Rian Johnson to write and direct Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX!!
Or maybe Rian Johnson to write and direct Star Wars Episode VIII and write a treatment for IX!!
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
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Polter-Cow - Jun 20, 2014 9:26:17 am PDT #27153 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2014 12:26:27 pm PDT #27154 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Propaganda style Panem posters. Collins' worldbuilding might have had flaws, but I thought the mindset of the Capitol was prety clear. I am seeing a lot of comments around that don't seem to get polished propaganda.
tommyrot - Jun 20, 2014 1:03:49 pm PDT #27155 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So is anyone excited by the new Star Wars movies? Or are most people like me, thinking "They'll probably suck or be so-so, but I'll probably see them anyway"?
Dana - Jun 20, 2014 1:06:08 pm PDT #27156 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm moderately interested.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2014 5:26:02 pm PDT #27157 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Propaganda style Panem posters.
I swear I had to reread that to remind myself that ita didn't mean Olde Skool goth magazine "Propaganda".
Zenkitty - Jun 20, 2014 5:30:38 pm PDT #27158 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
"Edge of Tomorrow" was much better than I expected to to be. I'd go so far as to say it was good. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2014 5:46:21 pm PDT #27159 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Right? It was kind of a perfect role for Tom Cruise.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2014 7:27:26 pm PDT #27160 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Right? It was kind of a perfect role for Tom Cruise.
Dying violently repeatedly? Yeah, I can get behind that. And unlike Mel, his crazy religious bullshit doesn't taint the early and intermittent stuff I've liked in retrospect. But, yeah, TC being Wile E.? I can so get behind that.
Zenkitty - Jun 21, 2014 12:00:52 am PDT #27161 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Tom Cruise is not a box-office draw for me. He was perfect in this, though. It was funny, too, which I didn't expect. A few times I laughed out loud. I liked that the other members of his team got to be heroes too, even if they didn't remember it, and I was happy when I realized that at the end he didn't just go find her because he loved her, but because he could tell her what really happened and tell her that she saved the world. They did the timey-wimey stuff really well, and it was all internally consistent. And the aliens were scary and weird as shit (though I didn't understand why they called the aliens Mimics). I might even get it on Blu-ray and watch it again.
Steph L. - Jun 21, 2014 5:05:12 am PDT #27162 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Right? It was kind of a perfect role for Tom Cruise.
Dying violently repeatedly? Yeah, I can get behind that.
Nah. The way the character is written is seriously perfect for Cruise, and he pulls it off really well.
Tom Cruise is not a box-office draw for me.
Me neither, although he was my dreamboat of choice 25 years ago. (Wait -- how old *is* he? Whatever work he's had done is really good. And now that I think of it, it's interesting that Edge of Tomorrow didn't cast any hot young 21-year-olds in J Company. Clever.)
And the aliens were scary and weird as shit
Seriously, their super-power was flailing, really really quickly. And yet frightening.
(though I didn't understand why they called the aliens Mimics).
Yeah, when they mentioned the name at the very beginning of the movie, I thought the aliens would mimic humans.