Name That Movie!

[RayThom]

[BoSoxGal]

No.

[Econoline]

(...giving Meade a little help...)

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[Big RR]

AAAARGH!

[BoSoxGal]

I'm just gonna share it here, with the next turn going to anybody who wants it:



It was fun, nothing extraordinary, but I've seen plenty worse films.

[Lord Jim]

Well, I see this thread is headed towards oblivion, so:



This is flick from the late 90s that I hadn't seen for a while but just watched again this evening. Stars some well known folks:

First quote:

What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No, I mean we shouldn't have to do this, it makes no logical sense, why is it here?

[MajGenl.Meade]

best. SF. movie. ever.

[Lord Jim]

Eight minutes, I believe that may be a record...

Over to the General...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Possibly #2 on that list of mine. . .

G: I'm a warrior, an assassin. I don't dance.

P: Really? Well, on my planet, we have a legend about people like you. It's called Footloose. And in it, a great hero, named Kevin Bacon, teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that, dancing, well, is the greatest thing there is.

G: ...Who put the sticks up their butts?

[Big RR]

That movie is #2 on what list of yours, Meade? Not one of my favorites (indeed, I'm ashamed to say I saw it, but I have a friend who loves this sort of film and he brught it over), but it was very popular so I'm certain it would be up there on many such lists. I'll leave it to someone else to answer.

[Big RR]

That movie is #2 on what list of yours, Meade? Not one of my favorites (indeed, I'm ashamed to say I saw it, but I have a friend who loves this sort of film and he brught it over), but it was very popular so I'm certain it would be up there on many such lists. I'll leave it to someone else to answer.

ETA: My saying I didn't care for it is a clue, which should be apparent to the regular viewer of this thread.

[Bicycle Bill]

Apropos of nothing, one of the characters in the quote identifies themselves as 'an assassin'.  Somehow, I think that is a trade or calling or job skill that one just might maybe want to keep, oooh, you know, sorta on the down-low?

It would be like 007 identifying himself as "Bond ... James Bond.  I'm a British secret agent with MI-6 and I have a license to kill.  But pretend I didn't say that... "

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

My list of best SF films. . . although I may have been thinking of Serenity (hint: it's not that)

. . . or 12 Monkeys and it's not that either.

[Big RR]

I did like 12 Monkeys, and I agree, it's not that.

And Jim, wasn't James Bond often identified as 007, license to kill in early films (usually by the Spectre people who met him, but also by M)? Indeed, he'd hardy be undercover since it looks like everyone knew who James Bond was and he never used an alias.

[RayThom]

[Bicycle Bill]

I did like 12 Monkeys, and I agree, it's not that.

And Jim, wasn't James Bond often identified as 007, license to kill in early films (usually by the Spectre people who met him, but also by M)? Indeed, he'd hardy be undercover since it looks like everyone knew who James Bond was and he never used an alias.

An interesting fan theory making the rounds is that the name "James Bond" was as much the alias/codename as the number (007), which is why there have been — how many?  Eight (I'm counting both Barry Nelson and David Niven here) different "James Bonds" now? — and when one "Bond" retires/dies, another person assumes the mantle in much the same way we have had four different directors of MI6 already, all identified only as 'M'.  (the same might be the case for Ernst Stavro Blofeld, which would explain why he is bald, chubby Telly Savalas in one film and tall, slender, exquisitely-coiffed Max von Sydow in another)

Hey, it's no more far-fetched than the given-as-canon explanation as to why 'Dr. Who' has gone through so many permutations without a loss of continuity.

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

New quote

Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.

Well, sometimes Ray's answers...but who'd want to catch 'em, eh?

[Lord Jim]

(the same might be the case for Ernst Stavro Blofeld, which would explain why he is bald, chubby Telly Savalas in one film and tall, slender, exquisitely-coiffed Max von Sydow in another)

Don't forget Donald Pleasance and Charles Gray...

[Long Run]

Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.

[Lord Jim]