If you’re looking for more subtext in Roger Rabbit, there’s also the fact the “toons” rarely mix with flesh-and-blood humans outside of the studio and live in their own seperate (i.e., segregated) community–Toontown. There are even “toons” who try to break out of this pen-and-ink ghetto by “passing” as regular people.
No. Really?
I think the only scientific fact they got correct in the movie is when you drop something it ends up on the floor.
The Con[“Put **down **the bunny”]Air scene made my jaw drop!! :eek:
That’s what I was thinking of - it’s been forever since I saw the film, and I didn’t manage to finish it. Didn’t strike me as a “kiddie movie” at all.
I don’t remember that bit. Was it in the book or the movie?
I haven’t read the book but in the movie it turns out that Judge Doom, who was behind the whole plot to build the freeway that would wipe out Toontown, is really a Toon who disguised himself as a human. In addition to the obvious monetary gain, it’s implied that Doom wanted to literally erase Toontown from existence because it would effectively conceal his background once and for all (in other words, Doom was an extremely self-loathing Toon).
Never watch the made-for-TV sequel then. I liked ST for the cheese value, but the sequel didn’t even have that to fall back on.
Well, the thieves maze sequence I rememeber enjoying, and the dragon fight.
Too bad I had already seen them in two much better movies, namely **Raiders of the lost Ark ** and Return fo the Jedi.
On the bright side, it’s short and fast paced, and decently entertaining.
Though it’s hard to tell if I liked it or it was just far better then the Vagina Monolouges, which I had been forced to sit through earlier that evening.
I tried watching that. One of the few movies I cut off before the end because I just couldn’t take it anyone.
What? You didn’t like the incredibly bizarre stuff at the end with the wierd people in the bunny suits? Or that took the bunny suits?
I can’t remember, actually. I did give it some points for the bizarre “WTF” value.
Well to be fair, The Deep End was *about *people getting sucked into the consequences of doing stupid things; very much in keeping with the tradition of hardcore film noir. Not that ***TDE ***was noir, just sayin; it has a great deal of highly respected precedent in that area. Transpose it from Lake Tahoe (IIRC) to the rain drenched streets of nocturnal Manhattan, and you couldn’t probly get any noirier. (Ever seen Detour? If you can’t sit through TDE, trust me; don’t rent Detour.)
I don’t remember much of Superman III, other then the fact the borg scene at the end scared me as a kid. Superman IV is not worth watching even while drunk. Or High. Or Drunk high.
It just pisses in the face of fans of the first two movies. And now that I think of it, Superman does act like a big Dick in the film.
“I’m taking away all your nukes, wether you want me to or not!” Good idea supes, because unilateral action againest the first world is always a good idea.
It did have T&A, though…
Ah. That wasn’t my interpretation of his motives, so I didn’t think about him when I read that.
It does, however, represent the majority opinion.
I understand that the movie Stargate has gone on to inspire a fairly well-regarded TV show, the dumbness level of which I am unable to comment on as I have never seen any episodes. However, it’s certainly fair to say that the original film was very, very stupid indeed. It achieves extreme stupidity almost immediately by building its central premise around Von Daniken’s Ancient Astronauts theory, and then amazingly proceeds to get even stupider. Although the plot centers around a mysterious artifact presumed to have come from outer space, it takes decades before anyone suspects that the constellation-resembling inscriptions around its perimeter might be intended to represent constellations. Once activated, the gadget creates a gateway to another planet. At this point, one of two scenarios would seem to be likely:
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Since the stargate has been inactive for thousands of years, the civilization that created it is probably deader than disco by now, and therefore presents no danger. But, if not, then:
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The civilization clearly already had technology that vastly outstripped ours when the stargate was created, and has now had several dozen centuries to advance even further.
In either case, the safest and most prudent course of action is obviously to send a dozen heavily armed soldiers through the gate, toting a portable nuclear bomb.
Fortunately, however, the strike team has an infallible escape option, as established by a conversation between the team commander and the mop-headed archaeologist before going through the gate (I’m paraphrasing here):
COMMANDER: So you’re sure you’ll be able to send us back?
ARCHAEOLOGIST: Oh, absolutely. No question about it.
COMMANDER: You’re completely certain?
ARCHAEOLOGIST: Yes. I can send us back, guaranteed.
(LATER)
COMMANDER: The mission is screwed! Send us back!
ARCHAEOLOGIST: What? …Oh, you were asking if I could send us back from here! I’m sorry, I thought you were talking about something else. Ah, well then I guess when I said “yes” all those times I should have actually said “no.”
COMMANDER: (SETS ARCHAEOLOGIST ON FIRE)*
*Note: I may have just imagined this part.
Stargate - good catch. I forgot about that one. Did you notice that the bad guys’ most fearsome weapon is a stick that you point at someone, then about 15 seconds later it fires and kills the victim. Totally useless against somebody who takes any kind of evasive action like say for instance, stepping to one side. Luckily, though, nobody ever does.
**Final Destination. ** For those who haven’t seen it, a bunch of teenagers are going on a plane to paris. One of them has a vision of their horrible, firely death and manages to get him and a couple other students kicked off the plane. While they’re bawling him out for ruining their trip, the plane explodes not long after takeoff. This part actually did freak me out when I saw it. Too bad it didn’t end there.
Well, it turns out that they were supposed to die, and having thwarted Deaths design, Death is hunting them down one by one. This is when the movie goes from being scary and promising to downright idiotic.
Okay, a rather dubious premise. I would think that if death had a plan for you, you would not be able to escape it.
What makes it worse is that the execution is done in the most stupid way possible. Apparently death cannot stop them from getting off the plane, and doesn’t even bother trying to kill them until a year or so has passed. And then Death has to go in a certain order and wait at least a couple hours before attempts.
And even more baffling, Death is unable to kill them simply by stopping their hearts, or having them stumble and break open their skulls on the pavement, or have a rock fall from the sky and smush them. No. Death apparently must rely on a series of needlessy complex rube goldberg devices.
So the message of the movie is: It’s more dangerous to piss off the mafia then to piss off Death. The mafia will shoot you in the eye or put a bomb in your car or ambush you at a tollbooth. Death, on the other hand, is singularly incapable of cutting your break lines.
I actually walked out of the movie the first time I saw it because I felt it was so damn stupid. This was after I pissed off my sister, who was watching as well, by pointing this all out.
It doesn’t help that this is basically your average collection of teenage stereotypes who deserve to die anyway, so you feel no sympathy for them at all.
I would agree with Stargate if I followed the story but I was far too busy drooling over Mili Avital to bother.
She looked damn hot in that movie.