Chicklet is actually a pretty plum role. Where else can you play a perky, naive surfing prodigy teenager, an iron-willed femme fatale, and a sassy grocery store clerk who threatens to cut the serial killer that's after her in the same movie?
Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.
'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 17, 2004 8:16:56 am PDT #4598 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2004 1:53:07 pm PDT #4599 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 saw TA:WP and was slighyly disappointed. It was good and worth the ticket price, but for me it was nowhere near as funny as SPtM:BLaU.
I don't think it's a spoiler to say: Pay attention to the song lyrics. Also, they repeat the songs in the credits, and the final song is one that's not in the movie.
Polter-Cow - Oct 17, 2004 3:01:11 pm PDT #4600 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just caught the end of True Lies on AMC (it is, apparently, an American Movie Classic). Man, how great is that movie? It's a ridiculously overblown action flick with a good sense of humor. Now that I think about it, it's actually kind of like Alias: The Movie.
P.M. Marc - Oct 17, 2004 3:03:32 pm PDT #4601 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I just caught the end of True Lies on AMC (it is, apparently, an American Movie Classic). Man, how great is that movie? It's a ridiculously overblown action flick with a good sense of humor. Now that I think about it, it's actually kind of like Alias: The Movie.
I, err, have to leave the room when it plays, because it's one of the most astonishingly offensively sexist things I've ever seen.
Consuela - Oct 17, 2004 3:09:00 pm PDT #4602 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm with Plei. That movie made me bugfuck.
Ginger - Oct 17, 2004 3:15:37 pm PDT #4603 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
True Lies has possibly the most appalling view of women ever filmed, with the added insult of gratuitous ethnic stereotyping. I would have walked out, except that I was paralyzed by anger.
alienprayer - Oct 17, 2004 3:21:15 pm PDT #4604 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
But it is a wonderful parable of Arnold's barely repressed homosexuality. He stays away from JLC so he can hang out with his overcompensating buddy Tom Arnold and his quirky vaguely foreign coworker. He becomes obsessed with big moustache Paxton after Paxton speaks of boy's asses.
Sure, it's no Commando, but even Tia Carrerre only gets his attention because he loves to dance.
§ ita § - Oct 17, 2004 3:25:24 pm PDT #4605 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, man, that movie is only appreciated by me in any way because I thought Tom Arnold was great.
Other than that, sheer hatred, and I'll never watch it again.
Maysa - Oct 17, 2004 3:26:36 pm PDT #4606 of 10001
The only time I've seen True Lies was when it was dubbed into Spanish, and oddly, I kind of liked it. That might be because my Spanish is pretty poor so I didn't understand most of the dialogue and I also didn't have to listen to the Arnolds (Schwarzenegger and Tom) voices.
Stephanie - Oct 17, 2004 3:47:30 pm PDT #4607 of 10001
Trust my rage
I loved True Lies for the reasons P-C mentioned. I don't remember feeling it was sexist, but I'll have to keep an eye out for that the next time I run into it.