His first name is Agent!
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
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Dana - Sep 10, 2012 1:54:49 pm PDT #22441 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Strega - Sep 10, 2012 3:26:21 pm PDT #22442 of 30000
There’s a very strong possibility that a viewer’s enjoyment of Whedon’s take on William Shakespeare will be affected by how much of a Whedon fan he or she already is.
So, PASS.
Connie Neil - Sep 10, 2012 3:27:03 pm PDT #22443 of 30000
brillig
With Strega. I find I'm not that eager to see what Joss does to Shakespeare.
billytea - Sep 10, 2012 3:32:31 pm PDT #22444 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
With Strega. I find I'm not that eager to see what Joss does to Shakespeare.
I already found out in The Avengers. "Dost Mother know thou wearest her drapes?"
Kalshane - Sep 10, 2012 3:39:55 pm PDT #22445 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.
Slate is doing Sneakers week in honor the movie's 20th anniversary. [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 10, 2012 3:42:35 pm PDT #22446 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In theory I like the idea of essentially having a resident company to work on new film projects, but it sounds as if this one may have too many Jossverse actors and throw me out of the story. I'll be anticipating Beatrice turning blue-haired and punching Benedick's head off if he gets in too good an insult.
Gris - Sep 11, 2012 4:19:58 am PDT #22447 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I want to see it. I've seen most of the actors in enough different roles already that I don't too strongly associate any of them with one thing (Captain Tightpants is the only near-problem for me, but I loved him in Waitress so there you go). And it looks pretty.
Vonnie K - Sep 11, 2012 4:57:48 am PDT #22448 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I'm chomping at my bits to see it, but God knows when (or if) it'll come around to my neck of the woods.
The reports from TIFF are making me mad nostalgic. I lived in Toronto for 3 years in my younger days (and still have family there) and each of those years, I took a week off work to watch the wildly divergent movies screening in the city, sometimes 3-4 a day. The ticket-procuring process was crazycakes -- this was more than 10 years ago and I suspect it is worse now -- but I have fond memories of conversations I had with total strangers while waiting in line for what seemed like hours.
I was curious to hear how Wachowski sibs adaptation of Cloud Atlas was received and apparently the reception was mixed, to say the least: [link]
Early response from the town hall of Twitter was wildly divided on “Cloud Atlas,” with some declaring it “an intense three-hour mental workout with big emotional payoff,” “the most ambitious film I’ve ever seen” or a “deft interweaving of six stories and sincere as all get out,” while others felt it was a “symphonic fiasco of artistry and tackiness,” “five or six movies interrupting each other” or just plain “unbearable.”
Steph L. - Sep 11, 2012 5:00:22 am PDT #22449 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm chomping at my bits to see it,
Ditto.
but God knows when (or if) it'll come around to my neck of the woods.
Ditto.
One of my favorite Shakespeare plays + Joss Whedon? Yeah, I think I'm good with that.
Jessica - Sep 11, 2012 5:14:07 am PDT #22450 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That's about how people responded to the book as well, which makes me think it's a decent adaptation.
I do know that they changed the structure - instead of the mirrored chronology in the book, the six stories are simply intercut. Which I'm a bit cranky about, but willing to reserve judgment until I see it.