I love Bendypants Crumblybatch's Smaug voice.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Polter-Cow - Oct 01, 2013 11:38:12 am PDT #25580 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Connie Neil - Oct 01, 2013 11:45:16 am PDT #25581 of 30000
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Oh I'm looking forward to the Bilbo-Smaug snark-off.
Atropa - Oct 01, 2013 12:28:09 pm PDT #25582 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Aaaaugh, Mirkwood is going to be such a bad section for me. (I'm assuming we're spoilerfonting this stuff?)
§ ita § - Oct 01, 2013 12:34:36 pm PDT #25583 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If it's not in the trailer, I guess so.
I'm also guessing that if the first movie didn't raise the thread, the original Middle Earth haven has passed into the West, right?
eta: returns from trailer--that looked like Mirkwood to me--am I remembering wrong?
Atropa - Oct 01, 2013 12:48:28 pm PDT #25584 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Nope, I don't think you're remembering wrong. I'm going to need reports from people about where I'll need to close my eyes during the movie.
Consuela - Oct 01, 2013 1:49:52 pm PDT #25585 of 30000
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'm also guessing that if the first movie didn't raise the thread, the original Middle Earth haven has passed into the West, right?
I asked about this last year, and nobody seemed interested in bringing back the old thread.
§ ita § - Oct 02, 2013 5:26:05 am PDT #25586 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Things I wasn't going to guess:
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo goes by Daniel Brühl. Well, no, I might guess that. But I wouldn't have guessed that Daniel Brühl was born Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo. Spanish mother, German father, born in Spain because his mother didn't trust German hospitals, grew up in Germany, summered in Spain, raised trilingual speaking German, Spanish, and Catalan.
The sloth-stalk continues...
Fiona - Oct 03, 2013 9:51:00 pm PDT #25587 of 30000
OK, I think Gravity is amazing, but I also think that people squicked by the Open Water scenario should probably stay away. All others: see it on as big a screen and as Dolby-Atmosy as possible.
How much do I love that a major plot point is a direct lift from Wall-E ? A lot.
Jessica - Oct 04, 2013 4:45:53 am PDT #25588 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How much do I love that a major plot point is
YES YES YES.
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2013 8:09:54 pm PDT #25589 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's like a more extreme worst-case-scenario Apollo 13.
Yep, it's Apollo 13 on steroids, holy shit. It's fucking terrifying.
All others: see it on as big a screen and as Dolby-Atmosy as possible.
I fully intended to see it in IMAX 3D, but I got confused and ended up seeing it in regular 3D. I think it would have been more amazing in IMAX for sure; I would have loved better sound.
The 3D was worth it just for the tears. MY GOD.
I've never seen anything like this movie. I couldn't believe George fucking Clooney got offed so soon, leaving Sandra Bullock to carry the rest of the movie, which she totally did.
I loved all the little details like the tiny flames in the shuttle that Stone passes by, the fact that you can see the early debris fly by behind Stone as she's trying to get into the ISS before she turns around and sees how fucked she is, and that fucking jerkass frog. I liked that Stone was smart but also believably dumb at times. When she missed things or made mistakes, it felt realistic.
Mostly, how is this movie real.