( The Dark Crystal: quoi? )

feiran started this ridiculously fun and challenging meme, and despite the fact that, at first glance, I appeared to be hopeless at it, I've come to love it. So I wanna play from the other side and I'ma stealing her meme!

The way it works is that I pick ten fictional characters, you invent ridiculous scenarios for the characters (e.g. 1 and 3 are trapped ( Read more... )

It doesn't fucking matter when I leave, I cannot seem to get to work before 9:30. I left fully half an hour before I usually do, with my usual departure usually getting me to work at 9:40. I got here between 9:25-9:30. I had fully intended to be here early to clean more of the lab before I had to leave for class. But the buses were stuffed and some ( Read more... )

Man, I'm not even halfway through this meme!? And I'm still playing catch up.

Day 14 - Your favorite quote from any movie
Oh no. No no no no no no no! You cannot make me choose! I couldn't possibly! Instead, I choose to give a list of my favorite lines from the movies I've listed so far. That, alone, is enough of a challenge given some of the ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, someone brilliant who I think was glvalentine because she's this sort of brilliant posited the theory that Hugo Weaving is on a mission to be in every franchise. At the time this theory was born, he had, to date, been in The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Transformers, and god alone knows how many other sci-fi/fantasy films. I think the joke was ( Read more... )

A serious article about film criticism and its decline.

vs.

ZOMG COMIC BOOK MOVIES R OVR.The criticism of online reviewers in the first link seemed especially prescient this morning when I went from it to the second link. Of course, the problem with the io9 criticism is that the cyclical nature of genre popularity is just that: it is only ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for the BSG series finale. Beware of cursing. )

Yes, I have seen every. single. one. of these movies. It's called "I was a teenager when The Matrix came out." So, yes, I watched every movie Keanu was in at that point. Exceptions: I didn't get through My Own Private Idaho or Little Buddha. The first because I was kinda confused by the gay hooker aspect. The second because IT WAS UNWATCHABLE. I ( Read more... )

I'm tired of being angry, so I'm going to just babble about something else. Indulge me, ignore me, whichever you choose.

-Tales from the Crypt is excellent for judging sense of humor and strength of stomach. I figured that out this weekend when my two younger sisters watched it with me and one was horrified by it and the other totally into it. The ( Read more... )

Gakked from deltagrl:

1. My username is _____ because ____.

My username is trinityvixen because I first got onto the intertubes in the 1990s and two things were big for me back then: The Matrix and Garbage. Because The Matrix was hella popular, I had to modify Trinity somehow. At the same, I was working on a photo collage in my studio art class (in high school OMG ( Read more... )