I think you all can guess with one try what his #1 favorite Star Trek movie is.
The one with the whales, right? Everyone loves whales.
We definitely needed more Scotty.
Sure. But he cannae give ye any more, Cap'n!
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
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billytea - May 07, 2009 7:04:21 pm PDT #1125 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
le nubian - May 07, 2009 7:16:15 pm PDT #1126 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
billytea,
man. no. not the one with whales!
Hayden - May 07, 2009 7:20:34 pm PDT #1127 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sorry I missed all the worst movie discussion! I actually like The Thin Red Line quite a bit.
billytea - May 07, 2009 7:41:35 pm PDT #1128 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
man. no. not the one with whales!
He's missing out! I don't think you could even make a bad movie with whales in it. Free Willy, Free Willy 2, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... And just think how much movies like Kramer vs Kramer or Twister would have been improved with whales. (Now I'm picturing a Star Trek movie mashup. Ok, mainly I'm picturing Kirk shouting to the heavens, "MIIINKEEEE!!" You'll note I did not opt for him shouting "SPEEEEERRRMMMM!!")
erikaj - May 07, 2009 7:54:42 pm PDT #1129 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
The Road To Wellville is an excellent book, imo. But one would think the sheer amount of enema discussion contained within would have prohibited filming it. And besides, it's satirical byplay funny, not pie-in-the-face funny. It's not my worst ever, cause I saw it during a time when I was lonely enough to be the best audience ever, but it's pretty misbegotten.
Frankenbuddha - May 07, 2009 8:37:12 pm PDT #1130 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think I've only walked out of the cinema once-- Scanners. And I was watching because a friend's head exploded in it, but I didn't even make it that far.
The only exploding head was five minutes into the movie. You sure it wasn't one of the lame sequels (since Scanners came out in 1981)?
§ ita § - May 07, 2009 8:42:25 pm PDT #1131 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just checked his IMDB entry and it's not even on it. Perhaps it's just as well I didn't stay...
Scrappy - May 07, 2009 8:54:13 pm PDT #1132 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I loved Sid & Nancy. But I gotta agree with all on the Road to Wellville hatred. So bad, so very, very bad.
Theodosia - May 08, 2009 2:10:52 am PDT #1133 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Once you accept that Moulin Rouge is a Bollywood musical, its virtues become far more apparent.
My personal worst movie that I have paid for in a theatre is Gangs of New York which even though it had some fantabulous actors, was meanly, wantonly and repellantly violent and depressing. I'd rather watch Natural-Born Killers twice over because that had some cleverness to it.
le nubian - May 08, 2009 3:21:43 am PDT #1134 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh I HATED Natural Born Killers. Never finished that movie. After the peyote sequence, I was out. Stopped the VCR and returned it to Blockbuster.