Howard the Duck wasn't that bad. I remember liking it. There was a talking duck and Lea Thompson and Jeffrey Jones.
And, oddly enough, Tim Robbins - possibly his first big role.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 19, 2004 10:25:03 am PDT #4812 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Frankenbuddha - Oct 19, 2004 10:29:38 am PDT #4813 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
As the first two had a love scene together, I don't think your defense of the movie is all that effective.
Would it have been better or worse if the film had been done ala Roger Rabbit instead of a midget in a fucking duck suit? Mostly a speculative question, as I always thought the movie might have worked if they'd gone that route instead. Although I don't know if that would have improved the dumb action movie plot the movie gravitated towards.
Alibelle - Oct 19, 2004 10:34:41 am PDT #4814 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I think that's the problem. The ending, especially, struck me as a terrible, silly parody of what happens in the first chapters of the Aeneid. It was exactly what a script is supposed to do: tie up loose ends. Which was exactly what the cycle about Troy didn't do. The motivations behind an epic cycle and a screenplay are so different that reconciling the two -- especially if the screenplay is meant to describe the entire multi-epic, multi-culture cycle -- is night unto impossible.
Which is probably why they left out huge chunks of information you get in the texts, but what else could they do? Just not make a movie about it at all? Is there any ending that you would have found satisfying? Or would they all have fallen flat because of the disparity in medium?
Jars - Oct 19, 2004 11:05:15 am PDT #4815 of 10001
Dude, Where's My Car?, Speed 2: Cruise Control and Cold Mountain. A trinity of awfulness that I wish I had never sat through.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2004 11:08:27 am PDT #4816 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse : Dude! You got a tattoo!
Chester : So do you, dude! Dude, what does my tattoo say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
Chester : "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : "Sweet!" What about mine?
[later]
Chester : [angry] "Dude!" What does mine say?
Jesse : [screaming] "Sweet!"
Ah, comedy gold.
Jessica - Oct 19, 2004 11:08:47 am PDT #4817 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Chinese Fooooooooooooooood.
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2004 11:10:36 am PDT #4818 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
No and then! No and then! No and then!
And then and then and then and then and then and then and then?
Frankenbuddha - Oct 19, 2004 11:11:04 am PDT #4819 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wasn't it a Buffista who noted that DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? and MEMENTO were basically the same movie?
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2004 11:11:36 am PDT #4820 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I think it was Rio.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2004 11:12:12 am PDT #4821 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Plei, no?