Consuela and I saw the Losers this afternoon. It was very fun, and lots of things went BOOM, and JDM and Idris Elba are very pretty, but I think Leverage spoiled me--I kept expecting Roque's betrayal to be part of the caper plan, instead of actually being bad.
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'Sleeper'
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Lee - May 08, 2010 5:33:32 pm PDT #8236 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse - May 08, 2010 5:34:48 pm PDT #8237 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Me too, Perkins.
§ ita § - May 08, 2010 6:14:15 pm PDT #8238 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Perkins, I was hoping and expecting that too.
I had more laughs from The Losers than Iron Man 2, and I think the action pacing (though not actual action scenes) was better.
Also, I was bitching about Zoe Saldana, but I'll take her over ScarJo for my team, thanks.
Beverly - May 08, 2010 7:32:02 pm PDT #8239 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh me too!
I really enjoyed things go boom.
Scrappy - May 08, 2010 8:19:24 pm PDT #8240 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Always and forever love RDJ. I agree with the feeling that Scarlett was superfluous. After her long hallway fight, I whispered to my DH, "Hit Girl could kick her ass."
Loved the energy whip things. Cutting a car in half--AWESOME.
I enjoyed the movie, but did not fall in totally in love.
P.M. Marc - May 08, 2010 8:42:25 pm PDT #8241 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sorry, I loved the Scarlett. As did, err. The entire van full of guys who went to the movie with me.
But their appreciation, like mine, was probably utterly shallow. *cough*
§ ita § - May 08, 2010 8:56:03 pm PDT #8242 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But did you think she was convincing? They said a whole lot of things about what her character was supposedly capable of, but...all I saw was sex-me face.
Polter-Cow - May 08, 2010 10:01:17 pm PDT #8243 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm a fan of the character, so I was glad that she got that badass hallway scene, but I do wish she'd gotten more to do.
I thought the movie was great overall, though it was less action-packed than the first and, as ita said, was less gleeface-inducing.
P.M. Marc - May 08, 2010 10:58:48 pm PDT #8244 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
But did you think she was convincing? They said a whole lot of things about what her character was supposedly capable of, but...all I saw was sex-me face.
I was convinced. I also wasn't seeing sex-me face so much as please give me an excuse to break both your arms off and shove them up your ass face.
§ ita § - May 08, 2010 11:12:33 pm PDT #8245 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Every move they had for her was so ludicrous. Those flying scissors where she's wrestling the guys down from their necks? So her initial badass moment worked not for me. She should have evaded his strike and taken out his nuts. Then when she went on her mission through the corridors taking guys down with one touch (the leg sweeps I buy, but you gotta do something to them afterwards) while Jon Favreau is in an actual extended fight with multiple blows? Made her look puny and implausible to me.