Also, The Final Countdown
Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
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Steph L. - Jul 13, 2004 6:06:52 am PDT #316 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:07:53 am PDT #317 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.
Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?
Me. But I did it to myself.
Kate P. - Jul 13, 2004 6:08:36 am PDT #318 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
12 Monkeys is a great movie, which marked the beginning of my brief fascination with Bruce Willis. Madeleine Stowe is also kickass.
JZ - Jul 13, 2004 6:10:48 am PDT #319 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Best playing-with-time-if-not-exactly-time-travel-as-such movie ever?
Groundhog Day. No question.
beekaytee - Jul 13, 2004 6:11:38 am PDT #320 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Madeline Stowe is also kickass in Closetland and Blink. Liked her in Mohicans a LOT, but that may have been due to the Daniel-glow. Can't think of anything else I've liked her in.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2004 6:12:32 am PDT #321 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
JZ! I saw 2 pugs being walked together this morning and thought of you!
(When I saw them, they were being walked past 2 bulldogs who were lounging with their owners in front of a coffee shop. I damn near expired from the canine cuteness.)
beekaytee - Jul 13, 2004 6:12:49 am PDT #322 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Oh good LORD. How could I have not thought of Groundhog Day my Feb. 2 tradition? FAVE!
JohnSweden - Jul 13, 2004 6:13:04 am PDT #323 of 10001
I can't even.
Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?
Me. But I did it to myself.
I got the Europe earworm. I finally saw T3 about a month ago. I really enjoyed the first, and have some affection for the second, but I had no expectations for the third. I didn't hate it, and I thought I would.
Nutty - Jul 13, 2004 6:15:25 am PDT #324 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The problem is, to make time travel make sense, one either has to (a) set up an inevitable situation, or else (b) explain an alternate-futures concept sensically, or else (c) have alternate futures and live with the illogic. It is very hard to explain lots in movies due to their brevity; so it is A or C, and usually C.
12 Monkeys is one of the few time-travel movies I can think of that sees our present (the travelers' past) as set and complete and unchangeable -- Strategy A. It's a little hard to tell whether it is just the characters' perspective, or whether it might have been possible for the characters to break out of their assigned roles. Either way, they didn't.
The Terminator series is especially funny as time travel goes, because #1 is mostly A, but attempts to inject B; #2 seems to buy into B entirely; and then #3 goes back to A with a side of completely incomprehensible C. I didn't much care for #3 myself, although my dislike had more to do with "not another epic battle with exploding toilets!!" than with the logic.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:15:29 am PDT #325 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 got the Europe earworm.
Oh, duh. Yeah, that was my earworm, not Triumph.
Which is the worst Europe song, "The Final Countdown", or "Nuclear Attack"?
Wait, this isn't music.
Um, what was that movie with Christopher Reeves where he could just think himself into the past?