I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.

Angel ,'Chosen'


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Fred Pete - Aug 10, 2004 3:29:58 am PDT #2636 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I saw Beyond the Valley of the Dolls last night. One truly screwed-up movie.

I couldn't stop laughing for the last half hour. Which can't have been the reaction the makers intended.

Roger Ebert co-wrote it. Now I know where he gets his knowledge of bad movies.

Camp-bad, yes. But bad.

Not for the kids. If for no other reason than, they shouldn't think that actual adults may behave the way some of these characters act.


tommyrot - Aug 10, 2004 4:17:51 am PDT #2637 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"This is my happening and it freaks me out!"


Narrator - Aug 10, 2004 4:20:13 am PDT #2638 of 10001
The evil is this way?

You know, they don't write lines like that anymore.

Thankfully.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 10, 2004 6:34:32 am PDT #2639 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

You know, they don't write lines like that anymore.

Thankfully.

No, but they do steal them for use in Austin Powers movies.


Fred Pete - Aug 10, 2004 6:59:43 am PDT #2640 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I don't think even Austin Powers would touch, "Tonight you will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!"


Nutty - Aug 10, 2004 7:27:43 am PDT #2641 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Run. Away. Quickly.

I sort of suspect that, when in 50 years people are writing the pop history of 1987-1997 movies, they will be writing a lot about Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts. Not because they made good movies, but because they made popular movies, and led the charge up the salary slope.

I mean, Routledge and AFI will not be publishing those histories. But People Magazine? The 50 years from now equivalent of Leonard Maltin?


tommyrot - Aug 10, 2004 7:36:39 am PDT #2642 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I don't think even Austin Powers would touch, "Tonight you will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!"

I suppose a Klingon might. If he was especially pervy.


DavidS - Aug 10, 2004 7:43:55 am PDT #2643 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

"Z-man! You're a chick!"


Frankenbuddha - Aug 10, 2004 8:00:38 am PDT #2644 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I suppose a Klingon might. If he was especially pervy.

Oh great, now I'm seeing Worf saying that line. Pass the brain bleach, please.


Steph L. - Aug 10, 2004 8:22:56 am PDT #2645 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Something to please the movie fans and lovers of gerunds:

McSweeney's offers a list of "gerunded" movie titles (like "Gleaming the Cube"), un-gerunded.