Huh. I was just talking about the movie Panic Room with someone the other day (in person, but still, maybe one of youse? megan?) and decided to look up who played the kid. It was Kristen Stewart, of Twilight (which I've not seen).
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
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javachik - Apr 11, 2010 8:54:17 pm PDT #7534 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2010 8:55:30 pm PDT #7535 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep. That's where I first saw her, I think.
javachik - Apr 11, 2010 8:56:03 pm PDT #7536 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
She did a good job in it, if I recall correctly.
Juliebird - Apr 12, 2010 2:32:05 am PDT #7537 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm realizing that Sam Worthington's last three big films he was half-human or dealing with issues of humanity and identity.
flea - Apr 12, 2010 8:11:35 am PDT #7538 of 30000
information libertarian
Has anyone heard much about the upcoming Luc Besson film Les aventures d'Adele Blanc-Sec? An archaeologist friend posted the trailer (saying, move over Indiana Jones!). Here's a trailer, which appears to include a pterodactyl AND a mummy. [link] Train wreck, or great fun?
Daisy Jane - Apr 12, 2010 10:08:20 am PDT #7539 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
So we're coming up with a list of comeback kids. I circulated an email with a bunch I could think of off the top of my head. Coworker sent a reply saying he basically agreed with that list with one exception:
That pretty much covers who I was thinking about. Except The Shatner never truly left us. When there was only 1 set of footprints, that was him, carrying us.
Which I think is now going to have to be my tagline.
megan walker - Apr 12, 2010 11:14:26 am PDT #7540 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has anyone heard much about the upcoming Luc Besson film Les aventures d'Adele Blanc-Sec? An archaeologist friend posted the trailer (saying, move over Indiana Jones!). Here's a trailer, which appears to include a pterodactyl AND a mummy. [link] Train wreck, or great fun?
I don't know but it makes me want to get the comic books. I'd never heard of it. Sounds like Jules Verne meets Tintin.
Volans - Apr 12, 2010 11:20:29 am PDT #7541 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I'm realizing that Sam Worthington's last three big films he was half-human or dealing with issues of humanity and identity.
It's a meta-joke. Sam Worthington is not a real person - he's a construct. Part animatronic, part CGI. He's symmetrical and looks white-boy heroic, so folks are happy to overlook the fact that with his total lack of charisma he wouldn't have gotten cast in a HIGH SCHOOL play, and buy the whole "oh he's from Australia" story.
§ ita § - Apr 12, 2010 11:25:27 am PDT #7542 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've heard Australians defend him and say he's been good in Australian movies, but really, how likely is that?
Vonnie K - Apr 12, 2010 1:03:43 pm PDT #7543 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It's a meta-joke. Sam Worthington is not a real person - he's a construct. Part animatronic, part CGI. He's symmetrical and looks white-boy heroic, so folks are happy to overlook the fact that with his total lack of charisma he wouldn't have gotten cast in a HIGH SCHOOL play, and buy the whole "oh he's from Australia" story.
Truer words, etc. He is the blandest squared-jawed white-boy in Blandonia. He's a negative space of charisma in the shape of a cardboard cut-off under "generic hero-ish dude". I don't understand what compelled all the big-budget action movie directors to decide he was the new Hollywood It Boy.
There is a piece in the latest EW on Colin Farrell and about his own particular catapult to fame in the early 2000's in a similar fashion, but skeevestastic as he could be, Farrell is usually compelling to watch even in so-so flicks and can actually, you know, act. Sam Worthington just mystifies me.