I disliked The Phantom Menace more, just off the top of my head. At least Stigmata didn't ruin the pretty.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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§ ita § - Oct 18, 2004 1:33:46 pm PDT #4696 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
P.M. Marc - Oct 18, 2004 1:34:11 pm PDT #4697 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
Definitely gets better on re-view.
Unless you hate Julianne Moore, in which case, it just gets worse, and you still can't understand the love for it.
Lyra Jane - Oct 18, 2004 1:34:45 pm PDT #4698 of 10001
Up with the sun
Betsy, if that was the Washington Post, it's the writer's sense of humor. I don't know this for sure, but my sense is that she gets annoyed when she can't use a word that was used on TV -- and is, in fact, annoyed by censorship in general -- and comes up with a synonym that will let the audience know EXACTLY what was taken out, in a "family newspaper" sort of way. Hence "male pride."
her name is Lisa De Moraes, and she rocks.
Scrappy - Oct 18, 2004 1:37:20 pm PDT #4699 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I don't like JM and I still love Hudsucker. I also fell for it on a second viewing after being "eh" the first time.
Gris - Oct 18, 2004 1:42:06 pm PDT #4700 of 10001
Hey. New board.
§ ita § - Oct 18, 2004 1:44:02 pm PDT #4701 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love that Unisom is a sponsor.
Gris - Oct 18, 2004 1:45:01 pm PDT #4702 of 10001
Hey. New board.
'Tis a bit ironic, at that.
Sue - Oct 18, 2004 1:48:21 pm PDT #4703 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I saw that too, Betsy! WTF?
(And what if it's a source of male shame?)
DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 1:49:08 pm PDT #4704 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't like JM and I still love Hudsucker. I also fell for it on a second viewing after being "eh" the first time.
I bet you meant Lebowski.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 18, 2004 1:53:36 pm PDT #4705 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
I saw Stigmata in the midst of a reading project that had me working 70 hours a week (oh, for the innocent days when working til 10pm seemed the upper limit of unreasonable job requirements!) doing both my own work and that of a co-worker whose mother had just passed away. In a three-month span I had one Sunday night off and decided to blow off steam by going to see my first movie in that timeframe. This made me stubbornly reluctant to walk out of the movie after the first 30 minutes, as all my instincts were screaming at me to do. When it was done, I wished that I had just stayed at work instead.
In a more positive moviegoing note, I saw Taxi this weekend. Well worth seeing for Queen Latifah, although I wished Christian Kane weren't so unmemorable in it. Even Jimmy Fallon was at times likeable.