Willow ,'Storyteller'
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My Dracula hatred is for whoever thought a movie was more fun without any subtext. Generally speaking, when a hairy beast shows up in the middle of a Victorian horror tale to have wild sex in the garden with a virginal blond girl, you know that there is no point in seeking any 'deeper meaning'.
I mean, okay, love poetry with the hairy beast, but fucking au naturel??
My Dracula hatred is for whoever thought a movie was more fun without any subtext.
Nutty, I think you just put your finger on why that movie bothered me, even though so many of my friends liked it. Any dracula movie should have killer subtext, and lots of sexual tension.
Actual on-screen sex is kind of the antithesis of sexual tension and subtext.
I dunno. The scene where Drac stares at Winona across the street and whispers, "See me." makes me come over all swoony.
Right, but the point was, Star Wars is based on a handful of Asian pictures, not on their western/Western siblings. Although now I have a vision in my head of Clint Eastwood with a sword, and that is entertaining.
Star Wars is such a mishmash though. It certainly is based on Samurai films (both C-3PO and R2D2 have specific precedents), but the end of the movie is taking from a WW2 movie about a bombing attack by uhm, Doolittle? (DXM?) And Han Solo is from the kind of adventure serial/pulp adventure that would be refined with the Indiana Jones movies. There are also some Knights in Armor movie bits, plus Prisoner of Zenda and like that.
I dunno. The scene where Drac stares at Winona across the street and whispers, "See me." makes me come over all swoony.
Heh. See, all my friends are sort of the same way, Beej. They all go all swoony at the "romance."
I'm just baffled at the part where you all gloss over the fact that it's a REALLY BAD MOVIE!
But as evidenced above, I have my own list of VERY BAD MOVIES that I love, so take my opinion on that for what it's worth.
My God. They made a sequel to Baby Geniuses.
From IMDB's studio briefing:
Critics are suggesting that Bob Clark's SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 may vie with Clark's original 1999 film Baby Geniuses for one of the worst films of all time. (Dave Kehr in the New York Times points out that the original ranks No. 7 on Metacritic.com's worst-film list.) Indeed, Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times writes that the movie "may quite easily put an end to any discussion of what is the worst theatrical release of 2004." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post calls it "spectacularly awful, way worse than you'd expect from a supposed family film being dumped into Hollywood's version of the Bermuda Triangle: a late-August release by a studio (Columbia) resorting to an alias (Triumph)." And Mike Clark in USA Today refers to it as "a late-August dog-days atrocity from the 'aren't farts funny?' school of filmmaking."
My God. They made a sequel to Baby Geniuses.
If you value your eyes, you will NOT WATCH THE TRAILER, because the only way to make the pain stop will be to poke them out.
If you value your eyes, you will NOT WATCH THE TRAILER, because the only way to make the pain stop will be to poke them out.
Poor, blind Jessica. You had such pretty eyes....
Oh, they grew back. (Being about to see Thunderbirds made it all a bit more bearable, because I could think "Well, at least I'm not seeing this.")