# Questions about movies you certainly have no intention of seeing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323 "2011-05-18T14:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/141 "2011-05-25T16:47:38Z")
> [@jordanr2](#): > > The movie is more or less about how Burroughs wrote the novel, with many hallucinatory interludes. At some point toward the end, [spoiler]in a rare moment of lucidity when the characters based on Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac come to visit the character representing Burroughs (Bill Lee), he realizes that between visits with frightening creatures and other subterranean doings, he’s been chronicling all the weird events around him and ends up piecing them together into a manuscript, apparently meant to represent the novel itself. > > A few of the famous prose pieces from the novel - the “talking asshole” bit, for instance - make it into the film as deadpan recitations from the protagonist.[/spoiler] Ah, OK. I’m to presume that drugs are a prominent theme, then, yes? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/142 "2011-05-25T16:57:08Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > 1. The son’s asthma attack saved him from the alien’s deadly finger vapors because he wasn’t breathing at the time of the attack + > > 2. His dead wife’s last words to Mel (“Tell [Joaquin’s character] to swing away”) inspired the bat attack against the alien + > > 3. The daughter’s annoying habit of leaving half-full glasses of water lying around the house because they “taste funny” = > > GOD HAS A PLAN, ALWAYS. > > What an absolute crapfest that movie was. As a sci-fi thriller, it was terrible. I enjoyed the movie anyway becuase I liked the characters and because it was frequently very FUNNY. I said at the time that M. Night Shyamalan needs to change directions entirely and make a flat-out farcical comedy. I still think so. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/143 "2011-07-02T05:33:17Z")
So, is the dream girl in [Say It Isn’t So](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239949/combined) his sister or not? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/144 "2011-07-02T06:16:44Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > So, is the dream girl in [Say It Isn’t So](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239949/combined) his sister or not? No. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/145 "2011-07-02T06:21:37Z")
_Sigh_ I never saw any of the Star Wars films, so it’s probably a bit much to say, “What’s the big deal?” ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/146 "2011-07-02T06:24:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I love _Signs_, and I’m an atheist. > > _Signs_ is decried because it was marketed as an alien invasion movie, when in fact it’s about grief, anger, and faith. While many of the plot criticisms are valid, they still don’t bother me because I find the story of the family’s mourning the dead mother/wife/sister so engaging. I saw this movie, but i couldn’t help but to yell: DON’T GO INTO THE CORNFIELDS! DON’T! STOP! IF THE ALIENS DON’T GET YOU, THE CHILDREN OF THE CORN CERTAINLY WILL! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/147 "2011-07-02T14:22:00Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Was The Exorcist really that scary? 70s audiences, I guess I was a jaded twenty-something amateur film critic when I saw it. And I was sitting with friends that loved it… and would mock me mercilessly if I showed any discomfort. It’s the only movie I’ve had to leave because I was too scared. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/148 "2011-07-02T14:25:37Z")
To those saying the Exorcist isn’t that scary, or is only scary to 70s audiences, what by today’s standards is scarier? To me, the special effects look better because they aren’t super slick and CGI. CGI just looks too…clean. The Exorcist felt real and gritty in a way that modern horror movies just don’t to me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/149 "2011-07-02T14:49:30Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > _Sigh_ I never saw any of the Star Wars films, so it’s probably a bit much to say, “What’s the big deal?” It’s a classic fairy-tale adventure – young farmboy learns how to handle a sword from the kindly old wizard who dies at the hands of the evil black knight who’d captured the beautiful princess, so cue rogue-with-a-heart-of-gold help from the wisecracking swashbuckler who cons inept villains – turned into a sci-fi story, complete with big-screen special effects (it’s not the sorcerer’s apprentice using a magic sword to parry arrows, it’s a psychic-in-training using a light saber to swat aside raygun fire; the comic relief you’d expect from a fish-out-of-water courtier among peasants comes from a gleaming protocol droid programmed for etiquette; and so on). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/150 "2011-07-02T15:04:59Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > To those saying the Exorcist isn’t that scary, or is only scary to 70s audiences, what by today’s standards is scarier? To me, the special effects look better because they aren’t super slick and CGI. CGI just looks too…clean. The Exorcist felt real and gritty in a way that modern horror movies just don’t to me. I’d speculate that _The Exorcist_ may have suffered from being too well-known. It’s been referenced/parodied so many times in other works since the '70s that most viewers now aren’t going to be surprised by the story or the scariest scenes. ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323/151 "2011-07-02T16:27:02Z")
Just rewatched the relevant scenes of Alien:Resurrection. As has already been said: Ripley falls into the alien nest, is carried by a drone to the Queen where she witnesses the birth of the alien baby. I can sce how someone could mistake the carrying scene for a sex scene, but that never occured to me on previous watchings. The best part of Resurrection for me now, having just watched Firefly for the first time, is that the crew of the freighter is clearly the first draft of Firefly and her crew. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-movies-you-certainly-have-no-intention-of-seeing/582323.md?page=7)