Just saw Don Jon and liked it even more than I expected. He avoided lots of first feature pitfalls and it's quite smartly sweet. My crush on him has grown even stronger now.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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Scrappy - Oct 13, 2013 8:11:24 pm PDT #25634 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Burrell - Oct 13, 2013 8:13:33 pm PDT #25635 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Glad to hear it, Scrappy. I've been looking forward to seeing that one.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 14, 2013 4:09:11 am PDT #25636 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I saw Gravity at an Imax theater in 3-D. Wow, that was intense. I'm glad it was a nice, crisp 90 minutes, because if it had been much longer it would have gotten unbearable. I was pretty sure she was going to make it, and had a feeling Kowalski wouldn't, but still - I was exhausted afterwards.
Theodosia - Oct 14, 2013 4:42:51 am PDT #25637 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It was really worth the price of the 3D ticket, because we went to a theater with subwoofers under the seats.
I found I was tilting my head more than normal, which made things start going fuzzy -- because so much of the movie is filmed without a definite up and down, I kept trying to lean to bring it back to normal.
I'm proud to report that my friend and I immediately noticed the low-gravity flames and realized their significance.
The MIT SFF geeks I was with were VERY appreciative of the space stuff on display. We decided that there is a new law: if you have Checkov's fire extinguisher in the second act, you have to use it in the third.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 14, 2013 7:47:29 am PDT #25638 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It was really worth the price of the 3D ticket, because we went to a theater with subwoofers under the seats.
Jordan's, right? That's where I saw it. Their tickets aren't all that expensive for a 3D movie, I must say.
Theodosia - Oct 14, 2013 8:58:24 am PDT #25639 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
The one in Framingham, yep. And then dinner at Bertucci's after, to firmly thrash out what we saw.
Vonnie K - Oct 14, 2013 9:26:00 am PDT #25640 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
From AV Club: Charlie Hunnam pulls out of Fifty Shades Of Grey, leaving it begging to be filled: [link]
It made me burst into some very undignified snort-laugh.
Polter-Cow - Oct 14, 2013 11:45:59 am PDT #25641 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Fast Furious Feminism. Interesting discussion of the female characters in the franchise (spoilers for entire series).
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2013 11:52:06 am PDT #25642 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I kinda feel she was too harsh on some characters and almost too kind in other places. I give the series a better feminism score because the chick action scenes are not in any way inferior to the guy ones. That seems to be complicated for our favourite feminist directors.
Polter-Cow - Oct 14, 2013 11:59:00 am PDT #25643 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I kinda feel she was too harsh on some characters and almost too kind in other places.
Yeah, I understand what she says about Mia, but I think the fact that she's not relegated to one role—that she can be sister, mother, wife, etc, in addition to driving and getting in on the action—makes her fairly well rounded. Does being damseled automatically make a character not feminist? Women do seem to get damseled/killed more often than men in the franchise, which is worth noting, I think; it would be good to have the male characters in mortal peril once in a while.
I give the series a better feminism score because the chick action scenes are not in any way inferior to the guy ones.
That's a good point.