exactly! That's so it.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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beekaytee - Aug 26, 2004 11:58:57 am PDT #3117 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Dana - Aug 26, 2004 12:06:17 pm PDT #3118 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Resident Evil is so not comparable to Event Horizon. Event Horizon wanted to pretend it had a point until it turned into a gore fest. Resident Evil was a gore fest from the beginning and was perfectly fine. It embraced its goriness.
And the commentary's a hoot.
Nutty - Aug 26, 2004 12:08:22 pm PDT #3119 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Event Horizon wanted to pretend it had a point until it turned into a gore fest.
Was is the hooks in Jason Isascs' back that fooled you?? Seriously, I never guessed that EH had any pretense at all. I mean, okay, "arty excessively baroque engineering design", yes. But the minute the not-survivors were recorded doing their thing in Latin, I just started laughing and didn't stop.
Dana - Aug 26, 2004 12:12:03 pm PDT #3120 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Event Horizon was on the spooky space mystery movie track until Kathleen Quinlan took a header onto a metal deck twenty feet below. Then it took an abrupt left turn onto the incomprehensible gore fest track. And then Sam Neill put his eyes out.
Dana - Aug 26, 2004 12:13:40 pm PDT #3121 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, man, I shouldn't have looked at Paul W.S. Anderson's IMDB page. I didn't actually realize he did both movies we'd been talking about. But Mortal Kombat and Soldier didn't suck. I wonder what happened to Event Horizon.
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2004 12:15:18 pm PDT #3122 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dana, Mortal Kombat did suck. There was a memo.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2004 12:42:26 pm PDT #3123 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I tolerated Mortal Kombat flying!kicks much better than Event Horizon which I saw on laser disk at the insistance of a professional movie reviewer.
I was speechless with disdain and excused myself politely from her lvoely home...then never read another word she wrote.
Consuela - Aug 26, 2004 1:10:17 pm PDT #3124 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
pardon me while I chortle over "the passion of a thousand fiery clambakes".
Heee
Dana - Aug 26, 2004 1:13:08 pm PDT #3125 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
t shrug
I liked Mortal Kombat. Again, it didn't pretend to be anything other than what it was. When Christopher Lambert is your big mystical guy, you can't take yourself that seriously. (Hear that, Highlander 4?)
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2004 1:25:50 pm PDT #3126 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm so, so skeered of the Highlander V rumors.
skeeredskeeredskeered
and I didn't even hate IV.