DuracellEnergizer

^That can’t be good for the respiratory tract.

The Black Hole (1979)

I watched this movie a couple weeks ago, and meant to comment on it then, but I got distracted and never got around to it. Well, now's as good a time as any to do so, and it's still fresh enough in my mind to recount the major points of the film I liked/disliked.

The Good

The robots V.I.N.C.E.N.T and B.O.B - though their design was a little too cutesy for my tastes - had lots of personality and were easily the highlights of the film.

Maximillian Schell did a great job as the villainous Hans Reinhardt

The special effects were excellent

The Bad

With the sole exception of Reinhardt, all the human characters were colourless cyphers - I couldn't even remember any of their names, not even Anthony Perkins'.

The film was thematically all over the place. It tried to be a serious, philosophical movie like 2001 while also trying to be whimsically adventurous like Star Wars, but only ended up a confused mess.

The Darth Vader robots were really, really uninspired and lame.

The Ugly

The score is a mixed bag. At times it was ominously great, while at others it fell completely flat (this is most notable during the gunfight scenes).


The Rugrats Movie (1998)

I'll say this right away - I'm a fan of the show; for the most part, it is a well-written and intelligent show (the first three seasons, anyway; the fourth & fifth seasons are a little watered down in comparison, and I'm not familiar enough with seasons 6-9 to comment on them), peppered with enough in-jokes and cultural references to make it entertaining for older viewers. This movie, though ... ugh ...

Gone is the quaint pathos of the series. Instead, we now have unnecessary musical numbers, a stupid subplot with escaped circus monkeys, scenes that go on for too long, and a horrible addition to the cast in the form of Dil. It's all just childish padding and filler, rendered in the most nauseatingly over-detailed, frenetic animation possible.

I do have a few nice things to say about this film, though; most of the humour revolving around the adult characters works, the parts with the wolf are pretty well done, and the scene where the family dog Spike seemingly falls to his death is moving.

I can see why those scenes were deleted.

Fuck 3D! Solid interactive holographic surround imaging filmed in ultraviolet and infrared light is the way of the future!

Ryan McAvoy said:

I'd love to get the scoop on what really happened over KOTCS. Spielberg in his intro to the DVD is flatout saying "I thought the alien idea was terrible but George insisted" and "I thought the fridge idea was terible but George insisted". He seems almost faintly depressed about the whole project in the BTS interviews.

Thread title is self-explanatory.

I've been a devoted C&H fan since the good ol' days of 1996.

TV's Frink said:

So, he's looking for love in Alderaan places?

FrederikOlsen said:

canofhumdingers said:

The Library of Congress apparently has a pretty good copy of the holiday special. Don't remember what format it's on though.

No. Just no. For the love of all things good and holy. NO.

Leonardo said:

[(ALLOL)^3]

I never was fond of that "Big Bang" tag. It'll always be the Horrendous Space Kablooie Theory to me.

Ah, Gosling ... he's certainly good at playing unlikeable douchebags, I must admit.

bkev said:

Got to Season 3 of DS9. This is where the fun begins/it grows the beard.

Fang Zei said:

I just think it's dumb for them to have built up all that continuity, to say all the while that it's canon, and even needing George's approval to kill off one of the major characters, only to then go and say it never happenned.

How well do you think such a move would go over with the fans? It's been the official continuation of the story for all these years. Wouldn't it be kind of a slap in the face for them to say "it never happenned, deal with it?"

doubleofive said:

I'm pretty sure its the one where Luke disguises himself using the Force. For some reason, I do not like the idea that a Jedi can just change how other people perceive them. It's either way too powerful, and would come in handy way too often for him to only use it that one time.

I wonder what kind of dreams he ended up having.

I'm going bald, too. Treatments will probably be too expensive for me, so I'm just gonna let nature take it's course and grow out the stuff that remains to compensate.

Lord, how I hate the lousy weather this time of year. If I had my way, it would rain every other day and the temperature would never climb above 25 °C.

^Your wish is my command.

I see a flacid pee-pee with a pylon on top.