WG and his movies...

[icarus]

Once again I am loathing wildernessguru's choice of movie. This one is "campy medieval action flick" meets "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

This movie is really stupid. Deliberately so.

He's enjoying it.

Man, this is stupid.

...

How long is it?

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[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

What is it, dare I ask?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Army of Darkness. I really wonder what these guys were on when they did this movie.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Greed?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No, I'm thinking acid.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, when will it be over? This is like... someone wrote a movie for Jim Carrey and then couldn't get Carrey to do it.

*counting the minutes*

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Carrey is at least watchable, even at his most self-indulgent.

*browses Google* Oh my god! There are not one but TWO new novels by Mary Gentle I have never heard of before, set in the ASH continuity?! And focusing on gender politics? *wants*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Carrey is amusing. This guy is soooo not him.

There are not one but TWO new novels by Mary Gentle I have never heard of before, set in the ASH continuity?! And focusing on gender politics? *wants*

Huh?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the non sequitur. She's a hard fantasy writer who works a lot with gender issues and war. And women with big swords who wear proper armor rather than chain bikinis.

[bramble-rose.livejournal.com]

Obviously a guy thing. My two teenage sons just critiqued it:

Awesome, probably one of the best movies ever made. Because Bruce Campbell like every other man of merit, has a breakfast of beef jerky topped with tabasco sauce. He's a man's man.

uh. ok. They are still going on about it. Next you must make him watch Pride and Prejudice, or My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've had it. I'm bringing home a costume drama. In Chinese. With subtitles.

This movie is crap. It's also boring crap.

The "man's man" they're talking about? He's cracking up and barely able to deliver his lines with a straight face. Which is the only good thing about the movie.

And it's so not enough.

The pacing sucks, too.

See, I like camp. I enjoyed Conan The Barbarian, so I'm into stupid swords and sorcery movies. But this is lame, designed to play to adolescent fantasies.

The plot (such as it is) is a shambles. It's borrowing shamelessly from everything from Gulliver's Travels to, well, you name it.

This guy tries to do long Jim Carrey comedy, and it just falls flat.

God, this is boring.

Icarus

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I should watch Farewell My Concubine again. I only saw it once, in the theater.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Brilliant movie. Unfortunately, wildernessguru liked it.

He complained when I picked up the Japanese version of Shall We Dance? I'll have to look for something along those lines.

Icarus

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

The international edition of that movie (which is the version I saw) is missing 18 minutes. I don't know what got edited.