But Top Gun has the whole Reagan vibe going on. U-S-A and all that.
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
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-t - Apr 08, 2005 8:10:22 am PDT #1630 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica - Apr 08, 2005 8:11:56 am PDT #1631 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
but SMARMAGEDDON was enough to put me off him for good.
Generally I agree, but his next project has Ewan MacGregor and Djimon Honsou in it. You can see the bind I'm in.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2005 8:12:18 am PDT #1632 of 10002
brillig
I've seen "Ferris Beuller", "Risky Business" and chunks of "Breakfast Club", but only "Beuller" did I see in a theatre. I suspect I'm too old for most '80s flicks.
Steph L. - Apr 08, 2005 8:12:25 am PDT #1633 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have never seen Top Gun. It's a thing. Much like the way I have never seen Grease, except for totally different reasons, but otherwise the same.
I don't even KNOW you, man!
Teppy, thanks for reminding me that I'm just about due for my mid-morning sugar and caffeine break.
Trust me, sweetie: you don't need it.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2005 8:13:32 am PDT #1634 of 10002
brillig
Gah, I hate "Grease." Everyone thinks it's so wholesome, but all I see is "I'll like you when you act like a slut".
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 8:14:34 am PDT #1635 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Top Gun was magical, man. I missed the John Hughes boat, but if I'd been in the States, maybe I'd have gotten on. Top Gun didn't care about borders or ages.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 8:15:45 am PDT #1636 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Everyone thinks it's so wholesome
The "chick's'll cream" "pussy wagon" Grease, or some other version?
Jessica - Apr 08, 2005 8:15:59 am PDT #1637 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Everyone thinks it's so wholesome
Really? Who?
Gris - Apr 08, 2005 8:16:51 am PDT #1638 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Also Armageddon! You can't argue with Armageddon!
Yes, actually. I can. Won't, but can.
I also adore The Fifth Element but I'm completely meh on Bruce himself. Good movies don't require good acting, necessarily - I don't see anybody praising Jovavich on the strength of that movie, after all. I mean, he's decent, better than an awful lot of people out there (definitely better than Ford, I'd say, to go way back in the thread, but Ford totally bugs me in everything that doesn't have "Indiana" or "Star" in the title), but he doesn't specifically inspire me to see anything. His was definitely my least favorite part of Sin City, and I blame that partially on him (if mostly on Alba). He's also the worst part of Pulp Fiction.
Of course, I also have this theory that Bruce Willis is the best when he's being fatherly. His best Sin City bit is the bit when Jessica Alba is played by little Makenzie Vega (little sister of Spy Kids' Alexa Vega, btw) and he's pretty fabulous in all of his scenes with Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (another personal favorite movie, btw, and one of the four DVDs I bought the day I got my own DVD player, along with Good Will Hunting, American Beauty, and The Matrix) . I also liked him in the stinker Mercury Rising, where his main strength is, again, working with the kid. He's good with them. So any movie where he costars with a kid, that I'll see. But him alone? Meh. Does nothing for me.
Jim - Apr 08, 2005 8:19:46 am PDT #1639 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Of course, I also have this theory that Bruce Willis is the best when he's being fatherly
As in, for example, Armageddon! What's more fatherly than chasing Ben Affleck round an oil rig with a shotgun, eh?