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.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna start any sword fights. I'm over that phase.
Mal ,'War Stories'
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Dana - Aug 26, 2004 12:13:40 pm PDT #3121 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ 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.
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2004 1:27:14 pm PDT #3127 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
BUT THERE WAS A MEMO!
Also, all the chickfighting was appalling. I used up my suspension of disbelief on Buffy.
Dani - Aug 26, 2004 1:27:42 pm PDT #3128 of 10001
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Okay, I've worked very hard to eradicate all traces of Event Horizon from my memory so everyone can just stop talking about it RIGHT NOW.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2004 1:30:22 pm PDT #3129 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
here. here.
alienprayer - Aug 26, 2004 2:09:18 pm PDT #3130 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
I have no particular bile for anderson, but if you can hunt down the original script for soldier, you may decide that anderson's soldier does suck. My old link is dead, but I recall a western in space/what starship troopers should have been kind of deal.
Of course, this may be one of those times when my memory decides that what actually happened was dull, so it invents something more exciting for me.
Oh, and I also saw milla's band once, and think she probably is genuine euro-crazy. She did marry Luc Besson after all.