gator dave and his horrible movie picks
Dave has the incredible ability to pick bad movies. The other day we caught Tomb Radier Cradle of Life on the big screen and woah.. wtf happened there?!? Bad, bad.. bad acting, bad effects... bad idea... tomb raider just doesnt work for me any more, pah so bad, so bad, so bad of a pick there Dave!
Then at the dollar theater this week we catch League of Extrodinary Gentlemen, which should be renamed League of Extrodinary Plot Failures, Bad Acting, What happened to Bruce at the bar and everything else that went wrong. LXG is a horrible movie. The only redeeming factor is not Mr Connery, but the lone two faced doctor, the good doctor Jekyle and Mr. Hyde. That was the only thing that kept me watching.
Mr. Quartermain left a dozen good friends back at the bar, Bruce included only to be blown to bits! The phantom man is M we knew it already, you played it out to us in M's introduction, I mean come on!! An arms race?! Sells weapons?? Come on, theres more to all of that, why is it that the league is so stupid?!
And whats with the sword of ocean being a foot wide and 984 feet tall? And how's that little explorer pod drive er work anyways, doesnt it just lean to one side? And how is it that Dorian the man that cant die, at his place, at his introduction all the baddiest just happen to show up, ummm do we smell a rat? not only that, but how is it that he can perfectly drive the explorer pod anyways?
And how is it that the invisible man gets burned over 90% of his body and yet in the next scene, hes fine!? Oh and where do the bullets go after Mr. Immortal gets shot with them? Do they just sit inside him? Least in Underworld the Like'end pushed them out of thier bodies forcefully. And whats up with the so fast action cutting you cant actually tell whats going on? Nemo was opening a can of woop ass but no we'll only have him on the screen for .45 secs at a time, just enough for you to barely make out the kick and then we'll cut back to the vampire that can walk in daylight.
Or back to Quatermain who can shoot really really really well but first let me tell you a sad story cause every hero has one, and why is he boss when his power is simply africa wont let him die cause he pissed on a voodooo camp ground?
And how is it that when all bad guys, all of them in dumb movies like this they get a sample of all the stuff they need to rule the world, and they dont even consider the aspect of "hey someone may come to our cool pallace of greatness and take us out in the next 12mins, so here, fedex a copy of the goods to by brother lammy in detriot..." no they never consider that!
Lame upon lame upon lame upon lame, never trusting the audience, never hinting at a possible notion that the story sucked or had some many holes, geeze.. blow $$$$$$$$$ on effects but never tell the people what the fuck was going on or why, and howd the car get in there.
And how is it when the car is first introduced i looks like maybe 3 people could get in it but all six of them seem to somehow fit.. thats a hilarious shot. Maybe Mini made it I dunno even then only 2 people inside should fit. Gah so bad, so bad of a movie... SO BAD!!!
Thanks Dave for yet again, another piss poor movie selection. Next time I pick ok.. geeze.
Comments
Ok, I liked the fact that the Sword of the Ocean was only a foot wide and 946 feet tall! And hey, have you ever pissed on a voodoo campground? Until you do, I don't think you can really reflect on the potential juju magic! But, yeah LXG sucked! Underworld rules!
Posted by: FreakyJimmy | September 26, 2003 01:40 PM
What?!? Are you kidding me? I'm kickin' your butt next time I see you. You picked this friggin movie and you had better come clean. Don't make me send Guido to visit. I'll admit to chosing TR2, but Americam Pie 3 greatly made up for the horribly wasted time in TR2 hell.
Okay, now down to business. While the movie was not the best ever to hit the big screen, it was a fun movie with well developed characters and very good graphics. While I will have to agree with you that LXG and Underworld are not anywhere close to similar in any way, LXG was definitely better for a number of reasons. First of all I give Underworld 5.5 of 10 stars and that is only for Kate in a catsuit and the werewolf transformation (althoug it's been done before). For LXG I give 7.5 of 10 meaning definitely not the best but better than some.
The characters were better developed in LXG than in Underworld, as I mentioned above and should probably mention again, and the storyline was as well. Maybe the whole premis of Underworld was to be lost and confused for half the film, but I like to know what is going on. In Underworld, it was not a sense of mystery, it was lack of development. LXG was moving the entire time and didn't seem 25 hrs like Underworld.
Come on, everybody likes sexy goth girls, especially me, but they are much better in the bedroom than on the big screen (that's a whole different discussion). I'm not gonna go on about for much longer... but wait, there's more.
Let's talk about 'bout bad acting. If it only takes one to ruin a movie we both know who ruined it in Underworld and it wasn't Kate. I also need to say the Sean Connery made this movie and I as well as many men and women alike would agree that Sean can make any movie good. If you bad mouth the legend again there my be an Irish Hammer to answer too. While the acting wasn't the best in LXG it's not supposed to be. It's seemingly a comic book story in novel form transformed onto the screen, I think it was done well.
In Underworld, it's the vamps vs. the wolves, and I might ask... where is the scariness. In the incredibly, very, very long entirety of the movie were was there one bit of fright delivered. NOWHERE!!!! And, yeah, the slicing of the head in half and then it falls off. Come on, at least slice it open surgecially and eat the brain like another horrible movie did. Long, long ride indeed... and it was certainly into the depths of hell... bad movie hell. They needed to take another $20 million dollars and hire some good actors and a better writer.
Posted by: Gator Dave | September 26, 2003 08:42 PM
yeah! i agree w/ what he said...
Posted by: black ballz the scrotum throated | September 27, 2003 09:22 PM
Yeah! Sexy Goth Girls! Yeah! Repeat the previous phrases quitely to yourselves in a sort of Beavis & Butthead tone...
Posted by: FreakyJimmy | September 28, 2003 05:04 PM
Ohhhh... Man!!! Don't believe the hype.
Posted by: Gator Dave | September 28, 2003 07:18 PM
Oh, man... don't believe the hype
Posted by: Gator Dave | September 28, 2003 07:18 PM