And to take someone else's line--I will sip on the tears of racist and traditionalist fanboys. I will let them ferment in oak barrels and get drunk off them.
That is a splendid line.
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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Calli - May 09, 2014 10:07:42 am PDT #26906 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
chrismg - May 10, 2014 7:38:19 pm PDT #26907 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
That is a splendid line.
Magnificent, even.
chrismg - May 16, 2014 6:20:12 pm PDT #26908 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Just got back from Godzilla.
Short reaction: HAIL TO THE KING, BABY.
Slightly longer reaction: They got Godzilla right. The design is somewhat different, but the motion is good, and - you know how, in the Toho movies, like once a fight he'd pull a move that clearly said, "I'm the King, and you're not, asshole." He's got a couple of those here, and they use the classic end-of-movie bit.
That said, this is very much a post- Cloverfield movie, not in the found-footage sense, but how you know there's a Godzilla movie going on, but you're always in the viewpoint of one of the human characters. There's almost no time where the camera pulls back to kaiju-scale and just watches them whale on each other.
In summary, very good Godzilla, but I agree with the early reviews that said they were too stingy with the kaiju action.
ETA: I don't think any of this is really spoilery, but if a mod-ista could look at it, that'd be cool.
le nubian - May 17, 2014 2:38:53 pm PDT #26909 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
so I didn't care for Godzilla. and much of what I didn't care for would reveal too much of the plot.
Suffice it to say, I really dug the opening credits. Loved the first 10 minutes or so. Right after that, the movie went way the fuck downhill. I liked it a bit more than Beau who is a godzilla aficionado. Beau was deeply offended by the movie and felt it was disrespectful to the notion of godzilla.
I mention the above because godzilla purists might have a hard time with the movie. I am not a purist, but felt that the movie's main character is not who I wanted it to be. Further, the armed services were so stupid as to take me completely out of the movie. I wish they had written around the technological limitations of fighting monsters rather than show abject stupidity and lack of planning.
Strix - May 17, 2014 2:52:07 pm PDT #26910 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My stepson has been looking forward to this movie for literally half his life (he is a HUGE Godzilla fan) so I am hoping it will not disappoint him.
He's waiting until next week to see it , when his dad will fly to PA for his birthday.
erikaj - May 17, 2014 4:27:55 pm PDT #26911 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
From further back, if molestation is that common in the movie business maybe child-star freakouts make more sense than we think.
Anne W. - May 18, 2014 3:05:29 am PDT #26912 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
erika, that is a good and unsettling point.
§ ita § - May 18, 2014 7:13:18 am PDT #26913 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
[dupe]
§ ita § - May 18, 2014 7:14:34 am PDT #26914 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From further back
From where?
eta:
That is a splendid line.
Magnificent, even.
I tinkered with it. Can I get partial credit? Call it a remake.
Consuela - May 18, 2014 7:24:43 pm PDT #26915 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I saw Belle last night: it's a based-on-fact biopic about a young biracial girl in the mid-1700s whose father was a British naval officer and who recognized her and had her raised by his family in a world of wealth and privilege. The cast is great, and although the pace of the story is a little slow, it's quite a feel-good movie about the slow legal steps that shut down the slave trade in the British empire.
Also, it has fabulous clothes.