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09 January 2007

Bad Movies The husband person just made me watch a portion of The Transporter. We couldn't take it anymore, so now we are watching Terminator 2. God, what kind of hell am I in?

post by: LoriFLA at: 21:49 | 36 comments

Watch Terminator II as a sci-fi reverse film noir and as a reaction to 1980s economic decadence and it becomes a troubling and often startling film.

/film jackass

posted by sciurus 09 January | 21:52

Thanks sciurus. I know it is highly regarded. I have seen it before, but that was long ago. My husband *loves* this movie. Now watching with a better attitude. :)

posted by LoriFLA 09 January | 21:56

I watched 'The Transporter' a while ago. I thought it wasn't horrible, except that it was so horribly mediocre--one of those decided-via-committee deals where it seems like everybody from the director down to the stuntpeople are phoning it in.

(Okay, it just occurred to me that people who only know me via Mecha must think that my taste in movies is absolutely horrible.)

Reverse film noir?

posted by box 09 January | 22:01

T2 was actually a fun movie as I recall. Not Citizen Kane, but a decent slam-bang flick.

posted by jonmc 09 January | 22:03

At least you weren't at a terribly awful off-Broadway show. At least in the privacy of your own home you can yell and boo without getting arrested.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 22:09

This is true TPS.

posted by LoriFLA 09 January | 22:12

The one good thing about The Transporter is Jason Statham's handsome self and the French Riviera.

I have been overloaded on violent films this week. Last night we watched Munich after we knew Florida was going to win the ballgame. Munich is a great movie, but talk about heart palpitations. I was a wreck.

posted by LoriFLA 09 January | 22:22

p.s. I'm writing this from jail.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 22:23

Oh my gosh, were you really arrested? I am not too quick on the uptake tonight.

posted by LoriFLA 09 January | 22:24

Yup, just me and my laptop, here in the slammer.

I was not arrested, but if it were possible to be on the internet while in jail, I think I'd consider a life of crime.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 22:26

So you weren't arrested, but you are in the slammer? Is the slammer home, or are you being held in an actual jail cell?

posted by LoriFLA 09 January | 22:33

I loved T2, and enjoyed Transporter.

posted by Eideteker 09 January | 22:33

I think this is becoming a scene out of the play I saw. How ironic.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 22:36

Well I feel like a party pooper dissing The Transporter. I am very impatient these days. I can't sit and watch movies like I used to, unless I am very interested.

Now T1000 is emerging from the linoleum floor, stabbed the guard in the eyeball.

posted by LoriFLA 09 January | 22:38

but if it were possible to be on the internet while in jail, I think I'd consider a life of crime.

Really? That's all it would take? For some reason, that makes me giggle.

posted by occhiblu 09 January | 22:46

Yup, just me and my laptop, here in the slammer.

are you dragging your mouse along the bars, singing 'noobody knooows the trouble I seeen...?'

posted by jonmc 09 January | 22:53

Yup, occhiblu, that's all it would take. That's practically what my life already is anyway- me and my computer, inside for hours on end. And in jail, someone else does the cooking! Sounds good to me!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 22:55

And in jail, someone else does the cooking!

Hee.

Would Twinkie get a little jailbird shirt, too?

posted by occhiblu 09 January | 23:00

Oh, most certainly. And all the other inmates would say, Twinkie, you ain't nothin' but a hound dog! And she'd say, oh no, I ain't nothin' but a 'huahua.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 23:16

All I have to say is ... Invasion USA. In no other movie can you see two characters get demoted from life by being shot in the genitals thrice (and spat upon, to boot).

posted by mac774 09 January | 23:19

OK, I'm so totally going to have that mental image of you every time I read your comments, TPS. Hee.

posted by occhiblu 09 January | 23:31

Ugh, the transporter. I like Jason Statham and I thought that move sucked bigtime. T2 is one of my favorites though, probably just because I grew up watching it.

I've been on something of a movie kick recently. I just finished Fearless (not so good) and I'm about to start From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (probably even worse).

posted by court siem 10 January | 00:04

Now that I think about it, T2 and FDTD2 both have Robert Patrick in them. He's better playing a killer liquid robot than he is playing a redneck bank robber.

posted by court siem 10 January | 00:16

I liked Fearless.

And Terminator 2. (But I haven't seen it in a long time so I don't know how it will have held up.)

posted by small_ruminant 10 January | 00:46

T2 is a quite stylish retread of T1. I like it a lot. T1 is of course an instant classic and I never tire of watching it. It's one of the best sf films ever made.

But you have to watch both of them as ironic commentary. T2 especially, but T1 too on a smaller scale, has this now watch this vibe, like when the truck goes over the railing. (That in itself is a nifty action set piece, set in the riverbed.) The whole galleria sequence, though, is definitely a spit-take on consumerism and wretched excess. What else? Oh, the marginalization of Sarah Connor, very much a commentary on the pill and conformity culture.

Even Patrick's cop has an angle of critiquing the authority fetish, and the ending sorta parodies Die Hard.

posted by stilicho 10 January | 00:54

I liked The Transporter. Maybe it was just me wanting to have his job. Get paid thousands of dollars to drive around in a custom BMW cooler than half of the recent Bond rides. The car gets parked in an awesome house right on the Mediterranean. Get jiggy with Shu Qi. What's not to like?

posted by Mitheral 10 January | 01:07

Ok, I just finished FDTD2. It wasn't too bad really. Pretty good for a B movie. Patrick gave a pretty good effort. Still nothing to write home about.

posted by court siem 10 January | 02:21

The Transporter was great -- but only for the first 15 minutes or so. After that, the real story starts and it's all downhill from there on.

posted by Daniel Charms 10 January | 02:30

I nominate Cliffhanger as the worst movie ever.

Scratch that, I just remembered Dancer in the Dark. I wish I hadn't.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 10 January | 02:45

I haven't seen The Transporter, but I want to if only for the lead guy. I did like Terminator 2, but recently I watched The Blood of Heroes after my SO got it on half.com. I thought it would completely SUCK, and it kinda did, but not so much that I hated it. Check out the cast... Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio, etc.

It isn't great, but it was done in '89. No CGI or other BS.

posted by lilywing13 10 January | 02:57

I nominate Cliffhanger as the worst movie ever.

Dude, that's not even the worst Stallone movie ever. Try Lock-Up - it's like Shawshank Redemption meets Cliffhanger. Absofuckinglutelyhideous.

posted by dodgygeezer 10 January | 04:49

I nominate Cabin Boy as the dumbest movie ever. I guess it's supposed to be dumb, so my nonimation is weak.

I saw Rocky Balboa a couple weeks ago and saw the trailer for Blood and Chocolate. My husband and I had a few chuckles and people were actually laughing out loud. For some reason the preview struck us as so silly. Could be a good movie though.

Balboa wasn't as bad as I had anticipated.

posted by LoriFLA 10 January | 08:19

but if it were possible to be on the internet while in jail, I think I'd consider a life of crime.

This reminds me of a friend I ran into downtown today. He told me that during a recent fight with his wife, she said, "The only reason I haven't killed you is that they don't allow cigarettes in prison."

posted by PlanetKyoto 10 January | 09:50

Terminator 2 is one of the worst movies ever made.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

Whoever wrote Sarah Connor's dialogue needs to be hanged, then shot, then burned, then buried. Even the unfortunate worms that make their way through the ashes will need to be rounded up and set ablaze.

posted by eamondaly 10 January | 14:15

Whoever wrote Sarah Connor's dialogue needs to be hanged, then shot, then burned, then buried. Even the unfortunate worms that make their way through the ashes will need to be rounded up and set ablaze.

Well that gave me a big chuckle. Right on eamondaly.

posted by LoriFLA 10 January | 21:09

Dude, that's not even the worst Stallone movie ever.

In which case I'm eternally grateful that, having had the unfortunate experience of watching Cliffhanger, I swore to never, ever, ever watch another Stallone movie.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 10 January | 22:10

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