Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:43 am
I'm afraid I'm with rec and musty (hehe can I call you musty?! aaawww go on 
)...I believe I've had this conversation with Taw before...I enjoyed A.N...and for a while it was definitely up there in my top 20, but I personally would never put it at number one! BUT! Taw raised an interesting point, which he didn't last time to my recollection....he saw it at the cinema on its first release and still remembers the impact it had on him. THAT is extremely relevant....I remember the first time I caught Pulp Fiction on the big screen - I was totally blown away - I was 19 at the time and I felt like Tarantino had summed up my entire generation in just over 2 hours of celluloid. Twas amazing. I got a similar rush a year later from "Natural Born Killers"...I believe that timing has a great deal to do with a movie's impact.
I must however defend "independence day", nonsensical b*ll*cks it may be, but it has nursed me through well over a dozen hangovers so it holds a proud position in my collection. A film doesn't have to be good to be good! (que?!) I.D.is pure whimsical sh**e, but has reasonable fx and has a script that is so bad its easy just to let it flood over you...perfect for those days when you don't want to think, you just want to stare...works for me
That doesn't put Highlander 2 into the same category though - that is just pure unadulterated ****. The script is SOOOOO bad, it doesn't drift over you, it stumbles and bangs your head occasionally. The fx are TERRIBLE. The storyline completely contradicts EVERYTHING that the first film told us - which makes no sense as the first movie was a massive hit??! On a similar scale it would be like taking "Goodfellas" and making "Goodfellas 2: The Quickening", in which a bunch of really nice, old, french men who like to play chess a lot, occasionally get together and play poker in a game called "The Quickening". ITS B*LL*CKS!
)...I believe I've had this conversation with Taw before...I enjoyed A.N...and for a while it was definitely up there in my top 20, but I personally would never put it at number one! BUT! Taw raised an interesting point, which he didn't last time to my recollection....he saw it at the cinema on its first release and still remembers the impact it had on him. THAT is extremely relevant....I remember the first time I caught Pulp Fiction on the big screen - I was totally blown away - I was 19 at the time and I felt like Tarantino had summed up my entire generation in just over 2 hours of celluloid. Twas amazing. I got a similar rush a year later from "Natural Born Killers"...I believe that timing has a great deal to do with a movie's impact.
I must however defend "independence day", nonsensical b*ll*cks it may be, but it has nursed me through well over a dozen hangovers so it holds a proud position in my collection. A film doesn't have to be good to be good! (que?!) I.D.is pure whimsical sh**e, but has reasonable fx and has a script that is so bad its easy just to let it flood over you...perfect for those days when you don't want to think, you just want to stare...works for me
That doesn't put Highlander 2 into the same category though - that is just pure unadulterated ****. The script is SOOOOO bad, it doesn't drift over you, it stumbles and bangs your head occasionally. The fx are TERRIBLE. The storyline completely contradicts EVERYTHING that the first film told us - which makes no sense as the first movie was a massive hit??! On a similar scale it would be like taking "Goodfellas" and making "Goodfellas 2: The Quickening", in which a bunch of really nice, old, french men who like to play chess a lot, occasionally get together and play poker in a game called "The Quickening". ITS B*LL*CKS!
