― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
The jokey "pull my finger" followed by the "fuck you" and what seemed to be throwing the finger followed by the shot followed by the return of the "pull my finger" was great.
― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
and as much as Guinness badmouthed Kenobi, Star Wars sure as hell is a better vehicle for phoning it in than Batman Begins, which is good only for Baleporn.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost you say "Baleporn" as if it's an insult.
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post to Ethan
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Admittedly in true hollywood bullshit she would have died thirty minutes later and they would have tearfully passed the ball back and forth one more time before she died.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Ok Anthony this is where you and I are in different lands, because that transition is the thing I've been thinking about most since seeing this. (1) Setting up a whimsical bonding moment before AMBUSH is a staple move, and works here, but what keeps getting me is that it's done with this bizarre CGI ping-pong ball trick -- as if to intentionally focus you on that action, to totally distract you, so that you're already off-kilter when the ambush registers. (2) Which it doesn't, not immediately: there's this great couple seconds where everyone is freaking out and a flaming car is rolling somewhat innocently down the hill, and the viewer is still back with the ping-pong ball and thinking "wait, does that mean ..." (3) And then boom, the people emerge, and that extended shot is just terrific -- we've been startled by the switch from ping-pong bonding to freakout, and now the shot just will not end, will not resituate us, so we're trapped in that moment of OMG AMBUSH for like a good two and a half minutes or whatever -- it looks in one direction and it's kinda "holy crap" and then it revolves in the other direction and it's even more "holy crap, that's what was happening behind me when I was looking in the other direction?" and it just gets worse and worse: point being it's just a really well-done way of immersing you in the sensory detail and panic of OMG AMBUSH, and the way she gets shot right "next" to your POV, just in passing in a very long shot, works really well for me. (It gives bullets a real sense of their risk and reality, rather than those Hollywood bullets that are always ricocheting off things and acting like cartoons.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
We're not even sure Owen will survive his wound!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link