What? No love for the Pond family? How about having a daughter that's older than you and your spouse and -- bonus -- has triple-helix DNA?
Sorry, Alasdair. I, in fact, suck. And i jumped the gun on that one. Apologies.
I wasn't sure if that line was sarcastic, but wanted to plug the wonderful "An Education" here in case anyone hadn't seen/heard of it.
re: "Carey Mulligan - who supposedly has done other, even more acclaimed things since lighting up Doctor Who as Sally Sparrow, but frankly I find that difficult to believe..."
Oh, come on. Please see "An Education," the 2009 movie which got Mulligan nominated for an Oscar. Amazing stuff, that.
Oh, come on. Please see "An Education," the 2009 movie which got Mulligan nominated for an Oscar. Amazing stuff, that.
Go, Big Double-Yoo!
Absolutely! I wonder why no one's talking about a Scott Bakula cameo in the second film...
Ah, but what about this? Even more disastrous than Liberace taking vows with Aunt Harriet, i tells ya...
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That is way too awesome. We may need to redefine "awesome" after this.
Word! That's been my theory for over a year now.
A man who was an affinity with all plants? Well, that's Alec Holland, a.k.a. the Swamp Thing, innit?
So this thing started out as a riff on the NCAA March Madness tournament but ended up with two candidates making it look more like a recent presidential election. I am hardly a browncoat, but i definitely voting anti-anything fucking Star Wars, a.k.a. perhaps the six most overrated films of all-time, any genre.
Serenity in 2011!
Serenity in 2011!
Ah, glad to meet a fellow Incredibles voter. There aren't many of us, you know...
Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! How can 12 Monkeys be getting so badly smoked by Terminator 2? This and the loss by Eternal Sunshine have busted my bracket!
re: "[Moon] proved that science fiction didn't need elaborate special effects to pack a punch - great ideas and inspired acting worked better than millions of dollars of CGI."
But hadn't Gattaca already demonstrated this...?
But hadn't Gattaca already demonstrated this...?
Nah, no way would the Klingons team with the Daleks: They have no honor!
Charlie, i always love your stuff, but i've got to call bullshit on your one-liner on WW, "She just may not work in this day and age."
The following is my compressed rant on the subject, to which i subject anyone i can.
Right. Wonder Woman. So you've got a two-hour movie which begins with about 30 minutes of near-naked babes hanging out on beaches and then playing sports.
Then you've got, what, 45-60 minutes of fish-out-of-water light comedy mixed with action sequences and flirty cheesy quasi-romance, all lovingly done in sumptuous retro 1940s style.
Finally, you've got Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman taking out a bunch of EEEEEEvil Nazis,probably in New York, in the HEE-yooge f/x closeout. O yeah, and then you get the cliffhanger for Wonder Woman II with the Cheetah appearing at the end, a la the recent WW origin story animated flick.
Now how exactly does this lose? How does what should be a paint-by-numbers script with a proper budget and solid script *not* succeed?
Thanks for listening/reading. And for paying attention to Diana! She's the best, really.
The following is my compressed rant on the subject, to which i subject anyone i can.
Right. Wonder Woman. So you've got a two-hour movie which begins with about 30 minutes of near-naked babes hanging out on beaches and then playing sports.
Then you've got, what, 45-60 minutes of fish-out-of-water light comedy mixed with action sequences and flirty cheesy quasi-romance, all lovingly done in sumptuous retro 1940s style.
Finally, you've got Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman taking out a bunch of EEEEEEvil Nazis,probably in New York, in the HEE-yooge f/x closeout. O yeah, and then you get the cliffhanger for Wonder Woman II with the Cheetah appearing at the end, a la the recent WW origin story animated flick.
Now how exactly does this lose? How does what should be a paint-by-numbers script with a proper budget and solid script *not* succeed?
Thanks for listening/reading. And for paying attention to Diana! She's the best, really.
@my2doctors: Baker's seventh season was a bit of a wash in my opinion, although the Keeper of Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva story arc was utterly innovative and way ahead of its time. (This was the early 80s, for Lambert's sake -- five years before ST:TNG!)
This season also contains one of the great criminally underrated Doctor Who stories ever, Warrior's Gate.
This season also contains one of the great criminally underrated Doctor Who stories ever, Warrior's Gate.
@ Ursus-Veritas: And if you're a Davison fan! Finally, the Mara stories!
