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Frankenbuddha - Jan 09, 2016 6:28:01 pm PST #29671 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think I need to something (TV, movie, watev) with Simon, Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton because they are the ultimate geeks. Maybe some Nick Frost as well.


DavidS - Jan 09, 2016 6:37:06 pm PST #29672 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I think I need to something (TV, movie, watev) with Simon, Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton because they are the ultimate geeks.

You know Felicia's YouTube channel has Wil doing game reviews and they play the games, including with people like Seth Green.


Kalshane - Jan 09, 2016 9:50:23 pm PST #29673 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.

I wish I had time to keep up with Tabletop, as it's fun watching Wil and a bunch of geek icons playing games together. (Wil and Jeri Ryan doing the "bridge shaking routine" while playing Star Trek Catan was fantastic.)


SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2016 10:23:17 am PST #29674 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Saw The Revenant with my daughter, yesterday. Went in totally blind, not really knowing what it was about other than it had Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio in it and someone being left for dead. I was completely blown away. By all the actors. I would have never guessed that the Captain, played by Domhnall Gleeson, also plays General Hux in TFA. No freaking way. Bill Weasley has sure grown up.

I saw today that Leo got a Golden Globe for it as did the movie. Totally deserved, as far as I'm concerned, but then I haven't seen any of the other movies that were nominated, so you can take my opinion with a whole salt mine.


Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2016 10:30:09 am PST #29675 of 30000
brillig

I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of other movies with the same story line as Revenant.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 11, 2016 10:37:30 am PST #29676 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of other movies with the same story line as Revenant.

There was a film based on the same story with Richard Harris back in the mid-70s, Man in the Wilderness.


Zenkitty - Jan 13, 2016 3:29:32 am PST #29677 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I wasn't sure about seeing The Revenant, but your review pushed it onto the Will See list, Sail. Might have to wait for DVD, though. Such movies are often too overwhelming for me to sit through without a break.


SailAweigh - Jan 13, 2016 9:59:59 am PST #29678 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

That, and on the big screen, it evokes big emotions. I was constantly covering my eyes and ears, not because blood and gore squick me, but because it was so hard to watch the character going through it. Leo did a really splendid job in this movie. It might be a little easier on the small screen, where everything isn't quite so much in your face; there were a lot of extreme close-ups.

I have to say about the score, too, that it wasn't anything memorable. Not in the way that it was bad, but in the way it both followed and spurred the action on in such subtle ways that you didn't even realize how much it was manipulating your emotions. There is nothing the least hummable about it, and it probably isn't a soundtrack that you'd want to play over and over, but it was really amazing for how it affected the movie.


Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2016 4:52:21 am PST #29679 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Oscar Nominations.

[edit: I'm kind of meh on them]


Fiona - Jan 14, 2016 5:01:44 am PST #29680 of 30000

This makes them much better:

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