Neil deGrasse Tyson is cracking me up on Twitter - [link]
He's trying to find a geological explanation for Pandora. With hilarious results.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Jessica - Feb 24, 2010 12:48:18 pm PST #6924 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Juliebird - Feb 24, 2010 12:54:45 pm PST #6925 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Shutter Island was fantastic. Yeah, just reading that others had figured it out in the first ten minutes led me to muse the possible directions, and I nailed it, but I wasn't sure I was right until the movie laid it out. And for all that, I enjoyed the hell out of it. The movie nicely avoided the usual letdown that accompanies revelations and explanations. For me, at least. I was deeply satisfied at the end of the movie.
One thing that I am not sure about is George Noyce and his mention of how he had gotten out once but not twice, and it was Leo's fault. How much of Leo's story about George was true? I'm sure it doesn't really matter. But it's Jackie Fricking Haley, so I'm intrigued by the character.
Kathy A - Feb 24, 2010 1:00:42 pm PST #6926 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson!
Someone teach the word "infrared" to the CNN reporter.
Hee.
And this:
You have it backwards. You can be a high school Science Teacher, or you can settle as a cosmologist.
Hah!
Okay, you asked for it, an Avatar Chaser: 2 parts Smurffs, 2 parts Tarzan, 4 parts Dances With Wolves. In a Disney sippy cup.
Aims - Feb 24, 2010 3:45:26 pm PST #6927 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t randomness
Chris Pine really is a good looking dude, isn't he?
megan walker - Feb 24, 2010 3:46:38 pm PST #6928 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Juliebird, that the type of question I wasn't sure about reading the book, that is, since he is basically imagining the whole scenario, how much of what you have read/seen over the course of the story is true.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2010 3:57:38 pm PST #6929 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Chris Pine really is a good looking dude, isn't he?
He's no Zach Quinto.
Aims - Feb 24, 2010 4:04:09 pm PST #6930 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Finally! A dude we don't agree on!! No fighting over agreeing that you get the hot dude we both like
Juliebird - Feb 24, 2010 4:12:13 pm PST #6931 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
megan, I wonder because everything else George says seems to come from the perspective of reality, rather than roleplaying. I mean, maybe it was a mix of both, but there's the fact that many of the players were knowingly playing a role in order to enable the delusion. And here's this guy trying to tell him the truth.
I had heard the book was a lot more ambiguous than the movie, and I feel pretty comfortable with what I think I know in the movie. Except this one part.
megan walker - Feb 24, 2010 4:22:10 pm PST #6932 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, in the book, George says that the fact that he was beaten up was Leo's fault. Leo assumes this is indirectly his fault based on his earlier investigation landing George in the asylum again, but actually he physically beat him up as a fellow inmate.
Sean K - Feb 24, 2010 4:27:45 pm PST #6933 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I spent the first half of the movie why Jessica didn't like it,
The dialogue. Clunky doesn't even begin to describe it.
Oh yeah, totally. It's just that the first half of the movie has a lot less dialog, and the dialog that is there is a lot less clunky by virtue of not containing the awful exposition. But yes, when the credits rolled, I found myself not liking the movie much, and thinking it could have been vastly improved by removing every last bit of dialog.