Yes, and I don’t think it sounded much better.
Oh, Yeah –
**Starship Troopers
I, Robot
Martians, Go Home**
I really hate it when someone trashes a good SF book.
Princess Bride. I was ready to claw my eyes out by the end.
Inconcievable!
-FrL-
Blaster Master mentioned it but I couldn’t tell if it was on his hate list or not.
Highlander 2. The immortals were aliens? Seriously WTF!
This movie nearly made me stop liking Highlander which is saying something because Highlander was my favorite film for quite some time.
No, I’m responding to this:
Which is, in general, untrue.
Although if you’re watching a historical film and everyone is clean, nicely-dressed, healthy and attractive, even the peasants, you’ve got to wonder how well they’ve handled the actual history part (not very, usually).
JRB
I loathe that song. Every holiday season at every mall around town some guy sets up a little stand trying to sell his damn pan flute cds and plays that song non-stop for 6 weeks straight.
You really should listen to the cover of it by the group Big Daddy – they revamped it as a peppy, up-beat Elvis Presley song. It’s hilarious! I play it for people and then ask them to tell me where the song came from. They usually have to listen a second time before understandimng dawns.
Look it up. You’ll never hear the song the same way again. (Especially when the backup singers unobtrusively start singing the background: “Glub glub! Drip Drip! Goin’ Down in a Sinkin’ Ship!”)
This is way creepier if you know the guy who wrote and directed the movie is a child molestor.
2001 Space Odyssey
Although I have had tea with Arthur C. Clarke in his house in Sri Lanka so I didn’t tell him that (obviously)
I’d never heard of those guys before, but I just listened to some clips from their “best of” album.
So apparently their thing is that they cover rock and pop songs, doing them in retro (50’s and 60’s) rock and pop styles.
You would think this is a joke that can work maybe once. But damned if they don’t make it work every time! Each track works, the adaptation doesn’t feel forced at all. And in listening to each track, I found myself learning something new about the song, and something new about the style it had been adapted into.
This was a really interesting experience, and I think I might buy the album, so thanks!
-FrL-
One of the best aspects of the John Adams HBO miniseries was attention to this sort of detail.
REALLY??? :eek: :eek: :eek:
I’m now seeing that movie in a completely different light, and I don’t like what I’m seeing.
What makes it 10x worse, for me, is that it was an excellent, excellent novel. Very far removed from the movie.
About Napoleon Dynamite:
Glad to help.
There are so many reasons to hate this film. The title character’s name, for one. Did his mother name him that? No geek would have succeeded in giving himself a name like that, so we’re to assume that Mrs. Dynamite named her son “Napoleon”? It’s an Elvis Costello joke, but a stupid, forced one. I could watch it again to identify all the reasons I find it so awful, but I don’t wish to spend time that could be spent watching better films.
Another film in the same “laugh at the outcasts while pretending to empathize with them” genre is “Eagle Vs. Shark”.
Genuine social outcasts, like Quentin Tarantino, make films about the cool people they wish they were.
Really., but I didn’t know that either so now I add that film to the list.
No, but I prefer an honest more Jabberwocky feel to middle European movies than giving it the fantasy of being bug, rot, and odor free. There is makeup and prosthetics that can be used. These people would have, for the most part, been repulsive to modern day westerners. They weren’t just like us but with stupid looking clothes.
Se7en
Wrong in almost every way possible. Contrived bullshit.
But people want to like it. I think it is #34 on the imdb top 250.
American Beauty.
The materialistic real estate saleswoman, the stupid teenagers who think they’re special because they are weird, repressed homosexual gay-hating marine guy, the sex-fixated cheerleader who is actually a virgin, etc. It takes this bunch of archetypical stock characters, mix them together, and suddenly it’s “deep”.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, it’s a cinematic failure of epic proportions, I just don’t actively hate it. And even as bad as it is, Battlefield Earth is worse. Compared to it, Highlander 2’s plot is cohesive, compelling, and believable. Besides, I can at least ignore Highlander 2 and still enjoy most of the rest of the franchise; Battlefield Earth has… Scientology.
I did a quick search and managed to find a clip. Awesome! I’d not have guessed it was the same lyrics. I’ll have to see if I can find a full version later.
You missed the plastic bag scene. While I get the point of that, and the whole movie even, the whole thing just takes itself too seriously. I think Family Guy nailed what was wrong with that particular scene best: “Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is?”