On Jan 30, 4:08 pm, Jay Shell
earthlink.net> wrote:>> Film critic Matt Ulich put up a ghastly animated image to illustrate
>> the point :)
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>
>> Okay, so Ferngully wasn't... loved. I'm a total Kevin Smith about
>> this sort of thing, though. You pays your money, your pays your
>> dues. Watch the whole thing. Those of y'all who sneak into theaters
>> need not apply.
>
>> Terrence Briggs, who's actually gonna sit through Pinocchio 3000.
>> Hey, it was a free rental.
>> Peace to you...
>
> "Doogal" is the only movie (animated or not) I ever walked out on.
Doogal, wow! What a disaster that was. Didn't you walk out after the
butchered cover "You Really Got Me"? FIVE MINUTES INTO THE
PICTURE?!?!
The flick had some amusing non-sequitirs (sneeze and you'll miss the
Wu Tang Clan name check) and a wild action sequence between the two
wizards. The other 99.5%% of the film is a mess.
American script written by Butch "Fairly Oddparents" Marmel.
Depending on how you feel about FO, that's either an explanation of
the failure or a genius' brain fart. (See: Animaniacs' Sherri Stoner
and the Casper film for additional evidence.)
> I then wandered in on that twisted "Running Scared" flick (wow...
> for people who thought "Pulp Fiction" was too subtle).
"Filmmaking from the pelvis!", sings Quentin Tarantino.
"One of the year's best films!", praises QT-hater Armond White.
"Like rolling around in broken glass!", claimed some random dude from
Jim Emerson's Scanners blog.
Roger Ebert's review of the film is one of his most entertaining bits
ever. "It's so over the top, it circumnavigates the top and doubles
back on itself."
The movie's on my PSP, so I'll see if it doesn't suck. Hey, it was a
one-dollar rental and I'm only 20 minutes in. I got to see the
washing machine sex scene, at least. (Funny, it looked like a dryer
to me. Maybe it was a front-loading washer. Efficient... and prone
to breakdown.)
Terrence Briggs who doesn't get the De Palma reference Armond cites,
but I don't get half of the things he writes anyway.
