Also, I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies.
That one.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
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Jesse - Jun 10, 2011 6:47:27 pm PDT #14740 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laga - Jun 10, 2011 7:27:11 pm PDT #14741 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
that's some bad hat, Harry. (I never knew that was where that was from until this last viewing).
I had to look it up.
I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies
Oh yes. Me three.
Strega - Jun 10, 2011 7:54:01 pm PDT #14742 of 30000
I absolutely love Raiders and Jaws. I really like a few other things he did. After Jurassic Park I gave up on Spielberg.
I drunkenly live-tweeted while watching Star Trek a few months ago, and the word I keep using when describing it is "atrocity."
So the idea of watching Abrams do a Spielberg pastiche is like the death of a thousand cuts. I think the only way they could make it less appealing to me is if Sorkin wrote it.
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2011 9:18:10 pm PDT #14743 of 30000
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I can forgive Spielberg just about anything because Duel exists in the world. I think it's his first movie, and I'm pretty sure Steven King wrote it (too lazy to look it up). I'm afraid to watch it again, as terrifying as I found it the first time.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 10, 2011 9:27:05 pm PDT #14744 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think it's his first movie, and I'm pretty sure Steven King wrote it (too lazy to look it up).
Duel was a made for TV movie and written by Richard Matheson (back in the day when you got MFTV movies like the original Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black being chased by a nasty fetish doll). He'd done the pilot of Night Gallery before that. His first theatrical feature was The Sugarland Express. Anybody who thinks Spielberg's incapable of downer endings hasn't seen that one.
Consuela - Jun 10, 2011 9:46:04 pm PDT #14745 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I drunkenly live-tweeted while watching Star Trek a few months ago, and the word I keep using when describing it is "atrocity."
Sorry, Dana on this I'm sitting with Strega. I just can't get past how deeply stupid that movie was. Pretty (despite the lens flares), and entertaining on first watch, but oh, how stupid.
bon bon - Jun 11, 2011 6:03:45 am PDT #14746 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
People didn't like Star Trek? I didn't know there were others! Like when Kirk's mother has a baby on an escaping pod? It just never recovers from there.
Juliebird - Jun 11, 2011 6:23:09 am PDT #14747 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Super 8: Why does the alien kidnap all those people?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 11, 2011 7:23:21 am PDT #14748 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, I hated the Star Trek reboot as a whole. It was somewhat redeemed by great performances from Quinto, Urban, and of course Nimoy, but the plot made almost no sense and the pace made it feel like someone had beat me to the fast forward button. The surest way to get me into the sequel would be to keep Abrams on valium the whole time he makes it.
DavidS - Jun 11, 2011 7:24:13 am PDT #14749 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Juliebird, I haven't seen the movie but I'm gonna say anal probes. It's a classic for a reason.
I'm looking at an old AVClub Q&A on Drop-Everything movies, essentially movies that if you stumble on them on cable you're immediately sucked into watching them.
Barton Fink is probably my #1 in this category, but just about any Coen Bros. movie seems infinitely rewatchable. I don't even like Hudsucker Proxy that much, at least by Coen Bro standards, but damned if I haven't watched it halfway through twice in the last couple months.