10 DUMBEST MOMENTS IN SCI FI CINEMA
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Did anything in "The Fifth Element" make sense? No. Did it kick ass? Yes.
..."The Fly" was a movie with the world's easiest gimmick: Watch a guy turn into a fly. There should be more movies like this. Watch a guy turn into a lobster. Watch a guy turn into an oyster. This is what science is all about.
Oh, and I love the way you think, HLT!
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
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High Lord Tolkien
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Thank you!Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:
Oh, and I love the way you think, HLT!
It's funny how the ideas that just pop into my head come out better than if really think about it.
I just had to mention this because it was on again last night and for some ungodly reason I watched about 30 minutes before falling asleep but could Starship Troopers have *SUCKED* any more than it did?
I mean, I seldom say something sucks but man-o-man this movie really really sucked!!!
I...I just don't know.....what...how....I mean....total crap.
It looked good though.
The filming, colors, lights costumes.....
But 30 minutes of that story literally sucked about 10 years out of my life.
I was 38 yesterday now I'm almost 50!
Giant bugs on the planets surface farting balls of plasma into space and hitting the starships above them?
I almost got up and set my TV on fire.
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Of course the book is better, but the movie only sucks if you don't realize it's a satire with the setting taken out of the book. And if you've never read the book and are just looking for a good pulp sci-fi action flick (something I'm sure the producers were counting on), then it was also good.
Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.
Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.
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-George Steiner
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Starship troopers is a good movie, stupid, but entertaining.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
Yes. It could have bad cinematography, bad acting, a lousy story-line and poor effects.High Lord Tolkien wrote:could Starship Troopers have *SUCKED* any more than it did?
But it didn't.
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I recognize and enjoy satire.Syl wrote:Of course the book is better, but the movie only sucks if you don't realize it's a satire with the setting taken out of the book. And if you've never read the book and are just looking for a good pulp sci-fi action flick (something I'm sure the producers were counting on), then it was also good.
Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.
Woody Allen is satire.
The Simpsons is satire.
Starship Troopers......is satire?
I guess.
I just can't get past the ludicrous science.
How did bugs that have no technology plot a course and make an asteroid hit the Earth from the other side of the galaxy?
Like I said, visually it was pretty cool and I could watch Denise Richards ALL day.
(And no I don't have a yellow ribbon on my car. For the same reason I don't wear green on St. Patty's Day.)
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Joker: I swear by all that's funny never to be taken in by that unconstitutional device again!
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Joker: I swear by all that's funny never to be taken in by that unconstitutional device again!
Hm, my vision wasn't colored by having read the book, but, I loved Starship Troopers. It's an excellent satire. Sequel wasn't worth the time it took to watch, but, the first was great, IMHO.
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Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
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Gosh, Syl. I've read the book, loved it, realized it was satire. Enjoyed the movie, alhough not as much as the book. My car has a spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.Syl wrote:Of course the book is better, but the movie only sucks if you don't realize it's a satire with the setting taken out of the book. And if you've never read the book and are just looking for a good pulp sci-fi action flick (something I'm sure the producers were counting on), then it was also good.
Of course, if you do realize it's satire and what it's satirizing, you might not like it either. Quite likely if your car has spiffy yellow ribbon sticker on it.
Another generalization shot to hell!
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Yeah, I did make a broader generalization than I meant to. Sorry. Just because all jingoists have yellow stickers on their car doesn't mean all people that have yellow stickers are jingoists. (I'm still against the car stickers in principal, though. But that's a different subject altogether).
But you have to admit, people smashing bugs and thinking they're 'doing something' to fight the war are no different than people slapping a sticker on there and thinking the same. Again, not that all people who put on the sticker think that way. Solidarity is a good thing. Expressing that you miss someone is a good thing. But if that's all there is to it (and I felt the same way about the yellow bracelets)...
Where are the flag lapel pins? Where have all the flags flying from cars gone? Or better yet, where have all the military discounts gone! (business men forgot them every one. when will they ever learn...)
But you have to admit, people smashing bugs and thinking they're 'doing something' to fight the war are no different than people slapping a sticker on there and thinking the same. Again, not that all people who put on the sticker think that way. Solidarity is a good thing. Expressing that you miss someone is a good thing. But if that's all there is to it (and I felt the same way about the yellow bracelets)...
Where are the flag lapel pins? Where have all the flags flying from cars gone? Or better yet, where have all the military discounts gone!
(business men forgot them every one. when will they ever learn...)"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
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www.imdb.com/name/nm0000539/dlbpharmd wrote:And the other chick, the red head - man, she was even hotter than Denise!
That would be the lovely and talented Dina Meyer.
For the record, there's nothing better than a redhead. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........Redheads...<drool>
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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