Everyone was so stoic and sour-faced. I didn't imagine they had stories.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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§ ita § - Aug 10, 2012 5:09:12 pm PDT #22137 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
askye - Aug 10, 2012 5:19:01 pm PDT #22138 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
The guy they sent this time was supposed to be the new version of Treadstone and without empathy (I think that's what Norton's character said) and so I got the impression he wasn't supposed to have any kind of backstory. Just be a killer through training and modifications.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2012 5:23:57 pm PDT #22139 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who played him?
askye - Aug 10, 2012 5:33:30 pm PDT #22140 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Louis Ozawa Changchien IMDB page - [link]
Calli - Aug 10, 2012 6:01:38 pm PDT #22141 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I like the latest Bourne well enough, but I though it took too long to get going. Still, I enjoyed watching Renner.
Consuela - Aug 10, 2012 6:40:07 pm PDT #22142 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Most of the reviews I've seen have been at least positive, including a rather good one on KPCC in LA this morning (in which the critic noted that the Greengrass films gave him motion sickness--my brother!). Mick LaSalle, in the Chron, of course, thought it was lousy.
I'll probably go tomorrow anyway.
Tom Scola - Aug 12, 2012 2:05:40 pm PDT #22143 of 30000
hwæt
Maniacal laugh supercut: [link]
Jessica - Aug 12, 2012 3:09:27 pm PDT #22144 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I went with my sister to see TDKR again (she hadn't seen it yet), and wow, do all the scenes where Bruce is in the pit getting the "child who climbed out of the pit" story have a "Ben is Glory?"/"Who's On First" quality to them the second time around.
Old Guy: There was a child who climbed out of the pit
Bruce: Yes, I know Bane!
Old Guy: Uh...yeah, the child had a protector. Anyway, back to my story.
Bruce: Bane!
Old Guy: I AM TALKING ABOUT THE CHILD YOU IDIOT STOP SAYING BANE
Bruce: So...we're still talking about Bane, then?
Old Guy: Oh for fuck's sake, I'll skip to the end - ditch the rope, climb out.
Bruce: Thanks for telling me about Bane!
Old Guy: ARGH.
I'm still hugely impressed by what a well-constructed trilogy this is. Each movie stands pretty well alone, but together they tell one MASSIVE story, which I love.
The politics are still weird, but being prepared for them this time around, I wasn't quite so squicked. I still would like to hear Nolan clarify them a bit, because I honestly can't tell if this is an incredibly offensive movie, or just an incredibly confusing one. I mean, does he really think that lobbying for the 1% to pay a slightly higher marginal tax rate is equivalent to hauling old ladies on 5th Ave out of their homes and forcing them to walk across a frozen river to their death? Or are we supposed to believe that THOSE people were all criminals to begin with, and that there's an unseen population of regular people in Gotham who are hiding terrified in their rent-stabilized apartments?
Anne W. - Aug 12, 2012 3:32:17 pm PDT #22145 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The politics are still weird, but being prepared for them this time around, I wasn't quite so squicked.
I came away feeling that the kind of anarchy we saw was being shown as a natural (if Bane-accelerated) end result of the kind of runaway class division we have today. I also did get the idea that there were a lot of people just holing up in their homes and waiting for everything to just go away. I got a major French Revolution vibe off the whole thing.
askye - Aug 12, 2012 4:12:41 pm PDT #22146 of 30000
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Will came up and surprised me today so we went and saw Total Recall. It was good, although I think I like the Bourne Legacy slightly more.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a spoiler but I thought it was weird that in Future Britain and Future Australia everyone had American accents.