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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Jessica - Jul 20, 2014 8:08:10 am PDT #27376 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Quester, June Thomas had the exact same question! (I don't know the answer. It was a very strange character beat.)


Jessica - Jul 20, 2014 8:15:48 am PDT #27377 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have to disagree with:

the only bad CGI was the food vat.

because I thought the polar bear looked pretty obviously cartoonish as well.

In retrospect, the bit with the room full of axes makes sense, given that it was all a setup, but in the moment all I could think of was this scene from Galaxy Quest


sj - Jul 20, 2014 8:24:33 am PDT #27378 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I thought all the CGI was really bad. Every time they looked out the window it looked like a cartoon to me. The only thing I couldn't decide was whether or not that was on purpose.

At the end did anyone else think "Oh, look they survived and now they're going to get eaten by a polar bear." Just me?


Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2014 9:02:37 am PDT #27379 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I am seeing Snowpiercer tonight just so I can read all this freaking whitefont.


§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 9:22:01 am PDT #27380 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought that was the point of the end, sj.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2014 9:53:03 am PDT #27381 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

In retrospect,
the bit with the room full of axes makes sense, given that it was all a setup, but in the moment all I could think of was this scene from Galaxy Quest

That would be the one where you can see they re-dubbed Sigourney Weaver's original line?


§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 9:54:53 am PDT #27382 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Just spent some time envisioining Snowpiercer with Sigourney Weaver in Tilda Swinton's role. Bit of a mental fuckery.


sj - Jul 20, 2014 9:55:38 am PDT #27383 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

ita, I think some people took the point as being yay there is life left on Earth!


Jessica - Jul 20, 2014 9:56:10 am PDT #27384 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Gack, my whitefont!! Put it back,put it back!


Jessica - Jul 20, 2014 9:58:45 am PDT #27385 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I took it as both. Because if there's an apex predator, then there's a food chain - polar bear implies seals implies fish implies plants, so it might be possible for humanity to survive. Except not, because they're probably going to be eaten by the polar bear.