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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.)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I'm disappointed about Daybreakers, I was hoping it would be a decent movie.
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?
Sleepwalking lead, premise doesn't hold up under scrutiny (I guarantee there'd have been riots and societal collapse long before the supply of living humans was almost exhausted, especially given how violent vampires are shown to be), Heroes-like treatment of locations (there are maybe 5 in the movie besides unimportant background stuff, and everyone can get into them silently without difficulty for surprise twists/reversals, of which there are so many it was like watching the last minute of 20 episodes of Angel one after another).
It was atmospherically production-designed, well-photographed, and Sam Neill did his usual good job of Lex Luthoring. But those were about the only good points.