Prince William has a Harry Potter scar
...for the love of heaven, don't tell the Empress!
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Fay - Mar 21, 2009 6:49:25 pm PDT #539 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Aims - Mar 21, 2009 8:08:08 pm PDT #540 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Prince William has a Harry Potter scar
...for the love of heaven, don't tell the Empress!
::faints from the beauty of a beautiful thing::
sumi - Mar 21, 2009 8:08:36 pm PDT #541 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Ha. The Empress is exactly the audience I posted that link for.
Polter-Cow - Mar 21, 2009 10:27:35 pm PDT #542 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But for grown-ups who like monsters and aliens and 3D animation and Stephen Colbert, I highly recommend it!
This is me! Thanks for the rec; I thought it looked good from the trailers.
Laga - Mar 21, 2009 10:58:56 pm PDT #543 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Dreamworks is predicting insanely huge numbers for Monsters v. Aliens. I hope they're right. They sent us managers a gift box including our own stuffed Insectosauruses (Insectosauri?) and I must say they are cute as giant mutant insect larvae could be.
flea - Mar 22, 2009 3:41:11 am PDT #544 of 30000
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I would appreciate any more comments on Monster v Aliens, as Casper (5.5) is very interested in the previews.
She seems to be a bit cold-blooded, actually - we watched Animal Cops (by mistake) recently, and while she had a lot of questions, she wasn't distressed.
Jessica - Mar 22, 2009 5:20:22 am PDT #545 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Violence-wise, it's probably about on par with Star Wars.
I think it's probably more violent-seeming to adults because a 5 year-old isn't going to be extrapolating the consequences of all the collateral damage. (That is, the onscreen body-count is mostly alien clones who don't quite count, but if you stop and think about the logistics of some of the action scenes, there's no WAY most of the background extras could have survived.)
There's a lot of slapstick that will be funny to young kids, but most of the pop culture references will go right over their heads - they reference just about every classic SF/action movie ever made, as well as 24 and The Colbert Report.
Gender politics-wise, I think all little girls everywhere should see it. It never really occured to me before that Pixar, much as I love them, has never once had a female protagonist in any of their films.
Aims - Mar 22, 2009 5:21:06 am PDT #546 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What about Jesse?
Jessica - Mar 22, 2009 5:23:21 am PDT #547 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
She wasn't the lead. She's a big enough character to qualify for a Best Actress nod, but it's still Woody's movie.
Same goes for Elastigirl and Dory. Pixar is all about the awesome female second-in-command.
Aims - Mar 22, 2009 5:24:42 am PDT #548 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pixar is all about the awesome female second-in-command.
Now that you point it out, yeah, they really are. Hmm.