I thought they did a really good job of making everyone look like they were from the era. There wasn't really a lead actress and I was wondering if there was a supporting actor nod if it would go to what's his name from Breaking Bad or to John Goodman. Goodman got more exposure as being the supporting actor.
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
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askye - Oct 15, 2012 5:00:03 pm PDT #22685 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Scrappy - Oct 16, 2012 6:38:31 am PDT #22686 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hey, what about Arkin? He was totally wonderful.
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2012 7:25:29 am PDT #22687 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gah. I'm being driven slowly insane by the "Why didn't he shoot off his hand instead?" Looper question. He didn't, because the movie is broken. What we are shown early on about that possibility doesn't make sense--sure if right now you cut off my hand, I live 30 years with no hand. I have time to get used to it. I get a prosthetic, and get a little more used to working with the left, no? So why, instead, is it happening instantaneously 30 years later?
What am I missing there?
Also, when I pause to think about the timeline where Joe kills his old self-- how does that actually happen? Or why? I mean, apart from to make there be a movie. At what point does Old Joe just go meekly to his death?
Polter-Cow - Oct 16, 2012 7:28:21 am PDT #22688 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What am I missing there?
Did you read the Q&A with Rian Johnson? He addressed it by saying that if Joe shot off his hand, then Old Joe would just switch to his left and shoot Cid anyway. Also something something redemptive arc, probably.
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2012 7:39:36 am PDT #22689 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, I understand that entirely. What I don't understand is why the future people are suddenly supposed to find themselves limbless, as opposed to dealing with a 3 decade old injury to which they've accommodated, possibly with prosthetics, over all this time. Why was the other guy surprised and unprepared?
askye - Oct 16, 2012 8:31:49 am PDT #22690 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Arkin was great too.
Scrappy - Oct 16, 2012 9:01:34 am PDT #22691 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh, I forgot to mention a celeb sighting when we went to the movies on Sunday. We were going up the escalator and a guy going the other way started calling "Andy, Andy!" our friend, Andy (the prop guy) looked up and there was Anton Yelchin, clearly with his grandparents, beaming at him. They chatted, then Anton made sure to say hi to the rest of us as he passed. You could just tell from that encounter that he was a good guy, and Andy confirmed it. He said he was one of those amazingly talented yet completely non-temperamental actors. He brought his parents to the set and was sweetly proud of them and was generally just a mensch.
Liese S. - Oct 16, 2012 12:47:24 pm PDT #22692 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww. I like that kind of celebrity story.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 16, 2012 4:35:12 pm PDT #22693 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
I just can't look at the trailer for the Lone Ranger remake without Jilli's "Friends don't let friends dress like The Crow" echoing through my head. [link]
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2012 4:54:06 pm PDT #22694 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know if the issue is The Crow so much as it is A Crow.