I wonder how many people went into it expecting a superhero movie, which it is... so not.
I think one pair of people a couple rows in front of me walked out at the Hallelujah scene.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
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Ailleann - Mar 10, 2009 8:09:34 am PDT #393 of 30000
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Jessica - Mar 10, 2009 8:10:40 am PDT #394 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I think one pair of people a couple rows in front of me walked out at the
Ha! I wanted to hide behind the metaphorical couch during that scene, but I've never walked out of a movie in a theatre. (I've given up on DVDs halfway through, but that's a different kind of experience.)
amych - Mar 10, 2009 8:22:29 am PDT #395 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wouldn't have walked -- it was the biggest laugh of the movie...
DavidS - Mar 10, 2009 8:28:06 am PDT #396 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
AV Club has a thoughtful side-by-side comparison of the book vs. movie.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2009 8:42:47 am PDT #397 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. Patton Oswalt tells you what to watch.
(He's got good taste: BSG, FNL, Burn Notice, Dollhouse....)
You've got to respect the specificity of his comparisons:
Or Sunday night, for that matter? This Sunday is the Season 2 premiere of BREAKING BAD, the best show you weren't watching last year. Bryan Cranston won a much-deserved Emmy, and that was for a truncated, 7-episode first season. How did you guys miss a show about a trampled, neglected genius, who turns his skill at chemistry into a fledgling meth empire, all the while battling cancer -- a cancer which, when undergoing chemotherapy, turns Cranston into a bald, black-clad arch-villain? And, of course, he's forced into an alliance with (as his dopey, meth-head partner puts it) "a psychotic clown" drug dealer named Tuco. Lex Luthor and The Joker, roaming the New Mexico desert, with no World's FInest in sight. The 6th episode of Season One -- "Crazy Handful of Nothin'", is one of the best hours of TV I've ever seen -- up there with "Every Mother's Son" and "The Subway" from HOMICIDE, "Old Cases" from THE WIRE, and "The Pine Barrens" from The Sopranos. BREAKING BAD is compromised villains who create their own false good, played out in a forest of food clubs, strip malls and bland, sinister architecture. A must-see.
I actually prefer the "College" episode of Sopranos but "Pine Barrens" is a worthy little mini-movie in its own right.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2009 8:45:28 am PDT #398 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
AV Club has a thoughtful side-by-side comparison of the book vs. movie.
I pretty much agree with everything she says. Except she concludes the book and movie are somewhat different, but perhaps equally good - I'd rank the book much higher than the movie.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2009 8:55:42 am PDT #399 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but perhaps equally good
I didn't get that impression from her critiques, specifically of the acting, Snyder's ultraviolence, wrong-headed missing of bigger themes etc.
Jessica - Mar 10, 2009 9:10:57 am PDT #400 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
From the article:
in a scene that seems like it was stolen from Oldboy.
DH made the exact same comment about that scene.
Jessica - Mar 10, 2009 9:12:13 am PDT #401 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Completely agree with this:
I get why Snyder did it. It just makes me tired, like all his super-slo-mo sequences. It’s so easy, making superhero characters who casually take mere mortals apart with their bare hands. What’s hard is making them human.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2009 11:48:48 am PDT #402 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Super cool and fascinating Cindy Sherman film short from 1975 Doll Clothes. (Not exactly safe for work, though she is dressed in her underwear.)