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Shadow Puppets

Jan 09 2008 07:55 pm   #1nmcil

Just incase anyone does not know - you can rent Shadow Puppets at your local Hastings now -  Suppose to be a totally dreadful film, but I rented it just to see JM - I will be making of DVDcaps and will try to post some at my LJ - if I can figure out how to do it.

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Jan 09 2008 08:50 pm   #2TammyDevil666

A lot of the movie was pretty bad, but it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be.  He's the only reason I watched it.

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Jan 09 2008 11:09 pm   #3SpikesKatMac

It wasn't bad; I certainly didn't see the end coming, so that was something; and of course, JM's acting was incredible.  Material wasn't the best, but he certainly did his best with it.

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Jan 10 2008 12:25 am   #4Scarlet Ibis

He's the only reason why I *own* it...

Anyway, I saw no reason why that couldn't have made it to theatres.  You have all of these big hitters from the sci-fi genre, and Tony friggin' Todd--the Candyman, and we get crap like "Oh no!  I'm getting a voicemail that I die!" and that film, "Darkness Falls" with the lame ass toothfairy, and the one with the puppets...At least this one made sense.  And, it was more interesting to watch then "The Grudge" and "Final Destination 3" (though nothing has yet to top "Freddy vs. Jason" or "Dawn of the Dead" in the horror genre in the last several years, IMHO).  I think maybe they needed one slightly bigger name, like if...someone from some current hit tv show played one of the other characters.

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Jan 10 2008 01:41 am   #5dawnofme

I liked it.  I didn't see the end coming either and I usually figure those types of movies out within a few minutes.  I guess that's why I liked it so much, because I actually was surprised in the end.  My nine year old son loved it and we bonded over the movie trying to guess what was going to happen next. 

And James half naked-always a plus, : )

Jan 10 2008 01:55 am   #6nmcil

I will make some nice DVDcaps for all the JM fans here - I was surprised with the Dr. Switch - but outside of JM and the very interesting other young male with that really interesting face - and the pool - can't say that I much liked anything else.  Oh, and I liked the black smoke creature.

 

” Recent evolutionary models have demonstrated what politicians have long known: the best way to get people to collaborate and to think like a group is to identify an enemy and charge that “they” threaten “us.”

Michael Tomasello is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Jan 10 2008 02:15 am   #7Blood Faerie

I started to figure out the end, but then I usually do. *shrug* I liked him running around in his skivvies, though, hehe. The nympho girl just annoyed me. *sigh*

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Jan 10 2008 03:14 am   #8LindsayH

I liked Shadow Puppets, but I think the biggest mis-step was the Blalock lady as the lead.  I just don't buy her as a doctor.  I don't even buy her as a lab tech.  But James running around in his underwear...there's this scene where he's backing into the white room, on his hands and rear, and if you put it in slow motion...you almost--almost...see the promised land.  Maybe. 

Plus, I really like the introduction to the film, how we meet all the characters.  Nicely suspenseful.

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Jan 10 2008 03:58 am   #9Immortal Beloved

 you almost--almost...see the promised land.

:lol:  Promised land...

I rented Shadow Puppets when it first came out on video.  I did not have high expectations.  Thank god for that 'cause the movie didn't anywhere close to interesting until James did his big reveal (sadly, not the reveal of the promised land)...But it was worth the four bucks just to see Jimmy shine for 45 seconds :happy:  The rest of the movie was like watching paint dry, but marginally better: it was watching Jimmy watch paint dry.  And I'd totally do that any day.  Just James sittin' in a room devoid of any furniture, staring at the wall of drying paint.  It wouldn't even have to be a color, just bare white wall...

Now, him being in his skivvies--which, for someone who goes commando in RL, actually is a costume--was definitely a bonus.  But, as I've said before, it was not the highlight of the movie as they were boxers and not boxer briefs, which I'd really like to see Jimmy's tushy in.

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Jan 10 2008 07:46 am   #10Guest

 The rest of the movie was like watching paint dry, but marginally better: it was watching Jimmy watch paint dry.

Reading that just made my day lol.

Anyone know if it's going to be out for rent in Ireland? I'd give it a go to see james... I mean i have to have seen worse.

Aoife

Jan 11 2008 01:24 am   #11nmcil

I did a DVDcap of that scene where it looks like he got stuck in some kind of time wrap or barrier screen - It has to be the strangest thing in that entire film.  For an actor that uses his body so well as part of his craft, "Shaddow Puppets" must have been a very difficult project.  Poor Joelene Blalock, hard to imagine that she hard a part that made her more stoic and dry than being a Vulcan. 

I shall do some more DVDcaps tonight - of the last parts of the film - I should get some really nice ones with that blue shirt -

” Recent evolutionary models have demonstrated what politicians have long known: the best way to get people to collaborate and to think like a group is to identify an enemy and charge that “they” threaten “us.”

Michael Tomasello is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Jan 11 2008 01:33 am   #12LindsayH
The rest of the movie was like watching paint dry, but marginally better: it was watching Jimmy watch paint dry.

You know, I too would like to watch him watch paint dry.  Cause you know he'd be all fidgety and hyper, and then he'd done with that, and we'd have a conversation, and he'd say, "Please, let's go do something else.  This is boring watching paint dry!"   And then we'd do something involving that word that makes Scarlet giggle when I say it in voiceposts. 

"Do you like my mask?  Isn't it pretty?  It raises the dead!"--Giles, "Dead Man's Party'
Jan 11 2008 05:35 am   #13Scarlet Ibis

*gasps*

Lindsay!  You've outted me!  Kinda :P

Yeah, anything involving that would be tons better than watching him watch some silly old paint dry.  Unless it was body paint, and one could paint it on him, using their hands, then watch that dry before peeling it off...

Curse you Lindsay!  Curse this gutterbrain of mine :sigh:

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Jan 11 2008 06:10 am   #14LindsayH

I was about to say, "Curse moi?" 'Sides, I have a feeling that were I to see that word live, I would giggle.  Heck, if he looked at that word in my presence, I would giggle.  What can I say?  The older I get, the more I act like my 12 year old self.

"Do you like my mask?  Isn't it pretty?  It raises the dead!"--Giles, "Dead Man's Party'
Jan 11 2008 08:55 am   #15GoldenBuffy

well, why use body paint. I mean, they have a whole line of body chocolate that can be brushed on. Then I'm sure we all could think of ways to remove it from him.

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