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Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2008 9:04:35 am PDT #4540 of 10000

Ann, that's a ferret.

is there such a thing as bad art?

That is, if it's bad, does it count as art?

If so, doesn't that render the label "art" as practically useless?

I'll risk a definition of "art" as "anything created for nonfunctional purposes." By that definition (and I won't say it's definitive), anything that's intended to be nonfunctional and (unintentionally) poorly executed counts as "bad art."

beekaytee - Mar 25, 2008 9:04:36 am PDT #4541 of 10000

Compassionately intolerant

Because Peter Cullen did the voice of Prime for both.

I didn't know that...which says something about how different my ears are now than they were then...or the resonance has taken on epic proportions in my memory.

Not that I didn't like the voice in the film, it just didn't make me all wibbly like it used to.

I'm just old and crusty I guess.

-t - Mar 25, 2008 9:05:33 am PDT #4542 of 10000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I tend to think of most of those Michael Bay movies (as listed by P-C) as Bruckheimer movies. And, the ones I've seen, I liked fine. Except Transformers. Transformers was just not spectacular enough, it did not wow me like I expected to be wowed.

-t - Mar 25, 2008 9:08:46 am PDT #4543 of 10000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Optimus Prime is Eeyore

Eeyore is Jewish

And Val Kilmer is Moses.

QED

Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2008 9:08:57 am PDT #4544 of 10000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think I thought Armageddon was fine.

3 words: Animal. Cracker. Scene.

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2008 9:09:39 am PDT #4545 of 10000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I really liked THE ROCK when it came out, but haven't seen it in years, and I suspect it would be retroactively tainted by SMARMAGEDDON among other items in Bay's "oeuvre".

It was a Nicholas Cage movie in which Anthony Clark portrayed a character so stereotypically gay (in a mocking, disparaging manner) that he made Jack McFarlan look like Ennis Del Mar. You can imagine how thrilled I was while watching it.

Dana - Mar 25, 2008 9:09:59 am PDT #4546 of 10000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

3 words: Animal. Cracker. Scene.

Two more words: Space. Dementia.

Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2008 9:10:24 am PDT #4547 of 10000

Ann, that's a ferret.

3 words: Animal. Cracker. Scene.

I am now earwormed with "Hooray for Captain Spalding!"

Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2008 9:11:35 am PDT #4548 of 10000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I am now earwormed with "Hooray for Captain Spalding!"

Isn't that a good? Certainly infinitely better than remembering that scene in ARMAGEDDON.

Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2008 9:13:44 am PDT #4549 of 10000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Two more words: Space. Dementia.

Now I want to hear Steve Buscemi doing Ren's ice-cream bar soliliquy.

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