OT: Hit Movies that Blow Chunks

Loser · #1 October 9th, 2003, 12:06 AM

*LOST IN SPACE SPOILER*
Like it matters, but anyway...

At that moment in the film when the spaceship is destroyed and (almost) everybody dies there was a brief silence. It was just a couple of seconds, but the whole theater was quite for long enough for me to to stand up and cheer.

When I sat back down a friend hit me. All in all I think I won.

Erax · #2 October 9th, 2003, 09:59 PM

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Oh... my... god... they exported Lost in Space to other countries? It's a true wonder that we have -- erm, had -- any credibility left in the world even prior to the Shrub presidency.

Baron, you'd be surprised. We got all the Irwin Allen series down here. Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage Beneath the Sea (some of these names may be off because I know them by their names in Portuguese), all of which I watched as a kid. We got just about every series that ever was on American television, from the Muppets to Dallas, except the Brady Bunch and Beaver.

Most of the stuff produced from the 90s onwards, like Buffy or Babylon V, is only available on cable though. And cable is still expensive - not horrendously expensive as it was a few years ago, but still expensive - so I don't have it.

Heh, if you had inserted some subliminal pro-American propaganda into those shows back then, you'd have taken over the world without even trying.

TerranC · #3 October 9th, 2003, 11:30 PM

I was so disappointed by Lost in Space...

But then again, Wing Commander came pretty close...

[ October 09, 2003, 22:47: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Ack · #4 October 10th, 2003, 04:10 AM

Personally I can't stand Hollywood insider or movies like Traffic. They are pompous, preachy POSs. Or even better, remakes of old classics. The most recent offender is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Actually a harder question would be to name a recent movie that you WERE NOT disappointed by. It really seems that movies, and music, are being dumbed down to be unoffensive to the widest possible audience. Try a movie like Pearl Harbor where the Japanese really weren't the bad guys, just honorably misguided. It is really hard to make a good movie when the director has no opinion what-so-ever.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 October 10th, 2003, 05:05 AM

the lord of the rings is good. but it helps that i was expecting it to be at least twice as good as the average movie and wasn't expecting it to be as good as the book...though i was hoping.

General Woundwort · #6 October 10th, 2003, 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by Erax:
Baron, you'd be surprised. We got all the Irwin Allen series down here. Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage Beneath the Sea (some of these names may be off because I know them by their names in Portuguese), all of which I watched as a kid. We got just about every series that ever was on American television, from the Muppets to Dallas, except the Brady Bunch and Beaver.

Ugh. Why couldn't we export something useful and worthwhile... like football?

Fyron · #7 October 10th, 2003, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by Ack:
Try a movie like Pearl Harbor where the Japanese really weren't the bad guys, just honorably misguided. It is really hard to make a good movie when the director has no opinion what-so-ever.

Cause you know that being honorably misguided leads to things like the Nanking massacre and probably murdering more innocent civilians overall than the Nazis did...