Redeeming the irredeemable
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Escushion
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 Re: Redeeming the irredeemable Yeah, it can be bad. I had the entire film memorized, every line, in 2nd grade. Fortunately my tastes improved soon and I started watching '60s Gamera films. On-topic: I think most of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is wasted opportunity, and really not funny or enjoyable. But the opening and the climax are worth watching it for. If the whole movie had even tried to approach how awesome those two scenes were, I'd love it and never stop.
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choconado
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable oh, I unashamedly love the film.
But I agree with you that the beginning and end are the best parts. (I'm assuming you mean the JB as a boy section, and the Devil fight, right? )
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable
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Professor Mortis: "By parroting nonsense .... you're embracing bullshit."
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choconado
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable They're also the best songs on the soundtrack too.
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Chocobo Tornado-Now unsulfured!
Troma is, in this regard, like Alexandro Jodorowsky, only with even less restraint and absolutely no pretensions of artistic integrity...--Peregrin, hitting the nail on the head.
This space for rent
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable Last Action Hero had that scene with the villain holding the magic ticket, and looking through the movie listings at all the horror flicks. He explained to the camera that he now had the power to go into those films and pull characters like Freddy Kruger, Jason and so on into the real world to create chaos. Sadly he never did, and one wonders why they would leave such a tantalizing plot morsel in the final cut of the film.
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable I love every damn second of that movie.
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable As I recall, they do use it to set up the ending (he pulls Death out of The Seventh Seal), but yeah, the potential is achingly missed.
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable Yeah, I hear you, paradox. But still...the awesome that would come of ah-nold vs. The horror genre...how can a novie producer miss that? The ultimate Hollywood good guy against the greatest rogue's gallery of villains...total misfire...
It would be so easy to work and succeed in Hollywood, sometimes, algunas veces.
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Re: Redeeming the irredeemable My guess is, the cost of character licenses had something to do with it. In 1993, it had been a very long time since Columbia released a horror movie that anyone gave a crap about, apart from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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