I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Steph L. - Jul 17, 2012 10:44:06 am PDT #21741 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Claflin was the other "love interest" in Snow White & Thor

He was the Duke's son, or whatever? He was awfully pretty in that. But I didn't recognize him from those pictures.


Tom Scola - Jul 17, 2012 10:44:38 am PDT #21742 of 30000
hwæt

What is the best Batman costume? [link]


Vonnie K - Jul 17, 2012 10:50:46 am PDT #21743 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Anthony Mackie in talks to play Sam Wilson/Falcon in Captain America 2: [link]

I don't know anything about the Captain America comics or Falcon, but Mackie was fantastic in The Hurt Locker, so I'd be happy if the rumour turned out to be true.


Anne W. - Jul 17, 2012 10:50:51 am PDT #21744 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Amanda Plummer as Wiress is perfect.


§ ita § - Jul 17, 2012 11:07:42 am PDT #21745 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've seen the Mackie talks being reported as a done deal, Vortex.

I can't help reading him as small for a superhero, but I also read him as delicious, so I'm adequately prepped for the drool.


smonster - Jul 17, 2012 5:58:20 pm PDT #21746 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Amanda Plummer cast as Wiress.

That is awesome. Also, I had forgotten/maybe never realized that she was Honey Bunny! "Any of you fucking pricks move, I'm gonna to execute every motherfucking last one of ya."


Amy - Jul 17, 2012 6:02:16 pm PDT #21747 of 30000
Because books.

I LOVE her as Honey Bunny! She and Tim Roth were fantastic.


Jessica - Jul 17, 2012 7:25:48 pm PDT #21748 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So as not to reveal any DKR spoilers, I will let slip only this detail:

Alfred is a Buffista spirit baby - he drinks Fernet.


le nubian - Jul 17, 2012 10:34:19 pm PDT #21749 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Jessica,

did you like the film?


Jessica - Jul 18, 2012 2:31:27 am PDT #21750 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm still mulling it over. As a piece of filmmaking, it's incredible. But the more I sit with it, the more I find the movie's politics really disturbing.

This Gotham is WAY more explicitly NYC than in the previous two movies, where it looked more or less like Chicago. In this one they did a lot of on-location shooting here, and didn't bother to do any set-dressing, so there are NYC subway entrances, and newspaper boxes with the NY Post in them, and the trash cans look like the ones outside my office, and all the buildings in "downtown Gotham" are real buildings in downtown Manhattan. They also say "Gotham" instead of "Gotham City" which isn't a huge difference except that one is the city where Batman lives and the other is NYC's nickname. And so on. And that made it very difficult for me personally to take this as pure fiction and not political commentary, especially given what I know about how Nolan wanted to shoot certain scenes.

So. I'm conflicted. I want to like it, but I'm not sure I can.