Posted on 09/28/2005 9:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice
I, and several others, didn't go see it because we thought it was a horror flick.
Same reason I never saw it. Maybe I'll check it out.
Mark
It was sacreligious, vulgar, and obscene.
Now, I love Mel Brooks and I love "South Park" which are also sacreligious, vulgar and obscene, why did I hate "Life of Brian"?
thinks hard....
Ummm...Brits can't do Jewish humor?
"I Heart Huckabees" reminded me of "Zardoz", a movie where the director is basically laughing at the audience because they're too stupid not to take any of it seriously. I think in bothe movies the directors kept saying "Let's put this in... they'll never swallow this one" and yet most movie goers did.
Or something like that.
I've only left one movie, and it was the original "Alien." It wasn't because it was bad... I just couldn't take the tension. I was watching the movie late at night, and the theater was a real "Big Screen," and there couldn't have been more than about 10 people in the theater. When the cat jumps out of the locker, and Harry Dean Stanton's character buys it, well, that was all she wrote! I had had enough!
That movie's not all that hard to watch on TV, but on a really big screen, in the dark, it was the scariest and most tension filled movie I had ever seen.
Mark
Bruce Campbell for president of the Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Mark
That would be "Plan 9 from Outer Space." You can see that movie being made in the Tim Burton movie, "Ed Wood!"
That's a wonderful movie.
Mark
"Summersby" with Jodie Foster and Richard Gere fits this category as well. One of the best lines about that movie I ever heard was, "That's the most uncomfortable kiss since Jodie Foster and Richard Gere in Summersby!"
Mark
"Summersby" with Jodie Foster and Richard Gere fits this category as well. One of the best lines about that movie I ever heard was, "That's the most uncomfortable kiss since Jodie Foster and Richard Gere in Summersby!"
Mark
"To End All Wars"
Thanks for the recommendation.
Good, Bad, I'm the one with the gun!
Mark
"XXX State of the Union" feat. Ice Cube = SUX.
"Reds"
Three hours glamorizing communism, starring Warren Betty. Pick a class, any class.
I have to disagree with you, "The Man with the Screaming Brain" is better on technically points and Bruce Campbell not only starred in it, he wrote and directed it on a shoe string budget no less. ;D
Class three: Kingdom of Heaven... The PC crap of a movie about the crusades
The single worst blockbuster ever made was Top Gun. That movie not only sucked to high heaven, it was preposterously unbelievable.
What I will do is point out that only twice in the movie is Jesus portrayed:
The first being when the 3 wise men realize they have given their gifts to the wrong child in the wrong manger (Brian) and run to the manger next door where obviously something of a very miraculous nature is taking place.
The second is where you see Jesus in the distance giving the Sermon on the Mount and the people on the very fringe can't hear him.
"Oh, the meek! He said blessed are the meek! That's nice that they're gettin' something. They have a hell of a time."
I do remember reading an interview with one of the Python's (I think it was Michael Palin) where he basically said that they were very sensitive about the having any laughs at The Lord's expense.
Bill Paxton, "We're on the express elevator to Hell, going down." (BEST SCI-FI MOVIE QUOTE EVER)
When Day After Tomorrow came out in the theaters, you will remember there were all the cries of "psuedo-science" and it not being realistic. I figured that the movie for the most part probably wouldn't even try to give a scientific explanation to what was happening, or dealt with it in abstract terms.
I have taken one class in Oceanography as a requirement and from that i could say the movie's rationality was so utterly absurd i couldn't help but laugh the whole way through it. Its one thing if leading experts can debunk the science of the movie, but anyone with the most limited scientific knowledge of weather could see they were pulling it straight outta their a@@! (Arctic water downwells, and even if it didn't how would COLD water create a Hurricane?[That Freezes everything in its path???]) They should have just cut out all the scenes of the scientific explanations on the editor's cut and make it like nobody knew what was going on.
Then of course there was the archetypical Republican politician, played by none other than Dick Cheney himself! As Ann Coulter says, Hollywood has a cast of actors that soley play roles of evil high school football coaches and Republican politicians.
Sorry, your post gave me a flash back to the absurdity of it all.
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