SubJeff on 7/8/2013 at 08:40
I know. It's one of the really cool bits in X Men Origins - the Civil War, WW1, WW2 montage. I think in the film he's born around 1840 so is in his 20s when the Civil War breaks out.
But at the end of X Men origins he has his memory wiped by an adamantium bullet to the brain.
Does he get it all back at some point in X Men 1, 2 or 3?
TOO MANY X MEN FILMS
Fafhrd on 7/8/2013 at 08:41
I think SubJeff's point was more that in the films Logan has not as yet regained all of his memories. Though X2 pretty well established that his memories were slowly starting to return, thanks to both Professor X's psychic tinkering as well as meeting Stryker again, so him having a dream about being in Japan in WW2 makes perfect sense. And he doesn't remember everything about it until he's in Nagasaki again and sees the site of the prison camp.
DDL on 7/8/2013 at 08:51
And thus we're back to comics again!
Man, at least it's marvel this time so I might have half a chance of following what's going on (seriously, listening to dethy and faf argue about 'general public' interpretation of superman was like listening to two professors arguing over what the public understand by 'stochastics'. If you know enough to debate which particular set of morals superman may or may not adhere to, you're already waay beyond general public -which I suspect hoves more closely to 'blue guy, red cape, flies, played by that wheelchair dude?' :p)
Aaaanyway, our local crappy volunteer-run mini-cinema that we're keen to support because fuck the man, yo shows things a good four months after major cinemas have stopped running them, so we saw: Lincoln.
Aside from the fact that it was insanely spielbergy, I was very impressed. I can see why it won oscars. I kinda had a vague general idea of the period, but people like Thaddeus Stevens were new to me, so it was (allowing for narrative handwaving) pretty interesting/educational, too. I remain astounded by the hilariously stupid governmental systems we seem to be so good at constructing.
We also had a great time spotting all the tricks used to make him look supertall: it was like reverse hobbit-trick time.
(though it turns out Lincoln was only 6'4", which surprised me. I realise that was tall for the 1800s, but I always imagined him being freakish tall, like 6'8" at least. I guess with the hat, yes..but still: I've always thought acromegaly was crazier than that).
june gloom on 7/8/2013 at 17:38
Don't. Don't start about Superman. Just don't.
Fafhrd on 10/8/2013 at 03:35
If you're expecting Elysium to save the summer, prepare to be woefully fucking disappointed.
SubJeff on 10/8/2013 at 06:18
Really? :(
Depends on our mutual taste though I suppose.
Out of 5, how do you rate:
Alien
Blade Runner
Oblivion
Contact
District 9 (natch!)
Primer
?
Fafhrd on 10/8/2013 at 07:12
Alien DC: 4.8
Blade Runner Final Cut 4
Oblivion 2.5
Contact 3.5
District 9 4.5
Primer Have Not Seen
Elysium is competently made from a technical standpoint, but it's story is pretty incoherent, the characterization is uniformly poor (the villains are all mustachio twirling cartoons, and the good guys are all selfish assholes until they're not), and Blomkamp clearly didn't think through the full ramifications of the technologies that he's hung the entire economic inequality metaphor around, so the whole thing shatters into a million pieces in the final five minutes. It's a massive let down because the world-building and metaphor in District 9 is fantastic.
To put it another way 'In Time' is a better class warfare allegory than 'Elysium' is, and In Time is a pretty terrible film overall.
Pyrian on 10/8/2013 at 08:19
At this point I'm tempted to see Elysium just to find out why it inspires so much loathing (and not just from you).
SubJeff on 10/8/2013 at 10:35
The point of the 5 star rating is you can't have halves, our you'd have a 10 start rating.
I user it because it forces you to say 4 or 5.
june gloom on 10/8/2013 at 20:37
Giving Blade Runner a 4 out of 5 is surprisingly generous for TTLG.
