Xander ,'Beneath You'
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this one had a bullshit script
There is only a certain amount of "Isn't that cute! Completely pulling geography and physics out of your butt!" and then it stops being cute.
Also, I think I am over the time in American culture when it was okay for PMS to be the villain of the piece.
No kidding. Also, between the 2nd and 3rd movies, the bad guys grew invisible Snidely Whiplash mustaches and became, instead of terrorists, generic evildoers who do evil just because evil is fun, bwa-ha-ha. Another annoying thing: the Grand Guignol conflict was so dumb that it melted brain cells. If Magneto can levitate metal to get his people where they need to go, why not put them all on a stretched-out nickel and levitate them instead of moving a bridge so that the freakin' army could, I don't know, follow you? And why would the X-men care if Magneto attacks a research facility that produces the cure? And why in hell did the studio allow those hacks to just kill a bunch of characters randomly and without any emotional impact, like some sort of crappy video game? And giving Halle Berry a speaking role is a good idea why? I think X3 may have been worse than Highlander 2.
Also, I'm afraid that the fact that I put so much more thought into it than the people who made it means that I am incredibly lame.
I didn't think X3 was as bad as I'd heard. I enjoyed it, at least.
In my rush to talk about X3, I forgot to give a hearty "hear hear" to Sean's statement about how great Lang was. I've seen M, Metropolis, Mabuse (the Testament of, at least - I think there were more), and Scarlet Street, and they were all extraordinary, especially the first three. Scarlet Street was still great, but not quite up there with the others, and I've heard that many of his Hollywood movies were, sadly, almost indifferent.
THE BIG HEAT is really good Lang as well. I think I have RANCHO NOTORIOUS on tape somewhere, but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
Now that you mention it, I think I taped The Big Heat off TCM one night and never watched it.
X3 was fun mindless entertainment, but I wish they hadn't tried to stuff so many major plots into a 90-minute movie.
OTOH, it's Oscar caliber compared to the '80s remake of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium that we saw last night. A so-called comedy that was neither funny nor acceptable as camp.
Metropolis is somewhere on my Netflix queue. I'm not sure where. I did some reorganizing this weekend when I was sick and didn't feel like doing anyting. Instead I added a profile to Netflix so I can have one profile for television stuff and one for movies because of all the tv series I hit the 500 disc limit on the queue.
Of course I'm not watching movies at a very fast rate, but I like to add anything I think looks interesting when I see it rather than trying to remmeber what it was.
Yesterday I watced To Have and Have Not on TMC, that's a great movie. Also this weekend I watched parts of Stalag 17 one of my favorite movies.I managed to catch my favorite parts -- Xmas celebration (with the dancing and "Betty" , the unveiling of the spy, the execution of the plan).
Now that you mention it, I think I taped The Big Heat off TCM one night and never watched it.
One of Lee Marvin's early roles, and what nasty piece of work he is in the movie. Also, Gloria Grahame was awsome and heartbreaking.