I dunno, I get all cuddly and humanistic when I smoke pot, so Anchorman would defintley be a downer for me too. “Jeeze, why is he being such a sexist dick? Doesn’t he know he’ll be happier if he just respects people?”
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I think my problem was that my state somehow stopped me from suspending disbelief. I couldn’t enter the world of the movie and just saw a bunch of hammy actors saying hammy lines for the camera. And when you see actors, not characters, everything gets a lot harder to digest, and the (largely deliberate) stupidity of the script just looks stupid, not funny.
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ThinkGeek is full of absolute China-quality junk. Like maybe most of it.
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Just because something is impossible doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t work towards it.
I don’t know if that is actually an unpopular opinion, but I seem to find a lot of people who believe that if you can’t guarantee a 100% success rate you shouldn’t even try.
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Pulp was the greatest band of the 90s.
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I missed hearing Pulp in the 90s…which may account for them being one of the only 90s bands I can stand to listen to now.
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Labyrinth was terrible movie that should never have been made. Dune was worse. I like Steely Dan.
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And the Dune mini-series?
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Cats are an ecological nightmare. People who have outdoor cats should be fined. After the third fine they should lose custody of their pet.
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There was a Dune mini-series?
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Two of them, actually…
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Funny thing is, in my experience, the opposite is the case; I’d say 99% of the time, people roll their eyes or groan if I tell them I love Labyrinth or Dune (but I do acknowledge that both have massive flaws).
And I get a lot of weird looks if I mention that I have a fondness for “Willow”, in all of its silliness.
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I quite like Facebook and don’t mind using it.
Also, when I come across something I don’t enjoy, most times I’ll Shut The Fuck Up and let other people enjoy their thing without feeling the need to tell them that I hate it.
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Maybe it’s an age-related thing? Everyone I have ever talked to about Labyrinth has mistaken it for a good film, despite the preponderance of evidence to the contrary, though most saw it when they were teens. Maybe it’s just David Lynch fans that like Lynch’s Dune. I’ve actually never seen Willow.
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I think Earnest Hemingway is overrated, and I think “On the Road” is boring.
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Well, I saw it when it came out, and I was 12, but I’ve seen it several times since then. I’m a huge Jim Henson/Muppet fan, so to me it’s a showpiece of some truly amazing puppeteering and puppet building, as well as being a time capsule of mid-80s music and fantasy. But no, as a film it doesn’t hold up well, and has a lot of the annoying cutesy stuff Lucas liked to put in his kiddie movies back then.
I haven’t read Dune, but I’m told that it bears little resemblance to the movie. It’s a very atypical Lynch movie, and boy is it silly and drags on forever, but it has tons of visual style and wacky acting and inventiveness, and I think it’s fun to watch. Though after watching Jodorowsky’s Dune I pine for what could’ve been.
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I’m going to go see a screening of The Bowie Bulge, aka The Bulge, aka Labyrinth here in a few weeks. First time I’ve seen it on the big screen in, guh, 30yrs. Sheesh, I am an old fart now… grumble grumble- consider this a proactive “git off my lawn!”
The little tune “you remind me of the babe. what babe? the babe with the power. what power? the power of voodoo. who do? you do. do what? remind me of the babe…” has been etched in my head since '86.
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I was over 45 when I saw Labyrinth. It’s no masterpiece but it’s a lot of fun.
A lot of genre movies fall apart if you scrutinize them too closely, so I prefer to evaluate them on simpler criteria: Is it fun? Is there something visually interesting going on (even if not perfectly executed)?
As I recall, Lynch’s Dune failed miserably on both counts. I laughed at the horrible matte shots, and fell asleep.
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I may have extra ire since Labyrinth was the film that caused Henson to abandon filmmaking, and I loved every film of his besides Labyrinth.
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Godfather Part 3 is the best one.
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