Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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There was one set of scenes in the movie
Oh yes, we loved those scenes as well.
Can you really ask that question delicately? I think that was a bit of fucked up direction to let that question linger. I think the answer to that question is "no" but damn.
Yeah, I was wondering whether the movie was going there too, even though it didn't seem to make any sense. I mean,
there was no reason at all for them to have had sex in the first place, before or after, anyway.
the worldbuilding seemed generally careful, and the set design interesting enough to keep the eye happy with a feeling of future, but not truly alien.
Yeah, I loved all the little details like
solar panels on all the cars.
My friend also noticed that
there was soy steak on the menu.
I like one review that called it a Christopher Nolan movie with a sense of humor. Our audience fucking died laughing at
"I'm from the future. Go to China."
Wait, please tell me why that is a question. I have no idea what you people are talking about.
Also, P-C, I don't understand the premise that you have access to either
Joseph Gordon Levitt or Emily Blunt and don't hit that like the angry fist of god
first chance you figure your life isn't on the line.
Wait, please tell me why that is a question. I have no idea what you people are talking about.
It's only a question because
this is a time travel movie and shit like that can happen, and the movie went from a dead Joe to a live Cid, and it felt like there was something else about to be revealed since the ending was kind of abrupt.
Also, Joe,
you could have just shot your hand or something, geez.
I think you really have to want it to be a fucked up ending to go there. Now, I wanted
double penetration (Eiffel Tower style)
to fix the end of Cabin In The Woods, but that seems just theorising for disturbance's sake. It's not a question that
Joe doesn't time travel as a child and doesn't have TK and has no scar on his cheek.
How is that even remotely an issue? There isn't time travel
during Joe's childhood.
And we'd have had the
inserting memories if things had been happening to him to change his history.
That's weird.
As for
shooting his hand--if the blunderbuss never misses within 15 feet (or strides--I think they said both)
how do you achieve that? Also, you'd have to be sure that
he can't shoot with the other hand, or he doesn't get a prosthesis or ... or ...
There's a reason that policemen are
trained for two centre mass shots, and don't try and wing the bad guy
except for in the flashy movies.
You have to be sure, when big things are on the line.
ita,
the fucked up question came up because at the end there were parallel scenes of hair on forehead being brushed away and Beau said
that the kid sometimes had the same facial expression as JGL
. I think that was the director getting arty, of course.
Pardon my ignorance; what's
TK?
Yeah, that was pretty much just a callback for emotional resonance, I figure. Nothing else lined up.
I think at that point
she was all mothers, the mother he never had, yadda yadda, but when he slept with her, she was pretty much Mother, just not his genetically.
That was her sole function in the movie.
I watched Avengers on the plane coming over here and my main question about Hawkeye remains, why the bow and arrow? His power is he can see really well, so I get why he's
good
with a bow and arrow, I just want to see that first conversation where he convinces the military top brass that a bow with trick arrows is a better investment for him than, say, a sniper rifle with trick bullets.
(I also realize that this is a completely stupid thing to get hung up on given that this movie contains Actual Norse Gods, cryo-revival, and an interdimensional portal, but still.)
I think trick arrows are a better conceptual sell than trick bullets. Ignore the bit where 99% of them won't fly or perform as shown. What do trick bullets do? How do you get the right bullet into your gun for the task at hand?
Never mind the visuals and general comic reticence about guns and heroes. Don't see as many as you'd expect. And Batman is very pissy. Don't want to make him mad. I mean, unless you're Helena.
We had 21 minutes of trailers and the silly Nemo shark-will-eat-you ad. Is that standard? Some were pretty creepy. I can't wait to read how Mama turns out.