Still, the movie’s got officials at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. concerned. Have a look.
You ought to be shot twice in the foot and once through your left testicle for saying this, Meatros. This film stars Hans Lungdren, the greatest actor, humanist, and quite frankly, American - in the entire world. Shame on you.
Yeah, that’s a pretty weak complaint, really. Environmentalists have been all over the place pushing this thing as a big fat warning sign.
Though it’s not the director’s or producer’s fault some over-zealous tree-huggers tried to attach any significant message to a silly FX-ridden fluffpiece. Makes the “conservative press” reaction a bit more understandable, though.
You guys just don’t get it do you? You sit here, in your cozy homes, in your fancy clothes, driving your fancy cars… and all the time ignoring the fact that the liberal media is gonna come into your homes… take your TV’s… drive away with your cars… and… um… well… they’re gonna take your homes… drive away in your cars in YOUR clothes… in your nice warm fancy clothes… and… well… and you see… they are gonna be coming after you… in your fancy homes… waiting for your clothes… waiting to drive your cars… get your license… and steal it… and then spit on it a little… and come back into your homes… wipe thier dirty shoes over your nice fancy rugs… and take your fancy clothes…
It’s Dolph Lundgren. And he isn’t American – he’s Swedish (I suppose he could have been naturalized, though). Even so, he played the commie bastard who killed Apollo Creed, so he can’t be the greatest American in the world.
Actually it’s Dolph Lundgren, his brother Hans went into the music biz.
Yeah, what Dewey said…
If we just use the dance scenes of You got Served, and juxtapose it with the non-dialog portions of The Day After Tomorrow, we would have one of the best films ever. We won’t know the point is, but who cares? At least we have one great movie instead of 3 bad ones.
The thing that gets me about the Rufus_Xavier quote is this: WHY do we need to look beyond the legitimate reason of hyping a movie, which the article itself admits IS legit?
Btw, Art Bell himself says the human-caused component of what he & Streiber predict in THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM (the inspiration of TDAT) is negligible (sp?) & that it’s more a matter of natural cycles, so the political points both sides are firing (and that are made in the film) are misplaced.
The reviewer on JJJ yesterday suggested they should go the porn route with the summer popcorn flicks and stop trying to craft a story around the huge CGI action pieces.
Her paraphrased words were along the lines of, ‘when I’m watching porn, I fast forward through the story to get to the sex, it’s the same with these movies, if they just did away with the crap story instead of forcing something so unbeleivable on us, then we’d get these amazing movies that we all expect’.
Twas a most amusing, but highly articulate view point. I can’t say I disagree, I’d watch these things more if it was just action no ‘plot’. (in inverted commas cos the concept of plot is tenuous at best in these things!).
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A friend and I once wanted to make a video of nothing but explosions. You take all that explosion footage (bomb tests and what not) and maybe set it to music. I’d watch it at least once.
Doomtrain I’d watch it once too!
…But I think the key here is not that it’s just explosions, it’s the artistry involved in the explosion. The devastation involved in Independance Day and Godzilla, and now in The Day After Tomorrow (’…tomorrow, there’s always tomorrow, it’s only a daaaay a-waaaaay’) isn’t just big 'splosions, it’s beautiful in a horrendous, mind-blowing sense of the word.
That’s why Michael Bay has TWO Criterion DVDs (The Rock and Armageddon). The argument in their favour being that the guy KNOWS how to make pretty pictures, he just doesn’t know how to craft a plot worth shit, but no one watches these films for story, do they?
I’m awfully sorry, did I just hijack this thread?
Blockbusters are not just about explosions. They are about slow motion explosions.
You mean like Trinity and Beyond?
Or, say, Starship Troopers II?
Now, I don’t understand why everyone is so down on You Got Served. I admit, I was confused at first by the choice of casting Lil’ Fizz as Young Mr. Grace, but overall I think they did a splendid job of capturing the spirit of the original.
[Jeff Goldblum] Well, when Stem Cell Research Legislation breaks down, John Ashcroft and George W. Bush don’t start eating the voters…[/Jeff Goldblum]
And not just slow motion explosions, but slow motion explosions that chase people down hallways or tunnels.