There are a bunch of dwarves though.
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2010 5:23:02 pm PDT #9968 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
Sean K - Jul 17, 2010 8:05:10 pm PDT #9969 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And a few humans and elves.
Atropa - Jul 17, 2010 8:07:09 pm PDT #9970 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Speaking of dwarves, I'm (finally!) watching the blu-ray of Snow White. The Evil Queen is still the best thing about the movie. Her and the Magic Mirror. The restoration is gorgeous.
DavidS - Jul 17, 2010 9:56:23 pm PDT #9971 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of dwarves, I'm (finally!) watching the blu-ray of Snow White. The Evil Queen is still the best thing about the movie. Her and the Magic Mirror. The restoration is gorgeous.
I really love all the scenes of her in the dungeon mixing up her potion and mocking the skeletons of her former victims.
Fiona - Jul 17, 2010 10:07:04 pm PDT #9972 of 30000
Tom Hardy played the young Picard clone in "Star Trek: Nemesis". He's been around for a while but lost a couple of years through substance abuse. Definitely one of the more interesting young British actors to appear in the past few years, though.
The Observer Magazine had an article on him a couple of weeks ago, though it wasn't particularly revelatory:
Sue - Jul 18, 2010 2:12:37 pm PDT #9973 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I guess... for a movie about dreams, it seemed a bit literal?
I totally agree with you Strega. The whole plotting was wonderfully done, but I kept thinking, "This is awfully boring for a dream." If I could control dreams and build dream worlds, it would be a nonstop Dada amusement park. At the very least some one would fly or breathe underwater.
Jon B. - Jul 18, 2010 5:20:30 pm PDT #9974 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
But it had to be boring for the Mark to believe it was real. There was also the issue of the projections turning on the architect. They were pretty explicit about that when Ellen Page was making the crazy-geometry-world.
Polter-Cow - Jul 18, 2010 5:41:00 pm PDT #9975 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, what Jon said.
I loved it, and it only occurred to me afterward that pretty much all the "cool" shots were shown in the trailers, and it didn't matter. They were much better in context, and I didn't feel cheated. (Okay, maybe slightly cheated, because why wouldn't I want more awesome?)
I feel like Christopher Nolan is the live-action Pixar. The guy hasn't made a bad movie. I pretty much love them all. (Huh, I'm surprised that his lowest RT rating is for The Prestige (75%) rather than Insomnia (92%). I thought that was the one that wasn't very well received, since it had to follow Memento. )
bon bon - Jul 18, 2010 5:47:11 pm PDT #9976 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I liked how solid and gritty the dreams were. Nolan resisted the impulse to go as crazy as the Matrix or The Cell, but instead gave the dreams lots of texture. The texture gave the effects much more weight. It's interesting when Paris folds in on itself; it's even better that it *looks like* Paris is folding in on itself.
Sue - Jul 18, 2010 5:54:08 pm PDT #9977 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Yeah, but pretty well every dream--except for the opening one, had very literal setting, literal turns of events.
The only fantastical elements of the dreams seemed to come at the hands of the architects or extractors. Everyone else was dreaming business or fancy parties and there was not one midget wrestler, nor potato that transcended time and space, nor dreams where one person was in B&W and the rest of the dream was in colour. The magic and mystery of dreams is that fucked up things can happen and your just accept that as reality. I just think there was an opportunity for some absurdity, and I was a little disappointed there wasn't any.
Also, Leo has to cut out the tanning or tanner, whatever that was. He looked positively orange.