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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Juliebird - Jun 09, 2012 3:45:46 pm PDT #21081 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I have to say, the movie, with it's negation of any romance, did seem to be open to a sequel that explicitly explored romantic possibilities. But also the universe it set up also left possibilites of world healing to explore.

But if they continue to ignore romance, I'm going to get Hunger Games levels of annoyed.

Hunger Games book spoiler (I'm still irked that the deciding factor was a suspicion of one lover being involved in the death of a family member. That felt like cheating just to get that shit over with.)

§ ita § - Jun 09, 2012 3:53:19 pm PDT #21082 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is there a reason the story/universe needs romance?

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 09, 2012 10:28:16 pm PDT #21083 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 laughing my ass off (and worrying about the state of the human race) reading a thread on IMDB about SWatH, where the OP states that KS needs breast implants to improve her.

My vote would go to a procedure that transplants affect instead.

Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2012 6:54:23 am PDT #21084 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Heh. The Indiewire weekend box office list amuses me:

1. Talking Animals 3D - (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $60.4 million
2. Prometheus 3D - (Fox) - $50 million
3. All Fairy Tales Should Apparently Look Like Lord Of The Rings (Universal) - $23.1 million ($98.5 mil.)
4. Men In Black 3D (Sony) - $13.5 million ($135.5 mil.)
5. Those Who Would Avenge Us (Disney) - $10.8 million ($571.9 mil.)
6. The Best Exotic Third World Hotel For White People (Fox Searchlight) - $3.3 million ($31 mil.)
7. What To Detect When You’re Detecting (Lionsgate) - $2.8 million ($36 mil.)
8. You Should Have Adapted Risk Instead (Universal) - $2.4 million ($60 mil.)
9. The Dictator (Paramount) - $2.3 million ($55 mil.)
10. Quirks Abound (Focus Features) - $1.6 million ($9.2 mil.)

Sean K - Jun 10, 2012 8:19:24 am PDT #21085 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Prometheus got beat by Madagascar 3. Wow.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 10, 2012 8:33:34 am PDT #21086 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

The instant I saw the singing, dancing zebra in the rainbow wig I thought "that's possibly the most annoying character to listen to on earth. Toddlers will LOVE it!"

le nubian - Jun 10, 2012 8:38:18 am PDT #21087 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Yeah, it was going to be hard for an R movie to beat the kids movie.

§ ita § - Jun 10, 2012 9:11:46 am PDT #21088 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That Indiewire list is a bit of an admission of not-as-clever-as-we'd-have-liked, since they didn't manage to be cute ten times in a row.

What's a normal really good opening weekend for an R rated movie?

When we went to see Prometheus I reached into the normal bin for the 3D glasses in the baggies, and the ticket puncher gave me a different pair of specs--this one said IMAX and 3D. Is that advertising, or is there a technical difference?

My god, I promised myself I'd rewatch Children of Men today, but was seriously feeling too lazy to load the disc player and change the inputs on the TV.

YES.

That lazy.

Oh, look! It's on Syfy! Right now! So I appear to be settling for at best, ads, at worst bowlderisation. I don't even...

Scrappy - Jun 10, 2012 9:26:53 am PDT #21089 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Saw Prometheus last night. Beautifully art-directed and cast, loved watching it. The script made me roll my eyes forever. How did this rich guy manage to hire the world's stupidest scientists? Geologist who gets lost in a cave area MADE OF ROCKS. Biologist who doesn't know better than to make kissy faces at an unknown life form? Archeologist who discovers a wild theory he devoted his life to is true and then immediately sulks by a pool table because he didn't get to talk to the dudes he imagined?

le nubian - Jun 10, 2012 10:00:16 am PDT #21090 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Scrappy,

are you sure the area where he got lost was made of rocks? I thought that was part of the space vehicle and thus I was not certain what material it was made from.

Not for nothing, I completely agree with you at the levels of stupidity. It burned. real bad.

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