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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.
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.
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?
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.
Chiming in on the The Fifth Element love. It's just such a fun movie. I own it on VHS, really need to get the DVD one of these days.
Also loved Last Action Hero. I thought it was a great send-up of Action Movie Reality versus Actual Realitiy.
Another question: when was the last time you played a random game of volleyball? Who does that, like, ever, (outside of college)?
Family gatherings. Though thankfully no one greases themselves up. That would be way too disturbing.
Of the iconic 80's movies mentioned, I've only seen Ferris Bueller and Terminator, and neither of them in the theatre, so I guess I'm a lousy child of the 80's too. On the other hand, I was only 8 when The Terminator came out, so it wasn't exactly what my parents would have been taking me to anyway.
I loathe The Fifth Element. Every second of that film is like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
I always thought the movie was a paean to peer-pressure brainwashing.
Meh. It's a musical. I don't tend to have high expectations for their "message".