Absentia was definitely flawed, but it had its moments where it perfectly captured the sort of despair and mind fuckery of having someone just be... gone. It didn't all quite come together at the end, but it still really clicked with me on a visceral level.
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Its great that you like the novel. But if you can look past the movie not being faithful to the book and judge it on its own terms, then you might realize it's a wicked satire of militaristic propaganda.
No, the movie is brilliant all on its own. Even though it came out in 1997, it's the greatest satire of post-9/11 America ever made. Because Verhoeven is just that good.
Whaaaaaaaaat?! Starship Troopers is brilliant.
And so begins the Great Book Reader Freak Out as the show really veers off into alternate continuity territory and possibly begins spoiling future books.
Ha! As soon as I saw the photo, I said it looked periwinkle blue and sepia.
Ha! As soon as I saw the dress, I said it looked like it was a periwinkle blue and sepia.
This whole ordeal is giving me flashbacks to the blue tunic from the original Legend of Zelda, which always looked white to me.
Excellent demonstration of what's going on, though he one on the left still looks blue to me, just a lighter shade of blue to the one on the right.
Yeah, I have no problem whatsoever with casting Arnold as the terminator. In this case, rule of awesome totally trumps logic.
Of course, their effectiveness as an espionage unit never made sense anyway. If you want a good spy, you go with someone nondescript, not a giant Austrian bodybuilder. And especially not SEVERAL copies of the same exact distinct-looking giant bodybuilder.
Idunno, For years that might have been true, but the fact that Brave beat ParaNorman has me pretty much convinced that Oscar voters don't even watch the Best Animated Feature nominees before voting.
Ben Affleck is playing Andrew Ryan.
The 2003 series stuck to the comics' portrayal of Splinter as Yoshi's pet rat.
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Since when have networks shied away from making several versions of the same successful show at once?
Game of Thrones is a phenomenon right now, but I can very easily see it being the type of thing that immediately falls out of public consciousness once its run is over. It's just too nihilistic. There's no strong idea for people to latch onto to make it resonate 50 years down the line like Star Trek does.
Heh, sorry. Sometimes I just can't resist being a smartass.
The Grave of the Fireflies land would be amazing.