Initial reviews of Iron Man 2 are not positive.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
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§ 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.
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2010 2:26:11 pm PDT #8011 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just ran the cast of The Losers past a genre geek at work, and nope. He got who Chris Evans and Zoe Saldana were after I cited their resumes, but no initial name recognition there. I am so alone. I didn't even bother pushing the JDM thing.
Hell, I guess the movie's doing pretty well--he only thought he'd heard of it when I complained of my earworm. No print recognition at all.
Amy - Apr 27, 2010 2:38:07 pm PDT #8012 of 30000
Because books.
If I wasn't a SPN watcher, I would still know who JDM is due to Grey's Anatomy. But that might be a girl thing.
And I've known who Zoe Saldana is since Center Stage, but that's ... probably also a girl thing.
Aims - Apr 27, 2010 2:38:53 pm PDT #8013 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I think the combination of those is an Amy/Aimee thing.
But that might be an Amy/Aimee thing.
Lee - Apr 27, 2010 2:41:00 pm PDT #8014 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
And a Perkins thing.