Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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Jesse - Apr 15, 2012 3:39:14 pm PDT #19476 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

(There must have been a decent Whedon/Goddard fan contingent in my movie theater, because there was some enthusiastic clapping when "Mutant Enemy Production" came up in the title sequence.)

Oh yeah, mine too. Not to the point of actually clapping, but with the speaking Latin in front of the books, for one bit.


Strix - Apr 15, 2012 4:43:02 pm PDT #19477 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Jesse, D and I both chortled good and hard on that one. (It was a medium audience, and you could DEFINITELY tell the Jossites from who laughed at what.)


Strix - Apr 15, 2012 4:51:02 pm PDT #19478 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh! And before there was the Weaver reveal -- at which almost the whole theatre let out a collective GASP -- when we got the hints that the scientists were keeping back the Ancient Ones, i was CONVINCED there would be some kind of Wolfram & Hart reference.

Wishful thinking, I know.

And that freaking coffee mug/bong is a thing of joy forever!


Polter-Cow - Apr 15, 2012 5:21:22 pm PDT #19479 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Joss said in an Avengers interview that he's not a fan of mixing properties, so there aren't going to be any Buffy references there either.


tiggy - Apr 15, 2012 5:35:18 pm PDT #19480 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

the friend i went with called Sigourney during the voiceover.

unsurprisingly, i find Chris Hemsworth hotter with less hair. i loved all of the ME alumni pop-ups.


Jesse - Apr 15, 2012 5:37:24 pm PDT #19481 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I really could go on and on about Chris Hemsworth. Especially that character -- he was exactly the kind of guy I had the hots for in college.


DavidS - Apr 15, 2012 5:43:13 pm PDT #19482 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

he was exactly the kind of guy I had the hots for in college.

You went to Valhalla University?


Jesse - Apr 15, 2012 5:45:23 pm PDT #19483 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Nah, that's why I couldn't go to Fordham -- when I visited, the whole campus was full of big shirtless whiteboys and I almost died.


DavidS - Apr 15, 2012 6:37:30 pm PDT #19484 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

when I visited, the whole campus was full of big shirtless whiteboys and I almost died.

They could not bring the funk as a cowgirl prefers.


beekaytee - Apr 15, 2012 7:02:33 pm PDT #19485 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

Quick question for parents of small ones in re Mirror Mirror:

Would it be too scary for a 5 year old who is generally fearless in life, but a bit sensitive with regard to movies?