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post #151 of 369
8/4/09 at 6:46am
I walked out of Dancer In the Dark around the time when (spoiler) Björk's character kills David Morse's character. I was with a very silly girl that I know and I guess my mindset was completely off for this type of movie on that particular night. Up until the scene I mentioned above nothing in the movie clicked for me and it just felt so completely unconvincing and smaltzy. That scene however really killed it for me, and we both had a complete breakdown with laughter while others around us were crying. We simply had to leave at that point.

I never revisited the movie and still feel no need to.
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post #152 of 369
8/4/09 at 7:06am
I stopped Domino 20 minutes in, likewise with Shoot em Up.
A couple of days ago I wanted to watch Don't Look Now, but I dozed off halfway through.
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post #153 of 369
8/4/09 at 7:44am
I've walked out of the theater on two occasions and wanted to walk out of the theater on another two, but couldn't.

My girlfriend and I bought tickets for Transformers 2, all of my students were raving about it (I'm an English teacher in China, but both the kids and adult students were in love with this film), so we thought we'd give it a go. When we got to the scene in Egypt, I leaned over to her and said: "我们走吧！” Loosely translated, Let's Get the Fuck Out of Here Before I Rip My Eyes Out.

I also walked out of The Island which I saw on a boring afternoon in college, and REALLY wanted to escape during Bad Boys 2. I was with friends in the middle of suburbia, and since my friend was driving I had to bite my tongue and think of anything else. See a pattern here?

The other was Haute-Tension. But to be honest, I just had to know what the ending was gonna be like, so I sat through the uncomfortable gore.

Oh, and I never finished watching Cannibal Holocaust. That was the last Italian horror film I put myself through before common sense came back to me.
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post #154 of 369
8/4/09 at 8:39am
Mostly becase the dvd rental business in my country is pretty much non-existant, I have to buy all the movies I want to watch. I don't doubt that most of us have a hunch already about what movies we will like or not, but obviously once in a while I end up getting boring and bad movies as well as interesting failures. Still, I'm fine with it because, instead of stopping, I focus my attention on why these movies don't work for me or in general. I like to think that I learned a lot about filmmaking that way.

So, the only movie I never finished was Ace Venture 2 way back when it was in theaters. I'm not even sure why I went to see it, because I wasn't a fan of the first one.
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post #155 of 369
8/4/09 at 8:43am
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I've walked out of the theater on two occasions and wanted to walk out of the theater on another two, but couldn't.

My girlfriend and I bought tickets for Transformers 2, all of my students were raving about it (I'm an English teacher in China, but both the kids and adult students were in love with this film), so we thought we'd give it a go. When we got to the scene in Egypt, I leaned over to her and said: "我们走吧！” Loosely translated, Let's Get the Fuck Out of Here Before I Rip My Eyes Out.

I also walked out of The Island which I saw on a boring afternoon in college, and REALLY wanted to escape during Bad Boys 2. I was with friends in the middle of suburbia, and since my friend was driving I had to bite my tongue and think of anything else. See a pattern here?

The other was Haute-Tension. But to be honest, I just had to know what the ending was gonna be like, so I sat through the uncomfortable gore.

Oh, and I never finished watching Cannibal Holocaust. That was the last Italian horror film I put myself through before common sense came back to me.
A little advice: Stay away from Michael Bay movies in the future
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post #156 of 369
8/4/09 at 8:56am
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When we got to the scene in Egypt, I leaned over to her and said: "我们走吧！” Loosely translated, Let's Get the Fuck Out of Here Before I Rip My Eyes Out.
Can we have a phonetic translation of that, please?
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post #157 of 369
8/4/09 at 9:04am
W., Ultraviolet, Youth without Youth, Southland Tales to name a few.

There was a bunch of crap I would've walked out on if I wasn't obligated to screen them at my old job - Eye of the Beholder, Battlefield Earth, Pay it Forward, etc...

I will say I've become less tolerant of shit as I've gotten older; if something has been in the dvd player for more than 40 minutes and I still don't give a shit as to what has happened or is going to happen - out it comes and back it goes to Netflix.
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post #158 of 369
8/5/09 at 8:24pm
Speed Racer. It made a friend and I ill with it's psychotic colors, and that was *with* pot
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post #159 of 369
8/5/09 at 8:48pm
If only the film had finished the job.

Love that movie. It may take decades, but people will eventually get it.
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post #160 of 369
8/5/09 at 8:54pm
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So, the only movie I never finished was Ace Venture 2 way back when it was in theaters. I'm not even sure why I went to see it, because I wasn't a fan of the first one.
This is the only scene you need to see.

The Monopoly guy bit is also funny, but at the beginning so I assume you caught that.

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Ultraviolet, Youth without Youth
Ultraviolet was a watchable mess. I LOL when she turned into a giant tampon (morphed red while wearing the white suit). Youth Without Youth, man that was awful. I wish I had walked out on that.
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post #161 of 369
8/5/09 at 9:05pm
Princess Kate, you may find yourself surprised by the amount of love for that flick around here; not seen it myself but are you sure your friend didn't have a little bit of your doobie? Sounds like she had a full on whitey to me... of course if it really was the film then you are lending it such a terrible power that I instantly thought of the film in Carpenter's Masters Of Horror episode, 'Le Fin Absolue du Monde' or perhaps even the horrors of 'Videodrome'.

In fact, your story has had the opposite effect on me entirely; I respect any film that can make people angry and puke up. I'm definitely watching it now!
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post #162 of 369
8/5/09 at 9:48pm
"Lifeforce."
"Street Trash."
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2."

I almost walked out of a midnight screening of "Deadgirl" a couple weeks ago, but it's much harder to leave the theater than it is to switch off a DVD. That flick is pure punishment.

I'm thinking about giving "Speed Racer" a try. I wouldn't have seen "Land of the Lost," which I enjoyed, if it hadn't been championed around these parts.
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post #163 of 369
8/5/09 at 9:54pm
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"Lifeforce."
"Street Trash."
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2."

But they are all such fun!
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post #164 of 369
8/5/09 at 10:00pm
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But they are all such fun!
Man, I wanted to like them! That was the worst part.
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post #165 of 369
8/5/09 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by Bradito View Post
"Lifeforce."
"Street Trash."
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2."
My god.

What else have you walked out on? I'm looking for recommendations.
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post #166 of 369
8/5/09 at 10:06pm
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I almost walked out of a midnight screening of "Deadgirl" a couple weeks ago, but it's much harder to leave the theater than it is to switch off a DVD. That flick is pure punishment.
I almost went to that, but decided against it after reading a few reviews. Kinda glad I didn't, now.
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post #167 of 369
8/5/09 at 10:30pm
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The Tailor of Panama


I've tried six times.
You're kidding? This is actually a pretty good movie.
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post #168 of 369
8/6/09 at 12:29am
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Originally Posted by Bradito View Post
"Lifeforce."
"Street Trash."
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2."
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My god.

What else have you walked out on? I'm looking for recommendations.
Haha.

I've had a version of TCM2 on hand at all times and still have the giant Cannon Video videostore standup of Leatherface with "3D!" chainsaw downstairs. And I sincerely lament my lack of an anamorphic LIFEFORCE.

This just goes to show how different tastes can be. Then again, years of sleazoid cinema has given me a pretty good stomach for what many others consider undigestible.


That said, I'm pretty sure the only films I didn't make it through were THE LEGEND OF BAGGY PANTS and WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN. Luckily they were both rentals.
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post #169 of 369
8/6/09 at 12:56am
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Originally Posted by Bradito View Post
"Lifeforce."
"Street Trash."
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2."
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Originally Posted by Trevor View Post
My god.

What else have you walked out on? I'm looking for recommendations.
My thoughts exactly.

While none of those movies are masterpieces or anything, they're at least interesting enough to finish. Fun is your friend.
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post #170 of 369
8/6/09 at 1:13am
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Rob Zombie's Halloween
House of 1000 Corpses

All overindulgent and lacking in any forward propulsion. Like this description.
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post #171 of 369
8/6/09 at 10:52am
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My thoughts exactly.

While none of those movies are masterpieces or anything, they're at least interesting enough to finish. Fun is your friend.
I like all three of those movies, but it's the inclusion of Lifeforce that really confuses me. Lifeforce ain't perfect, but how could you walk out on Mathilda May?
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post #172 of 369
8/6/09 at 10:56am
'Lifeforce' really is a piece of utter shit, though. Apart from the gorgeously naked Mathilda May and the Henry Mancini score, there's really nothing there.
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post #173 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:03am
WHAT?

Steve Railsback's tortured performance?

Peter Firth's extremely effeminate SAS colonel?

Patrick Stewart almost kissing Steve Railsback?

Dan O'Bannon's muddled screenplay?

AND the beginning of the downward spiral of Tobe Hooper's career?

What's not to love?
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post #174 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:04am
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'Lifeforce' really is a piece of utter shit, though. Apart from the gorgeously naked Mathilda May and the Henry Mancini score, there's really nothing there.
It's enough, really.
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post #175 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:06am
It's enough to fast-forward, pause, and rewind through.
For a few hours.
Every night.
When you're 15.
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post #176 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:07am
And where's MediaOracle? This thread is tailor-made for her.
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post #177 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:08am
Say her name three times, and she appears in the thread...
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post #178 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:25am
I actually sorta like Lifeforce. Space vampires! Instant mummification! THAT DREAM SEQUENCE! I find it quite fun.
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post #179 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:28am
I've actually been wracking my brain, trying to think of movies I didn't finish for whatever reason, and I've only come up with two so far.

Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera is one. Flame me all you want, but I've never been a huge fan of the stage show, and the film was just interminably dull. The sets were impressive, but the film just moved at such a sluggish pace, and I wasn't invested in it at all, so I quit.

Napoleon Dynamite is the other. After having a bunch of friends tell me about how great it was, I sat down with some other buddies to watch it, and about halfway through we turned it off in favor of watching something that was actually funny and good.
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post #180 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:37am
Thread Starter 
Lifeforce is the most boring thing with tits ever.
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post #181 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:40am
I will cop to enjoying Lifeforce, but the tits may be clouding my memory. If nothing else, it has some really effective apocalyptic imagery at the end, when the vamps are just sucking the, er, lifeforces out of everyone in London. That stuff stuck with me as a kid almost as much as Mathilda May did.
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post #182 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:42am
Phenomenon with John Travolta. It might have lasted 15 minutes in my VHS back in the days. It might be one of the worst movies ever but I can´t tell you because I will never ever endure another minute of this pandering pretentious shit.
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post #183 of 369
8/6/09 at 1:31pm
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'Lifeforce' really is a piece of utter shit, though. Apart from the gorgeously naked Mathilda May and the Henry Mancini score, there's really nothing there.
I just tried watching Lifeforce on Netflix on demand. I had to turn it off. It only works if you saw it as a kid. Otherwise, boring and unwatchable.
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post #184 of 369
8/6/09 at 1:34pm
I've never bailed on a movie in the theater, and I've endured a few stinkers here and there. A friend of mine fell asleep during War (Jet Li, Jason Statham), and it was what he wanted to go see at the time. On paper that movie should work, but it kind of doesn't... Oh well.

DVDs are sometimes less fortunate, most likely when I watch them with my wife. We never made it through Mystery Men (no big loss as far as I'm concerned) or The Brothers Griimm (even though we both REALLY wanted to enjoy it... just didn't happen). She made me stop Punch Drunk Love as well. The psychosis on display in that one was transferring over to her... it made her agitated and uncomfortable. I was enjoying it quite a bit though. One of these days I'll go back to it and watch it by myself. By myself I usually stick things through to the end.

There might be more, but that's all I've got right now.
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post #185 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:24pm
You have to make it through Punch Drunk Love at some point; it's a terrific film. I always imagined that one day in the future that would become the 'forgotten' PTA film; the lost gem. Sometimes I think that has happened already.

Lifeforce is a shitload of fun... really don't see how it can be called 'boring' at all. Shit, yes, but not boring.

My guilty film is a bit of a biggie really...my only defense is that I did like what I saw of it,but I have yet to have it in front of me and be in the mood for it. I am talking about 'The Conformist' and I bought it whilst going through a bit of a 'films with fucking great cinematography' shopping spree and it is easily one of the best looking films there is. I sat down to soak up the masterly framing and expert lighting of Vittorio Storaro's compositions and that I did. Amazing and beautiful; but either it is a hard film to warm to or my approach was all wrong, but it just did not happen and I found myself quite uninvolved and lost.

I will resolve this at some point...it feels a bit like I fucked up a date with a beautiful and intelligent lady; like I spent too much time gawping at how good she looked and in doing so forgot to listen to what she was actually saying to me.
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post #186 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:29pm
I never finished DOOM
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post #187 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:32pm
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You have to make it through Punch Drunk Love at some point; it's a terrific film. I always imagined that one day in the future that would become the 'forgotten' PTA film; the lost gem. Sometimes I think that has happened already.
I'll second this. As someone who actively loathes Adam Sandler, I was shocked by how much I enjoyed PDL. It's great in the way it subverts Sandler's onscreen persona, making him creepy, weird, and kinda scary in this context instead of cute and eccentric or whatever. Plus, Anderson's use of "He Needs Me" from Altman's Popeye is genius.
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post #188 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:34pm
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I never finished DOOM
The last 20 minutes are the only parts that are worth a damn. The FPS sequence and the final fight.
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post #189 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:54pm
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I never finished DOOM
Heh. I instantly thought you meant the game and wondered why you were posting about that. Almost completely forgot that film existed.

And given what Tati there has just said about it; well that makes me think that there have been a helluva lot more films that I have ran on and skipped parts that were sleep inducing or especially shit.

I nearly watched the entirety of 'Pathfinder' at X4 speed
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post #190 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:56pm
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I nearly watched the entirety of 'Pathfinder' at X4 speed
That would be interesting...'Movies that you've buzzed through on fast forward but never actually watched'.
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post #191 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:57pm
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That would be interesting...'Movies that you've buzzed through on fast forward but never actually watched'.
Rob Zombie's Halloween would be my entry in that.
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post #192 of 369
8/6/09 at 3:59pm
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I nearly watched the entirety of 'Pathfinder' at X4 speed
I did the exact same thing!

Did you watch at regular speed for the Clancy Brown bits, too?
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post #193 of 369
8/6/09 at 4:01pm
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I did the exact same thing!

Did you watch at regular speed for the Clancy Brown bits, too?
Of course! And I though that the reason the gory parts looked so shit were because as I was zipping through I was missing frames... but no; it was just fucking terrible editing.
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post #194 of 369
8/6/09 at 4:46pm
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That would be interesting...'Movies that you've buzzed through on fast forward but never actually watched'.
Sorry if this derails the thread but I did that this past weekend with The Unborn. It was ok, and had some cool elements (the Jewish mysticism angle was somewhat refreshing), but wasn't entirely clicking for me. I watched this one (by myself) on a PS3, and the PS3 has a feature where the first fast forward will run the film at 1.5 speed, but it still has the audio going as well. I was alone, but on a bit of a tight schedule and I wanted to wrap up the movie and get to some other stuff, so I went through the last 30-40 minutes at 1.5 speed... Didn't miss much at all.

And to get back to Chris Olson and BrundleFlyboy, the mention of Punch Drunk Love sort of put it back on my radar. I'll try to get to it soon! just need to pluck that dvd off the shelf.
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post #195 of 369
8/6/09 at 4:54pm
I watched Ghost Rider in 20 minutes.
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post #196 of 369
8/6/09 at 5:02pm
When I was younger I fast-forwarded through a tape of Metropolis. I even remember liking it, but it was too slow for me at the time.
And the only movie I can remember not finishing is Scary Movie 3. It was just painful to watch. And Saw really tested my patience; I only stuck with it because a friend wanted me to watch it.
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post #197 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:21pm
I think I need to unsubscribe from this thread before the stupid starts to infect my brain. Some of you seem to be awfully proud of your complete lack of taste. Not to mention having the attention span of a two-year-old. It's bizarre and disheartening to see these attitudes on a movie forum.

Oh, and Diva: I thought I was alone in my dislike of Irreversible. It's more of an assault on the audience than a movie. I couldn't figure out why the director so desperately wanted me to hate his movie. Eventually, though, he got his way.

Also, all the venom over Speed Racer around here takes me back to 1982, and all the bitching I had to listen to about a boring, pretentious, empty, brain-dead film called Blade Runner. Oh yes, Speed Racer will have its day. Believe it.
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post #198 of 369
8/6/09 at 11:35pm
Well I was never going to start watching Speed Racer let alone not finish watching it; but thanks to that bizarre load of bollocks from Princess Kate about it being 'anti-filmaking' and so on (and soo on...) I have just bagged myself a copy from ebay for the princely sum of £1.99.

Anything that loved/loathed/misunderstood has to be worth a gander.
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post #199 of 369
8/8/09 at 11:27am
Back in 2001 or so I was going through a seriously rough patch in my life. Money was scarce and opportunities to go to the theater were few. And I *still* couldn't make it through Tomcats in the theater. Couldn't hang with the Sigourney Weaver/Jennifer Love Hewitt flick from that year, either. When watching a movie was actually worse than facing my daily reality at the time, then it was a truly bad flick.
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post #200 of 369
8/8/09 at 12:07pm
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Also, all the venom over Speed Racer around here takes me back to 1982, and all the bitching I had to listen to about a boring, pretentious, empty, brain-dead film called Blade Runner. Oh yes, Speed Racer will have its day. Believe it.
I know all of us true geeks are supposed to bow down before the 'revolutionary' SPEED RACER, but while there is a lot to admire about its visual style and flair--and i especially respect its spirit--the hyperbole is more than a bit thick.

Let's not go overboard and compare it to BLADE RUNNER. I mean, really?

TRON would perhaps be more apt and appropriate.

The last movie I couldn't finish was TREMORS 2. What a dud!
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