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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    I also have a Terminator beef, but it may include spoilers. So anyone who hasn't seen it...SPOILER ALERT!


    If there were terminators in all the other movies that were all some rendition of The Arnold, whether young and Cro-Magnon, or old with steroid-y muscle sag, why oh why was this John Connor so surprised to see terminators who looked like humans? He was truly baffled. He was once Edward Furlong and had a terminator best buddy, he was that kid from Carnavale and had a second terminator BFF, so I would think as a thirty-something year old revolutionary arm-band wearer the appearance of a terminator who resembled his two previous best friends with skin, blood, and etc., even if not the same likeness, would generate an "Oh, it's you," rather than a "Hey, wait! Skynet has made something new, well call me a pink pony named Daisy, aren't they diabolical." moment. Or did I misinterpret Christian Bales' fine acting skills?

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    06/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: You mean when he yelled "CONNOR!" or was it when he bellowed "CONNOR!"
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: In the future he hadn't sent Kyle Reese back to sire him yet. Thus, he'd never met a human-looking Terminator before. In the future, he doesn't exist in the past yet. So he's never had any adventures with Arnie, except, in a way, he has. He just doesn't remember it. Because it hasn't happened yet. But it's also always happened. Get it?


    [gunshot]

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    06/01/09

    @Richard Lawson: Not even if they bent the space time continuum with a redwood tree, would that make sense. Therein lies the reason why this will never, ever, work. And why there should never, ever, be another. Especially if it includes Christian Bale who gets out-acted by almost everyone he's in a movie with, always. Even the little Skynet- soothsayer moppet with the Bandaids was more convincing. Pfffttt! Also, who's the new good-guy terminator dude with the Cold Play jacket? He was cute. Couldn't wait until that guy was onscreen. Bale's varicose vein under-eye area disturbs me. I'd like to not have to look at it in another action film. Helena Bonham Carter is never needed, with or without Tim Burton, I've discovered.
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    Image of tell Dolly Parton again tell Dolly Parton again
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    I prefer to believe that John Lasseter was beamed down from heaven on a white cloud, followed thereafter by his disciples Brad Bird, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, et al. And it was good.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    So Terminator Salvation is the THIRD unforeseen, unplanned sequel. We're all just running out of faith.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    Mindy, that bitch. Smoked all my grass, never put out.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    I am thrilled about Terminator's failure. I wept when I found out that McG was directing the latest installment. Maybe now McG will go away or at least finally get it that horrible sound editing, jump cuts and conspicuous light effects don't make for a successful action movie director. Now G-d, please make the same thing happen to Tony Scott and Pelham 123 . I have been gunning for that asshole since Man on Fire
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    06/01/09

    @Wrapitup: Domino gave me seizures...
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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    Seriously - I was multiplex hopping this weekend & the only person in ...Museum was a confused homeless person.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    06/01/09

    @NinaHagen: I'll have you know that the transient hotel just threw me out this morning, so I had a home at the time I was watching the movie.


    Bitch.

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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    06/01/09

    @saythatscool:


    This explains much. You were walking the earth for a bit, weren't you?

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    06/01/09

    @resipsaloquacious: Like Cain in Kung Fu. For real ...
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    06/01/09

    In reply to All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
    Don't forget that Christian Bale was able to survive a small-ish nuclear explosion 100 or so yards away.


    I checked out right about then.

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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    06/01/09

    @Aidan_: I checked out when the borg didn't kill Kyle Reece when it had the chance.


    Even though I adore Anton Yelchin.

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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    06/01/09

    @Aidan_: Uh, this is actually possible. Atomic demolition munitions of less than a kiloton yield were manufactured during the cold war, and in the old West Germany you can find "manhole" covers on and near bridges where they were to be placed in the event of war.


    See Operation Hardtack II.


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of AngeloMonart AngeloMonart
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    Why is the Star Trek bit made up entirely of references to Star Wars? Is this some ultra-subtle Defamer irony, a comment on the interchangability of nerd-tastic sci-fi universes? Or did someone actually get confused?
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    05/26/09

    @AngeloMonart: Yes.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    "... as well as screenwriters/Reno: 911! costars/members of The State Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant ..."


    Fixed, Deadspin-style. The State rules.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    is this where i'm supposed to re-tell the night at the holocaust museum joke again?
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    05/26/09

    @allyzay: Wasn't that just called Night?
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    But the terminator did suck hard! I want so badly for a robot from to future to come back and kill McG (and whoever wrote that crap) before they even conceive this picture.
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    Night At The Museum was like something from 1992. Hank Azaria doing his best Jeremy Irons caricature and Christopher Guest just...well picking up a paycheck.


    Only reason to see it (other than having to look after in-law's kids and figuring it'll shut them up for a couple hours while I slip into a Jameson-induced semi-coma) is Amy Adam's Earhart. Who should really be given her own spin-off.


    Star Trek rules the fucking universe, T4 is one of the worst films ever made and McG should die, now, preferably and Easy Virtue further strengthens the case that Jessica Biel shouldn't ever act. Ever.

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    Image of Goethewritesdrivel Goethewritesdrivel
    05/26/09

    @Calraigh: Jessica can do NO wrong, sir. You are expressing calumny!
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    05/26/09

    @Goethewritesdrivel: Listen, I understand the power the woman's ass has over the majority of the human race but I stand by my statement. She does a very good impression of a Polaroid being shaken.

    That is all.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    I'll die, thanks.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/26/09

    @Smitros: Do I have another option?
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    Stiller was (and is?) overexposed for a while, given that he generally plays the exact same character in every one of his films, but can I just please take this chance to say that I thought Tropic Thunder was one of the most brilliant comedies ever made? It was funny as hell, and I feel like it was saying... something... that I still can't quite put my finger on. Not about war, and not about movies, but about comedy. And it's not easy to make a comedy that both makes fun of comedy and drama and is still funny. (Lots of movies try; almost none succeed.)


    That said, I saw part of the first NATM on HBO or something and I couldn't even sit through it. Cripes. Stiller was Stiller, same as always, but I felt like I was watching Home Alone what with all the stupid music and predictable plot and characters.


    My opinion on Ben Stiller boils down to this: not a great actor, but generally a funny guy, and more creative than he gets credit for. He really should be making more of his own films, and starring in fewer of other people's.

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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    05/26/09

    @badasscat: Agreed with you on every single point. TT was brill, and I usually hate Stiller movies (Along Came Polly, Meet the Parents/Fockers, NATM to name some of the garbagier ones).
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    Image of Lazy Susan Lazy Susan
    05/26/09

    In reply to Come With Ben Stiller If You Want to Live
    "Easy Virtue" @ $14,000+ per screen is the one that came out with all guns blazing.
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    Image of downlow downlow
    05/26/09

    @Lazy Susan: Colin Firth? I'm there. Wherever, whenever, whatever.
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    Image of Arceus Arceus
    05/26/09

    @downlow: Eh, Colin Firth jumped the shark when he let himself go and became fat. And while I normally love period pieces, Easy Virtue is terrible.
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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    05/26/09

    @Arceus: I saw it at Tribeca. I kinda liked it, but my passes were free, so I wasn't going to complain.
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