I haven't seen Hanna, but i suspect that role is why she was cast in The Host.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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tiggy - May 24, 2012 5:48:41 pm PDT #20614 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
§ ita § - May 24, 2012 6:05:49 pm PDT #20615 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, don't compare it to Run Lola Run. I did not like that.
However, I think maybe liking Cate Blanchett being OTT is what tips it over? I loved Hanna, and everything she did except for the electricity shit and working out the internet in 30 seconds. I liked her father, I liked the girl she met on her travels and her parents (not so much the brother), I enjoyed Cate, and for a little while I liked the requisite deviant pervy thug.
There's most of the movie right there. Unlike Haywire, the bits inbetween the fight scenes weren't soporific. Not to me.
Polter-Cow - May 24, 2012 6:09:49 pm PDT #20616 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Signed, Still Irritated by a recent Staged Dracula referring to Harker's "dime store cross"...because really, what's a "dime" in Victorian England?
I'm reading Hound of the Baskervilles, and a character just referred to feeling like he was in a "dime novel."
Connie Neil - May 24, 2012 6:40:57 pm PDT #20617 of 30000
brillig
re: Hound--Watson is assumed to have spent a lot of time in America, is he the one who refers to the dime novel?
Polter-Cow - May 24, 2012 6:43:40 pm PDT #20618 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, it's one of the folk from Devonshire.
Steph L. - May 24, 2012 6:48:17 pm PDT #20619 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
No, it's one of the folk from Devonshire.
Isn't that like the
scientist in
S2 BBC Sherlock's version of the Hound
saying "cell phone"
instead of
whatever the Britishism is -- "mobile," I guess?
That was one of the clues that made Sherlock realize
he had spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time in America, where the Scarecrow fear toxin
was developed.
t /crossing the streams
Polter-Cow - May 24, 2012 6:49:57 pm PDT #20620 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oooh, maybe you're right! I'll have to keep an eye on that guy.
Oh, wait, never mind. It's Sir Henry Baskerville, who specifically says that he's spent most of his life in the States and Canada.
Strix - May 24, 2012 7:34:39 pm PDT #20621 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So I wasn't the only one that didn't know about Red 2? Good; I felt like my geek mana was dwindling...
Watched Haywire tonight; wasn't impressed by the script, but the fight scenes were solid, and damn, was it nice to see a female action star with strong shoulders and solid legs.
(Although I remain irritated that despite the yoga and weight loss, my hips are too wide and my short T. Rex arms render it impossible -- so far -- for me to change my handcuffed position from behind the back to in front.
Yeah, I have handcuffs, and yeah, it's a pointless goal of mine. Don't judge.
I think I'll try again now, with the cuffs.)
ETA: HA! Typing with cuffs on! I DID IT! FUCK YEAH!
Consuela - May 24, 2012 8:06:29 pm PDT #20622 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
damn, was it nice to see a female action star with strong shoulders and solid legs.
And shot like an action hero, not a sex object, and who goes through most of the movie in jeans, hoodie, and flat-heeled boots. I loved the escape/chase scene in Dublin. So much.
Zenkitty - May 25, 2012 6:32:06 am PDT #20623 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
ETA: HA! Typing with cuffs on! I DID IT! FUCK YEAH!
I just adore you, Erin.