I agree that the Addams family movies were amazing. I'm not sure that the Star Trek movies count in relation to the article, as it seems to be concerning itself with long-after remakes, using a different cast. In the same vein, I don't think it counts Serenity or the X-Files movie, since they, too, use the same cast as the show. The examples seem to be a different genre from those.
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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Gris - Jun 25, 2005 11:19:54 pm PDT #4604 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Volans - Jun 26, 2005 2:16:23 am PDT #4605 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Night of the Living Dead was a pretty brilliant movie, packaging a strong social message inside a B-movie wrapper. It's theme of lynch mobs and such spoke to me a little more than the attack on crass consumerism in Dawn of the Dead.
Of course, we just watched Shaun of the Dead and I laughed my ass off (not literally, because that would be too easy a diet plan), so please understand I adore the zombie movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2005 3:18:24 am PDT #4606 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Very special episode: The movie
I have nightmares about the big screen version of “Blossom.”
Too, too funny. That show is always going to be remembered for having a Very Special Episode every week, isn't it?
While I think the author missed (perhaps purposefully to prove his point) the Addams Family movies as examples of how to do it right, Maverick is the only movie named that I'd really disagree about. And even that is retroactively tainted for me by starring Sexist McCrucifixion.
Narrator - Jun 26, 2005 8:13:27 am PDT #4607 of 10002
The evil is this way?
I saw "Bewitched." Some cute scenes in search of a reason to be strung together. Not the worst 2 hours I've ever spent but had it not been for the "Rent" preview, I would have considered it a wasted evening.
Una - Jun 26, 2005 8:36:37 am PDT #4608 of 10002
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I also saw "Bewitched" and need two hours of my life back now. It's not horrible, but being a Nicole Kidman fan and NOT a Will Ferrell fan...yeah.
Did we know Katie Finneran was in it? Small part, but I did sit up and think, hey!
Gandalfe - Jun 26, 2005 10:26:58 am PDT #4609 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Maverick is the only movie named that I'd really disagree about.
I would put Maverick in the "not-bad" group, rather than the "not-good" group.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2005 10:40:57 am PDT #4610 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I enjoyed it a lot, actually. Though I only had a passing aquaintance with the James Garner version on TV, so I guess there was less info for comparison.
erikaj - Jun 26, 2005 10:49:24 am PDT #4611 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked it too, but I bet JG was funnier...Garner is a funny man. And Matt, I like your nick for Gibson.
Alibelle - Jun 26, 2005 11:28:44 am PDT #4612 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I saw Bewitched, The Perfect Man, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Friday. I enjoyed them all, though Mr. and Mrs. Smith was definitely the most tightly edited and charismatic. I don't understand what people have against Bewitched, really. It's pretty inoffensive. And I had a few issues with The Perfect Man, mostly a couple of choices the heroine and her mother make, including one painful watch from the hall thing, but it was otherwise better than I expected.
tommyrot - Jun 26, 2005 7:19:03 pm PDT #4613 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was almost asleep, when the following question popped insistingly into my consciousness:
What is a 'moisture farm'?