I think facially he was at his best in '98 (the beatific expression frequently worn by his mentally disabled character probably didn't hurt), but the many, many pounds of muscle added for American Psycho, Reign of Fire, and Equilibrium are much appreciated.
'Not Fade Away'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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He looks disturbingly like Dylan McDermott there.
Why I love the Buffistas: last time I was watching Back to the Future II, and tried to explain to the guy I was watching with why Biff got back to the wrong 2015, he looked at me as if I were insane and said, "It's just a movie. You're not supposed to think about it."
So I finally saw Jaws.
Dude. That was PG ? That was fucking brutal.
I said I'd never seen it, but I think I'd seen parts near the end, but none of the first hour-and-a-half or so. Which are some of the best parts. Cause you don't see the shark for most of it, and Spielberg does a great job of both not telegraphing the scares and then not making a big deal out of them, which only makes it even more effective. I'm sleep-deprived, so towards the latter half of the Orca section, I had a hard time paying attention (it was a constant repetition of see-shark/attach-barrel-to-shark/let-shark-get-away/wait). But it's a pretty great movie, and I don't see how anything'll ever come close to dethroning its status as The Definitive Shark Movie.
And yeah, the head-in-the-boat made me jump. Fucking hell.
Okay, I've spent the last ten minutes thinking about the Great Back to the Future III Conundrum, and... my head hurts. Oh, but also I think I have a solution!
See, if The Doc had used the fuel line from the Delorean he took with him to the 1800s, he would be left with a busted car when Marty left, right? So in another hundred years or so, Marty would find the car and be unable to take it back to the past, because it would have a busted fuel line, thus causing a universe-shattering paradox. Or something.
I don't see how anything'll ever come close to dethroning its status as The Definitive Shark Movie.
I agree. Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
I agree. Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
Totally. That's one of my guilty pleasure movies. It's a slasher movie, with sharks!
Oh, and Hec had that story about how he saw the head-in-the-boat make the entire audience jump out of their seats? Same thing happened with Deep Blue Sea and Sam Jackson. Also, I like Michael Rapaport, and Saffron Burrows is hot.
Jaws (which my cable system seems to always be running on some channel at every hour of the day and night) is, 27 years later, still a fucking SCARY-ASS movie.
Though I always root for Quint to be first on the shark's menu. He irritates me.
But Holli, if he found in in 1986, with a busted fuel line, that would be a pretty easy fix. It was only a problem in 1886 because they didn't have the equipment to repair it.