The quote is actually “Are you not entertained?” But yeah, I agree it makes more sense with the ten-second setup where Proximo tells him to entertain the crowd. Gotta save that ten seconds, don’tcha know. :rolleyes:
Trivia about Singin’ in the Rain – The producers had a selection of songs from the studio library, and wanted to build a show around them. As far as I know, not a single song was actually composed for the movie (I might be wrong about this, but at most one song is original). The screenwriters, therefore, had to mix-n-match and shuffle everything around until they had managed to create a more or less logical sequence. Given that constraint, it’s amazing the movie works as well as it does; complaining about a single “out of place” number just illustrates how well everything else was integrated into an after-the-fact storyline.
Malcolm X was a great movie with a strong performance by Mr Washington. The it ends with Nelson Mendella (okayy) and a buch of kids jumping up and yelling “I am Malcom X”
sorry but that is lame.
[hijack]Wow, that’s creepy, Ranger…I just read this book yesterday. It’s The Callahan Touch, where they open up the new bar, Mary’s Place. The claricaune tells story that he saw the director and Brando while at Cannes and asks them who was there to hear Kane’s last words since supposedly he died alone, and the two men left the table and refused to speak to him again.
I thought it was pretty funny. And creepy that you mentioned it since I just read it.
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No way! That’s just one part of the constant pre-mission banter between the marines and, like the rest, it gives us a glimpse into who they are. That whole segment from wakeup to drop is, in my mind, the most important part of the movie, as we get a feel for the characters as individual people and not just nameless, faceless soldiers.
As for detracting from their interaction with the buggies, not hardly. It really helps set the stage for what happens, and explains why they break down so thoroughly. Non-human life is apparently nothing new to them, as they’d been there and done that before. As Hudson said, “Will this be a standup fight, sir, or another bug-hunt?”. They were confident they were going to go in, clobber some mindless animals that the dumbass colonists couldn’t take care of, and be done with it in time for dinner. The real thrill of the movie, is that the buggies AREN’T mindless animals, and the marines are caught totally off-guard by it. That’s what keeps it from just being an action shooter movie, and turns it into a human story, as our now-familiar characters struggle to adapt to this disastrous “first contact”, each in their own way.
It’s just a shame the movie’s so short. There’s so much more that could have been done with it, but then the pacing might not have been so superbly handled.
I have to agree with Mekhazzio on the Aliens dialog; it seems strange that so many people complain about the lack of characterization in modern movies, and who then turn around and complain about the efforts made to develop rounded characters. The scene made sense to me. And not just because I have a massive secret crush on Mekhazzio, either.
You know what didn’t make sense to me? The soundtrack to Ladyhawke. I got the DVD a while ago. Still the same, solid, fun fantasy film. Still the same insanely intrusive soundtrack. I remember seeing that in a movie theatre when it came out, and thinking the soundtrack already sounded dated. Alan Parsons or not, it didn’t belong in the film.
It’s in the book, and it gives an example of how the main character was into telling stories from early on (he’s an author as an adult). I felt it made the characters a bit more real, and didn’t feel it detracted from the movie at all.
It’s supposed to be jarring! It’s the end of The Life for Henry, and the end of the story. He doesn’t step out of character, he steps out of the scene and into the present. Of course the entire film is irretrievably disrupted; it’s over! After this, Henry is wearing a terry robe and lives in the suburbs and has to live the rest of his life like a schnook.
The part I’ve never liked (and this is my favorite movie ever) is the last shot, of Joe Pesci firing a gun at the camera. It seems gratuitous and tacked on to punch up the ending. Just my take, and if there’s more to it that I don’t get, I’d love to know it.
I’m not talking about the whole scene, just the parts that deal specifically with having sex with other alien races. To me, that hurts the movie because the movie is called “Aliens”. The whole idea is that their enemy is Alien. It’s something these people are not prepared for. I like that they banter, I like that they are more fully developed than grunts usually are, but when they’re talking about having sex with alien beings of indeterminate gender, to me it compromises the whole otherworldlyness of the aliens. It’s also kind of goofy.
In the “Alien” universe it’s never established what non-Earth beings Earthlings are familiar with. But finding out the extent of human interaction with alien species with that dialogue was kind of jarring to me.
I am surprised that no-one has picked up and run with this classic example of Stupid Stupid Stuff In An Otherwise Okay Movie: The Liquid Nitrogen Tanker in Terminator 2.
I have only ever seen ONE liquid nitrogen tanker on the road in all my years as a travelling sales rep. And this tanker was coming out of a warehouse where chemicals (including, i’m assuming, liquid nitrogen) are stored.
T1000 was more likely to run into a tanker full of elephant semen than a tanker full of liquid nitrogen.
This is a tribute to the very first heist movie, The Great Train Robbery, which ends with one of the bandits turning to the camera and firing at it. It seems tame now, but at the time it really freaked out the audience, many of whom had never seen any movie before.
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Originally posted by dasceder
“The part in “showgirls” when she barfs by the side of the car.”
"This thread is about stupid stuff in otherwise okay movies. So you think that absurd hunka crap"Showgirls" is an otherwise okay movie?!?!?"
Erm, no jab1. Never much cared for “Showgirls.” Though I still maintain that, aside from “Dead Man on Campus” and the upcoming Lark Voorhees vehicle, “Showgirls” is my favorite “Saved By the Bell” alumnus flick.
