In other news, this review of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is pretty great: [link]
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
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shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:24:43 am PDT #25278 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Dana - Aug 23, 2013 9:27:06 am PDT #25279 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I should probably not be quite so gleeful that the movie is getting terrible reviews, but I am.
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:30:05 am PDT #25280 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Let us be gleefully petty together.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2013 9:33:03 am PDT #25281 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ok that was hilarious.Team Elderly Woman Who Walked Out Of This Movie!
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2013 9:47:32 am PDT #25282 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I cannot imagine how Affleck could have the slightest effect on the quality of this project.
Seriously! I have been in "uh, I think it's gonna suck" mode for a long time now. The idea of Affleck in the role is entertaining! But I've already seen a good actor be a crap Batman in a crap Batman movie. This is nothing earthshattering or anything. He's nigh tangential, except for how funny the geek rage is right now. That's a price above rubies.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2013 10:16:43 am PDT #25283 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
said Snyder, whose filmmaking specialty is definitely “layered portrayals,” of the need to cast someone who could seem just slightly more charismatic than Henry Cavill.
I don't think Affleck's the man for that particular job, at least not since the days of Dogma.
One thing, this news does make me thankful I've always been way more a fan of Superman than Batman. I suspect I'm going to enjoy Cavill's portrayal at least as much as I did in Man of Steel (which was quite a bit), so a even a Gigli level pratfall on Affleck's part won't necessarily ruin the movie for me.
Plus, Batman not as likely to be knocking Superman through buildings packed to the rafters with screaming bystanders, and Pa Kent unlikely to have made a holographic copy of himself so he can continue to be distant and advise Clark to disregard innocent lives in peril in favor of looking out for #1.
billytea - Aug 23, 2013 1:23:20 pm PDT #25284 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.
I wish to add another school movie, namely The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring a young Maggie Smith.
-t - Aug 23, 2013 2:07:44 pm PDT #25285 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like
There was just a big reveal. I won't spoil it because, honestly, I really don't want to take the time to write it all down.
is a line I should steal and use often.
Atropa - Aug 23, 2013 2:37:30 pm PDT #25286 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I should probably not be quite so gleeful that the movie is getting terrible reviews, but I am.
Yes, yes you should.
Also, I have seen the tie-in clothing line at Hot Topic , and ... well. Even by HT standards, there's some really substandard manufacturing going on there.
Juliebird - Aug 23, 2013 3:04:00 pm PDT #25287 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
One of my poor interns was beside herself over the Mortal Instruments movie. She's dying to read the book(s?) and has to read 1989 instead for her summer reading that is due in a week (man, either she's in some advanced HS program, or highschool in the 90's was much easier). She got me interested in checking it out. Now, not so much. Which makes me sad, because I want to see Lily Collins in more stuff.