My friend Steve Burt wrote a really excellent review of the new X-men: [link]
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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Jon B. - May 24, 2014 5:40:44 am PDT #26938 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Tom Scola - May 24, 2014 6:38:11 am PDT #26939 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Joss reacts to the Edgar Wright situation: [link]
§ ita § - May 25, 2014 8:46:06 am PDT #26940 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::clap clap::
A friend of mine was in XM:DOFP. He played one of the reporters (that's his day job) towards the end of the pandemonium when Magneto rips the bunker out and drops the stadium over the White House (nice move!) he's one of the talking heads. Like chin to hairline, whole head. Freaked the fuck out of me (like he did in Nine Whole Yards) just appearing at a not particularly tense part of the movie and making me gasp.
Last time I checked, for his day job he has a drive time radio show in Toronto, so he's not exactly waiting tables in the 15 years between movies.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 25, 2014 12:00:38 pm PDT #26941 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
Dear filmmakers, movie named Godzilla, not Ford "Forrest Gump" Brody's Incredibly Monster-centric World Tour.
I was well entertained whenever the camera focused on the title character. Unfortunately, it seemed as if the other hundred minutes or so the director thought it would be more interesting to pan away and concentrate on Aaron Taylor-Johnson's flat affect and amazing ability to survive being repeatedly almost stepped on instead.
sj - May 25, 2014 4:12:10 pm PDT #26942 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I saw X-Men: DOFP past today. Loved it, but I need two things explained to me.
How does Magneto control the robots when it was said earlier that they don't have any metal in them ?
And explain the post credit scene to me.
Dana - May 25, 2014 5:01:36 pm PDT #26943 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Magneto went on the train that was carrying the Sentinels and basically infused them with metal.
And the post-credit scene refers to the next movie, which it looks like will be Apocalypse. He's a long-time adversary in the comics.
sj - May 25, 2014 5:40:50 pm PDT #26944 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Dana.
EpicTangent - May 26, 2014 11:45:47 am PDT #26945 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
XM:DoFP
Last scene with Logan so I saw he was in Stryker's custody, and went, "Fuuuck!", then saw it was Mystique and it changed to "WTF?"
Jessica - May 26, 2014 12:06:04 pm PDT #26946 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So regarding that last scene - I guess in the New!Future, he doesn't have an adamantium skeleton?
EpicTangent - May 26, 2014 12:09:16 pm PDT #26947 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
That's at least part of what I was wondering.