HW/OFF: oh how cool-Hawkwind/Captain Beyond

[mike coleman]

Michael, no these are quite american Quintan Tarantino films, and the first
one about the insane lady-basher driver should appeal quite nicely to your
jaded self
you'll love the end, I know I did.....(I bitched through most of the movie,
just like I bitch at almost everyone about everything)
I'll find out the titles, eventually
you must see that one though, it's bad-good

On 1/17/08, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> mike coleman writes:
>
> > M wrote:
> > > Well, while he's no great actor, and the movies tend to be very
> > > formulaic, they are at least mostly fun. I particularly liked "Under
> > > Siege" which they might as well have called "Die Hard on a Ship".
>
> > >True. His movies have something that makes them far more fun to watch
> than
> > >the works of van Damme, or Stallone, for that matter
>
> > *and then recently, enterTarantino: what was the one with Russell where
> he
> > bashes women up to death in his race car???
>
> I must have missed that one. Is it one of those movies with
> incomprehensible black street patois? I always switch those off in the
> first five minutes. It's hard enough to grok yank accents without them
> not even speaking English. There oughta be subtitles I tell ya.
>
> > and then the other one with
> > aliens where Tarantino himself has a dripping-off private part???*
> > now that's SUPERBAD
>
> Hmmmm.  You're not thinking of "Battlefield Earth" which is based on
> Scientology god L.Ron Hubbard's book and in which John Travolta (the
> actor and not the Director Tarantino) had some sort of thing dripping
> from his nose for the entire movie? I suspect it was supposed to be
> breathing apparatus but it could have been his Operating Thetan for all
> I cared.
>
> If so, I saw it as part of a comedy show in which three folks talk us
> through the movie like the robots in Mystery Science 3000. A lot of fun
> was had because this is a movie that is so bad that it's entertaining
> *as* a bad movie (as is Armageddon because of the abysmal science
> therein).
>
> Compare and contrast with "Kill Bill". I was assured by several people
> that this was a great movie. I watched at least 45 minutes and damn near
> lost the will to live I was so bored. The acting was so dire, the plot
> so hackneyed, and the action sequences so dull, that it wasn't even
> interesting as a bad movie. I've seen porn that's had a better script.
>
> I do watch a lot of telly though. Maybe I'm just fussy. Certainly not a
> lot of people agree with my movie reviews on facebook (feel free to
> try...)
>
> FoFP
>