tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post7780393182433811692..comments2023-09-12T06:18:38.552-04:00Comments on The World in the Satin Bag: Quickie Movie Reviews (2009): Volume SixAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-20035021639863828832009-09-30T08:49:31.053-04:002009-09-30T08:49:31.053-04:00Deas: Thanks for the concern.Deas: Thanks for the concern.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-80806032423524828062009-09-29T23:54:41.395-04:002009-09-29T23:54:41.395-04:00Just wanted to say that hot-linking images is cons...Just wanted to say that hot-linking images is considered bad manners. Rule of thumb: host it yourself or credit and link to the source (not just the file). Glad you mentioned Totoro, though. Classic.Deashttp://www.rockinginhakata.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-81874840138810072432009-09-25T13:32:42.400-04:002009-09-25T13:32:42.400-04:00Basically. But we shouldn't be surprised abou...Basically. But we shouldn't be surprised about that. Hollywood has been screwing up film for decades now.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-58520664014631809982009-09-25T13:24:34.487-04:002009-09-25T13:24:34.487-04:00Well, that's what bothered me about Ultraviole...Well, that's what bothered me about Ultraviolet, the movie, is that it so very much WAS trying to be the Matrix.<br /><br />That was about the time when everyone was casting about for properties they could make into another Matrix, and so they took Ultraviolet and changed it so that it would appeal to the same crowd. Except that it didn't.Jordan Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423346758607397523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-63365783221718792462009-09-25T13:20:45.825-04:002009-09-25T13:20:45.825-04:00Nah, a specialized word like "the proletariat...Nah, a specialized word like "the proletariat" shouldn't be abbreviated. It's too good a word to shorten. Plus it's fun to say.<br /><br />Yes, the Matrix did a brilliant job with its concept (arguably a rather "high" one). But we can't all be the whatchamajig brothers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-82894953917769815792009-09-25T13:17:15.203-04:002009-09-25T13:17:15.203-04:00"prols" short for proletariat. Maybe I s..."prols" short for proletariat. Maybe I should have written "proles"?<br /><br />Yeah, the Matrix approached it that way. It was just a very stylized action scene until she disappeared in the phone booth. That's the way they should have tackled UV.Jordan Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423346758607397523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-92073950867749849092009-09-25T13:09:12.431-04:002009-09-25T13:09:12.431-04:00For the prols? I don't quite understand the a...For the prols? I don't quite understand the abbreviation...<br /><br />I agree with you insofar as Ultraviolet did a poor job establishing the concept made more powerful in the comic series (I assume more powerful, anyway). They did try to explain it, but that was part of the problem: spending the first ten minutes saying "I'm Ultraviolet and this is all that has happened, to me and to the world, and now we'll go to the real story...now." It might have been more effective for the movie to jump right into the opening fight without explaining Ultraviolet's history, and then giving us little bits of info as things went along, perhaps in dialogue, or whatever.<br /><br />But that's me, and I wanted some surprises in the beginning...the only surprises were that the graphics in this are terrible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-77268034928900787832009-09-25T12:27:22.193-04:002009-09-25T12:27:22.193-04:00I suppose. But it feels like taking your original ...I suppose. But it feels like taking your original idea and giving it a super unoriginal label to dumb it down for the prols...Jordan Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423346758607397523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-42723633107740571592009-09-25T08:08:22.490-04:002009-09-25T08:08:22.490-04:00Jordan: Oh, well that didn't bother me so muc...Jordan: Oh, well that didn't bother me so much as the hackneyed approach to the concept. I at least understood why they called them "vampires." They weren't "true" vampires to begin with (hemophages, not the undead), but if someone showed up with pointy teeth, you'd probably think it was a vampire too :P.<br /><br />I do agree with you on the over-saturation of vampire stuff, though. Twilight, after all, is the biggest bastardization of them all. Vampires that glitter...come on...really?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-74860975597482726452009-09-25T00:10:05.459-04:002009-09-25T00:10:05.459-04:00Oh god, Ultraviolet was a bad movie. She's a v...Oh god, Ultraviolet was a bad movie. She's a vampire that doesn't drink blood??? Do ANY vampires drink blood these days?Jordan Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423346758607397523noreply@blogger.com