I think I would have liked the movie more if it weren't for the fact that I felt terrible for the last 20 minutes and a full hour afterward.
Sigh.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Consuela - Jul 26, 2004 9:58:31 am PDT #1388 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Nutty - Jul 26, 2004 10:27:03 am PDT #1389 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. I have no carsickness gene, so although I couldn't always see those sequences, because they happened faster than my eyes could focus, they didn't make me sick.
What was it about Frequency that was nauseating? I don't remember the climax having a lot of herky-jerky in it, but then, I wouldn't notice it, I suppose.
Consuela - Jul 26, 2004 10:32:43 am PDT #1390 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think it was the editing. I don't really remember, although I liked the movie in general.
Dennis Quaid. Yum.
Lyra Jane - Jul 26, 2004 12:00:35 pm PDT #1391 of 10001
Up with the sun
Polter-Cow, I didn't find the distinctions as obvious as Jessica did, but it was my interpretation that everything between her train ride to France and the final scene in the publisher's office was fantasy. You can see the publisher's real daughter as she's leaving the office.
Betsy HP - Jul 26, 2004 12:02:42 pm PDT #1392 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I was only able to watch about ten minutes of Blair Witch before I gave up in nausea. (Nothing scary had happened yet.)
DavidS - Jul 26, 2004 12:06:50 pm PDT #1393 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was only able to watch about ten minutes of Blair Witch before I gave up in nausea. (Nothing scary had happened yet.)
I remember The Perfect Storm also induced a lot of motion sickness nausea.
Steph L. - Jul 26, 2004 1:33:31 pm PDT #1394 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I caught the last 30 minutes of Blue Crush at the gym today, and it gave me motion-woozies. (Not sickness, but the camera work in the water is so fucking amazing that its movement sucked me in the way, say, The Perfect Storm's did.)
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2004 1:39:27 pm PDT #1395 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That is some amazing camerawork, isn't it? Worth seeing the movie just for that -- the plot's unremarkable, and Kate Bosworth forgettable.
Michelle Rodriguez did all her own jetskiing, I think.
quester - Jul 26, 2004 4:36:36 pm PDT #1396 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I have a friend that I go to movies with who cannot handle watching a lot of things because they make her motion sick. If she wants to see one and knows it will be hard to watch she takes Dramanine and says it helps. I haven't had any problems like that except for the one time I had to sit in the 5th row, in a gigantic theatre in Sacramento to see "The Sound of Music". The opening where the camera is flying over the Alps aggravated my fear of falling.
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2004 4:44:27 pm PDT #1397 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
An IMAX space shuttle movie shown at Disneyland had me reaching for the barf bags. I can handle upside down just fine when I am upside down. Continued moving pictures of the earth hanging up there are more than my inner ear can deal with.