Okay, this is awesome: a lengthy discussion of the never-made Black Widow origin screenplay. [link]
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Consuela - Jun 07, 2012 12:44:56 pm PDT #21021 of 30000
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Maysa - Jun 07, 2012 8:00:06 pm PDT #21022 of 30000
For those people who hadn't like Mark Ruffalo in much before "The Avengers", I do recommend "You Can Count On Me" and "The Brothers Bloom."
Speaking as a serious, long-time Mark Ruffalo fan (ever since You Can Count on Me--which is basically a flawless film) In the Cut, Zodiac, 13 Going on 30, and We Don't Live Here Anymore are pretty good, too. Avoid Just Like Heaven at all costs. I saw that in the theater and it dampened even my crush on him for awhile.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 08, 2012 4:19:18 am PDT #21023 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Plus Zodiac gives bonues interactions with RDJ.
Jessica - Jun 08, 2012 5:33:54 am PDT #21024 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Any film where Mark Ruffalo is supposed to be charming and appealing instead of vaguely unnerving is going to be pushing very hard against my suspension of disbelief. He works for me as the Hulk because the film acknowledges there is something just wrong about him.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 08, 2012 5:54:27 am PDT #21025 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
My first awareness of Ruffalo was a Spanish/Canadian indie My Life Without Me, in which he and everyone else were excellent. Though he appears to have been hidden in things I'd seen way before, like There Goes My Baby, 54, and an episode of Due South.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2012 5:58:15 am PDT #21026 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel kinda bad about not responding well to Ruffalo (as opposed to Renner--he's just weird), because nothing *seems* to be wrong with him. Yet my hairs still stand on end.
smonster - Jun 08, 2012 7:09:00 am PDT #21027 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I am Jessica and ita ! WRT to Ruffalo. Just... blecch.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2012 8:54:48 am PDT #21028 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, dear god. I know fantasy casting is fun, but when you're writing for a "proper" website, you have some responsibility to at least take positions that stimulate conversations, not make people roll their eyes and move on.
Daniel Radcliffe as Batman? Pull the other one...it's got bells on: [link]
le nubian - Jun 08, 2012 10:32:32 am PDT #21029 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it's troll bait.
If he said Radcliffe as Spider-Man, I might have said he wasn't totally crazy.
Sean K - Jun 08, 2012 10:52:08 am PDT #21030 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So Prometheus was pretty good, not quite as GREAT as I was kind of expecting, but the "pretty good" was so spectacularly good that I can't say I'm disappointed either. I'm not. It also might take further viewings to really decide how I feel about it.
That said, every second of the film was eye popping. Also, this is not a horror movie. There are some very tense and harrowing moments and sequences, but this is straight up sci fi. And my oost for Noomi Rapace deepened considerably.