The Fifth Element is one of my favorite movies. I love the the way the opera scene is intercut with Milla Jovovich kicking ass. I'm totally crushing on her. Hudson Hawk and Resident Evil are just as equally fun. I got to watch the RE commentary now.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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Melpomene - Aug 27, 2004 2:48:21 am PDT #3158 of 10001
Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2004 3:27:41 am PDT #3159 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
GC, wrt Hero - how long is the running time of the DVD? I'm just curious if Harvey "Scissors" Weinstein kept his mitts off of the movie or if he showed his usual good taste with Asian movies and hacked the crap out of it (e.g. Shaolin Soccer).
edited because while she may bring good things to light, Gloomcookie initialized is not GE.
Nutty - Aug 27, 2004 4:14:05 am PDT #3160 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yep, I hated The Fifth Element too. Reasons? Because I wanted to smack the smirk off the faces of... everybody involved in it, and the baroque sentimentality of the ending (OMG! Did you know war is bad ??), and the pointlessness of its high-concept design. Also? I do not book interstellar travel to go watch an opera singer get remixed for the dance floor. I can have that in any discotheque in France.
The last good thing that movie did was make Luke Perry beg for his mother.
§ ita § - Aug 27, 2004 4:18:05 am PDT #3161 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At least Eve Salvail was in it. That was a pleasure.
askye - Aug 27, 2004 4:27:36 am PDT #3162 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I love The Fifth Element it's way over the top and bright colors and it's great. Plus I love the alien monster guys. I also love Sleepy Hallow it was pretty! And Johnny Depp was pretty.
I have seen Hudson Hawk or Resident Evil but I really want to now.
Calli - Aug 27, 2004 4:27:50 am PDT #3163 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I liked The Fifth Element well enough when I saw it, but it was late and I realized about five minutes in that watching the pretty images without thinking too much about them was the way to go.
Event Horizon owes me $7.00, 2 hours, and all the Gaiman books it takes to replenish my faith in human creativity. This movie managed to bore me and irritate me simultaneously. If others found pleasure in it I'm happy for them, and I don't want to harsh their happiness. It's just that I'm still annoyed with it, this however many years later.
I'm looking forward to seeing Hero.
Tom Scola - Aug 27, 2004 5:59:12 am PDT #3164 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Vonnie K - Aug 27, 2004 6:09:56 am PDT #3165 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Huh. They are OK choices, if tad predictable.
I'd have included Brazil over The Matrix or Close Encounter, but that's just me.
§ ita § - Aug 27, 2004 6:20:55 am PDT #3166 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remain unimpressed by Close Encounters.
Nutty - Aug 27, 2004 6:30:08 am PDT #3167 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I didn't really care for Close Encounters either, although I couldn't point to any one thing I hated. It was just sort of BTDT, which means I guess it may have just aged badly.
The Matrix to me is a monument of movie wizardry, but not a good SF movie. For one thing, I predicted the ending at about the 20-minute mark, complete with rising from the dead and seeing the code behind objects.
I'm sort of surprised Forbidden Planet didn't make it on there, since it's often bandied about on lists like these. I suppose the fact it is basically The Tempest in space may disqualify it.