Summer Movies!!!!

[Woochifer]

The movie I'm most looking forward to is Batman Begins. Looks like a very cool concept of getting Batman back to the Dark Knight roots, and doing the back story of how Bruce Wayne transformed into a vigilante. After Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, the Guvernator, Alicia Silverstone, and (yikes) George Clooney grinded the last Batman series into a camped out mess, I'm looking forward to seeing a creative director/writer like Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) reinvent the series. This is his first big budget pic, and what I've seen from the trailers looks really interesting.

I'll most likely go see Episode III because I'm still breathing the fanboy fumes from the original trilogy. The first two installments have not been especially good, and in Lucas' effort to weave a more complex story, he drained the fun out of the movies. Episode II was an improvement over Episode I, but some of the dialog in that flick looked downright painful for the actors to recite because it sure as hell made me wince while hearing it.

One review of Episode II that I read had a rather amusing response for people who cringe at some of the bad scriptwonking in the Star Wars prequels. They suggested that to get through the painfully awful dialog with Anakin and Padme, the audience should insert the phrase "Because I'm on drugs!" after every line. I tried this approach while occupying time between battle scenes, and I was laughing uncontrollably. It actually fits!

"Anakin, I've always loved you ... BECAUSE I'M ON DRUGS"
"It's not fair! Obi-Wan's holding me back ... BECAUSE I'M ON DRUGS"

Episode III looks like it will be interesting, then again, I held out hope for the first couple of prequels as well. So, if Lucas is really serious when he says that Episode III will be like Titanic (which had its own cringe-inducing lines), then I might need to deploy that gag once again.

[MomurdA]

Batman 3 and 4 were probably 2 of the worst movies i have ever seen. hopefully # 0 will be better, but there is no way it can compare to Burton's Batman. Episode 3 better be worth it. Hitchhikers had better be as funny as i remember the books and tv series. War of the Worlds will some cheese on the lvl of ID4 probably. What is 2046 and 5-25-77??

[paul_pci]

The movie I'm most looking forward to is Batman Begins. Looks like a very cool concept of getting Batman back to the Dark Knight roots, and doing the back story of how Bruce Wayne transformed into a vigilante. After Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, the Guvernator, Alicia Silverstone, and (yikes) George Clooney grinded the last Batman series into a camped out mess, I'm looking forward to seeing a creative director/writer like Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) reinvent the series. This is his first big budget pic, and what I've seen from the trailers looks really interesting.

I'll most likely go see Episode III because I'm still breathing the fanboy fumes from the original trilogy. The first two installments have not been especially good, and in Lucas' effort to weave a more complex story, he drained the fun out of the movies. Episode II was an improvement over Episode I, but some of the dialog in that flick looked downright painful for the actors to recite because it sure as hell made me wince while hearing it.

One review of Episode II that I read had a rather amusing response for people who cringe at some of the bad scriptwonking in the Star Wars prequels. They suggested that to get through the painfully awful dialog with Anakin and Padme, the audience should insert the phrase "Because I'm on drugs!" after every line. I tried this approach while occupying time between battle scenes, and I was laughing uncontrollably. It actually fits!

"Anakin, I've always loved you ... BECAUSE I'M ON DRUGS"
"It's not fair! Obi-Wan's holding me back ... BECAUSE I'M ON DRUGS"

Episode III looks like it will be interesting, then again, I held out hope for the first couple of prequels as well. So, if Lucas is really serious when he says that Episode III will be like Titanic (which had its own cringe-inducing lines), then I might need to deploy that gag once again.

What also works to hilarious ends is replacing key nouns with "pants."

"Anakin, I've always loved pants."
"It's not fair! Obi-Wan' holding my pants."

I'm too lazy (and I don't own I or II) to provide my own examples.