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Don't worry, I'm not gonna start any sword fights. I'm over that phase.
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Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2014 6:20:45 pm PDT #27187 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2014 6:29:16 pm PDT #27188 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Raise your hand if you feel OLD.
Raises hand
I saw it a midnight show. I can't even conceive of a midnight show these days. Well...Avengers excepted.
-t - Jun 24, 2014 3:40:32 am PDT #27189 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That actually makes me feel slightly younger, because I thought I was older when it came out.
le nubian - Jun 24, 2014 4:02:09 pm PDT #27190 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
(sticking tongue out at -t)
Juliebird - Jun 24, 2014 4:34:23 pm PDT #27191 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Actually, isn't the sticking point about the ending of Edge of Tomorrow the same sticking point about all the resets in the movie up until that point? Like, why does Cage reset to coming out of taser-coma? In which case, it can be argued that the reset is offset to accomadate time to fix the problem, and that offset varies on the power of the source? The alpha (or whatever, I'm forgetting the movie terms now) is a huge asset, and reset, but the omega is even bigger, so the reset is bigger?
What bugged me is that either Emma Blunt's character fell in love awfully fast, or they didn't really compensate for the fact that her character didn't grow like Cruise's did. It felt like a lot of her interactions were informed by what she'd done with Cage in previous instances. It was actually kind of hard to tell with the quick advancement of where we were in the Choose Your Own Adventure timeline. (If I'd been playing that game, I'd been super annoyed and quit long before getting to the helicopter and switched to Spider Solitaire.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2014 6:07:36 am PDT #27192 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.
Mockingjay teaser: President Snow's Panem Address - "Together as One" (4K) - YouTube
SPOILERY if you haven't read the books. (Anyone here seen the movies but not read the books?)
It's creepy. I like it.
eta: Ah. It's already all over FB. Plus the FB image gives away the spoiler.
Zenkitty - Jun 25, 2014 6:08:54 am PDT #27193 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Julie, Cage reset to coming-out-of-taser-coma because that's the last time he woke up/returned to consciousness before he got sprayed with Alpha blood. That's why he returned to waking up on the helicopter that morning after the Alpha died, presumably - in the new timeline, Operation Downfall or whatever doesn't happen, so he doesn't get tasered for desertion. Which kinda means that the timeline rewrote itself backwards.
I also felt like Rita seemed to know Cage too well for only ever having known him for one day. But since she had also been zapped with the blue blood, maybe she retained some awareness of the resets? It's a handwave, but it's all I've got.
le nubian - Jun 25, 2014 11:16:14 am PDT #27194 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommy, holy SHIT.
P.M. Marc - Jun 25, 2014 1:18:30 pm PDT #27195 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
That's all kinds of awesome, tommy.
Although my head kept going to a Better Off Ted place.
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2014 1:39:42 pm PDT #27196 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha ha ha oh my God now I need to watch it again with that in mind.