Interesting interview with Lindy Hemming, TDKR costume designer: [link]
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Jesse - Aug 20, 2012 10:44:19 am PDT #22229 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Aug 20, 2012 4:02:10 pm PDT #22230 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I just remembered that one of the previews we got was for Taken 2.
Which strikes me as possibly the most hilarious sequel. Taken. AGAIN. Taken: Another Family Member.
askye - Aug 20, 2012 4:38:01 pm PDT #22231 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
We saw that preview. I didn't realize what it was for until I saw the title. I'd blocked the first movie. When the trailer was over Will leaned over and whispered "Does he have a dog."
Amy - Aug 20, 2012 4:52:38 pm PDT #22232 of 30000
Because books.
When the trailer was over Will leaned over and whispered "Does he have a dog."
Heh.
We finally saw The Dark Knight rises on Saturday, and we got trailers for: Taken (Again), The Hobbit, Red Dawn, Man of Steel, and I think one more, but I can't remember if we did.
Appreciated the movie, felt for the characters, was a little more disturbed by some of the imagery than I thought I would be, i.e.: the police symbolically buried under the rubble of an explosion, the long line of police walking toward what they assumed was their doom. Even the scene at the football stadium was weird for me -- the effects were well done, but it wasn't the explosion so much as remembering those first games after 9/11, and how emotionally fraught they were.
I also wondered if the gold for the home team was symbolic.
Politically, Nolan was all over the place -- nothing was any good, except as I think le nubian (and probably others) pointed out, the individual . And I think you got to see both sides of that quite a few times, both with Batman/Bruce and Catwoman/Selina. Neither one of them made consistent right or good choices . In the end, I thought it was perfect that Blake decided to do what he did, and whether he succeeded or not was not the point -- it was the fact that he was choosing, and acting.
I think. I'd like to see it again, but I probably won't in the theaters. I love JGL even more now -- he was fantastic. Anne Hathaway was also great, and good god, she has a figure like an old-school Barbie in the suit.
One weirdness for me was that as much as I loved Bane, I felt like the character was so distanced behind the mask and the armor-like clothing and the bulk of muscle. He didn't look quite real. Whereas the Joker was so feral, so personal, so very, very human. No idea if that was purposeful or not, but I still loved Tom Hardy's portrayal.
le nubian - Aug 20, 2012 10:11:13 pm PDT #22233 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Update:
TMZ is saying that Tony Scott did NOT have brain cancer or any other malady that was terminal or very serious. His wife supposedly has said this.
Autopsy results ready in 4-8 weeks.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2012 10:32:03 pm PDT #22234 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Avengers gag reel is pretty funny. Watch it before it's taken down! Or, you know, buy the DVD or whatever. Spoilers and stuff, obvs.
Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2012 2:34:13 am PDT #22235 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The Avengers gag reel is pretty funny.
Being an actor is HARD.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2012 4:07:07 am PDT #22236 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm kind of impressed that the hammer and the shield actually come flying at them -- I would have assumed it was some kind of movie magic.
Vonnie K - Aug 21, 2012 4:09:00 am PDT #22237 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
ZOMG the thing with Thor and his hammer.
Amy - Aug 21, 2012 4:16:09 am PDT #22238 of 30000
Because books.
ZOMG the thing with Thor and his hammer.
Hee.