Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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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
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.
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).
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
Wish I'd never seen: Doom Generation
OMG I HAD BLOCKED THAT MOVIE FROM MY BRAIN! Definitely goes on the worst list.
re: new Trek: Do they keep the timeline correct, that Spock is not at the academy with Kirk et al.?
Oh, you might not like what they do with this, but they do a good job of covering their asses. Whitefont, ahoy!!
It's got time travel involved, so the events in this film are all an alternate universe, and they stick with it through the end of the film. I'm guessing that future installments will remain within this AU Abrams has created.
Not a bad way to do a reboot!
Pearl Harbor
Hubby took his mother to see that, and his mother said, loudly, "What? Pearl Harbor wasn't a love story!" She was there for the bombings and the military action. Not a chick flick woman, she.
Whitefont, ahoy!!
Blink. Blink. Are you serious?
OK, it's a whacky fanfic adventure with a hell of a budget. Got it.
Not a bad way to do a reboot!
I thought it was pretty slick, myself.
