I may be the only remaining person in the world who liked Forrest Gump.
Did we kill or convert P-C? Otherwise, you have company.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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§ ita § - Jul 29, 2004 8:16:37 am PDT #1595 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 29, 2004 8:16:58 am PDT #1596 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The only enjoyable thing about Forest Gump to me was when Jenny was going to jump from her balcony while "Freebird" played in the background. Though the thought occurred to me that between her platform heels reducing the distance and her bell bottoms acting as parachutes, she'd probably survive the fall.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 29, 2004 8:18:11 am PDT #1597 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Janet Leigh at the motel. Yeeks. Yeah, on one level, it's cheese. On another, it's the most nightmarish part of a nightmarish movie.
You'd think she'd have learned to avoid cheap, out-of-the-way motels after this, but noooooo....
Consuela - Jul 29, 2004 8:18:56 am PDT #1598 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Alicia, I haven't seen Spider-Man 2 yet. I just last night saw Spidey 1. So.
And it didn't wow me, can't decide if it's worth the effort to see the sequel.
beekaytee - Jul 29, 2004 8:19:05 am PDT #1599 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Now that made me laugh, Matt!
eta: I'm having a whole sciency, flying squirrel thing going on.
plus? I can't type for beens.
§ ita § - Jul 29, 2004 8:21:32 am PDT #1600 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spiderman 2 is better than the first, people say, and even though I didn't like it, I have to agree.
JZ - Jul 29, 2004 8:23:56 am PDT #1601 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Suela, I found Spidey 1 enjoyable enough, but Spidey 2 wrecked me in a very, very good way. If you decide to see it, it may possibly ping you in all your Farscape-loving dark, sad, cathartic, watching-deeply-loveable-characters-suffer-horribly places. At least, that's where it pinged me
Hayden - Jul 29, 2004 8:26:09 am PDT #1602 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I liked 'em both, and I liked Spider-Man 2 (which we saw on Sunday) better than the first, which would have been better if we'd only been able to see more of Willem Defoe's own goblin-like face. I can't remember if it was said here or at PF, but someone said that the first one had too many shots of the unmoving Spider-Man mask talking with the unmoving Goblin mask, and it played like some sort of new kubuki theater.
§ ita § - Jul 29, 2004 8:29:16 am PDT #1603 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
watching-deeply-loveable-characters-suffer-horribly places
See, if you don't find Spidey deeply lovable, this won't help you.
Last week I had a friend go off (and on, and on) about MJ. What a horrible person! he kept exclaiming, but he has this long drawl, so it kept sounding like he was calling her a whore. His points were sound, I felt -- her character was flawed enough to take her into Marissa territory and beyond -- I could not care about the men that want her.
juliana - Jul 29, 2004 8:30:02 am PDT #1604 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I've not seen Touch Of Evil, but I'd like to. I love Citizen Kane on such a immediate visual level that it's hard for me to expound on it past how freakin' gorgeous it is to me. It almost looks like a painting, it's so damn beautiful. I don't mean in a Moulin Rouge visual crack way, I mean the interplay of the shadow and the film and the... Oh. So pretty.
Speaking of the pretty - of the list of pretty men, my boys are, in order: Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, and Hugh Jackman. Most of the younger James Franco-type actors I've not seen enough to make a judgement, and the other ones I'm rather meh on.