It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.

Buffy ,'Empty Places'


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Scrappy - Oct 18, 2004 2:24:10 pm PDT #4707 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I bet you meant Lebowski.

I totally did. Thanks, sweetie pie.


DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2004 4:38:20 pm PDT #4708 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

t sits by Aimee and Kate P

I kinda liked Stigmata. Didn't think it sucked, haven't watched it again.

Anybody know if the Scary Movie Marathon channel is one that airs original or tv versions?


Mr. Broom - Oct 18, 2004 4:47:47 pm PDT #4709 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

The only question to which the correct answer is Stigmata is "What was the worst movie of 1999?"
Honorable mention goes to its sister film, End of Days. What is it with movies of ridiculously similar premises being released within a couple months of each other? Happens every year.


Gris - Oct 18, 2004 4:49:12 pm PDT #4710 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Yeah, that's crazy. I first noticed it with Armageddon and Deep Impact, and then the next year there was Volcano, and Dante's Peak, neither of which I saw.


§ ita § - Oct 18, 2004 4:50:12 pm PDT #4711 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Triple threat: Matrix, Existenz and The Thirteenth Floor.


Mr. Broom - Oct 18, 2004 4:58:24 pm PDT #4712 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

Secret: "The Thirteenth Floor" was better. Without the non-story-developing fight scenes, "The Matrix" has nothing on the story in "The Thirteenth Floor," and I'm saying this as a big fan of "The Matrix".


Dana - Oct 18, 2004 4:59:15 pm PDT #4713 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

End of Days was totally worse than Stigmata, which, as noted, has the hotness as Gabriel Byrnes as a hottie priest who's hot.


Frankenbuddha - Oct 18, 2004 5:00:08 pm PDT #4714 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I preferred EXISTENZ to both (although I loved the Matrix on sheer kinectics), but I'm a massive Cronenberg fan.


Frankenbuddha - Oct 18, 2004 5:01:03 pm PDT #4715 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

End of Days was totally worse than Stigmata, which, as noted, has the hotness as Gabriel Byrnes as a hottie priest who's hot.

Wasn't Gabriel Byrne the bad guy in End of Days?


Dana - Oct 18, 2004 5:02:45 pm PDT #4716 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

If so, he wasn't hot. Or a priest.

(If he really was a priest, I'll weep.)