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    Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?

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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/20/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    msn.com is showing a different video, billed as an "exclusive look at Lightning Thief"
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/20/09

    @Mathmos: [www.bing.com]
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/20/09

    @Mathmos: Yet another new, version, and I think a more interesting one. This one I think is the official US trailer.

    [www.trailerspy.com]
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    Edited by Mathmos at 11/20/09 1:47 PM Mathmos was starred Mathmos was unstarred
    Image of Doug Nelson Doug Nelson
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    February release == stinker
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    Huh. Color me intrigued.
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    Read 'em and loved 'em. Have to say the movie looks pretty good. Wasn't expecting to see James Bond, though.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    Uma Thurman
    Duas Thurmans
    Tres Thurmans
    ...

    Hey, some people count sheep. I count Thurmans. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to help me sleep, quite the contrary...
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    Image of tk. tk.
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    My wife's read all of the Lightning Thief books and she's really liked them; I haven't, but I've read all of Riordian's Tres Navarre detective stories, which are pretty great. He's a former-English-professor tai-chi-wielding detective with a knack for getting into too much trouble and a cat named Robert Johnson. Good times.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/19/09

    @tk.: I liked the Tres Navarre stories too. Unfortunately Riordan apparently isn't going to write any more of them.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake.
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    Ahem, a poem:

    I have walked through a land of sorrow and cattle,
    A land of the meek led by fate.
    I have walked through a land with brutes playing heroes,
    With blunder and anger and hate.
    I have seen your Tim, your Roger, your Sean,
    I have seen them play furious and fierce.
    So I dream of a while,
    When a man built from guile,
    I dream of a god we'll call Pierce.
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    Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was starred Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/19/09

    @Dr.Quatermass: *finger snaps*

    A shaken martini for Dr. Q, barkeep.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    Cool. Only one question: Is Uma sporting the friendly milk snake or the deadly coral snake. I can never tell the difference.
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    Image of Fusion Fusion
    11/19/09

    @FrankenPC: Red & Black, friend of Jack, Red & Yellow, Kill a fellow. At least that's how I remember it.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    Aw, this looks fun, too bad it looks like the plot was lifted straight from Harry Potter. Can we retire the ole' "kid's life sucks until magic takes him off to a school and makes it awesome" motive? At least for a few years?
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    Image of Y Duras Y Duras
    11/19/09

    @Alexis: It's not like Rowling invented the school for magical children either. The movies, yeah, are probably timed because someone wants another Potteresque franchise. If it helps, his school years are perfectly normal, it's the summer camp that's magical.
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    Alexis promoted this comment Y Duras was starred Y Duras was unstarred
    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/19/09

    @Y Duras: She definitely didn't invent it, but she sure made it ridiculously popular. Summer camp or not, it still sounds like the same structure.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    With Pierce Brosnan as Julian Schnabel. You forgot your PJ's, Pierce!
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    His teacher was a harpy? Really? That seems a bit much.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/19/09

    @Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: Wasn't yours?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/19/09

    @LittleDragon:

    Nah, mine were furies.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    If it can get pass the first movie and get a better SFX budget then maybe it will reach Potter levels by the end of its franchise, but off the bat, heck no.

    Probably need to get rid of Columbus as well.

    I loved that water effect though.
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    Image of mustlovebooknerd mustlovebooknerd
    11/19/09

    @WestMantooth: What are you smoking? This looks AMAZING!
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    11/20/09

    @mustlovebooknerd:

    I'm pretty sure these aren't the finished effects. Pause the screen during the firefight in the museum and you see some kind of weird flat monster.

    #calendar
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    Image of snarklenyc snarklenyc
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    I don't know, this might become MY next deranged obsession
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    Image of cletar cletar
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    I thought Medusa was supposed to be hideous.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/19/09

    @cletar: Depends on the telling; I've seen it where her extreme beauty caused the petrification.
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    Image of W10002 W10002
    11/19/09

    @cletar: Medusa was once very beautiful. She would often boast about her beautiful hair. I think in mythology one of the Gods got envious, and turned her hair to snakes as revenge. Assuming her face didn't change, she should still be beautiful.
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    korybing promoted this comment W10002 was starred W10002 was unstarred
    Image of korybing korybing
    11/19/09

    @cletar: The myth can go both ways. Sometimes Medusa and her sisters were born hideous monsters and sometimes Medusa is a gorgeous woman cursed by the gods to look monstrous. And sometimes she is a mix of monster and beauty, like the Umadusa up there.

    The best thing about mythology is that because of all the different myths you usually really have to screw it up before it is "incorrect".
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    11/19/09

    @korybing: Umadusa! LMAO
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/19/09

    @cletar: Maybe with Umadusa, it's not the pretty face, but looking at her feet that turns you to stone...

    ...I mean, did you see Kill Bill? They're frightening.
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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/19/09

    @AngryEddy: Not if you're Quentin Terantino.
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    Image of SinisterBill SinisterBill
    11/19/09

    @korybing: Fucking traveling minstrels retcon'ing everything!
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    Image of mustlovebooknerd mustlovebooknerd
    11/19/09

    @W10002: The myth goes that Poseidon raped Medusa in a temple of Athena and Athena punished her by transforming her into a Gorgon.
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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/20/09

    @mustlovebooknerd: That's a later version of the myth, (I think that version was in Ovid's Metamorphosis?) but older versions also say that she and her sisters were born as horrible monsters.

    @SinisterBill: Evolution of mythology: the original epic retcon.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/19/09

    In reply to Uma Thurman's Medusa Weave Unleashed — Is This The Next Harry Potter?
    it wont be the next Harry Potter for 2 reasons:
    1 - the Harry Potter books were huge well before the first movie - and these books (while very good I think) are not in that league.
    2 - the filmmakers desperately want it to be - audiences can smell this a mile away...

    PS - I love you Uma.
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    Edited by goldfarb at 11/19/09 10:55 AM goldfarb was starred goldfarb was unstarred
    Image of Harlot Harlot
    11/19/09

    @goldfarb: yeah...even the font is Potter-esque.

    Nice iPod product placement, too.
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    goldfarb promoted this comment Harlot was starred Harlot was unstarred
    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/19/09

    @Harlot: monster slaying? theres an app for that!
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