Just saw Premium Rush and it was HIGHLY enjoyable!!!
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lisah - Aug 26, 2012 11:55:46 am PDT #22260 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Polter-Cow - Aug 26, 2012 12:15:32 pm PDT #22261 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It looks like it's pretty fun!
amyth - Aug 26, 2012 2:40:06 pm PDT #22262 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Calli and I just saw it too. I agree!
Calli - Aug 28, 2012 11:21:02 am PDT #22263 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yeah, Premium Rush was actually a lot better than I expected. I figured JGL would be great, and he was, but the plot and some of the secondary characters weren't bad either.
§ ita § - Aug 28, 2012 11:35:21 am PDT #22264 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got into a weird discussion with someone who was challenging the general good opinion of JGL--not saying he disagreed, but rather that the good opinion didn't exist.
One of his citations? TDKR.
I'm wondering--you have people saying that's why he's not good? And they outnumber the people saying he was all that and the movie was the Blake story and when can we have the next one?
When I countered him, he said it wasn't that his performance was bad, but that many people thought the character was the weak link in the movie, and they might blame JGL in error, although he didn't make any bad acting choices. And the "they" that might are enough to say that JGL doesn't have a good rep, never mind a "hot new (but old) thing" rating. It's ruined by all those people who only judge him on one movie and can't tell writing from acting, and think the character sucked?
WHAT UNIVERSE ARE YOU IN??? WHO DO YOU HANG OUT WITH??
And why are they stupid?
But it was the less frustrating discussion, compared to "I have found all the flaws in the premise of Looper, and there is no explanation the movie can give, nor entertainment that the well regarded director and cast (well, except for JGL, since it's clearly been established by someone else that he sucks) can conjure up to make my questions less important."
And, yes, I do regard it as different from "A universe in which all forms of energy have disappeared..." That's just a dumb thing to say. Your show might not suck, but please don't say that about it.
Amy - Aug 28, 2012 12:13:00 pm PDT #22265 of 30000
Because books.
I thought JGL was universally adored. That's what I'm going to keep believing, anyway.
io9 proposes Batman Beyond for further Bat movies. Which sounds good to me, but here's my not-a-comics-person question: Do they need to work from existing material, or can they make up stuff? Because the way TDKR ended would set up a Batman Beyond scenario pretty easily, if Bruce would agree to come back from Europe anyway.
lisah - Aug 28, 2012 12:13:30 pm PDT #22266 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
How could he not be??? He is ADORABLE!
Jesse - Aug 28, 2012 1:32:29 pm PDT #22267 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm not going to lie, at the end of TDKR, I wished JGL's name had been Terry.
erikaj - Aug 28, 2012 3:05:15 pm PDT #22268 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I think he's great. But I thought Everybody kind of agreed on it after (500) Days. although I like the Lookout a lot.
Juliebird - Aug 28, 2012 3:10:38 pm PDT #22269 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
JGL, for me, grew from that kid on that show, to a recurring surprise of delight with every new project I saw of his. And my little brother helped solidify the opinion of awesome with his own enthusiasm. Said lil' bro turned me onto Firefly and Buffy, I respect his opinion greatly.
Am in the mood now to rewatch Brick.