'Potential'
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I'll post this here, since the exhibit is mostly movie-based: Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has the world premiere of the new Harry Potter traveling exhibit opening now, running through September!
The article is written by a complete fangirl, and she makes it sound very cool. Although I don't know if it's $18 cool (cost of the exhibit), but the exhibit's gift shop sounds like it might be worth it--it's designed like Diagon Alley.
The Ferris Beuller Fight Club Theory
This would only work if Cameron was the narrator. Since it's Beuller talking to through the fourth wall, not so much. Plus, I hate FBDO with the fiery heat of a thousand suns, so I'm EXTREMELY disinclined to give any coolness points in it's favor.
Really? I like it a lot, though I saw it about four years after everybody told me it ruled. Maybe I passed out in the Baskin Robbins.
Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek! Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
(Um, yeah, I liked it a lot. No idea what purists will think, but as a casual fan I thought it COMPLETELY ROCKED.)
Excellent news, Jess! Not a purist (though I know WAY too much geekery from it), so I'm totally psyched. They kinda had me at the previews, though.
Really? I like it a lot, though I saw it about four years after everybody told me it ruled. Maybe I passed out in the Baskin Robbins.
It's a movie about a smug, popular, deliberate underachiever who gets away with everything. Yeah, I hate it. Hits some big hot-button issues from high school.
I really had no IDEA how smoking hot Zachary Quinto was until this movie. (Sure, Sylar's attractive in a villainous kind of way, but...WOAH. Spock. Hawt.)
The rest of the cast is good too. Simon Pegg as Scotty is fantastic, as is Karl Urban as Bones.
I have to hand it to JJ for coming up with a really slick way to solve the issue of pre-existing canon. The "problem...SOLVED!" hand gesture I imagine him doing just offscreen doesn't play well over the interwebs, but it was very cleverly done.
The only possible weak point is that Eric Bana is completely wasted as the bad guy. He's not a villain, he's a backboard. It's an origin story, and so the "real" antagonist is Kirk's own immaturity which he has to overcome in order to get the rest of the crew to trust him blah blah originstorycakes, and JJ quite rightly treats that as the core of the story, and who they're fighting and why is mostly secondary. Still, why cast Eric Bana if you're not going to give him a personality or a storyline?
Yeah, I think for FBDO, you have to figure who you are identifying with.
I think the movie is really fun. Completely unbelievable, not remotely plausible, but fun. I definitely identified with Cameron because I'm way more of a nervous nelly and I would have been freaked out the whole time I was with FB. My parents are better people than Cameron's though!
I hate FBDO with the fiery heat of a thousand suns, so I'm EXTREMELY disinclined to give any coolness points in it's favor.
Yay! My brother in FBDO hate!