The Comic Book Movie That Actually Did Rather Well Last Week
I'm going to France in a two weeks and could see that! Except it would be in French. damn.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
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Jon B. - Apr 27, 2010 8:07:53 am PDT #8001 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Tom Scola - Apr 27, 2010 8:09:06 am PDT #8002 of 30000
hwæt
FAQWife can give you a live translation, can't she?
megan walker - Apr 27, 2010 8:48:47 am PDT #8003 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Comic Book Movie That Actually Did Rather Well Last Week
Also, how can Besson not have a distribution deal for the US yet?
megan walker - Apr 27, 2010 9:01:27 am PDT #8004 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Another Blanc-Sec teaser: [link]
This one's tailor-made for the US since there is no dialogue until the very end.
BTW, I love the tagline on the poster of Adèle and the pterodactyl facing off, which translates literally to "one of these two will lose their feathers" but uses an expression meaning "get burnt" or "lose everything".
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2010 11:03:53 am PDT #8005 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Daisy Jane - Apr 27, 2010 11:06:17 am PDT #8006 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
So basically some people liked it...others didn't?
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2010 11:08:32 am PDT #8007 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, you have to look at who liked it and who didn't. I never think of AICN as a real positive review. Iron Man had broader appeal than this seems to.
But, hey, RD-fucking-J. I'm still there. And I'll probably enjoy myself. I'll just laugh and laugh if I end up liking The Losers more.
...and there goes the earworm again...
Daisy Jane - Apr 27, 2010 11:11:45 am PDT #8008 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ah.
I still need to get around to seeing The Losers.
We saw Hurt Locker last night. It...hurt. At one point I had to curl into a ball and have myself a bit of a cry.
Polter-Cow - Apr 27, 2010 11:45:04 am PDT #8009 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Iron Man had broader appeal than this seems to.
I was afraid of that.
But, hey, RD-fucking-J. I'm still there. And I'll probably enjoy myself.
Yep, me too.
Gris - Apr 27, 2010 1:18:05 pm PDT #8010 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Calling back to a good bit earlier: I haven't seen The Wire, but I can't handle the pacing of Mad Men. And by that I simply mean that every time I watch an episode I say "Huh, that was good." and then I walk away and it's another month or two before I sit down and say "What should I watch? Oh, I guess I can watch another episode of Mad Men."
It's not that it's bad. In fact, I can recognize its excellence. It just completely and utterly fails to inspire me with long-term interest. At least, it's failed to do so in the first 5 episodes, which is all I've watched. I had the exact same thing happen with The Sopranos, Deadwood and, interestingly, Battlestar Galactica. All of those provide plenty of exciting moments, so it can hardly be blamed on a lack of adrenaline rushes - it's something about the narrative style. I like a little less subtlety, I guess.
To somehow connect it to this thread, if Mad Men were a movie, I'd want it to win the Oscar, but I wouldn't buy the DVD.