Iconic 80s Movies: Dirty Dancing. Princess Bride.

I like Bruce Willis, but I don't go out of my way to see him in movies. I just have no problems with him being there on screen.

I love Top Gun. And when I first saw it, I was about four or so, so the volleyball scene meant almost nothing to me. I didn't even remember it later, it meant so little to me. Even though I must have watched that movie hundreds of times. I think I fell in love with the movie because of "Take My Breath Away," since the song is what is really iconic about it, for me. And I loved the buddy aspects of it, and I thought the girl was pretty.

Also, I saw Ice Princess today with Perkins! It was awesome. I thought it was really well done. Even though they completely re-used the Center Stage line about living the mother's dream.

DH watches The Military Channel. Former military officer, always wanted to "fly jets, sir!", aced all the exams but couldn't fake the sight exams, pre-lasik. He's entitled to watch jets on the teevee.

So he was watching a thing on the Blue Angels, and I happened to look at the screen while they were doing VO talking about non-flight time. Yup, volleyball. Shirtless volleyball.

It must be a thing.

I prefer Hot Shots thankyewverymuch.

...and The Fifth Element rocks!

I saw Ice Princess today with Perkins!

Yay!

Loved that movie, I did.

I loved The Fifth Element, I could totally buy us being like that in 250 years.

Iconic eightis movies for me were; Tron, First Blood, Return of the Jedi, Labyrinth, Buckaroo Banzai, A Fish Called Wanda... to name but a scant few.

I could totally buy us being like that in 250 years.

rethinks immortality plan

Hey, if you become immortal you'd theoretically end up being worshipped as a goddess, right? (At least, all the Sci-Fi shows and movies tell me so...) Make tenet #1 of Jessicaism "Thou shalt not dive headlong into a Fashion Apocalypse."

Make tenet #1 of Jessicaism "Thou shalt not dive headlong into a Fashion Apocalypse."

Done and done! Does this mean Mischa Barton is going to hell?

Just got back from Sin City, which I liked about as much as I expected to. I don't think much of the writing in the comics -- too much adolescent machismo for my taste, and that's saying something -- so the uber-faithfulness didn't do much for me. Clive Owen was the only actor I thought was really any good. (And Benecio del Toro, in that one scene.) Bruce Willis was okay. The first third of the movie bored me to the point where I was in physical pain. Alexis Bleidel is freaking adorable, but she has no range. Especially the scenes where she's talking to her mom on the phone had me laughing hysterically at adorable little hooker Rory. I just couldn't see her as anything else.

Alexis Bleidel is freaking adorable, but she has no range. Especially the scenes where she's talking to her mom on the phonehad me laughing hysterically at adorable little hooker Rory. I just couldn't see her as anything else.

Heh. I felt exactly the same way, especially the first time I saw it. Polter-Cow and I actually had a discussion about it over at my LJ, sort of. My words were

Sadly, Alexis Bledel's Becky left me a bit more cold, mostly because, well, she plays Rory if Rory were a gun-toting whore with a terrible southern accent, to the point of calling her mother twice over the course of the movie.

On second-viewing re-evaluation, I decided she was better that I originally thought, with a lot of the Roriness probably being directed (that character IS Rory, in a lot of ways, and they probably knew that when they cast Alexis, after all. Easier to direct her to "be like Rory here" than to start from scratch to build a very similar character) Still, I mostly agree that she's not so much for the range. Hopefully her Lena in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants won't be Rory, because those characters are pretty different.

I liked Sin City, and, surprisingly, my 76-year-old never-heard-her-swear mom liked it too. She found the Noir/crime homage lots of fun, and said the adolescent viewpoint reminded her of comics she and my uncle read voraciously as kids, so it worked for her. My feeling was basically, Clive Owen, rowr.