Has anyone gone to the Avengers this weekend? Was it mobbed or just normal-movie busy? (i.e., if I'm planning on trying to get Matilda and myself to a matinee tomorrow or Monday, should we aim to be there way early or buy tickets online, or just breeze on up to the box office a few minutes before it starts like any normal movie?)
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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JZ - Sep 01, 2012 6:36:55 pm PDT #22327 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Gris - Sep 02, 2012 4:54:42 am PDT #22328 of 30000
Hey. New board.
It only made 365000 yesterday so I doubt you need advance tix
Kalshane - Sep 02, 2012 6:26:31 am PDT #22329 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I don't think there's been much promotion about it being back in the theaters. I was out with a bunch of friends on Friday night, all geeks or geek-adjacent and none of them had heard it was back in theaters this weekend.
SuziQ - Sep 02, 2012 9:05:11 am PDT #22330 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
It is only in one of our local theaters. I would have expected more.
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2012 10:40:38 am PDT #22331 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Saw Premium Rush last night and it was, as people have said, a lot of fun. It's not high art or anything, and it has a better cast than a movie of this caliber should have, but that's to its benefit. But I really didn't like the score. I guess he was trying to go for some sort of "fun nineties rock excitement" sound, but it didn't really work for me. I wanted something more pulse-pounding and action-y.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2012 1:25:27 pm PDT #22332 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Really? I thought it was really disappointing. It didn't play to JGL's strengths (other than his quads...), the stuntwork was weird and obvious, there were no character arcs, and the resolution of the primary conflict was anti-climactic as all get out.
Basically, if you don't like bicycle chases, there isn't that much other than that.
le nubian - Sep 02, 2012 2:16:59 pm PDT #22333 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Watching FX. How is it the movie "Knowing" got made?
lisah - Sep 02, 2012 2:44:33 pm PDT #22334 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Really?
Indeed! It totally played to his strength of being adorable! But, I am a biker so the bike stuff was fun for me. Although, if I saw someone doing the things he did in real life it would make me have to yell at them!
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2012 2:52:56 pm PDT #22335 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Basically, if you don't like bicycle chases, there isn't that much other than that.
Preeeetty much! I mean, I see what you're saying, but I had a good time.
Watching FX. How is it the movie "Knowing" got made?
Dude, just wait till the last twenty minutes or so. It's amazing(ly bad).
I just watched Taken and, huh, it was actually really good! Liam Neeson sure does kill a lot of people.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2012 3:10:17 pm PDT #22336 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not saying the bike stuff isn't fun--just that the plot itself is kinda weak. Was Manny supposed to be such a douche that they couldn't say "Hey, you have a marker for thousands of dollars that a friend of the chick you're macking needs to bring her son to the US" Would he really not help out? I know he had a massive competition thing going on with Wiley, but I don't feel they established he was that heartless a prick.
I don't know much about the psychology of a gambling addiction, but, yeah, the bad guy was pretty OTT for the short period the movie covers.
Once someone had called the dispatcher and told him to switch the address--couldn't they switch it back again? Like, the woman who put the order in the first time? Or one fo the riders explain what there's some nefarious shit going down, and it need to get to the original address?
And was he really taken down by people riding by and shoving him? And everyone would show up just to shove him?
I don't think Wiley was particularly adorable. He was just there. They didn't spend time on character development, or anything--it was pretty much "JGL's playing him, he's cool, alright?" And I'd cheerfully wing him with a car door for cycling like that around my car. That shit's not cute.
I couldn't help but think about Kat at the ER and the Critical Mass corpse they wanted to put in the elevator with her--that was a guy riding a fixie with no brakes too.