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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Burrell - Jan 08, 2010 7:35:10 pm PST #6123 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

The only thing worse? George Lucas' take.

snerk

I haven't seen any Xmas movies yet. I'd like to see Sherlock Holmes if I can talk DH into playing hooky for a matinee.


Liese S. - Jan 08, 2010 8:31:36 pm PST #6124 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Dude I can`t handle the mushroom clouds in Koyaanisqatsi. And those were real, just in New Mexico. I`m pretty sure I can`t handle James Cameron`s version of those visuals.
 
And we know how well he can be trusted with complex social and racial issues.
 
Actually the more I think about it, the sicker I feel. The stark atrocity of that event, and I use the term advisedly, is not something that should be used commercially by anyone, and certainly not by him.


Strega - Jan 08, 2010 10:27:37 pm PST #6125 of 30000

You couldn't pay me to see Kick-Ass.

I've become interested after seeing the Hit-Girl clips because apparently I can't resist an adorable moppet behaving (and talking) like a Tarantino character.

But I doubt I'll bother with Clash of the Titans, even though the trailers have amused me a great deal. (I didn't think they could top "Titans! Will! Clash!" but then they came out with "Damn! The Gods!" Which seems theologically problematic, at the very least.)


Tom Scola - Jan 09, 2010 2:23:01 am PST #6126 of 30000
hwæt

I've become interested after seeing the Hit-Girl clips because apparently I can't resist an adorable moppet behaving (and talking) like a Tarantino character.

Strega is me.


Volans - Jan 09, 2010 4:35:31 am PST #6127 of 30000
move out and draw fire

A friend of mine just saw Avatar and sent me his take on the "what these dudes need is a honky" message. Which I've spoiler-fonted.

Other than praying to Eywa for an "eywa ex machina", Sully's plan, (which he fully states doesn't exist when he goes back into his Avatar) is apparently to marshal the Na'vi's best warriors from across the planet (moon?) into a small area to best be slaughtered.

Which is exactly what happens, right up until the literal deux ex machina.

It's enough to make you miss the keen rationality of the Galactica crew...

Without Eywa's intervention, "Operation:Sully" would have been an ideal method to destroy the Na'vi. So ideal in fact, you could argue that maybe that's what his real mission was. Maybe they could have insinuated that he was somehow "programmed" to do exactly what he did, maybe during cryo-sleep, because that's how unbelievably effective he was at fucking the Na'vi. Then have him go pray at the tree in a (oh god) "come to Jesus" moment as they're getting their asses handed to them. Then at least there's some meat on the bone. That's still really goddamn lame, just marginally less so.


Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2010 7:57:20 am PST #6128 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I've become interested after seeing the Hit-Girl clips because apparently I can't resist an adorable moppet behaving (and talking) like a Tarantino character.

Strega is me.

I found a clip. Haaaaa, oh my God, that is amazing. I am definitely in.


msbelle - Jan 09, 2010 3:24:28 pm PST #6129 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I've only seen the commercials for Book of Eli, but is it really that he has a Bible ? and that's the big whoop?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 09, 2010 4:14:59 pm PST #6130 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Isn't there at least one copy of that for every two people in the world? I don't think you could get to "Last Bible on Earth" within the next hundred years or so even if no more were printed from today onward. There'd always be some forgotten in motel rooms and whatnot .

Speaking of movies about the last of things that are unlikely to run out, I saw Daybreakers today. Save your money unless the cinematography in the previews struck you as beautiful enough to waste 2 hours on.


askye - Jan 09, 2010 5:37:21 pm PST #6131 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I'm disappointed about Daybreakers, I was hoping it would be a decent movie.


§ ita § - Jan 09, 2010 5:41:17 pm PST #6132 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've seen people wondering what the Book was, but the previews seemed to show sample text pretty clearly. So I was imagining/hoping it was a little more complicated than just that.

As for Daybreakers, the reviews I read were bad, but the descriptions interesting. Was it a poor execution, Matt?