And that is why I'm on watch number seven.
Hauser: You really think you can solve the problem? Come into Wolfram & Hart and make everything right? Turn night into glorious day? You pathetic little fairy. Angel: I'm not little.
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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Jars - Jun 25, 2010 11:43:47 am PDT #9292 of 30000
§ ita § - Jun 25, 2010 12:18:14 pm PDT #9293 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Speaking of Ryan Reynolds (yes, lets!), apparently Jon Tenney has been cast in Green Lantern as ... his father?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 25, 2010 1:23:19 pm PDT #9294 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Didn't Hal have older brothers? That won't jibe too well with his father having been an 8th grader when he was conceived...
Jessica - Jun 25, 2010 2:24:52 pm PDT #9295 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by David Fincher. The Social Network
I'm hating myself for wanting to see this as much as I do.
Connie Neil - Jun 26, 2010 1:08:54 pm PDT #9296 of 30000
brillig
Saw How to Train Your Dragon at the dollar movie. Hubby and I were both struck by the fact that Hiccup lost his foot to the fight instead of coming out of it without a scratch. Hubby thinks this is to address the number of people coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with prosthetics. The hero sometimes has to pay a cost, but it doesn't have to slow him down. Hubby was amused at the idea of a dragon with a stick shift.
Atropa - Jun 27, 2010 5:31:14 pm PDT #9297 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Just got back from Toy Story 3. Amazingly, I did not break down into full sobbing, but I think that's because you people prepared me for it. (I'm still glad I wore waterproof mascara and eyeliner, tho'.)
It was a lot of fun. And good God, the cymbal-clapping monkey was creepy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go spend the evening with Clovis.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2010 5:40:20 pm PDT #9298 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Huh. Apparently Mickey Rourke stored more than half of his skeeviness in his hair. [link]
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2010 5:41:00 pm PDT #9299 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh, indeed.
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2010 7:47:49 pm PDT #9300 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Whoa, The Thing has some of the best creature effects I've ever seen. Sometimes I miss the pre-CGI days.
DavidS - Jun 27, 2010 7:56:52 pm PDT #9301 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Stan Winston, Rob Bottin - genius.
Critical reception
The film's special effects were simultaneously lauded and lambasted for being technically brilliant but visually repulsive. Film critic Roger Ebert called the special effects "among the most elaborate, nauseating, and horrifying sights yet achieved by Hollywood’s new generation of visual magicians", and called the film itself "a great barf-bag movie".[9] In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it "a foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80's".[10] Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "Designer Rob Bottin's work is novel and unforgettable, but since it exists in a near vacuum emotionally, it becomes too domineering dramatically and something of an exercise in abstract art".[11]
It's interesting because the initial reviews have proven to have undervalued the movie, which many now see as the best horror movie of the decade. Indeed one of the greatest horror movies ever.