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> "Gordon" <moiner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Gordon <moiner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > In article <Xns95723217CF3C7fkjdlkvjcxoiuarepoij@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> > Subject: Worst movie not MST'ed
> >> >>
> >> >> "Pieces" with Linda Day George--so bad it's good.
> >> >
> >> > "Hellboy" is right up there, too. Most likable character is the
talking
> >> > Russian decomposed cadaver.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hellboy was a masterpiece next to Pieces.
> >
> > It's funny: individually, these words are English. Together... ?
> >
> >> Actually I liked Hellboy, not
> >> Del Toro's best, but I always chuckle when I think of him picking up
the
> >> phone and ba****ng the monster with it.
> >
> > My wife and I racked our brains desperately trying to find a way to
make
> > sense of the movie, but it just doesn't work. The fellow who'd brought
it
> > over to watch for a movie night actually suggested quitting it halfway
> > through the showing. let's just say that the next film of the night
was
> > much, much better received-- and that was Broken Lizard's Super
Troopers.
> >
> What was so confusing about Hellboy?
One of the things that troubled us:
We couldn't figure out why the occult expert who warned them of what
might come through the Hellgate didn't kill the demon that came
through("Watch out, some hideous evil might come through!" "There's one
now, sir." "Oh N000ze, don't kill it! Give it a candy bar!"), but adopted
it and protected it, despite the fact that every time it acted, it went
off on a wild hare, got everyone around it killed or worse, and was
utterly incompetent to carry out its pur****ted job. I mean, if the makers
had established that it had charmed or dominated the old geezer somehow,
we could have bought it-- but instead we were asked to believe that this
brilliant fellow WHO WARNED EVERYONE ELSE ABOUT THE EVIL didn't have the
sense God gave the common dog. Meanwhile the monster in the film
destroyed every living thing around it, and somehow I got the vague
impression we were supposed to like it or be impressed by it.
We were also supposed to dislike, I believe, the only government agent
who showed an inkling of common sense (played by Jeffrey Tambor).
--
Gordon
"I have just as much authority as the Pope.
I just don't have as many people who believe it."
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