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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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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.


Jessica - May 08, 2009 3:53:00 am PDT #1135 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Zach Quinto nailed Spock and all of his messy hidden emotions

AND THE HOTNESS. OH MY GOD THE HOTNESS.

(Ahem.)


Strega - May 08, 2009 7:10:52 am PDT #1136 of 30000

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.


Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 7:10:53 am PDT #1137 of 30000
brillig

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


Hayden - May 08, 2009 7:25:56 am PDT #1138 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Thanks, Strega!

I never saw The Road To Wellville. I didn't like the novel that much, so I figured I'd probably really dislike the movie. Other movies I've never seen but think I would have hated: Crash (the Haggis one), Titanic, Battlefield Earth, and Pay It Forward. Boxing Helena came to mind last night as one that should have made the list, too.


Sue - May 08, 2009 7:34:48 am PDT #1139 of 30000
hip deep in pie

I always thought that the Thin Red Line would have been better (though I liked it quite a bit) had it been longer. I believe the first cut was 9 hours long.

Movies I have walked out of: Muppet Movie, Branagh's Hamlet, The Fool (a British movie that seemed like it was 9 hours long.)

Worst Movies: Charlies Angels, Titanic, Crash (the Cronenburg one).


sarameg - May 08, 2009 7:40:47 am PDT #1140 of 30000

Pearl Harbor (Lipstick of DEATH was the only redeeming thing. I started laughing vaguely hysterically at that point. Damned movie would just not end.)

Wish I'd never seen: Doom Generation


Sue - May 08, 2009 7:41:45 am PDT #1141 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Wish I'd never seen: Doom Generation

OMG I HAD BLOCKED THAT MOVIE FROM MY BRAIN! Definitely goes on the worst list.