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Saw the Hobbit trailer. Loved that they used the Merry's song from Minas Tirith.
CJ was EXTREMELY excited about this fact. Made me watch the trailer as soon as I finished work and he was literally jumping up and down with excitement. My 18 year old geek boy. Gotta love him.
Epic - sorry to hear that about Lucy. I was very curious about that one.
Classy.
If you hate the end of 2001, you will hate the end of Lucy.
That said, it's still nice to see an SF movie that
1. Has a female main character, who moves the plot by her actions,
2. Passes the Bechdel test multiple times, and
3. Has a much more positive view of superhumanity than Transcendence.
Epic - sorry to hear that about Lucy. I was very curious about that one.
Maybe see it at a matinee? I saw it at the $8 theater, so I'm pretty okay with it. But yeah, not nearly so awesome as hoped.
Note to, I think, -t: Every time they say "only using 10% (& etc.) of the brain's capacity," you think think to yourself "at one time", and it's less painful. "Humans only use 10% of the brain's capacity (at one time)."
I did notice that it passed the Bechdel test, though. Kinda surprising with how few women are in it, but they did.
"at one time"
We have a word for using a lot of your brain at one time. That word is "seizure"
"seizure"/"superhuman" = tomayto/tomahto
Rewatching Snowpiercer, and I caught how Gilliam was reticent about the idea of trying to get to the engine and kill Wilford. And pointedly asks what Curtis will do then [to make things any better than they are now].
Also amusing was how Edgar thought he had memories of things like steak, and I'm looking side-eyed at him having memories of his mother.
After that incredible story near the end, I have a hard time buying the actor as 17-18/18-19 years old. I suppose I can handwave it as a hard existence making people appear older than they are. But sheesh, the actor is almost 30 now.
Yeah, Julie, that story confused me because I thought Curtis and Edgar were the same age.
Julie and PC, I had the same reaction.