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.
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2005 8:20:53 am PDT #1641 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica - Apr 08, 2005 8:21:09 am PDT #1642 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Er...yes. But with very very pretty people.
Nutty - Apr 08, 2005 8:22:03 am PDT #1643 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2005 8:24:56 am PDT #1644 of 10002
brillig
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.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 08, 2005 8:24:56 am PDT #1645 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Scrappy - Apr 08, 2005 8:29:35 am PDT #1646 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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.
Jessica - Apr 08, 2005 8:30:04 am PDT #1647 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Not MY version of pretty, but, yes, undeniably pretty people.
It also has Scarlett Johansson.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 8:30:47 am PDT #1648 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not about her tarting it up, it's about them accepting each other.
I think it isn't so much about the accepting each other as being willing to do things they don't like for each other.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 08, 2005 8:34:48 am PDT #1649 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It also has Scarlett Johansson.
Damn. CURSE YOU Michael Bay! Why did you have to start casting interesting actors? Then again, it wasn't really the CASTING of ARMAGEDDON that sucked. Just everything else.
I think it isn't so much about the accepting each other as being willing to do things they don't like for each other.
So a movie about compromise, then?
Nutty - Apr 08, 2005 8:37:23 am PDT #1650 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I dunno. It takes some serious compromise to, e.g., convince me to start smoking just to please somebody. For that matter, to make me trade in my poodle skirt for hootchie pants. That's some serious compromise.
I always thought the movie was a paean to peer-pressure brainwashing.