I kept trying to write ~companion posts~ to go with the podcasts, got too bogged down in rainy depression to manage it (THREE WEEKS OF STORMS AND MIGRAINES, Y'ALL), and so I am probably doing the Matter of Taste guys a disservice by dumping several hours of discussion on you all at once. Really, the episodes are kind of like movie-length ( Read more... )

@cleolinda: Well. Pacific Rim was kind of like if Independence Day had sea monsters and was quality.

@cleolinda: It's basically the movie Michael Bay THINKS he's been making.

@cleolinda: I spent a lot of it making giant HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK faces. Apparently sea monsters were what I really needed in my life.

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I saw Star Trek Into Darkness Sunday afternoon but haven't said anything about it because... I just really had no urge to talk about it at all. This perplexes me. I've seen a few episodes of the original series and Next Generation, so I have a decent background on it without being married to canon. I loved the first new movie. I like J.J. Abrams ( Read more... )

Let's have a quick linkspam.

@scott_tobias: R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen. A true movie magician, and a master of wondrous, tactile effects that no combination of ones and zeroes can match.

@jenyamato: Here's a little Ray Harryhausen celebration I put together back in 2011, for his 91st birthday.

( Moar, including Spock vs. Spock )

As you may recall, I did The Avengers in Fifteen Minutes last summer. Yeah. There will be no Iron Man 3 in any number of minutes. The parts that were good were too funny to do anything with and there were no parts that were bad. There is no foothold for me as a parodist here (or maybe I'm just tapped out from the Hannibal recaps, who knows). There ( Read more... )

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Last 48 minutes of The Dark Knight? Don't mind if I do, TNT.

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@joshc: Are Jodie Foster and Kevin Costner being loaded onto the White Ship to sail to the Undying Lands at the conclusion of the Golden Globes?

I'm a little concerned, yeah.

Sigh. Blurbly doubled BLAR BLAR sound on the TV again. Damn, Halle Berry has a great dress. Like a big kind of raspberry pink floral pattern ballgown and--

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Ahahahaha Taylor.


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