I don't like overexplaining backstory that kills the mystery on what is an essentially mysterious man.
Well you're just a big, cranky, non-magical POLAR BEAR!!
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Aims - Feb 12, 2010 3:49:53 am PST #6768 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 12, 2010 5:56:55 am PST #6769 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
Do you know how that plotlet actually plays out?
What I've heard is that Julia Roberts only briefly speaks to Bradley Cooper on a plane where they're seated together. They are not a couple, they do not date, and Cooper is traveling to visit Eric Dane, his closeted NFL player boyfriend. So apparently the big twist they're playing up on the PR circuit is "OMG! GAY PEOPLE EXIST!!!1!" not that Julia finds out her man has a boyfriend on the side .
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2010 6:13:15 am PST #6770 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. If it's not a twist for the audience, then I don't get the point other than being promo chickenshit.
DavidS - Feb 12, 2010 6:27:36 am PST #6771 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well you're just a big, cranky, non-magical POLAR BEAR!!
What's magic about turning Dracula/Sauron into a freakin' dentist?
Aims - Feb 12, 2010 6:36:26 am PST #6772 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Not that part - the part where Willy goes home and has dinner with Charlie's family. Just that little part.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 12, 2010 6:45:33 am PST #6773 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What's magic about turning Dracula/Sauron into a freakin' dentist?
Psst, Hec. Saruman. Sauron was played by a suit of armour and then a flaming yoni.
And Dracula could use the dental work.
DavidS - Feb 12, 2010 6:46:39 am PST #6774 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
the part where Willy goes home and has dinner with Charlie's family. Just that little part.
I hate that part! The earlier version is much better. The plot actually makes sense and it comes down to Charlie making a choice which defines him. In the Burton Wonka we get a needless, over-explainy, here's-10-minutes-of-my-last-therapy-session, backstory. Willy Wonka does not need a conventional finds-a-family plot resolution. He's much more intriguing as the slightly sinister figure portrayed by Gene Wilder.
The Burton Wonka (which has its virtues) pours simple syrup over the main character.
DavidS - Feb 12, 2010 6:47:55 am PST #6775 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Psst, Hec. Saruman. Sauron was played by a suit of armour and then a flaming yoni.
Oops.
Remember the days of the flaming yoni? Good times.
Allyson going off on LoTR is second only to her deconstruction of the Green Lantern mythos.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2010 7:17:30 am PST #6776 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.
Syfy Channel has just greenlighted the long-awaited Sharktopus movie, to be directed by cult monster auteur Roger Corman. Will the sharktopus look like this concept design by Matt Leach? Sources inside Syfy say it will be way weirder.
Syfy's Karen O'Hara, who is the channel's director of original movies, tweeted Wednesday:
Just got off the phone with the legendary Roger Corman who's doing a new movie for us this year. Yes, it's the long-rumored SHARKTOPUS! . . . Spent half an hour discussing what a sharktopus should look like, how many mouths it should have and how it should kill.
Clearly Corman and O'Hara are designing an awesomely weird version of an already-weird monster. They're not just thinking toothy mouth, but multiple mouths. Speaking as a giant monster fan, that's what I like to hear.
Here is another artist's conception of a sharktopus, which is quite nice but only has one mouth. Serious drawback.
Liese S. - Feb 12, 2010 7:22:15 am PST #6777 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Why would a sharktopus have multiple mouths? Neither a shark nor an octopus have multiple mouths. Right? I mean, it should be, like, a beak.