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.
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.
The one in Framingham, yep. And then dinner at Bertucci's after, to firmly thrash out what we saw.
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.
Fast Furious Feminism. Interesting discussion of the female characters in the franchise (spoilers for entire series).
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.
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.
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 think the men are often in mortal peril, but those are fight and chase scenes and taken as required ingredients of action movies. Would what happened to Lettie be damselling if she'd been male? I argue 50-50. Han is only called doomed, not damselled.
That Kung Fu Vampire looks super cray-cray. I have to see it.
