Heh. Hearing about the spoilerfont is what made me decide not to drive to a neighboring city where it was playing in theaters.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 19, 2017 6:03:12 am PDT #889 of 3463
"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
tommyrot - Jul 19, 2017 10:35:03 am PDT #890 of 3463
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, it's a comedy, but the spoilerfont stuff makes the funny go and the creepiness arrive.
Dana - Jul 20, 2017 5:19:43 am PDT #891 of 3463
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Saw an early screening of Atomic Blonde last night. Short version, if you want to see Charlize Theron beating people up while wearing sleek clothes and high heels, you will not be disappointed.
Long version: Fun, but not brilliant. Theron is great, and the film definitely commits to the late 80s Communist vibe. But as silly as this sounds, the plot is over-complicated, and nothing particularly unexpected happens.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2017 5:26:24 am PDT #892 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, but Dana, I could not believe the people in my theater toward the end (not the final end, but what I thought was going to be the end! The scene in the hotel, I think) who were like, "Wait, is she...?!?!" Which I thought was obvious by that point.
Dana - Jul 20, 2017 5:31:31 am PDT #893 of 3463
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I thought it was obvious too -- I mean, not who she was working for, but why she was going to the hotel. But to be honest, I had problems occasionally understanding all of the dialogue between the Russian, German, French, and British accents.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2017 5:47:05 am PDT #894 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, all of that.
I liked it, though! Even when I thought it didn't need a second ending, it turned out it DID need the third ending!
Jessica - Jul 20, 2017 7:06:10 am PDT #895 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Short version, if you want to see Charlize Theron beating people up while wearing sleek clothes and high heels, you will not be disappointed.
If you like your movies to have plots, however, you probably will be. I recommend going in with the assumption that none of the spy shit matters.
The fight scenes are AWESOME, and I really appreciated that Theron looked like an adult. It's rare to see women allowed to look grown up without looking Old, you know?
Question - does this movie still get to pass the Bechdel test if the conversation not-about-a-man happens in the middle of one of the male-gaze-iest lesbian sex scenes in film history, with the possible exception of actual pornography?
Even when I thought it didn't need a second ending, it turned out it DID need the third ending!
Bwah, so true. I wonder if it was always in the script, or if it was an afterthought due to Theron's godawful British accent.
Tom Scola - Jul 20, 2017 12:16:51 pm PDT #896 of 3463
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
All of the Christopher Nolan movie rankings, ranked
It's a ranking of the rankings! Like, an inception of rankings! My mind is blown!
-t - Jul 20, 2017 2:14:55 pm PDT #897 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm so glad that exists in the world.
Consuela - Jul 22, 2017 3:02:10 pm PDT #898 of 3463
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Vox has a run-down of all the big trailers at San Diego Comic Con this week: [link]