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Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
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Jesse - Jun 19, 2013 6:49:09 am PDT #24748 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2013 12:13:09 pm PDT #24749 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, what the hell, they're making a LEGO movie??
...And it actually looks good? What? No, seriously, it's from the directors of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street, both of which were surprisingly intelligent and hilarious...plus Batman.
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2013 12:15:28 pm PDT #24750 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What was surprisingly intelligent about 21 Jump St? Did it happen after their fragile friendship was cracked to the core by the ex-uncool guy spouting off? I had to go find where my eyes had rolled off to at that point, and got too distracted to finish the movie.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2013 12:20:11 pm PDT #24751 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I found it to be a very smart combination of homage and satire. It was much more than the dumb comedy I expected it to be.
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2013 12:23:49 pm PDT #24752 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Homage, where? And what was worth satirising? I found it to be so independent of the original beyond "undercover in high school" that they had to jam in the original actors to remind us why they spent money on the licensing. And there wasn't enough about the original to really satirise anyway.
Also really quite predictable, so if it wasn't an existing property, there'd be no reason to watch it either.
DavidS - Jun 19, 2013 2:09:25 pm PDT #24753 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I really liked the 21 Jump Street movie. Thought it was consistently funny and sweethearted.
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2013 2:45:24 pm PDT #24754 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought it was easy and predictable, at least up to the point where I couldn't hang any more. Maybe it all came together in the ninth. But I didn't like anyone so far, and I didn't even hate them enough to want to burn them at the stake. Just guys I preferred on the far side of the room.
Burrell - Jun 19, 2013 2:55:01 pm PDT #24755 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh crud, a Lego movie. That's going to be one of those movies I will have to see given that I live with their target audience. I wish I shared your rather muted enthusiasm for it, P-C.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2013 3:00:06 pm PDT #24756 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
R.I.P. James Gandolfini what the hell.
Scrappy - Jun 19, 2013 3:12:41 pm PDT #24757 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh, that's sad. And 51--jeez, I would have said he was 51 during The Sopranos.