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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2012 3:37:47 pm PDT #22568 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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."


§ ita § - Sep 29, 2012 3:57:49 pm PDT #22569 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2012 4:02:23 pm PDT #22570 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.


§ ita § - Sep 29, 2012 4:55:13 pm PDT #22571 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


le nubian - Sep 29, 2012 5:00:02 pm PDT #22572 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


billytea - Sep 29, 2012 5:02:48 pm PDT #22573 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.

Pardon my ignorance; what's TK?


Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2012 5:08:09 pm PDT #22574 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It's telekinesis.


§ ita § - Sep 29, 2012 5:14:19 pm PDT #22575 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Jessica - Sep 29, 2012 10:40:53 pm PDT #22576 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.)


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2012 12:19:19 am PDT #22577 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.