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Started by ToyMan, November 26, 2008, 03:31:07 AM

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schmendrik

Quote from: ghouck on December 16, 2008, 10:54:58 PM
Isn't The Rock the one where at the end, a guy has a bunch of nerve agent rammed down his throat, only to suffer no ill effects after giving himself atrophine (sp?) shots? If so, I did get a laugh out of the absurdity of that: a dozen or so containers of CNG were supposed to be enough to wipe out a city, and a guy drinks basically a whole container and that magic shot saves him, and seems to have reversed the damage.

Don't remember the end. I remember the opening. Nicholas Cage is at work and suddenly has to deal with defusing a bomb. With only seconds to spare! And he can't see because there's something (acid? water?) spraying everywhere! And other terrible things are going on (aliens? earthquake? elephant stampede? I don't recall). I saw that and said to myself, OK, if they do that in the first 30 seconds this movie is just going to be about ridiculous over-the-top action scenes. They aren't even going to try to have a plot or anything sensible.

My suspicions were confirmed by the pointless flying-over-San-Francisco-hills car chase in the middle of the movie.

And that's pretty much all I remember.

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Doggett

I've also never seen Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman and I only got halfway through Rocky V.
                                             

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ghouck

Quote from: doggett on December 28, 2008, 11:33:51 AM
I only got halfway through Rocky V.

You got further than I did, I couldn't stand it, be I didn't make it a half an hour.
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Kester Pelagius

You know it's bad when a movie franchise is so forgettable you have to ask:

Which one was Rocky V?
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HappyGilmore

Quote from: Kester Pelagius on December 29, 2008, 08:25:13 PM
You know it's bad when a movie franchise is so forgettable you have to ask:

Which one was Rocky V?
Rocky V is the one where Rocky finds out that not only is he in such poor health that one more fight would damn near kill him, he finds out his accountant and attorney squandered all his money so he's damn near poor.  He moves back to his old neighborhood in Philly, and begins training Tommy Gunn, who then basically turns on him.  Pretty poor movie.
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Kester Pelagius

Quote from: HappyGilmore on December 29, 2008, 08:49:03 PM
Quote from: Kester Pelagius on December 29, 2008, 08:25:13 PM
You know it's bad when a movie franchise is so forgettable you have to ask:

Which one was Rocky V?
Rocky V is the one where Rocky finds out that not only is he in such poor health that one more fight would damn near kill him, he finds out his accountant and attorney squandered all his money so he's damn near poor.  He moves back to his old neighborhood in Philly, and begins training Tommy Gunn, who then basically turns on him.  Pretty poor movie.

All I remember about the last Rocky flick I saw in a theatre was how tediously boring it was.  I think Rocky was trying to get back together with his GF (?) or she was dead or his old trainer was dead and he was all depressed or something. I do remember that I couldn't get out of the theatre fast enough.
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HappyGilmore

Quote from: Kester Pelagius on December 30, 2008, 02:57:49 PM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on December 29, 2008, 08:49:03 PM
Quote from: Kester Pelagius on December 29, 2008, 08:25:13 PM
You know it's bad when a movie franchise is so forgettable you have to ask:

Which one was Rocky V?
Rocky V is the one where Rocky finds out that not only is he in such poor health that one more fight would damn near kill him, he finds out his accountant and attorney squandered all his money so he's damn near poor.  He moves back to his old neighborhood in Philly, and begins training Tommy Gunn, who then basically turns on him.  Pretty poor movie.

All I remember about the last Rocky flick I saw in a theatre was how tediously boring it was.  I think Rocky was trying to get back together with his GF (?) or she was dead or his old trainer was dead and he was all depressed or something. I do remember that I couldn't get out of the theatre fast enough.

That was probably part V.  Mickey (trainer) dies in 3.  In Part 5, Rocky was already married and was going through physical problems.  It was pretty boring. 

Rocky Balboa was released last year, and Adrian was dead.  But Rocky was in his like, '60s, and owns a restaurant and has one last exhibition.  I never saw it, but heard good things.
"The path to Heaven runs through miles of clouded Hell."

Don't get too close, it's dark inside.
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Doggett

Rocky Balboa is great fun more than makes up for IV and V :teddyr:
                                             

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CheezeFlixz

My name is CheezeFlixz and I've never seen Titanic.






Nor do I have any plan to do so.

Kester Pelagius

#115
CheezeFlixz,

I feel the same way about BORAT and that JACKASS franchise.

Seriously who willingly pays to watch this crap?


:question:
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ghouck

I have to admit I liked the Jackass movies. It's one of those deals where you either have that juvenile sense of humor, or you don't, no middle ground. I do have that juvenile sense of humor.
Raw bacon is GREAT! It's like regular bacon, only faster, and it doesn't burn the roof of your mouth!

Happiness is green text in the "Stuff To Watch For" section.

James James: The man so nice, they named him twice.

"Aw man, this thong is chafing my balls" -Lloyd Kaufman in Poultrygeist.

"There's always time for lubricant" -Orlando Jones in Evolution

HappyGilmore

Jackass was a fun series/franchise.  Not for everyone though.
"The path to Heaven runs through miles of clouded Hell."

Don't get too close, it's dark inside.
It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide.

Allhallowsday

Quote from: CheezeFlixz on December 31, 2008, 09:32:05 PM
My name is CheezeFlixz and I've never seen Titanic.  Nor do I have any plan to do so.
My name is Allhallowsday and I have seen TITANIC, more than once, and find it entertaining in a mesmerizing kind of way... and it's also enormously stupid, absolutely ridiculous, breathtakingly implausible... but never boring.  I can't imagine anyone claiming to like BAD MOVIES not wanting to check that one out.   :wink:
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Doggett

I've never seen Notting Hill, Critters 2, National Velvet, The Princess Diaries 2, Cars (the film, obviously. Not the vehicles), Little Women

I can't remember the others....
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