Review of the movie Babies, at the NYT: [link]
The best line is at the end: “Babies” is rated PG (Parental Guidance suggested). Breast feeding.
Yeah, gotta protect your CHILDREN from seeing BREASTFEEDING!
Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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flea - May 06, 2010 3:15:27 pm PDT #8215 of 30000
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§ ita § - May 06, 2010 3:23:50 pm PDT #8216 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
His look in the movie was dead on the comic, as was the persona, but it wasn't a far stab from the cocky charisma he's shown elsewhere. I have certain cute guy blind spots, and he's totally in the centre of one of them. Adore him.
Beverly - May 06, 2010 4:09:24 pm PDT #8217 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I recognize Chris Evans from FF, and as Jensen from the Losers, but it was hard reconciling what I thought of him with his character in Push, who was neither hyper nor witty. So, if he's playing a hyper, witty character, I know it's him. Otherwise? NSM.
Tom Scola - May 07, 2010 3:39:01 am PDT #8218 of 30000
hwæt
Zenkitty - May 07, 2010 4:47:46 am PDT #8219 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I liked the bit where he said "Get out of there!"
Daisy Jane - May 07, 2010 5:14:06 am PDT #8220 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ha! I had to share that with everyone I've ever met.
le nubian - May 07, 2010 5:36:27 am PDT #8221 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The David Lynch cameo made my morning.
Jessica - May 07, 2010 6:00:43 am PDT #8222 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That's fantastic.
Kathy A - May 08, 2010 11:32:04 am PDT #8223 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cleaning off my dvr today--just saw My Darling Clementine for the first time (except for bits I've seen while watching the classic M*A*S*H episode where the camp watches the film).
Excellent movie! Henry Fonda is terrific as Wyatt Earp (probably the best portrayal I've seen of the man), and Victor Mature is suitably dour as Doc Holliday. But, the whole Doc/Chihuahua (and WTF is up with that name for the Linda Darnell character?!? So earwincing!) storyline suffers from the Production Code dictate that bad boys (and girls) must suffer and die in the end, and it ends up just being turgid melodrama instead of interesting to watch.
Also, Walter Brennan is very powerful as Clanton--you can see why he's such a highly regarded character actor.
Steph L. - May 08, 2010 3:44:38 pm PDT #8224 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Iron Man 2: AWESOME.
The only part of the movie for which I could not suspend my disbelief -- and I say that as someone who willingly believed that Tony Stark could build a particle accelerator by hand (and that scene was stolen straight from Real Genius, BTW), was the part where Mickey Rourke was a fricking PHYSICIST. Just...no.
There was also no reason for Tony Stark to have his shirt off when he was building the particle accelerator, and yet the lack of reason bothers me not at all.
Also? Iron Man and War Machine? Best. Duo. EVAR.
Finally, I didn't expect so much Nick Fury, so I was SUPER happy about that.
I love watching RDJ's face as he reacts to things. I feel like he's almost (BUT NOT QUITE) wasted in a comic-book movie, because he's got such amazing nuance in his facial expressions.
To sum up: I suppose it could have been a little tighter as a movie, but on the whole, it was nicely awesome.
I'm still not sure how I feel about Don Cheadle as Rhodey, though he is quite pleasant to look upon.