So If I Never Watch "The Fifth Element," Do I Get To Live Forever?

[snurri]

Fifteen Geek Movies to See Before You Die.

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[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, BB trumps Darkman, although it's hard for me to dis anything Raimi.

The Matrix was like geek porn, and I kind of hated it. It looked pretty, but it was all "I'm actually very important! I can download badassery into my brain! A pretty girl's love will save me!" Bah.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that pretty girls don't have all powerful love?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Maybe you don't know the right pretty girls.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Are we talking about religion again?

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

No, that would be the right *kind* of pretty girls.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I think I'm agnostic on both.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

It's curative powers re: bullet wounds are drastically overrated.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

The stuff inbetween the lines is what I liked best about Matrix, and the sequels subsequently ruined it. It could be my days of playing Shadowrun, but I love the idea of a ragtag group of more-powerful-than normal rebels fighting against and blank and corporate entity that is nearly omniscient.

It was like they took a hacker asthetic, of the misfits fighting the system, and gave it a hollywood polish. Neo should have been a 240 pound pasty guy with an acne problem and hard drives full of porn.

(Remember the scene in the beginning, when someone comes by and buys something from Neo on a disk? What could that have been but really kinky porn!)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

If Neo had been a 240 pound pasty guy I might have loved that movie.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

It would have made the scenes involving Kung Fu much more wild. It's easy to believe that someone with Keanu's build can by spry. Someone with my build? Not so much.

[douglain.livejournal.com]

He was pretty pasty though.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Pasty, perhaps, but he still weighed less than me.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Not with all that leather on, probably.

Him, not you.

[rnb.livejournal.com]

The sequels made no sense. The story was completely done at the end of the first movie. It didn't have anywhere else to go. So they changed the story. Ridiculous.

[scottjanssens.livejournal.com]

I didn't care for Darkman. I watched the whole movie wondering why, if his fake skin reacted with sunlight, he didn't go around in the dark? It was Batman by Day.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was totally a Batman riff. Mostly I like it for its cheesiness, but Raimi has made much better films.