DuracellEnergizer

Perhaps you accidentally clicked the "add to friend list" button while scrolling down the page too fast and trying to click on a different option? I know I have from time to time.

ray_afraid said:

And am I alone in loathing the term "Sith Lord"? Maybe it's just that it's tied so tightly to the PT* (which I hate more than you do. Trust.).

This must mean my posts are like drugs and I'm the pusher.

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

When I think about Batman, these are the images that come to mind









































And even this



But not these

























And certainly not this

 

At first, it tastes pretty much the same way it smells - musty, but otherwise not too bad. But then, before you know it, this incredibly overpowering BITTERNESS hits your tongue like a FREIGHT TRAIN OUT OF HELL! God, the bitterness! It's horrible, horrible, horrible!!! Nothing tastes as bitter - NOTHING! And the worst part is that the taste LINGERS - it lingers there in your mouth like a bloodstain in your carpet, and nothing you can do can rid your mouth of the taste of it - you just have to wait the long hours for it to fade away on its own.

This human suit I've been wearing for the past twenty-six years will do nicely.

Perhaps I should boycott every author who espouses a POV that pisses me off. Of course, if that were to happen, I wouldn't have a thing in the world to read beyond street signs (and even those might have to go).

And people wonder why I'm so misanthropic ...

Warbler said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

what are these doing in your "But not these"  list?   imho, Batman Begins and the Dark Knight are two best Batman movies. 

Bingowings said:

The robot suit is a bit shit.

Keaton never really worked for me.

Ryan McAvoy said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Trying to imagine Christopher Walken as Han is making my brain hurt.

You don't have to imagine it, this video is from a while back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqRDrEp0EY4

xhonzi said:

I dig that this is a maxi-series with no prescribed length and that they'll end it once it's run its course, and that it could have some lasting effects on the status quo.

^That pretty much why I think Roddenberry and Lucas are just two sides of the same revisionist coin. The only difference between the two is that Gene was far more subtle in his sabotage.

Trying to imagine Christopher Walken as Han is making my brain hurt.

Anchorhead said:

Now that I think about it, if she were mentioned at all, it would have most likely been Outbound Flight.  Anakin and Kenobi are fairly heavy in it at the beginning, but are suddenly and conveniently jettisoned from the story completely.

Their sudden departure from the story had a weird feel, which I was more than ok with ;-)

In fact, I could never figure out why they were in the early part of the story at all.  Their roles felt out of place and served no purpose.

Now I want to pop Wiley Virus' spleen.

Ah, Excalibur ... a trilogy's worth of storyline crammed into a single average-length movie.

Let's just say I have mixed feelings on that rather interesting film.

Anchorhead said:

There are even a few prequel references in a couple of his novels. Again, fine.  They amount to little more than name checks. I don't give them a thought because they're throw-away.

When I think about Batman, these are the images that come to mind









































And even this



But not these

























And certainly not this

Black Christmas (1974)

I really think this is a movie that's best watched late at night during the colder months, not in the middle of a sunny summer day - there's no other reason I can come up with for why I didn't like it as much as I did the first and last time I saw it.

Of course, a big reason I liked the movie the first time I watched it was due to my initial exposure to the killer's insane ravings and the emotional reactions they inspired; knowing what to expect may have diluted it for me this time around.

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Definately one of Carpenter's best made movies; there's only two things I'd change - I wouldn't have shown the Anti-God (that glimpse of a stereotypical red devil hand really tainted the mystique of the entity) and I probably would have dropped that bit about Jesus being an alien.

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

This movie is - to put it bluntly - overindulgent, overlong, and overrated. Hell, I won't even stop there; this was even worse than Land of the Dead, and it has just as much reason to exist - namely, none.

Ryan McAvoy said:

AAAHHHHHH ZARDOZZZZ!!!!

That film can never be unseen

Bingowings said:

Sadly I paid money for Orson's work before finding out he was a bigoted nutcase.

Frank Herbert was a bit of homodisrespectus too but he is dead.

I don't mind sending money to the dead.

My own personal theory is that Kubrick wanted to make a haunted house movie, but instead of crafting his own original story, he just took King's novel, turned it inside out, and filmed the result.

It doesn't sound like appendicitus, at any rate.

^Just when I thought nothing could top the surreality of the 90's films ...