Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy, Jesse?
I did, but still meh and/or huh.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Jesse - May 10, 2015 6:08:29 am PDT #28906 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - May 10, 2015 6:10:11 am PDT #28907 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Many evils do.
Like Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch, (while Wolverine -- who might be their father -- WATCHES THEM get it on) which I just showed to Tim.
Oh my god, Marvel. That's not the good crack.
Vonnie K - May 10, 2015 6:31:12 am PDT #28908 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Anyone seen Ex Machina? I just saw it yesterday and liked it a lot.
I enjoyed Age of Ultron reasonably well, but Ex-Machina is certainly a more interesting take on Artificial Intelligence of the two. The performances are fantastic. The gender politics are both problematic and problematized, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
Dana - May 10, 2015 6:37:55 am PDT #28909 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, we saw it, and it was good. This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
Vonnie K - May 10, 2015 6:45:39 am PDT #28910 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
Right? I think the only other movie of his I saw was Drive, where he played Carey Mulligan's husband who just got out of jail, and I remember thinking he was very interesting in that flick as well. I've heard great things about both Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, and I think I'm gonna check them out.
Dana - May 10, 2015 6:49:21 am PDT #28911 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, I didn't remember him from Drive. Definitely looking forward to seeing him in the new Star Wars movie, though.
I thought the movie made it pretty clear that he was misogynistic, rather than the movie itself accepting and confirming his attitudes. But man, that scene where the other guy sees the footage of all the previous AIs...that was rough.
Vonnie K - May 10, 2015 6:59:03 am PDT #28912 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Definitely looking forward to seeing him in the new Star Wars movie, though.
Yeap. He's on a cusp of a stardom, from all accounts. He was both repellent and charismatic as hell in this movie, and I couldn't take my eyes off him while he was on screen.
Re. your white-font, I agree with you, but wow, the scene you mentioned -- Jesus fucking Christ. And Nathan's treatment of Kyoko in particular, even though it was clearly condemned, made me want to crawl under the seat and die a little. And the fact at Ava scavenged parts off the earlier models, as Nathan would have from her from for the next one, was both hella evocative and disturbing as fuck.
Jesse - May 10, 2015 7:19:50 am PDT #28913 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He was great in A Most Violent Year.
megan walker - May 10, 2015 7:41:03 am PDT #28914 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've heard great things about both Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, and I think I'm gonna check them out.
He is great in both. A Most Violent Year got lost in the end of year Oscar rush, which is a shame because I thought it was a very interesting unique script with extremely good performances.
Kalshane - May 10, 2015 8:39:20 am PDT #28915 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Yeah, Ultimate universe has a lot of really terrible stuff in it (personally The Blob eating The Wasp wins the "WTF is wrong with you people?" contest) but I hadn't known about Teppy's white font before and that's rather horrific, too. Which is why I'm not super-thrilled that they've decided to combine the universes.
When they first came out with the Ultimate universe I thought some of their new takes on characters were interesting (and Colossus' crush on Wolverine was adorable) but as it went on it rapidly spiraled into WTF land. I think Ultimate Spider-man was the only book that didn't go completely off the rails.