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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Steph L. - Jun 12, 2013 6:59:02 am PDT #24669 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Polter-Cow - Jun 12, 2013 7:07:16 am PDT #24670 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
His video was awesome.
Scrappy - Jun 12, 2013 10:11:01 am PDT #24671 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw Frances Ha and really enjoyed it. It does a wonderful job of capturing the delirious, complex, claustrophobic friendship of young women. The film kinda loses its way at points but onthe whole i was quite impressed. Gerwig is lovely.
Atropa - Jun 12, 2013 10:27:10 am PDT #24672 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So I just saw Punching Stuff Until It Blows Up, er, I mean Man of Steel.
It was not good.
Standard Zach Snyder not good? Or a different flavor of not good? I need to know how angry Pete is going to be once he sees it. (Pete really likes Superman, and has been excited about the trailers for Man of Steel. I've told him to go see it on his own, because I don't really care about Supes, and that I have given up on Zach Snyder movies.)
Jessica - Jun 12, 2013 10:42:19 am PDT #24673 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mainly it was just incredibly boring. There was no there there. The timeline is shaken up for no good reason other than telling it chronologically would have been even more boring. Trivial bits of backstory are repeated over and over and over again, and major pieces of information are glossed over or not mentioned at all. It's just a boring clunky badly told story.
One thing I will say in its favor - Lois Lane is done very well. I don't think this passes the Bechdel test, but the "Pulitzer Prize winning ditz" schtick from the last several Superman films is GONE. She is presented from the beginning as an actual competent journalist who doesn't need to ask her male boss how to spell shit. There is no scene where she's randomly in her underwear or a tight cocktail dress. She's frequently in need of rescue, but not more than the military guys she's surrounded by. So that was refreshing. But it doesn't make up for the fact that she's in a movie where you could fall asleep for an hour and not miss anything.
Atropa - Jun 12, 2013 10:54:20 am PDT #24674 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Mainly it was just incredibly boring. There was no there there.
So pretty much like every other Zach Snyder film? Good to know.
(The best thing from the Watchmen movie was the music video, and NOT just because it was MCR. Tho' that helped immensely.)
Amy - Jun 12, 2013 10:56:49 am PDT #24675 of 30000
Because books.
Tho' that helped immensely
Yes, it did.
I still love Snyder's remake of Dawn of the Dead, and I can watch The Watchmen slightly altered and hoot at its awfulness (because Jeffrey Dean Morgan! Carla Cugino!), but everything else he does really seems to suck.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 12, 2013 11:09:08 am PDT #24676 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
She's frequently in need of rescue
Three decades of Superman comics readership leads me to believe this is Lois Lane's defining character trait, if not her entire raison d'être.
DavidS - Jun 12, 2013 11:51:42 am PDT #24677 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Three decades of Superman comics readership leads me to believe this is Lois Lane's defining character trait, if not her entire raison d'être.
Yeah, but at least in the Fleischer cartoons she wasn't afraid to pull out a tommygun and blast away at gangsters.
Though I have affection for the insane and insanely sexist Mort Weissinger era Lois.
beekaytee - Jun 12, 2013 12:04:53 pm PDT #24678 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Late to say that I really enjoyed the mooseelk convo but this bit...
Boom, scienced.
...was my favorite. I can just see P-C flicking his hand out like he's droppin. the mic.