Fun is not why I show up for Batman, ever. Nor Hunger Games. Their appeal is very different from fun.
Avengers--I expect that to be fun. I don't mind getting stabbed a couple times, but I'm sure there'll be fun.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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§ ita § - Feb 03, 2012 5:31:53 pm PST #17924 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2012 5:47:21 pm PST #17925 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'm just reassured by the fact that Black Widow is neither crazy nor a slender harmless-looking waif, thus unlikely to take over the movie.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2012 6:02:00 pm PST #17926 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She's a slightly hippy harmless-looking waif, and I really wish he'd cast deliberately against type, or even slightly for it.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2012 6:08:04 pm PST #17927 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spoilers on a well-trafficked sci fi blog: expired window for The Others, yay or nay?
Like, if I say "Don't tell me how [movie x] ends!" I think it's just polite to skip the whole resurrection part of the New Testament in response to me, but if a movie came out 10+years ago, I don't think expecting people to warn you before they discuss the end of it is reasonable on a movie discussion site.
Disagree?
DavidS - Feb 03, 2012 6:09:29 pm PST #17928 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I really wish he'd cast deliberately against type, or even slightly for it.
She was already cast before he came on the project, though, right? Wasn't Iron Man 2 shooting before he got The Avengers?
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2012 6:15:42 pm PST #17929 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, probably. I doubt he got much leeway in casting period, to be honest.
I just wish for more casting of even vaguely reasonable women. I swear the shot in IM2 where she loosed her hair appeared very "Okay, gotta hide my face now!" She was no use for any vaguely convincing transitions.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2012 6:48:36 pm PST #17930 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
Almost anyone's going to pale in comparison now that I've seen Hayley Atwell as a Marvel action heroine. If she struck a single false note in Captain America I must have blinked and missed it.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2012 6:51:48 pm PST #17931 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Gina Carano could have made a great turn as a woman who kills with her thighs. Her triangle was a high point of Haywire. And it's not like it's a thespian turn, with the size of Black Widow's role. She'd have been serviceable at the acting and brilliant at the action. Which I think is better than what we got, in total.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2012 12:09:25 pm PST #17932 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked Chronicle. I'd never seen a found footage movie before, so I don't know how they normally handle the conceit. This was done pretty well, I think. Over 90% of the footage made sense with the parameters they'd set up.
It's been a while since I watched Akira, but I don't think you can have a passing familiarity with it and not get a Tetsuo vibe, really. It's very there.
I think it did a good job of painting teenaged boys as a vicious nasty but somehow not inherently flawed lot. A fair amount of nastiness there in general.
Fun, and I only had to look away to preserve my head a few times (although most of the audio felt too loud).
Seems like the perfect movie to have something after the end credits, but there's nothing there, FYI.
Polter-Cow - Feb 04, 2012 12:18:11 pm PST #17933 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'd never seen a found footage movie before, so I don't know how they normally handle the conceit
Usually one of the characters has the camera most of the time and you rarely see him or her, or sometimes the characters trade camera duties. All very handheld. The Paranormal Activity movies add security footage. With [REC], it's a TV cameraman. In [REC] 2, some of the SWAT team members have cameras in their helmets.
I'm really interested to see the movie because a lot of the trailer shots look like they cheat a bit (and I think one of the reviews said they do kind of cheat, hence the other 10%).