Top Gun came out, and we all grew up a little.....
God bless volleyball.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
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§ ita § - Sep 06, 2004 6:37:25 am PDT #3620 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2004 6:38:52 am PDT #3621 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It was like porn for us, for real.
Jessica - Sep 06, 2004 6:43:25 am PDT #3622 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE is just hugely entertaining
Eh, I wasn't a big fan. I thought Willem Dafoe gave a great performance, but the script depended way too much on cheap laughs, which weren't even all that funny. (And it had the same "look at my one camera trick!" problem that Being John Malkovich did.)
Frankenbuddha - Sep 06, 2004 6:55:04 am PDT #3623 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Eh, I wasn't a big fan. I thought Willem Dafoe gave a great performance, but the script depended way too much on cheap laughs, which weren't even all that funny. (And it had the same "look at my one camera trick!" problem that Being John Malkovich did.)
Well, I guess the cheap laughs worked for me, much the way the book FLICKER did. I'm not sure what you mean by the "one camera trick" w/r/t either SOTV or BJM. Neither movie seemed dependent on a particular visual IMO.
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2004 7:01:23 am PDT #3624 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Top Gun came out, and we all grew up a little.....
God bless volleyball.
It was like porn for us, for real.
Dude, I *still* stop what I'm doing and watch the volleyball scene whenever Top Gun is on TV.
Lilty Cash - Sep 06, 2004 7:03:03 am PDT #3625 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Dude, I *still* stop what I'm doing and watch the volleyball scene whenever Top Gun is on TV.
Once in college a friend an I blew off an afternoon class to make pina coladas and watch the volleyball scene.
Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2004 7:06:39 am PDT #3626 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't think I've ever seen Top Gun, and thus have no clue what's up with this volleyball scene.
Jessica - Sep 06, 2004 7:08:17 am PDT #3627 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
SotV had "And...iris in!" every five minutes (as though every single shot in Nosferatu began with a circular wipe, which just isn't the case -- the portrayal of Nosferatu as a cheesy B-movie overall was just irritating), and BJM had that fuzzy-edged oval Malkovich-cam.
Lilty Cash - Sep 06, 2004 7:08:42 am PDT #3628 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Oh, P-C. You must.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 06, 2004 7:27:04 am PDT #3629 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
SotV had "And...iris in!" every five minutes (as though every single shot in Nosferatu began with a circular wipe, which just isn't the case -- the portrayal of Nosferatu as a cheesy B-movie overall was just irritating), and BJM had that fuzzy-edged oval Malkovich-cam.
Huh. Didn't notice the former, and I'm not sure I'd agree that NOSFERATU was treated as a "cheesy B-movie". I would agree that Dafoe's performance was by far the best thing in the movie, but I enjoyed other parts of it as well. They wasted Eddie Izzard, but this is hardly the most egregious case of that (THE AVENGERS and MYSTERY MEN being just two of the more blatant cases of Izzard waste).
As for BJM, it never pinged me as an abuse because I figured they needed some way to delineate Malkovich-view from the rest of the movie.