Irony in Titles

[bcholmes]

So... Fantastic Four isn't the worst movie I've seen.

Uhm...

Wait.

Hmmmmm...... Ah. Resident Evil 2. Yes (she says with more confidence), Fantastic Four isn't the worst movie I've seen.

Crash, on the other hand, was fantastic.

Comments

[deepforestowl.livejournal.com]

LOL I'll defintely go to the matinee then.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Have you inflicted Event Horizon on yourself yet? I walked out of that one. I'd be tempted to walk out even if it were showing in my own house.

F4 is actually on my list of "Matinee or rental"...

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Oh Gods, that was awful.

"Horror" by virtue of standing behind somebody and yelling boo.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Was that the one with the actor that we all dubbed "Space Axel"?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That's the one.

Terrible movie. And not in a good way.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the way I summed it up to somebody was, "I wasn't so much afraid of the story as I was afraid of the movie itself." I was really ticked off by the repeated use of quietquietquietquietquietquietquietquietLOUDSOUND!!!! and much more egregiously, darkdarkdarkdarkdarkdarkwithsomethingyoureallyneedtostraintoseeSUDDENFIVEFRAMESOFPUREWHITEFORNOREASON!!!

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I have seen Event Horizon and, yes, it sucks pretty large.

There are only two films I've been tempted to walk out on, although there have been some DVDs I stopped watching. I recently rented Alone in the Dark, ferinstance. Dreadful. I couldn't finish it.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

You know, I have to agree that Event Horizon was in the bottom ten or so for me. The reason for me isn't that it was continuously abysmal, but because I though that for the first little while it was shaping up to be so cool and then it became abysmal. That sharpened the disappointment for me.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see how you'd like Crash. I was really knocked out by it, and I did a review some weeks ago--

I actually liked The Fantastic Four. I've been reading the comic book since I was 11 or so, and they did a very good job of capturing all the characters, I thought. The plot is ehhh, I admit. Oh, I also thought they did a good job of using our expectations in creative ways, like in what Johnny says to Ben when he first wakes up in the hospital. I can name dozens of films I consider worse than FF, including both Resident Evil films (& I have a thing for living dead movies, too).

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I might have agreed with your assessment (I haven't seen Crash, but the former part of it), except that I have to admit to being highly amused by watching City Hall get generally shot up and destroyed. I'm not even sure why -- I don't have any animosity for the local government of any particular strength.

[annburlingham.livejournal.com]

Fantastic Four was a helluva good drive-in movie. Even the babies thought so.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

You, apparently, have never seen either Dracula 2000 or Dungeons & Dragons.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I have seen D&D

I had forgotten that I had seen D&D

Until now.

BAD Northbard.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

It's not just the dead that can be revived..oh no. So can repressed memories of Jeremy Irons, filing his teeth on badly painted scenery...