Poor Frodo. I still feel bad about everything he had to go through. And then I remind myself he's fictional and I'm a little crazy.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
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Steph L. - Mar 23, 2016 10:59:51 am PDT #29873 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2016 11:08:59 am PDT #29874 of 30000
brillig
I still feel bad about everything he had to go through.
Oh, yeah, and he didn't get to appreciate what he saved.
Zenkitty - Mar 23, 2016 12:51:19 pm PDT #29875 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I was so angry about all the stupid dead child stuff. Why couldn't she have just been a freaking scientist doing science in space?
Yeah, I get tired of all the pre-packaged trauma. Male characters with a dead wife, female characters with a dead husband or for max pain a dead child, kids and Batman with dead parents. It would be nice if they could be ordinary people who become heroes. That's one thing I really liked about Ant-Man, his motivating pain was separation from his very much alive kid.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2016 12:56:21 pm PDT #29876 of 30000
brillig
I suppose there does need to be a reason for someone to choose a life of weird science and danger, as opposed to having to cope when they get pulled in without warning. But being an astronaut is one of those cool things that most kids think would be a great thing to do, it doesn't require inspirational trauma.
Vonnie K - Mar 23, 2016 2:08:55 pm PDT #29877 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
All the terrible reviews on Batman vs. Superman is making my shriveled-up walnut heart cry tears of toy. /petty
Its box office take will probably be impervious to bad reviews. But let me just sit in a happy bubble for 5 minutes, in which someone high up on the food chain finally realizes what a giant hack Zack Snyder is and takes away all his toys.
lisah - Mar 23, 2016 3:18:07 pm PDT #29878 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I suppose there does need to be a reason for someone to choose a life of weird science and danger, as opposed to having to cope when they get pulled in without warning.
I felt like it could easily have been that she was a fucking awesome scientist who got an amazing opportunity (that goes horribly wrong) but because the character was a woman, and because the filmmakers forgot they had to have a plot in addition to cool effects, she HAD to be a Tragic Mom. VOMIT!
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2016 3:20:02 pm PDT #29879 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2016 3:21:39 pm PDT #29880 of 30000
brillig
Because a woman wouldn't possibly go into a challenging career unless she'd "lost" something that would keep her in lesser job that would let her be a mom.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2016 3:54:05 pm PDT #29881 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I felt like it could easily have been that she was a fucking awesome scientist who got an amazing opportunity (that goes horribly wrong) but because the character was a woman, and because the filmmakers forgot they had to have a plot in addition to cool effects, she HAD to be a Tragic Mom. VOMIT!
That's one of the great things about The Martian -- he's just an awesome scientist who got an amazing opportunity that goes horribly wrong.
Kate P. - Mar 23, 2016 4:20:29 pm PDT #29882 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I found the backstory in Gravity very affecting. I can see why it would bug, but it really didn't bother me. I thought the movie was more about her deciding that she still wants to live, despite having lost her child, than it was about the technical things she had to do to survive. It wouldn't have packed the same punch, for me, without that element.
This may also explain why I liked it more than The Martian. Which I thought was great! But it didn't grab me on an emotional level like Gravity did.