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Yesterday's bomb threat kept the theatre closed until evening... so I'm going out now to finally see the rest of Prometheus.
Apropos of nothing, that website looks suspiciously similar to my local news site...
Wow. The motion-capture looks really good in this one!
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. A buddy comedy about the apocalypse. If you've not read it, you've probably heard of it.
Wow. This is my favorite book of all time.
I'm going to take these recommendations very seriously. Thank you so much!
I'm looking for books to read this summer that are not Game of Thrones-related, because that's pretty much all I've read since last summer.
I don't really have a specific set of tastes, so throw whatever you've got at me.
bullet3 wrote:Speaking of the "chosen one" thing, I desperately want one of these movies to start out that way and then have the chosen one get brutally killed 1/3 of the way through, and have the rest of the characters have to deal with the ramifications.
Yes. I was thinking the exact same thing earlier today. Establish the 'chosen one' character, set him on his path and then *boom* he's dead. Now deal with it.
You know what movie does this? It's the closest example of this I've ever seen, and you're not gonna believe it.
Spy Kids 3: Game Over.
They spend the whole movie setting up how "The Kid" is the most powerful player, and how he's the only one who can get them to the end. And when "The Kid" shows up, he's immediately dispatched. At least, that's what I remember.
Expect more films like it. "Gritty re-imaginings of fairy tales" is the hot genre of the moment.
Only one I have any idea about is fob. I think it's something negative that you call someone...but I could be completely off-base. That's all I've got.
The "ratings" section ranks every Intermission first, and then all the commentaries.
You've been around as long as I have, so I think we're on the same page. 
I dunno, this thread just feels like it's a summation of everything that we're about. Like it should be the first thing that new users see or something.
Sidebar: This is one of the best threads we've ever had.
10/10 would watch.
I don't have much to add that hasn't been mentioned, but I'll throw on The Bicycle Thief.
Ooh, a blog! I like blogs. Consider yourself followed. 
But they establish that the plank would have sunk with the weight of both of them, so no.
I don't know if I said it here or somewhere else a few days ago, but I think that Seven Samurai is in many ways the groundwork for every action/drama that came after it. You know all those movies you love? Seven Samurai is the best parts of all of those movies put together. So yeah, great storytelling.
You can make it so that one historically beleaguered film production actually got off the ground, but a classic film that did get made must disappear. Which films do you choose?
*googles "sitrep"*
Yes, yes that would be nice.
You have to choose one weapon from a video game (one that doesn't exist in reality) to survive a pack of zombies. What do you choose?
To break from this topic a little, I'd just like to apply the comment about laziness in alien design to the whole movie. Everything was copy-pasted from something else. The alien suits were from Halo, that scene is from Jurassic Park, this console is from Half-Life. Talk about unoriginal, this is literally a movie that is assembled from bits of other properties whole-cloth! It sounds so familiar, it's almost like...
...oh my god.
Tom Hiddleston as Aziraphale in Good Omens. It didn't click until I saw him doing press for Avengers, but he's absolutely perfect. But only with blonde hair.
By the way, read Good Omens. It's Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, writing together before they were big stars, satirizing the Biblical End of Days. It's an absolute riot, and probably my favorite book of all time.
I think a better example is Chronicle. It's a wholly original idea with no-name stars, a no-name director, and a writer with...well, half a name, we'll say. And that was a breakout mainstream success.
There are so few major movie releases coming out this year that aren't based on existing material. The next major one is Brave, but that has the Pixar brand so even it doesn't really count.
AshDigital wrote:Oh boy!
Has anyone figured out why there are shots from Ruin in the Revolution trailer? Is OddBall working for NBC on Revolution and RUIN was a proof of concept?
http://www.slashfilm.com/shot-wes-balls … n-trailer/
Bad Robot asked permission, and he agreed. Nothing more nefarious than that, it seems.
I refuse to believe this movie is less coherent and awful than Transformers 3.
I'll say this: At least things happened in Transformers 3. This movie isn't just bad, it's boring as hell.
Slate decided to find out if the Missouri really could be started up again so easily.
Spoiler: No.
This kind of relates to another problem with the movie. Why were these ships, which were all on the water to play naval war games, fully stocked with ammunition? Were they actually planning on torpedoing their opponents?
As soon as the credits rolled on this movie, and Fortunate Son starting blasting out of the speakers, I turned to my friend Sarah and said, "Hey, isn't this an anti-war song?" There was a pause, and she said, "This movie is fucking terrible."
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