Jonathan ,'Touched'
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IONonSciFiN: Worst fight scene ever? Clip from the 1994 film Undefeatable.
I like how they try to show them hitting each other in slow motion, only instead of doing actual slomo, the actors just move more slowly.
The final bit of smartass dialog is just... well, you'll have to see for yourselves....
Oh my everloving god. That's just...well, it's so...VERY. I'm stunned into Valley Girlisms.
To recap: ANYTHING is better than Dune. Except for the two tv series, which I quite like.
I'm guessing antipathy for Kyle MacLachlan from that movie prevented you from watching Showgirls?
Um. I didn't watch Showgirls because I value my sight. Nothing to do with Kyle.
In fact, loved him in The Hidden, which come to think of it, would be on my top 100 Scifi movie list.
I would definitely put The Hidden up there! That's a really great action/SF film.
I had forgotten The Hidden! I loved that movie.
And for the record, while Dune had major problems, it still looked wonderful and the visually the casting was mostly spot on.
And for the record, while Dune had major problems, it still looked wonderful and the visually the casting was mostly spot on.
It's one of the few movies I've almost walked out on.
Of course, being a completist, I've never actually walked out of a theater in the middle, but I've been tempted two or three times:
Dune
(despite Sting)
The Last Action Hero
(despite being on a date)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
(despite Keanu)
I walked out of a movie with Debra Winger once [eta: the movie was "Betrayed"]. I don't remember which one--it was so incredibly ugly and racist and unwatchable. I'm sure the point of the movie was supposed to be the opposite of those things, but I couldn't stomach the badness of the movie and racism.
I walked out of Clan of the Cave Bear. I was getting a whole Aryan superirority vibe from it. I also walked out if Ocean's Twelve, because it sucked.
And for the record, while Dune had major problems, it still looked wonderful and the visually the casting was mostly spot on.
Lynch's Dune is INSANE. Which is why I love it. Too many good actor's playing interesting characters who have an intro scene followed by a death scene, however. But I love the craziness of it, and wish he had gotten his way with final cut (the extended version they show isn't really his - I think it's just an early cut of the movie, which you can tell because the eyes for the Dune-natives change from shot-to-shot depending on if they were optically done for the final cut or not). Sadly, unlike Flash Gordon, it's not campy fun in quite the same way as Dino usually pulled off with his "demands".
Also, since Blue Velvet got made in return for Lynch doing this (despite the box-office disaster of Dune), I give it many a pass on meta levels.