After the Mountain Goats extravaganza on Friday, Marisa and I spent Saturday in Philadelphia with Bayard and Alex. We hit the Philadelphia Book Festival, which as a science-fiction-friendly and science-fact-averse English major I'm surprised to report was sort of upstaged by the Philadelphia Science Festival. Maybe some people dropped out due to
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I haven't listened to a ton of Nicki Minaj, but some of her solo stuff is not my taste at all (sappy Rihanna lite?), and nothing else I've heard of hers sounds like her verses on Monster. And I don't understand why not, because those verses are so fun!
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Re: Britney - I don't remember if you or Marisa are the reason I read this in the first place, but Marisa's assessment ( ... )
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Yeah, there was a definite running-through-a-checklist-vibe to some of the references this time around ("here's what's wrong with torture horror and J-horror...there, we mentioned them"), and I'd be genuinely curious to find out whether this was Williamson's original ending. I too liked the ending, in part because it violently and explicitly made it clear that they were ultimately more interested in making a slasher movie about middle-aged (or almost middle-aged?) people than they were in the younger characters, but it did leave me kind of baffled regarding the "second trilogy" talk. (Also, I thought it was weirdly not suspenseful, since at that point I figured if they hadn't killed Sidney in the kitchen, they weren't going to do it in the hospital.) It's interesting that if the hospital sequence was a late addition, I think it radically changes the film from being almost a Star Trek-style reboot where we'd follow the murderous-Emma-Roberts/new-evil-Sidney-substitute in ( ... )
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