The two movies I walked out on were Clan of the Cave Bear, and Ocean's Twelve.
Oh my god. Ocean's Twelve was SO BAD, particularly compared to how much fun Ocean's 11 was.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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Steph L. - May 08, 2009 1:08:44 pm PDT #1202 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 1:17:29 pm PDT #1203 of 30000
brillig
re: Ocean's 11.
I only watched it indifferently. What was Julia Roberts' place in the plot, other than as the bone that was being fought over?
Steph L. - May 08, 2009 1:20:04 pm PDT #1204 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
To alleviate the total sausage-fest.
megan walker - May 08, 2009 1:25:50 pm PDT #1205 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The above comments are particularly funny in light of the original Ocean's 11, which was one of the most offensively sexist films I've ever seen.
beekaytee - May 08, 2009 1:42:22 pm PDT #1206 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Also, fuck it, target demo wasn't even ALIVE for this. Bing, new idea. But I do worry that "our" grandchildren will end up watching junk we didn't care enough to steal from.
Perfect.
erikaj - May 08, 2009 1:48:50 pm PDT #1207 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Thanks, but I am really becoming concerned about this.Because I really don't have a problem with remakes, really. A few are even good.But I don't want to know about the fifth-generation Herbie the Love Bug movie. Because that Superman reboot is my current Worst Movie Ever standard...there can be such a thing as things being over.
lisah - May 08, 2009 1:51:57 pm PDT #1208 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
What is with our compulsion to take perfectly complete cultural experiences and redo them?
Retelling stories is as old as stories though. And it's certainly been a tradition since the beginning for film.
Juliebird - May 08, 2009 2:31:53 pm PDT #1209 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Trek: good fun! Left the theatre smiling.
But after watching Jack and Sawyer take ginormous beatings on Lost and have no concussions and then to watch this, I'm annoyed with Abrams. It just makes the next beat-down less worrisome. I know this isn't just a J.J. Abrams quirk, but they were mere days apart for me, so it stood out.
Kathy A - May 08, 2009 2:31:58 pm PDT #1210 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Interesting--Slate's review of Star Trek, while not overly spoilery, does have a link to an audio discussion of the film that is spoilery and titled as such. At the end of the audio, one of the reviewers points out the debt that Abrams owes to Joss Whedon and Serenity, and states that the Firefly-verse might end up being significantly influential in future SF films.
Juliebird - May 08, 2009 2:34:20 pm PDT #1211 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Starship Troopers
I had a mad Star Wars vibe throughout. Complete with the ice planet of Hoth.
Even the pyoo pyoo pyoo sounded more like SW than ST.