I just saw "Terribly Happy" which is Danish Coen brothers-type film. That makes it sound like an homage or a rip-off, but it's very, very good, actually.Dark and surprising in all the right ways and great atmospheric use of the setting.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Scrappy - Feb 13, 2010 8:40:06 pm PST #6809 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Volans - Feb 14, 2010 4:45:21 am PST #6810 of 30000
move out and draw fire
How about watching Sharktopus as the nature movie?
Miracleman - Feb 14, 2010 5:47:21 am PST #6811 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Okay, old news but...I've been (obsessively) re-watching Star Trek (2009) lately and a few things have popped into my head.
1) STILL FUN!
2) Okay, I'm a dolt. It has taken me nearly a year to figure out that Bones is Eomer. He does such a good job!
3) (related to 2)) Bones and Scotty? My favorite characters.
4) Tight movie! They, for the most part, obeyed my one rule of possible plot holes: Ask the question. Give me a line of dialogue. Acknowledge you thought of it, even if your answer is "I dunno."
5) Zachary Quinto is a good Spock. There are some shots where he is Brandon-Routh-as-Clark-Kent eerie.
6) I still maitain that it took serious balls to alter the timeline while acknowledging canon. Destroying Vulcan? DAMN!
7) Nimoy can make me weepy.
8) Can't wait for the next one.
Gris - Feb 14, 2010 3:44:28 pm PST #6812 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I will see the Percy Jackson movie, ita. Probably next weekend. I really liked the books, and the movie looks fun.
JZ - Feb 14, 2010 4:26:17 pm PST #6813 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
They, for the most part, obeyed my one rule of possible plot holes: Ask the question. Give me a line of dialogue. Acknowledge you thought of it, even if your answer is "I dunno."
::golf claps:: That is an utterly splendid rule.
Kathy A - Feb 14, 2010 5:14:39 pm PST #6814 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
2) Okay, I'm a dolt. It has taken me nearly a year to figure out that Bones is Eomer. He does such a good job!
3) (related to 2)) Bones and Scotty? My favorite characters.
The casting for Bones and Scotty were the reason I was so excited to see this film in the first place. I'm such a Karl Urban fangirl that I was all over the idea of him playing McCoy, and Pegg is such an SF fanboy that him playing Scotty was a perfect choice.
They, for the most part, obeyed my one rule of possible plot holes: Ask the question. Give me a line of dialogue. Acknowledge you thought of it, even if your answer is "I dunno."
One of my favorite examples of this was back on classic Dr. Who, during a Pertwee ep, when someone asked the Doctor about some time-travel conundrum issue. He is just about to answer when he's interrupted by the monster of the week. At least they got the question out there, even though the answer was never given.
DavidS - Feb 14, 2010 5:44:28 pm PST #6815 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Isn't that call "hanging a lantern on it"?
Pointing out a plot incongruity within the plot?
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2010 5:48:06 pm PST #6816 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not a lantern--a lampshade.
Laga - Feb 14, 2010 5:59:57 pm PST #6817 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
quick poll: what's the scariest ghost movie you ever saw?
Juliebird - Feb 14, 2010 6:03:23 pm PST #6818 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
The Frighteners!
I kid, although...
The Others, maybe? I'm ruling out anything that was gory and gross and disturbing.