Magical Ganja-Smoking Jamaicans for the trifecta!
Swap voodoo for magic, and you'll see me hit the roof. Wishing I was hitting Seagal instead.
Yeah... That went well.
Mal ,'Trash'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:43:29 pm PDT #3061 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy HP - Aug 25, 2004 4:44:00 pm PDT #3062 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Did he do that? Ooh, ick.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 4:47:33 pm PDT #3063 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Plot Summary for Marked for Death (1990)
Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent. On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa's daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface's men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy. After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire.
Screwface is also into voodoo.
Bless.
Polter-Cow - Aug 25, 2004 4:49:33 pm PDT #3064 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which side did KPAX come down on?
Well, it might have come down on the Everybody Was Abused as a Child side, if I recall correctly.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 25, 2004 5:10:20 pm PDT #3065 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I do hate the carefree-woman-liberates-stuffy-man genre even more than the jilting one.
Nope, not giving up the SOMETHING WILD or INTO THE NIGHT love for anything.
Or, for that matter, BRINGING UP BABY or WHAT'S UP DOC.
The latter being a major coup, since I can't really tolerate Streisand or O'Neal in much of anything else (there are exceptions).
Betsy HP - Aug 25, 2004 5:14:32 pm PDT #3066 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Good point. Hepburn in BUB is certifiable. But I still want her to get Cary Grant.
sumi - Aug 25, 2004 5:29:06 pm PDT #3067 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, she is extremely charming.
Steph L. - Aug 25, 2004 6:02:02 pm PDT #3068 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I will simply opine (for the fifth time at least) that Kate/Cary totally trumps Kate/Spencer.
Maybe there's a Kate/Spencer movie that can come close to either Holiday or The Philadelphia Story. If so, I haven't seen it.
Heresy. I weep.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 6:12:15 pm PDT #3069 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
P-C knows my KPAX pain.
Honestly, that was the one that put me over the edge. And then dropped me into a swirly pool of lava. Then spit me out the ass-end of an elephant.
CRAP!
Vonnie K - Aug 25, 2004 6:20:27 pm PDT #3070 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I will simply opine (for the fifth time at least) that Kate/Cary totally trumps Kate/Spencer.
A good proportion of Kate/Spencer movies bug me, because they seem to be about feminization/domestication of a headstrong, intelligent woman. Much as it has to recommend about it, I can't watch "Woman of the Year" without getting pissed at the 'comeuppance' Hepburn's character gets. There is a rather unpleasant smugness in the scene in which she is made to feel like a failure as a woman because because she can't cook, nevermind the fact that she's a brilliant political journalist and speaks a dozen languages. Bah!