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Originally posted by Static:
I like it. . .I do. . .but there's something that keeps me from being able to LOVE it.

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Originally posted by sanmi77:
and romantic comedys it had a good plot but the rest was horrible every one was the same , they meet they fall in love they fall apart the they get back together with this cheesey i was wrong and you were right speach( in every one ) and then they end up with a kiss. I would have loved it if it didnt repeat them selves over and over again.

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Originally posted by Spookyjesus:
Hang on while I pull the DVD from the library (why did I buy it when I hate it? It's great until the ending and I'm a massive Kubrick fan).

Ok - scene selection........frozen twin towers........alien lookin' things......

Hang on - they're acting very robotic all right..... yeah, I think you're right - fuck.

That kind of makes the movie a little better actually, maybe it's just misunderstood, I mean the bear is probably still the best thing in it but maybe the movie isn't as stupid as I thought it was.

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Originally posted by Spookyjesus:
I don't know - that evolution thing seriously changes everything I thought about it - for now anyway.


It's really rare that I don't "get" a movie and I didn't "get" this one appartantly - it's far to easy for me to blame Steven "the Beard" Speilberg for that but no - I will watch again. (and hate anew?)

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Cleopatra 2525 was better than his show,

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
One that gets me is Ladyhawke, it would be in my top 20 as a totally enjoyable little fantasy if not for the horribly uneven SCORE! The sometimes Parsons- sometimes North score almost makes it unwatchable. But I do watch it...with the sound real low. A shame.

Anyone got a love/hate relationship with a show or movie similar to my sad story?

Knights need no rock Chrisisall

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Static, I'm with you on Charmed, if it's on I'll watch and really enjoy it, but I don't hunt it down.

The not TOO Charmed Chrisisall

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
And what about Babylon 5, why couldn't I get into it? My friends said it was cool, but I couldn't see it.
Farscape either. I rented the dvd's and really tried.
It's always the same, I rent something (like Elektra-just ok) and I put on an ep of Firefly after to end my day on a high note.






The predictable Chrisisall

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
And what about Babylon 5, why couldn't I get into it? My friends said it was cool, but I couldn't see it.
Farscape either. I rented the dvd's and really tried.

The predictable Chrisisall

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With me, the key was getting through the first season for both shows. The first 22 episodes of each are more or less supremely crap, but if you can make yourself sit through them, you're used to the universe and then they really start to play. Each show gets uniformly better over 4 years. (There, they split - Farscape ends in an absolutely fantastic miniseries while B5 ends in a dissappointing 5th season, but that doesn't diminish the show's earlier greatness. And for Farscape, the whole show is worth getting to the miniseries, which is some of the best TV ever.)

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Thrawn, based on your recommendation I'll give it another try with Farscape, as long as it has a satisfactory ending. That was the only thing missing at the end of Dark Angel, you have to imagine some stuff that it left hangin'.
And I bought the first season of Alias, 'cause reviews were favourable, and I couldn't STAND the endless cliffhangers!!! I watched a whole disc and still felt like I hadn't seen an episode, just one long , endless streaming family soap opera with gadgets and super-seriousness that didn't fit with the goofy nature of the plots. James Bond movies (recent ones, anyway) are'nt even that straight faced. I, however, could accept all the flaws if I could just sit down with it for 45 minutes, and feel like I watched something with a beginning, middle, and an end.


The segmented Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Sickdude:
I respectfully disagree. Enjoyed Farscape a lot. However, one of the things that really bugged me was their continual tendency to 'lurch' the story. You started watching an episode, and something major would have happened that they barely spend three words describing. You might think you missed an episode, but you didn't. They just neglected to show occasional changes in situation. One example would be when Stark would leave to go his own way. Please don't ask me to think of another.

"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson

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Originally posted by Thrawn:
Farscape is my favorite non-Whedon show ever, I was just saying that the first season was bad. And I thought the tendency to lurch the story was clever, it really felt like each episode was just an hour out of every week of their lives, that there was TONS going on in between episodes. I never had any difficulty figuring out what happened by context. (That said, it is a show you have to pay attention to - you leave the room for a minute and you can miss something important. Which, really, is something else I like - I hate it when shows continually beat you over the head with recaps and summaries, I sorta like having to think as I watch.)

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Originally posted by Spookyjesus:
Hang on while I pull the DVD from the library (why did I buy it when I hate it? It's great until the ending and I'm a massive Kubrick fan).

Ok - scene selection........frozen twin towers........alien lookin' things......

Hang on - they're acting very robotic all right..... yeah, I think you're right - fuck.

That kind of makes the movie a little better actually, maybe it's just misunderstood, I mean the bear is probably still the best thing in it but maybe the movie isn't as stupid as I thought it was.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Here's another for me: Minority Report, another Speilby. I SO wanted to like(no, love) it and when I saw it I was so messed up by it! It had me goin' and when Tom confronted the (supposed) killer, tears were comin' outta me! What a perfomance!!
But then the end got tied in a nice Hollywood knot. The psychs escaped, Tom has new baby, memory of that other son or whatever happily gone...
And don't get me started on the 'eyeballs can't roll once there's no blood pressure to keep 'em round' thing.

And it was ALMOST a good flick.

The demanding Chrisisall

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Thrawn, based on your recommendation I'll give it another try with Farscape, as long as it has a satisfactory ending. That was the only thing missing at the end of Dark Angel, you have to imagine some stuff that it left hangin'.
And I bought the first season of Alias, 'cause reviews were favourable, and I couldn't STAND the endless cliffhangers!!! I watched a whole disc and still felt like I hadn't seen an episode, just one long , endless streaming family soap opera with gadgets and super-seriousness that didn't fit with the goofy nature of the plots. James Bond movies (recent ones, anyway) are'nt even that straight faced. I, however, could accept all the flaws if I could just sit down with it for 45 minutes, and feel like I watched something with a beginning, middle, and an end.


The segmented Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Static:
See. . .

Here's my problem.


We're all die-hard fans of a show that featured a high-school cheerleader-type who fought vampires and demons with kung-fu while trying to figure out who to take to the prom, etc. etc. etc. . .

But "Charmed" is tripe?

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

Knights need no rock Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:

I would prefer if Starbuck were a guy. Although I think I have come to like this new Starbuck as much as the original. I still think it could be played better had they not messed with such a fundamental aspect of the character. As far as the tough and cocky thing, I actually like that, and it seems to be done really well, I just think they should have considered doing it with one of the original female Viper pilots instead.

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Squee! How could I forget about Jack of all Trades? I watched that all the time, Cleo too.

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Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
Total Recall has a similar 'secret alternative explanation' with the Rekall tech saying at the beginning 'Blue Sky on Mars, that's a new one...'.

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