie is why you're interested in it?
Man, remember that first Inception trailer that just sort of came out of nowhere and we were all like WHAT THE LIVING FUCK IS THIS MOVIE I CANNOT WAIT.