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.

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?

Generally I agree, but his next project has Ewan MacGregor and Djimon Honsou in it. You can see the bind I'm in.

That would be the big budget remake of PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR (even though we're not saying that's what it is) , right?

Armageddon!

The Musical!

That would be the big budget remake of PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR (even though we're not saying that's what it is) , right?

No, Frank, this is SEND IN THE CLONES, PART TWO.

Er...yes. But with very very pretty people.

what's more fatherly than chasing Ben Affleck round and oil rig with a shotgun, eh?

Supremely fatherly. It's not often that fathers get to hand nuclear weapons to their future sons-in-law.

Really? Who?

For some reason, it's a hugely popular movie with Mormon kids, and their folks all seem to say, "Oh, the '50s, it's about cars and dates with ice cream, how sweet." I listened to the lyrics of the song about the car and went, "Are you out of your minds?" And the whole transformation thing at the end just irks, though I suppose the whole "putting his arm around her shoulder and they smile inanely" thing is supposed to show them avoiding sleaze.

But with very very pretty people.

No, no, I hear you on that. Not MY version of pretty, but, yes, undeniably pretty people.

I'm just REALLLLLY curious if they paid whoever owns PARTS off for it, because otherwise I'm expecting a big fat lawsuit somewhere down the line. People, just because MST3K did a movie, doesn't mean it's public domain.

Although I suspect it's also a pretty old sci-fi trope.

But Connie, he's wearing a letter sweater and is all Ozzie Nelson in that scene. The both change their "styles." It's not about her tarting it up, it's about them accepting each other. Not a bad message, really.

Not MY version of pretty, but, yes, undeniably pretty people.

It also has Scarlett Johansson.