Man, I don't even remember enough to be intelligently discussing it, but that wasn't my takeaway. I can remember having heated discussions about it at the time but can't reconstruct my position or arguments, so, really, I should just shut up.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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-t - Jan 31, 2012 2:45:22 pm PST #17879 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Polter-Cow - Jan 31, 2012 3:28:26 pm PST #17880 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He won't be the first person to kill Batman.
The other day in the comic book store I came across a collection of various times Batman has died. I knew Grant Morrison had just killed him, but I didn't realize how many other writers had!
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2012 4:29:50 pm PST #17881 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I knew Grant Morrison had just killed him
Darkseid actually hit him with the Omega Sanction and sent him into the past, which didn't actually kill him. t /pedant
erikaj - Feb 01, 2012 5:39:24 am PST #17882 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
kinda enjoyed that one, ita, but it was strange. "Clockers" is good. Of course, the novel it's based on is too.
tommyrot - Feb 01, 2012 8:49:47 am PST #17883 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Teppy is a Bat-pedant.
Juliebird - Feb 01, 2012 2:24:20 pm PST #17884 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Has anyone seen Drive, with Ryan Gosling? I'm debating movies to watch, and I lurves the Gosling, and it's got Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow!) and Christina Hendricks.
le nubian - Feb 01, 2012 2:43:33 pm PST #17885 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes, we saw in back in October. What is your other movie choice?
I enjoyed Drive more than my better half did. He was kind of bored. I just went with it and I felt like the movie flowed.
I do kind of think the movie was trying too hard, but I think it is entertaining.
Note: there is a fair bit of violence in the film - especially the latter third or so. And the violence (in one scene) made me gasp out loud. You may not have needed that warning, but I like to err on the side of warning for graphic violence.
Juliebird - Feb 01, 2012 2:52:06 pm PST #17886 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm tired and not stating myself clearly. Right now my choice is one movie, and I'm debating on whether to watch it or not. Wish I had a second choice right now. I watched Puncture over the weekend because it had a shirtless Chris Evans in it. I'm grateful for the edification on the bullshit of Big Business (yet again) and Chris was great (and tragic, and not timely for dealing with my own brothers drug problems), but not terribly well directed or edited. But the trailer had made it seem like John Grishamly goodness (underdog lawyers! Evil corporations! Suspense and threats of violence! And then sucky reality intervened in all it's jaded bitter glory). I'm glad I watched it, but it wasn't a Good Movie.
Yeah, I got from the trailer and Ryan's Hammer of Brain Spattering that there might be some harh violence. I'm okay with that in theory.
le nubian - Feb 01, 2012 2:57:26 pm PST #17887 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
then go for it! watch it.
the music in the film was running through my head for weeks.
Vonnie K - Feb 01, 2012 3:26:36 pm PST #17888 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I loved Drive. It's one of the most stylish movies I saw in theater the last year, and Ryan Gosling is fantastic in it. Yes, there are moments of shocking violence, although I wouldn't say they are that much worse than violence in your usual action thriller. It's in the way the violence is presented, I think, in brief but very effective bursts. It's pointed.
The director was... Dutch, I think? The movie felt very non-American to me.