The Movie Thread, companion list.
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xyzzysqrlI think what we've determined here is that people have rational differences in their enjoyment levels of different films. I'll go notify the papers.
However, I am not one to wallow in my flaws. I admit it: Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within is a film specificly tuned via Squaresoft's hidden spy camera network to be a film watchable and enjoyable by only myself.
Accordingly, I substitute "Mystery Men" for TSW in the preceeding line-up of reccomended movies.
Thank you.
Now, since the topic kinda wandered over there, I started to prod around at a list of movies I would not wish on my worst enemy.
The PROBLEM there is, I kept coming up with excuses not to include a movie in my list, because on some level I find almost everything to be a valid source of entertainment. (For example: The Rocketeer? It DID have that 1930s ambiance going on, in spite of trying to bore me to sleep WHILE ALSO including a guy flying around with a jetpack, which should not be possible. But it had a fight on top of a zeppelin, which saved it.) I may be the only person who saw Kevin Sorbo's "Kull the Conquerer" in the theater.
The only movies I could think of to represent TRUE badness were things like Scooby Doo, which A: I have not personally seen, and B: WELL DUH.
So next time you're at the video store and you see that box with a potentially amusing or gripping sci-fi action comedy drama horror film inside, ask yourself. What Would Gordy Do? Then flip a coin. Heads, rent it. Tails, go get Army of Darkness again.
Whatever you do, don't you dare take it too seriously. That way lies madness.
However, I am not one to wallow in my flaws. I admit it: Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within is a film specificly tuned via Squaresoft's hidden spy camera network to be a film watchable and enjoyable by only myself.
Accordingly, I substitute "Mystery Men" for TSW in the preceeding line-up of reccomended movies.
Thank you.
Now, since the topic kinda wandered over there, I started to prod around at a list of movies I would not wish on my worst enemy.
The PROBLEM there is, I kept coming up with excuses not to include a movie in my list, because on some level I find almost everything to be a valid source of entertainment. (For example: The Rocketeer? It DID have that 1930s ambiance going on, in spite of trying to bore me to sleep WHILE ALSO including a guy flying around with a jetpack, which should not be possible. But it had a fight on top of a zeppelin, which saved it.) I may be the only person who saw Kevin Sorbo's "Kull the Conquerer" in the theater.
The only movies I could think of to represent TRUE badness were things like Scooby Doo, which A: I have not personally seen, and B: WELL DUH.
So next time you're at the video store and you see that box with a potentially amusing or gripping sci-fi action comedy drama horror film inside, ask yourself. What Would Gordy Do? Then flip a coin. Heads, rent it. Tails, go get Army of Darkness again.
Whatever you do, don't you dare take it too seriously. That way lies madness.
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Date: 2004-07-10 03:00 am (UTC)They made a sequel to Anaconda. It should be out in a month or so.
-K
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Date: 2004-07-10 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-10 03:05 am (UTC)Also, Twin Dragons. The story was contrived, cliched, and worst of all stupid. The fight scenes weren't even interesting to watch and for a Jackie Chan movie, that's unforgivable. I actually walked out of that half an hour in, and I somehow sat through all of MK:A.
-K
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Date: 2004-07-10 05:05 pm (UTC)(digs out his old Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club pre-Buggles album to listen to the Very First VKTRS (tm) and wonder how the Buggles would have sounded if Thomas Dolby had stayed with them)
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Date: 2004-07-10 05:14 pm (UTC)I'm not really an expert or anything, but "Elstree" has this heart-aching... touch... to it, something that says "Sure, I may work an office job now, my life may not be what it used to be, but once I was in a really cruddy movie and I had a damn BLAST with it. It was great, and that'll last forever even if it doesn't matter to anyone."
...Thomas Dolby and the Buggles? This intrigues me and I want to know more, please? I like both of those, I find it hard to picture them together...
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Date: 2004-07-10 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-07-10 05:42 pm (UTC)It's also... really human. I'm used to this song in near monotone.
...I actually -really- like it, but keeping this kind of sound would have made them a very different band and I'm not sure I would have liked THEM. I'd have loved the chance to find out though.