<![CDATA[Latest posts for the topic "Footloose :<"]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/1.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5034 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5034 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5038 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5038 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5212 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5212 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt Meh. Footloose is one of my wife's very favorite films, which puts it right up there with Grease, The Phantom of the Opera, Stick It, Save the Last Dance, Step Up, Dirty Dancing and... God help me... Bring It On. Me? I never cared much for it (and still don't). Give me Killer Klowns from Outer Space, instead. (Though, I have to admit a certain affection for Stick It... Oh, Hell, nevermind. When you get married to a sorority chick / cheerleader who has difficulty telling Star Wars and Star Trek apart, you'll understand, too.) [Sigh] I remain, as always... Nico. ]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5636 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5636 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5637 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5637 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt Up Close and Personal... [blargh] Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't shot a single, solitary frame of film worth my time since The Age of Innocence... and she was by far the weakest element in that otherwise excellent picture. Before that you have to go all the way back to 1988-89, the pinnacle of her career, when she starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys, Married to the Mob, Dangerous Liaisons and, of course, Tequila Sunrise within about eighteen months of each other. (And, no, 1998's The Prince of Egypt doesn't count.) Personally, however, I feel her low point was the one-two punch of Up Close... and Dangerous Minds, which really and sincerely ought to have ended her career, for everybody's sake. (And don't get me started on Grease 2, which shat forth Adrian [bleep]in' Zmed on an unsuspecting, undeserving world...) ...On the other claw, I don't mind Raising Helen or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days or Legally Blonde so much... good eye candy, anyway. I remain, as always... Nico.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5640 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5640 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5645 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5645 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5677 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5677 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5678 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5678 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt ...I really enjoyed How to lose a guy in ten days. Actually, for a pretty boy I tend to like most of Matthews movies. Especially Reign of Fire. Loved it." Now, there, I'm with you, cRAzY, I'm your wingman, partner. (Are you really a "pretty boy," too? ...Hey, we do have something in common! [ignoring incredulous and disgusted look from wife, as well as an especially heavy frying pan]) "p.s. If they remake grease I'm moving to canada and never watching another movie or tv show ever again. " If you need help packing, let me know, dude... I can friggin' guarantee it. "Same goes for Top Gun and Robocop..." See, there, I'm only half in-agreement. Certainly there's no need, EVER, to "update" Top Gun, which is very nearly a perfect action film, and perhaps the last, great, non-CGI aerial combat film... Top Gun holds up incredibly well, even though the F-14 Tomcat is now only flown by the Iranian Air Force, and the Miramar, California Fighter Weapons School ceased to exist over a decade ago... and circa-1985 Tom Cruise is today nearly unrecognizeable, having had more "work" done in the twenty years since its release than any celebrity this side of Michael Jackson. However, I digress. I think, however, that not only will Robocop be remade, but it should be. (Consternation! Uproar! ...Even yet still more consternation!) Yeah, I love it, too, and it's a classic -- and, look, I was IN the "original"...I think), but in a 1933 King Kong kind of way. The stop-motion stuff and even the computer graphics were brilliant for its day, but, really, they can rebuild him. They have the technology. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster. I mean, Hell, some films were meant to be remade, time and time again, just to make sure they stay relevant to a new generation and that the underlying principle, the fundamental theme, doesn't disappear entirely from the culture. To be brutally honest, even Robie was a remake, two for the price of one, in fact: 1984, and, of course, Frankenstein. And, if you want to get really blunt, it was also a microchip-thin rip-off of I, Robot. (Perhaps the remake could be called, I, RoboCop?) [Ducking. Again.] Hey, it was just a thought... I remain, as always... RoboNico. Thank you for your cooperation!]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5684 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5684 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5713 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5713 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt cRAzY said:
...[T]heres just one little problem. Actors don't come like they used to. And they're are nowhere near as good as the ones back in the day. And I'm sorry but Kurtwood Smith just cannot I repeat cannot be replaced.  
ROTFLMAO!!! ...Oh, wait... [gradually coming to unwanted realization] You were serious, weren't you? [Grin] Look, I'm not trying to give you crap or flame you just for the heck of it... I mean, I like Kurtwood Smith, too, in a Ronny Cox-Micheal Ironside-John Schuck-Malcolm McDowell kind of way. He's a great 'B' actor; but he's hardly irreplaceable. It's not like he's Michael Biehn or Bill Paxton or Will Patton or Steven Seagal or anything. And, I mean, it's not like anybody nominated RoboCop's nominal "star," Peter Weller for anything, either. (And, no, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films doesn't count -- I mean, they gave out a Saturn Award nomination to The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle once, for the love of Arthur C. Clarke! ...To Jason Alexander, no less!)
But he is doing a fantastic job on that 70's show and perhaps if they do a remake soon he could maybe reprise his role.  
Well, the seemingly interminable decade that was That 70's Show has, mercifully, ended, and it looks like he's available, so maybe you're on to something, there. Perhaps you can send Paul Verhoeven a note and convince him not to do Hollow Man III, but turn all his attention to RoboCop: The Next Generation, instead.
If not I will definatley be pissed if they remake it.  
Hey, I couldn't imagine Gandhi II without Ben Kingsley, either. But, you know, they've got it all on UHF. I remain, as always... Nico.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5722 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5722 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5734 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5734 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5740 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5740 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5770 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5770 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5788 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5788 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt cRAzY: Wow, erm, well, sorry to disappoint, but I'm actually NOT a Steven Seagal "fan"; I mean, he was fine in Under Siege, just what a cheesy, check-your-brain-at-your-own-front-door action movie needed in its putative star, and I quite liked his rather courageous (take that any way you want to) cameo in Executive Decision. But, I mean, come on... he's STEVEN SEAGAL, not Steve McQueen, or even Bruce Willis. He's just two steps up the ladder from The Rock, one up from Jean-Claude van Damme, right beneath Jason Scott Lee and Wesley Snipes, and three or four below Kurt Russell. My tongue was very firmly in my cheek, m'boy; it's called sarcasm, or facetiousness, or just plain being a smart-ass. In other words, I was just being me. S'alright; I'm an acquired tastelessness. That being said, as far as your comment...
I can't take advice from [Seagal] fans 
...goes, well, I can't argue with that, and wouldn't dare. I make a point not to contradict common sense whenever possible, not to mention general rules for preserving intelligent life in this quadrant of the galaxy. Carry on. However, now we move on to:
I'm guessing your middle aged around 30 or so. Maybe older. Just guessing off different posts. 
I can't tell you how hard I laughed reading this... I laughed until I cried, actually. Or, just maybe, I cried until I laughed. Either way, this was some funny f@%#in' sh!t, dude. You may just be the first person I've ever talked to, apart from my eight-year-old daughter, who considered thirty to be MIDDLE-[BLEEP]in'-AGED!!! I mean, holy crap, do I need to be worried about Sandmen and robots named Box? You SO do not want to meet my wife, dude, EVER -- she'll saw your head off with one of her four-inch heels, stuff it in our daughter's Easy-Bake Oven (R) and plant you, feet-up, in our flower bed amidst porcelain gnomes, poinsettas and a very nice shrubbery. I am so not exaggerating. (By the way, she's six months older than me. Which means, I suppose, that she ought to be getting a Senior's discount at Luby's [TM]. I'll pass it along.) You were in the ballpark, btw, I'm 36. (Old enough to know better; young enough not to give a damn.) Good job. Identify.
That age group seems to be the only people I know that like [Seagal].  
Sounds about right. [Hanging head in abject shame and self-loathing.] But, then again, we liked Q*bert, Night Court and flannel, too. You have absolutely no idea what the Hell I'm talking about. Oh, well, whatever, nevermind.
Maybe its cause they were the ones who went to see his "good" movies in theaters.  
He had good movies? (Executive Decision excepted.) News to me.
Sorry. I really don't mean to rag on you but this has a very long on going argument between me and the ole step dad, among others.  
[Laughing] No apologies necessary, my friend... And, dude, you're not within the same galaxy as "ragging" on me. I give opinions. I listen to opinions. I dispute opinions. I give more opinions. But, um, and don't take this the wrong way, but... You know your "ole step dad"? I ain't him. Just to clarify.
[I]f you ask me. Will Sasso from Mad TV is a better actor than Steven [Seagal]. And he does one hell of an impersonation too.  
My Garden Weasel [TM](R)(C) is a better actor than Steven Seagal. (Anyone watch South Park? "Rob Schneider is... A Carrot! Rated PG."
You find one of his movies other than Exit Wounds that I don't yawn through and I'll shut up.  
No need. Keep talkin'. ...Come on, man, keep talking! Come ON!!! DON'T TEASE ME, BRO!!!
And I really don't mean to hate. I mean your a [Seagal] fan. Good for you man.  
[Exasperated] I have SO got to order you a $19.95 Ronco[TM] Irony Detector(R)(C) for Christmas [TM], or Hannukah (R), or Kwanzaa (NAACP), or Boxing Day [KBE], or whatever.
...I can't take that post seriously now. 
That's always good advice.
I tend to like my supporting actors. If it wasn't for the supporters the "Big Guys" wouldn't be crap. 
Seriously, that's the most awesome thing you've said today. Well, since "I'm guessing your middle aged around 30 or so," anyway, which was simply... PERFECT.
...Robocop wouldn't have been "as" good without [Kurtwood Smith]. 
Agreed.
P.S. Maybe they should have Segal play robocop. 
That is, quite simply, the very worst idea in the entire friggin' HISTORY of Bad Ideas. I mean, that's William Shatner singing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"-bad, Charo guest starring on The Love Boat-bad, Van Halen dumping David Lee Roth for Van Hagar-bad... Dare I say, even Battlefield: Earth-bad? (No, that's going too far.) cRAzY, it's been a pleasure, dude. And you may call me "Mr. Nico," if you wish -- I never get respect from you young folk! [Grin] I remain, as always... (or until someone wraps me in tin foil, tosses me in the air and shoots a proton beam at me) Nico. [ZZZZZORT!!!] [poof] (And there was much rejoicing.) ETA: tuan, if by "best," you meant, "ONLY," I'm with ya, bro. (Don't TASE me, bro!!!)]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5797 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5797 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt

Nicodemus wrote:
I mean, holy crap, do I need to be worried about Sandmen and robots named Box? 
Just happened to pop this into the DVD a few weeks ago. Still holds up pretty well except for the special effects and miniature work where I can be more easily convinced by a close-up shot of a little Barbie playhouse than what's in the film, which looks like a little science experiment model. Man, a robot named Box, that's one funny robot. Thanks for reminding me of how much fun this film is. :D ]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5798 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5798 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt Logan's Run had a robot character named Box. 1978's Battlestar: Galactica had a character named Boxey, who was running from robots. Coincidence? Or conspiracy? Someone call Oliver Stone! I remain, as always... Deeply, very deeply, disturbed. (Nico) ETA: Parts of Logan's Run were actually filmed 'round these parts... the City exteriors in Fort Worth, interiors at the Dallas Market Center downtown. Identify. ]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5799 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5799 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5807 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5807 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5808 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5808 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt Whoa that's very interesting.   Not so much, really. Life is full of incredibly interesting and improbable things. The thing is, half of them are b.s., and the other half mainly suck.
Also, is that 70's Galactica any good? I heard it's very cheesy, but I want it to be cheesily good not cheesily bad.  
Wow, that's a complicated question. Here's an uncomplicated answer: It largely really, really sucks. The pilot and perhaps a handful of other episodes are pretty darned good, and I think worthy of picking up the DVD boxed set, but there are some great, big, cheese-filled stinking turds mixed in there, too. My advice: Watch the odd-numbered hours drunk; the odds are better you'll enjoy the overall experience. And try not to notice the f@%#in' robot dog. (Good advice generally, in fact, unless it's K-9.) And with that, I'm outta here until later tonight. I remain, as always... Nico. ]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5814 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5814 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt ALWAYS "on"? UHF, Battlestar Galactica, Robocop, Total Recall, Executive Decision, and now Doctor Who references. Despite the fact that I am two years older than Nico, I become more and more convinced each day that he and I were separated at birth... whereas he was given to his natural-born parents, well-educated and well-loved, I was spirited away in the back seat of a clown car and sold to my "adoptive" parents in some back-alley somewhere. Hmm, this would actually explain a lot... but I digress. Re: Executive Decision; spot on. One of the coolest action/dramas of the 90's. Halle Berry was awesome. Re: UHF; gets funnier every time I watch it, which for me is about 50 times already. "STUUUUUUUPIIIIIIIID!!!!!! You're so STUUUPIIIID!!!" (BTW, did you know that Fran Drescher turns 50 on Sunday? She's STILL a major hottie, but that voice...) Re: Robocop being remade? I'm all for that, but I can't imagine it improving on the original in any way that would make me enjoy it more. I mean, I'm sure they could make it less cheesy, with better effects, and even a more compelling story line, like what they've done with the new Bionic Woman series (for which the jury's still out, for me)... in other words, it won't really be Robocop any more. I enjoy the hot mess that Verhoeven created, the clunky bad-ass tin can with the monotone, with the cardboard cutouts that Miguel Ferrer, Dan O'Herlihy, Ray Wise, Ronny Cox AND Kurtwood Smith played. Some things are just so bad, they're good. And others are just SO BAD, they're exceptional. And Robocop is one of those things. Re: Footloose being remade; Meh. Some things should STAY in the 80's (you know, like Reaganomics, or those shirts that supposedly spontaneously changed colors under the right circumstances, until you, you know, washed them once... which, I never owned anything like that, no sirree bob, no way). I would hope they'd at least dedicate it to the memory of Christopher Penn. K-9? Best g**damn robot dog EVER. Boxey wasn't fit to sniff K-9's cybernetic doggie butt. A fight between the two of them (sponsored by MVick, Inc.) would have lasted all of 2.3 nanoseconds, courtesy of K-9's nose laser. I remain, as always, Comfortably Numb. ]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5815 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5815 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt

Shryke42 wrote:
K-9? Best g**damn robot dog EVER. Boxey wasn't fit to sniff K-9's cybernetic doggie butt. A fight between the two of them (sponsored by MVick, Inc.) would have lasted all of 2.3 nanoseconds, courtesy of K-9's nose laser. 
Haha, it sounds pretty awesome.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5830 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5830 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5918 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5918 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt cRAzY: It's cool, no offense taken whatsoever -- quite the opposite, that response (and your original comments about me being, a-HEM, "middle-aged") were just about the most fun I've had online since, well, at least since I tried to figure out the puzzles, without Wikipedia's help, at ethanhaaswasright.com.
Unfortunately my dad has been going throught the middle aged phase since he turned thirty. It's rather annoying. But I've love em anyways.  
[Laughing] You know, one of my best friends -- he's also an FM player, but, thankfully, not a frequenter of the Forum, so I can talk smack about him with impunity, ha ha -- is my (advanced) age, and he's had at least four mid-life crises since HE turned thirty, which is about the same age he became a dad for the first time. He "celebrates" his impending quatrogenarianism by buying a new "toy," every time: first, it was a customized, limited-edition street-racing Trans Am, then, a motorcycle, then, another sports car, and now, a supercharged pickup with rims wider than Kirstie Alley, that's just this side of a monster truck. (Also like Kirstie Alley.) He drives his wife asbolutely batsh!t, but, I have to admit, he sure is entertaining. Me, I still think I'm a few years short of MY mid-life crisis; I'm saving up for a fully loaded Jeep, or perhaps an F-350 / V8, or new kidneys or something.
I have this this disease that makes me unable to interperet typed sarcasm. Apologies.  
No sweat. In future, perhaps The Powers That Be at FM can make us a nice point-and-click button, like they have for Bold and italics and underlined, for SARCASM DAMMIT!!! [Grin] Anyway, I've already ordered that Ronco [TM] Irony Detector(R)(C), but it was recalled five minutes later; it caused cancer in lab rats, or something. (Anyone ever wonder if cancer is simply endemic to lab rats, btw?) Stupid Chinese imports.
Bruce willis is probably one of my top favorite actions stars and at least in my top ten actors ever. Wesley isn't so bad... [T]he Blade series I also liked... Jean Claude is ridiculous. Kurt Russel is okay. and I really like the rock. But Diesel makes much better movies.  
Amen to nearly all of the above. I also happen to think that Bruce Willis is among the most underappreciated talents of all-time; watch his craftsmanship in The Siege, or Tears of the Sun, or The Last Boy Scout, or Unbreakable, or Billy Bathgate, or Nobody's Fool, or The Jackal, or even Armageddon, not to mention Pulp Fiction and Sin City; Wesley Snipes is a fantastic actor, but I think he does more, frankly, with lesser (non-leading) roles than he achieves as a leading actor. Watch Waiting to Exhale, or The Fan, or Rising Sun, or even New Jack City; there's a VERY good actor there... perhaps, even, one not all that much removed from Don Cheadle, underneath all the hyped-up poses and kick-ass martial arts moves. He ought to stick to character roles. Jean-Claude van Damme, well, I wouldn't watch him in a cat food commercial. Unless, of course, he were the cat food. Kurt Russell is a minor deity, but, like Snipes, I think he's best in roles where he has to keep a lower profile; anyone remember how charismatic, yet chilling he was in Tequila Sunrise, for example? He almost stole the film from Mel Gibson, and, man, that takes some doing. He even made Soldier a fairly decent film, all things considered, though no one could prevent the disaster that was Escape from L.A. Gerard Butler won't hold a candle to him in the Escape from New York remake, is my bet... Vin Diesel makes some good films. The Chronicles of Riddick is one of the ten best science-fiction films of the last decade; and, of course, he was, in retrospect, the ONLY choice to voice The Iron Giant. Not to mention his work in Saving Private Ryan, A Man Apart and even the highly derivative, Wall Street-Lite Boiler Room... Good stuff, cRAzY, I like your taste. Except for the whole The Rock thing, but, you know, as the Warden said in Shawshank Redemption: "I suppose... exceptions can be made." [Grin] Notice, now, that he got all magnanimous that way only after he reminded everyone that their ass(es) belonged to him... I bet he was a lousy husband, too...
P.S. My mom is a huge Belushi fan and made me watch K-9. It was okay.  
[Groan] Okay, you've been warned: SARCASM DAMMIT!!! [Grin] The 'K-9' I was referring to was a robotic dog on Doctor Who (either incarnation, though especially during the original's Tom Baker years, a.k.a., the Fifth Doctor. Holy shit, dude. Addendum: ...And even K-9 (the glorified remote-control toaster, not the film, which was a nauseatingly insipid rip-off of Turner & Hooch anyway...) could out-act James Belushi. And I'm a big, big Belushi fan, too, only I like the Belushi with talent: John.
...I didn't mean to offend the misses. Oops. Just make sure you tell her shes as young as she feels.  
De nada. Here's an actual quote from Nicomissus: "Um, okay. Which part of me will you be feeling?" And the crowd are loving it! P.S. I'm not smart, I'm big-boned. [Grin] I remain, as always... Nico.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5922 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5922 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt

Nicodemus wrote:
Vin Diesel makes some good films. The Chronicles of Riddick is one of the ten best science-fiction films of the last decade. 
Exactly how true is this? I remember watching it and falling asleep like 30 minutes in. Am I missing out on much? I do like Vin Diesel, especially him in Pitch Black, but for some reason, Riddick bored the crap out of me, or maybe I was really tired that day. I do love me some good sci-fi.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5930 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5930 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt tuan: [Shrug] I mean, it's not 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Alien, or The Abyss, or Gattaca, or Serenity, or Sunshine or anything. But The Chronicles of Riddick had a pretty damned original (and complicated) story, some fantastic special effects and, actually, some very decent genre performances... Colm Feore's, Alexa Davalos's and Karl Urban's, in particular. It's a rare sequel that manages to build on the original, and Riddick did that, in every way imaginable -- it exploded the Riddick universe in the same way that The Empire Strikes Back added on to the Star Wars palette, the same way Aliens did; only, more so, by comparison... the world of Pitch Black was claustrophobic, truncated and small, while Riddick's was limitless... One criterion I have for my "favorite" films is, would I want to return to this world, these characters? As far as The Chronicles of Riddick goes, my answer is: Hell, YES!!! The dense, detailed mythology Diesel and writer David Twohy came up with deserves at least one bona fide sequel; it's a shame we won't get one. But, then, I'm still crossing my fingers for a Firefly BDS (Big Damn Sequel), too. I remain, as always... Nico.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5935 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5935 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt [Groan] Okay, you've been warned: SARCASM DAMMIT!!! [Grin] The 'K-9' I was referring to was a robotic dog on Doctor Who (either incarnation, though especially during the original's Tom Baker years, a.k.a., the Fifth Doctor. Holy shit, dude.   Nico.... (sigh).... what am I going to do with you? Forgive me for being so uncategorically anal, but when you are the offspring of Ivy Leaguers, it kind of comes naturally. Tom Baker, was, in fact, the FOURTH incarnation of the Doctor, and also the most famous, if you ask me. He was the one with the curly hair, the piercing pale blue eyes, and the nine-meter-long scarf o' many colors. He played the Doctor for seven seasons (a record), and is simply one of the greatest single characterizations ever brought to the small screen. He was so much fun to watch, to listen to, to absorb, to wrap around you like a comfy blanket, that you forgot all about the horrible effects and Hefty-bag monsters and cheesy music. I would put mid-to-late-70s Doctor Who against any sci-fi series EVER. I LOVED Riddick, in both movies, but especially in Chronicles Of. There have been many classic good/bad/good guys in sci/fi, but few have had the coolness that Vin brought to that character. He'd have whupped Conor MacLeod in under ten minutes, Judge Dredd in under five and would have had Paul Usul Muad'Dib Atreides crying for his mommy before the bell even rung. Part of me would love to see a continuation of the series, but in my heart I know it would be better if there weren't. And please, no goddamn TV version of it. (You hear me, Sci-Fi channel? Don't even think about it. Hey! Put that word processor down!)]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5938 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5938 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5945 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5945 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5958 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5958 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt Shrykester:
Nico.... (sigh).... what am I going to do with you?  
[Shrug] Cover me with Cheez Whiz and feed me to a bear? Tie me to a chair covered with honey, place me on top of a hill of red ants and make me watch Two and A Half Men? Read me Vogon poetry? Adopt me out to Britney Spears? Hell, I don't know.
Forgive me for being so uncategorically anal, but when you are the offspring of Ivy Leaguers, it kind of come naturally.  
The man has a point.
Tom Baker, was, in fact, the FOURTH incarnation of the Doctor... 
[Slapping hand to forehead] Oh, that's right. Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker. Davison. Sheesh. You'd think I'd left my kid strapped into the back seat of my car, or forgotten to pay my taxes, or defended Batman & Robin, or something.
...[A]lso the most famous, if you ask me. He was the one with the curly hair, the piercing pale blue eyes, and the nine-meter-long scarf o' many colors. He played the Doctor for seven seasons (a record), and is simply one of the greatest single characterizations ever brought to the small screen. He was so much fun to watch, to listen to, to absorb, to wrap around you like a comfy blanket, that you forgot all about the horrible effects and Hefty-bag monsters and cheesy music. I would put mid-to-late-70s Doctor Who against any sci-fi series EVER.  
That's nice. Would you like a jellybean?
I LOVED Riddick, in both movies, but especially in Chronicles Of. There have been many classic good/bad/good guys in sci/fi, but few have had the coolness that Vin brought to that character. He'd have whupped Conor MacLeod in under ten minutes, Judge Dredd in under five and would have had Paul Usul Muad'Dib Atreides crying for his mommy before the bell even rung.  
We-eeeelllllllll... I don't know about all that -- after all, who could possibly defy the thousand-generation kwisatz haderach of the Bene Gesserit? -- but, okay, fine. (I like Judge Dredd, too, btw -- the last of the era of brainless action films!)
Part of me would love to see a continuation of the series, but in my heart I know it would be better if there weren't. And please, no goddamn TV version of it. (You hear me, Sci-Fi channel? Don't even think about it. Hey! Put that word processor down!)  
SFC wouldn't be the place, I agree. However, Showtime... or FX... Yeah, for certain you're anal, but, on the whole, your points were "Very, very, very good, master!" No, I'm not actually calling you "Master." Six of 99:
Tell me this about Doctor Who: why was it that every alien planet he visited looked suspiciously like south English countryside?  
Because the Doctor's TARDIS had a handicapped-parking sticker that was compatible only on Wales-resembling planets. He'd been informed that the paperwork to upgrade his permit had been available at the local DPPS (Department of Planetary Public Safety) office, conveniently located at Alpha Centauri, for the last fifty Earth years, but he was always too sodding busy building robot dogs out of old Intellivisions and keeping sentient rubber from overtaking the planet and all that mess, to apply for the bloody thing. Kneebiter.
I liked the 7th on as well, he was goofy but it was all a front.  
Sylvester McCoy, you mean? Oh, heavens. He was like the British Tony Randall, or Roger Moore (wait, Moore WAS British, wasn't he?)... I always get them mixed up, anyway. "Off. Easy Off." To me the last "real" Doctor was Peter Davison (Five, not Six, and thanks again, Shryke, you feckless foister-upon-er of frivolous feats of feigned infallibility... [grin])... and Colin Baker, darn him all to Heck for having the temerity to appropriate his last name from the all-time, universally recognized, ultimate Doctor, made me want to stuff my cat in a paper shredder. [RoooowwwwwwRRRRRRRRR!!! Grindgrindgrindgrind]
Christopher Ecelston's Doctor just looks like he'll tear you apart.  
Yeah, 'bout time The Doctor was "dangerous" again, and not in a Michael Jackson-sort-of-way. But the new series still blows, it's too... American, as if it were produced by Brannon Braga and Robert Bielak. I remain, as always... Nico.]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5979 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#5979 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6086 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6086 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt Sunshine was nearly everything I could reasonably hope for in a modern sf film. Though there was nothing terribly innovative about it (the film channeled, variously, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and even, weirdly enough, Silent Running), EVERYTHING was exceptionally well-done and (unlike so very many genre offerings) Sunshine never aspired to mediocrity in so much as a single element of its production; nor did it for one moment underestimate the intelligence of its audience. Taut, tense and terrifying, it captured both the limitless wonder and the choking claustrophobia of space travel; it both shocked and awed. The performances were on the whole very good, particularly Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans and Cliff Curtis; though I felt some of the more ancillary characters could have used more development. In fact, that's ultimately my ONLY criticism of the film -- it left me wanting more of EVERYTHING. More dialogue, more effects, more insight into these characters who chose to dive into a fire both refining and obliterating. This was a crew I wanted to get to know much, much better. But, then, the very best films always leave me frustrated and begging for more, like a puppy who's been allowed to sniff a package of beef jerky, but not to actually tear it open and gnosh down its beefy, salty perfection. In a perfect world, Sunshine would be up for all sorts of awards, mostly technical of course, but also Best Cinematography and, perhaps, Best Editing. We'll see. I'll tell you this: I can't think of a film with superior special effects or sound editing. Danny Boyle ought to do more sci-fi. I can't say that of very many directors, espcially those who've actually DONE genre work, so, I guess I'll leave it there... If that 'Wall of the Universe' film (NOT to be confused with Wall-E) ever gets made, this is one of a dozen or so titles I'd make sure the cast and crew screened for inspiration... I remain, as always... Nico. ]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6153 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6153 GMT Re:Footloose :&lt

Nicodemus wrote:
In a perfect world, Sunshine would be up for all sorts of awards, mostly technical of course, but also Best Cinematography and, perhaps, Best Editing. We'll see. I'll tell you this: I can't think of a film with superior special effects or sound editing. 
Yeah, the shots of the sun and fire were simply amazing, I never had the chance to see it in theatres on the BIG screen, so I can't imagine how awesome that would've been, and that music, man was that swell or what? The scene where Scarecrow is the only one left and he's ejected himself from the Icarus and going onto the payload. The music PERFECTLY captured the moment. Swell!]]> http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6167 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6167 GMT Footloose :< http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6257 http://www.fantasymoguls.com/forum/posts/list/358.page#6257 GMT