Mal ,'Ariel'
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Finally caught up. So much I wanted to comment on, but I was hundreds of posts behind.
I do have to take a moment to stick up for "The Fifth Element" though, as I love that movie. Yeah, the love bit at the end is silly, but it's a fun over-the-top anime-style action movie. Though it would have been even better if Chris Tucker's character had died painfully. He's the only part of the whole thing that really bothers me.
While I wouldn't pick Without a Paddle as a great piece of filmmaking, Seth is a lot of fun in it. If you can stand 95 minutes of Matthew Lillard, it might be worth seeing.
Matt, the previews struck me as overly homophobic, which turned me way the hell off. Is the movie not as bad as the preview made it out to be?
Matt, the previews struck me as overly homophobic, which turned me way the hell off. Is the movie not as bad as the preview made it out to be?
Well, the huddled-together-against-the-rain-in-their-underwear bit is homophobic, but it also turns out to be one of the funnier jokes of the movie. And within the context of the scene I really couldn't blame Dax Kelly's character for not being happy. The only other thing I can think of that's offensive in that way is the scene with the angry lesbian who catches her girlfriend cheating, and that's specifically set up to show Kelly as a clueless horndog.
The later two Austin Powers movies made the mistake, so common in movies these days, of confusing self-reference and repetition with humor.
It's a mistake that Mike Meyers is especially guilty of. I blame bad habits learned from Lorne Michaels.
Oh, and 4s!
I do have to take a moment to stick up for "The Fifth Element" though, as I love that movie.
I'm with you, Kalshane.
I liked that movie - up until the point where the universe had to be saved by Bruce Willis having sex with a supermodel.
I also loved that movie. But the sex was just the big bonus after the world was saved.
Exactly. It was the beeg ba-da-boom.