I cannot believe that the woman who last night tortured me, this morning, gets pasties.
Well, quite a lot of fuss. If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Gandalfe - Oct 19, 2004 7:27:55 am PDT #4774 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Polter-Cow - Oct 19, 2004 7:31:50 am PDT #4775 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh! Freejack and Millennium were also horrible.
I saw Freejack back in the day. Ah, Emilio Estevez.
And Lilty, I quite liked JP2. Absolutely no relation to the book whatsoever (they kept one scene. ONE SCENE.), but it was a fun time. There were dinosaurs.
Sean K - Oct 19, 2004 7:32:44 am PDT #4776 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Oh! Freejack
Kinda liked Freejack, too.
Sean K - Oct 19, 2004 7:35:04 am PDT #4777 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And Lilty, I quite liked JP2.
Oh, P-C......
t shakes head
Let me ask you this sunshine. How did the T-Rex eat all the people on the boat? You know, the people in the tiny rooms with the tiny doors? And then get back into the hold and get trapped in there?
Nutty - Oct 19, 2004 7:35:47 am PDT #4778 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Heh, Gandalfe.
sometimes structural problems are not as readily visible in the script as they are in the finished product.
This means, I think, that the problem is still the script's fault. Like how, in baseball (not that I am obsessed or anything), if the starter allows a double, and then gets relieved, and then the guy on 2nd makes it home on someone else's watch? That run is scored against the pitcher who let him on base in the first place, not against the pitcher who let him score.
I agree that a movie can be altered in the editing room -- the difference between FOTR and its EE are the proof -- but an editor (and the people who decide on voiceovers, and the post-production wizards) can only do so much with the footage they get.
Polter-Cow - Oct 19, 2004 7:36:55 am PDT #4779 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Let me ask you this sunshine. How did the T-Rex eat all the people on the boat? You know, the people in the tiny rooms with the tiny doors? And then get back into the hold and get trapped in there?
Sean, Sean, Sean. I don't really care. There was a T-Rex, and it was eating people. I was happy.
I even enjoyed the third one for what it was: a slasher movie with dinosaurs.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2004 7:36:57 am PDT #4780 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Was the script re-written at all between Ali's reading and shooting?
Kathy A - Oct 19, 2004 7:41:57 am PDT #4781 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Worst movies that I've seen in the theater--Flash Gordon and The Road to Wellville. The first was just ear-wincingly hoaky, but the second was disappointing, which is even worse that being bad.
juliana - Oct 19, 2004 7:42:54 am PDT #4782 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Do you know they released a Showgirls Special Edition? Boggles the mind . . . .
There's a MST3K track on it, so one can sit and snark in company. Well, you can. I will never be drunk enough to enjoy that thing, even with added snark.
Lilty Cash - Oct 19, 2004 7:44:09 am PDT #4783 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I'll admit to not having seen JP2 since the theater (because, why would I?), but I remember the scene with Jeff Goldblum's daughter totally defeating the dinosaurs with her badass gymnastic moves. And it was bad.
It bearing no resemblance to the book would, for me, actually be a plus. I cracked the book and said "Oh, look here's the Jeff Goldblum character. The character that was dead as a dead thing at the end of the first book! Crichton, you whore."