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    How Important Is Mute's Futuristic Setting?

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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/13/09

    In reply to How Important Is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
    Well, how important were the medeival Japan settings of Kurusawa's Shakespeare re-makes?

    I'd say setting is an important part of a movie, and many different movies are the same story if you boil them down hard enough.
    -Kle. #duncanjones
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    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    11/12/09

    In reply to How Important Is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
    Jones' film Moon convinced me. No matter how strange the concept, I'll trust Zowie Bowie to make it good. #duncanjones
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    Image of Zyg Zyg
    11/12/09

    @Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: damn straight! #duncanjones
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/12/09

    In reply to How Important Is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
    Sounds intriguing, I'd like to read this but not sure I really enjoy reading scripts. Maybe I'll wait for the novelization. #duncanjones
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    Image of Motoki Motoki
    11/12/09

    In reply to How Important Is Mute's Futuristic Setting?
    Argh, script is yanked from Sendspace. Please tell me someone nabbed it first. #duncanjones
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    Good to see Ex Machina is back this week.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    This may sound like a weird question, but how can a future be alternate?
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: We can't, because if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of THIS reality, in which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother, and in which THIS has happened to ME!! [holds up newspaper reading "EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED"] No, our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the time line skewed into this tangent. In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and specific circumstances of how, when, and where young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Alternate or not. As long as I get to have a go on a GOD DAMN HOVERBOARD!!!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Have I mentioned that you are going to be like the coolest Mom ever?!
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Well, they don't work on water, you know.
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @Grey_Area: Aww, thanks! :) Here's a secret, though, I already have a 4-year-old. But he thinks I am cool too. And he watches LOTR. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: If you're referring to the description of Frank Miller's Martha Washington, it works out like this:

    1.In the 1990s Frank Miller wanted to write a political satire. He set it in the future so it wouldn't be about any specific person but about general concepts in politics and socioeconomics.

    2.In the 1990s the 21st Century was still in the future.

    3.Much of the story takes place in what is now our present day --the early 21st Century.

    4.Frank Miller is a good writer but not a prescient one. His fictional details of 21st Century life are entertaining but of course have no connection with the actual 21st Century we find ourselves in. They diverge quite a bit.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/04/09

    In reply to Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole
    Burnt through all of this yesterday and it's fantastic. Easily one of the best comics I've read in years.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/02/09

    In reply to Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole
    It lay eggs now. Enjoy!
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/02/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!:
    Mmmmmmmmm. Xenomorph caviar...

    *It is recommended that you chew the eggs before you swallow...
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    I was going to turn up my nose to this, but how can I resist "L.A. is what happens when a bunch of Lovecraftian elder gods and porn starlets spend a weekend locked up in the Chateau Marmont snorting lines of crank off Jim Morrison's bones. If the Viagra and illegal Traci Lords videos don't get you going, then the Japanese tentacle porn will..."

    HOW CAN I?
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    Image of bookling bookling
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    I just read this book, and it is indeed awesome. I definitely recommend it.
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    Image of Eldritch Eldritch
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    This came into my bookstore a few weeks ago and I keep wanting to get it, except that it is a TINY hardcover and still the full hardcover price. No idea why, but I'm not gonna shell out $20 for a hardcover the size of a mass market paperback. Maybe when it's out in paperback I'll try it.
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    Image of William Mercado William Mercado
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    Just finished it last week

    It's a good read, if you've been around the block gritty fantasy wise there's nothing new. If you're a fan of Gaiman, Westlake and Tarrantino this is recommened.
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    Image of Batmanuel Batmanuel
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    Didn't Desolation Jones have a similar premise, except LA was a dumping ground for retired secret government agents?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/26/09

    @Batmanuel: Only in the sense that the protagonist comes back to take revenge on the people that screwed him over. And that plot has been done before as well. At least twice.
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    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    08/11/09

    In reply to Strangely Hairless Concept Art From Frankenstein's Film Noir Revamp
    These images are sooo dark I now have a headache and eye strain!
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/11/09

    In reply to Strangely Hairless Concept Art From Frankenstein's Film Noir Revamp
    This could be a disaster !!
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/11/09

    @gorehound: So, you've changed your repertoire...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/11/09

    @Bill-Lee: It's good to see him doing something fresh and original.
    Oh wait...
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