Okay Sean - I'm going to brace myself.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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le nubian - Aug 14, 2009 11:11:16 am PDT #3691 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DavidS - Aug 14, 2009 11:32:16 am PDT #3692 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dang, I didn't realize they'd made a movie out of Hemingway's posthumously published novel The Garden of Eden.
Starring Mena Suvari and Caterina Murino.
It hasn't been widely released but they showed it a Roman film festival last fall.
Glamcookie - Aug 14, 2009 1:32:23 pm PDT #3693 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I want to see Ponyo, but the subtitled version. Anyone have tips on how to find screenings for the subtitled version? I'm in LA and usually the Miyazaki films are shown at the Disney theater the El Capitan and they have both subtitled and dubbed showings. Alas, they are not screening it.
DawnK - Aug 14, 2009 4:31:59 pm PDT #3694 of 30000
giraffe mode
Glam ~ According to the Disney email I got - here's a link to the LA theaters showing it. Sadly, it doesn't indicate if it is subtitled or dubbed
le nubian - Aug 14, 2009 7:00:20 pm PDT #3695 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, I saw District 9 and I wasn't too freaked out by it. It occurs to me that I have handled vampires being staked, a man's skin being ripped off and any number of things on Buffy and Angel - and I saw weekly beheadings in "Highlander" back in grad school, so I should have a decent tolerance for violence...
This movie's violence is graphic, but since the majority of violence is "scifi violence" instead of more realistic violence, I could take it all okay. There are some gross areas in the film (those of you affected by retching on film ought to stay away).
I was entertained by the movie, but I felt like it should have been about 20 minutes longer. I had a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" reaction to how the movie ended - in that I wanted to see the inside of the fucking ship! Man. Offer me a bone or something.
I think the title of the movie was a bit deceiving - the movie is really about a man, rather than the district itself.
Sean K - Aug 14, 2009 7:10:55 pm PDT #3696 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Loved the main character. His arc was very moving. As was Christopher's. I can see wanting another 20 minutes.
quester - Aug 14, 2009 7:12:18 pm PDT #3697 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
My sister and I just saw D9 today, and her big question was How did the aliens wind up stranded and starving when one of them could fly the ship?
Sean K - Aug 14, 2009 7:24:06 pm PDT #3698 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Not important to the story, and/or not covered in the events of the story.
evil jimi - Aug 15, 2009 6:02:44 am PDT #3699 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
So it sounds better than Alien Nation (the movie), huh? I mean, in Alien Nation, the aliens land, Reagan welcomes them, and all of a sudden it's a buddy cop film, where the two partners are different! "One's a human, the other alien; they fight crime!"
I think it gets down to the look of the "alien". In Alien Nation the "newcomers" resemble humans more closely than the aliens so in District 9 (from what I saw in the preview).
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2009 8:09:57 am PDT #3700 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I look forward to your review.
Loved the main character. His arc was very moving.
I agree. It was so weird to see the clip of Wikus from the beginning of the story at the end because the man we knew by then was so very different. Even discounting the whole mutation thing.