Jaye Davidson was eye-catchingly androgynous and interesting in the otherwise completely regrettable Stargate.
The game review “pro” that made me laugh hardest: Makes a good coaster.
In the Sci-Fi movie Green Slime, the characters had this sorta-official “thumbs up” gesture which they managed to give EVERY SINGLE TIME without cracking up.
Then youll be happy to learn that ambergris is snot that comes out of the heads of sick sperm whales. Enjoy! But best not bring this one up around hors devours time.
Because Woody Harrelson died early in Terence’s Malick’s The Thin Red Line, I was able to focus on how much I hated the terrible, pretentious, offensive directing instead of Harrelson’s acting ability.
Sailboat
Oooh, I’ve got one for ya for Hannibal, and amazingly enough, it doesn’t even involve TR. I got a real kick out of picturing Anthony Hopkins reading the book for the first time, and imagining the thoughts running through his mind. I think it must have went something like this:
“What the heck …”
“You’ve got to be kidding me …”
“Dude. NO WAY.”
“Okay, the paycheck would be pretty nice…”
“And it’s not like they can take away my Academy Award…”
“Or take away the knighthood…”
“Can they? Ask agent to call about the knighthood tomorrow …”
“Because it would be a good paycheck …”
“People! Does no one care that I was in The Lion In Winter?”
“Of course, I also did International Velvet, and this would probably pay more …”
The only nice thing I can say about I Am Curious (Yellow) is that I was allowed to leave and not forced to watch the whole thing. Perhaps it could be used as a torture device at Gitmo or Abu Ghraib.
Tell us all you know or we’ll make you watch I Am Curious (Yellow) until your eyes blled.
eyes bleed :smack:
Despite the fact that I like Disney movies in general, and musicals, and loved The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, I really don’t much care for The Lion King. Although it might be a stretch to say I hate it. However, the opening scene with the tribal-sounding music leading into The Circle of Life, and all the animals gathering around, is wonderful.
The Phantom Menace gets a lot of (well deserved) crap. But the Darth Maul fight is truly awesome.
Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise was vastly worse than the original in all ways, but had one wonderful redeeming scene, in which Booger meets his spiritual master.
Armageddon has a scene near the beginning where Bruce Willis tries to kill Ben Affleck with a shotgun. EVERY movie should have that!
Sphere was an above-average Michael Crichton book (and film) up until the last few pages (minutes).
Correction: every movie should have a scene where Bruce Willis tries to kill Ben Affleck with a shotgun, and succeeds.
**The English Patient ** had William Dafoe, and the paratrooper sequence was pretty good.
Actually, that’s all of the movie I can actually remember. The rest of it is a long blur.
Thunderball had Sean Connery. Actually, that’s pretty much all I can remember of that movie too. That and some snippets of people scuba diving that seems to go on for 157 hours straight.
Printing all those Harry Potter books prevented the world ink supply from building up to dangerous levels.
Interview with a Vampire kept my unbalanced card table quite stable!
Ursula le Guin’s Tehanu has just the right weight and heft to it, and fits snugly into the hand: it’s ideal for killng flies in summer.
the Exorcism of Emily Rose: Campbell Scott’s court-room outburst was the only good part -
Scott: “Your honor, I object!”
Judge: “On what grounds?”
Scott: “How about silliness??”
Although, apparently only I found that funny. Nobody else in the audience laughed.
Anthem by Ayn Rand: It condenses all of her trite bombastic potboiler psuedo-philosophy into less than 100 pages.
Yo, but Affleck was the Bomb in Phantoms.
The Matrix …well,… it kind of…no, no it doesn’t…but it does sort of…well, maybe not that either…but it does kind of…no, wait a minute…don’t rush me, now…Oh, I know…it…ummmm…
I give up.
Agnes Grey did a nice job of describing the setting, and Bronte did a decent job of making the reader empathize with a mostly unsympathetic character.