'Objects In Space'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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!!")
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.
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)?
I just checked his IMDB entry and it's not even on it. Perhaps it's just as well I didn't stay...
I loved Sid & Nancy. But I gotta agree with all on the Road to Wellville hatred. So bad, so very, very bad.
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.
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.
Zach Quinto nailed Spock and all of his messy hidden emotions
AND THE HOTNESS. OH MY GOD THE HOTNESS.
(Ahem.)
Corwood, your list is hilarious.
And boy howdy, that Ed Burns is dreamy, isn't he? Whoever made this movie sure thinks so!Hee.
I tried to watch Moulin Rouge twice. I didn't think it was bad, exactly. It was like watching something in another language, maybe Venusian. Backwards. With scenes missing. I just didn't understand it at any level. It was sort of interesting sensation to be that bewildered. So I watched for 10 or 15 minutes with a puzzled frown, and then I got tired of the epileptic camera and gave up.
Independence Day is the only one in there I really hated. When people in the theater clapped at the end, it took me a second to realize they weren't being sarcastic.
But I'd rather sit through that then The Producers.
re: new Trek: Do they keep the timeline correct, that Spock is not at the academy with Kirk et al.? Spock was on the Enterprise for years before Kirk showed up, and McCoy and Scotty are older as well. Or does that matter in the "new" and "improved" Star Trek world?
t the "I watched the original on TV, who wants to touch me, I am an uber geek, fear my patheticness, the original wasn't broken why change it" tag that never closes