Come Anticipate Tony Scott's Domino

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This is the only movie of the year that I want to see opening night. Christopher Walken, Lucy Liu, Keira Knightley and Tony Scott's cracked-out editing.

No irony here, I thought Man On Fire was the best action movie of last year.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

i cannot fucking WAIT!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chadd.org/

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I can wait. The previews look terrible.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

are you insane? they look amazing!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Bleurgh, looks like shit, and I liked Man on Fire. But I just hate Keira Knightley too much.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

keira knightley + black eyeliner = !

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Tony Scott gives me hives.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

mike h. OTM. Hotter than Katie Holmes in heavy eyeliner.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I wrote off Scott, too, until I watched Man On Fire and just revelled in the pure excess.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Haha Man on Fire was terrible.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Tony Scott is a malignant tumor.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

let's all watch charlie kaufman movies instead!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd watch a Tony Scott directed Charlie Kaufman movie. Maybe.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

you know you all love the soft-focus tony scott style!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

he has a great visual style!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

that trailer looks amazing!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

but if you guys wanna see a trailer with REAL visual STYLE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

MY NAME IS DOMINO HARVEY

I AM A BOUNTY HUNTER

WATCH ME USE TWO MACHINE GUNS LIKE I WAS DRAWN BY ROB LIEFELD

MY NAME IS DOMINO HARVEY

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Machine guns AND knives

ihttp://www.joblo.com/upcomingmovies/oneimage.php?id=29007&movie_id=398

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Machine guns AND knives

http://www.joblo.com/big-movie-images/picdomino-v1.jpg

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

she does like kind of sexy in the trailer.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

i mean, look

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

MY NAME IS DOMINO HARVEY
I AM A BOUNTY HUNTER
WATCH ME USE TWO MACHINE GUNS LIKE I WAS DRAWN BY ROB LIEFELD

MY NAME IS DOMINO HARVEY

like this is a bad thing!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Wait this isn't actually based on the Domino from X-Force, isn't it? Or is the Liefeld reference coincidental.

btw, this thread reminds me that I hate movies.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

more for me!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

you can have 'em!!

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

carl th. dreyer's domino

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

The film Domino - scheduled for release this August but now likely to be put back while Tony Scott, its director, adds a new, tragic ending to it - is likely to further confound the world’s understanding of its subject, Domino Harvey.
Before she was found dead in the bath at her West Hollywood home, Harvey had made clear her hatred of the film, starring Keira Knightley. Proudly lesbian, Harvey disliked what she saw as soft-porn titillation in the film and she regretted selling the rights to her life story for just £26,000.

r.i.p. domino harvey

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Surely Hollywood wouldn't be heartless enough to include her overdose/suicide/whatever in the film?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea Laurence Harvey had a daughter!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

!!!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea about any of this. Now I'm just mad that Tony Scott is the one making the movie. What fuckin' hack.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah, Alex, I only found out after reading the yahoo obit

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 1 July 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I AM A BOUNTY HUNTER

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I AM A BOUNTY HUNTER

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I. AM. A. BOUNTY HUNTER.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I AM A... BOUNTY HUNTER

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

― MY NAME IS DOMINO HARVEY (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I can wait. The previews look terrible.

Alex in SF OTM

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Tony Scott is fucking awful!

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.giftmela.com/images/48.jpg http://membres.lycos.fr/teleseries/hunter4.jpg

― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

these days i'd much rather watch a tony scott movie than another piece of shit from his brother!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.allthingschristie.com/archives/domino.jpg http://www.lowculture.com/archives/images/harveyw.jpg

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.agent007.nu/bond-domino.jpg

― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

bah
http://www.acclaimposters.com/_gallery/large/10103859.jpg

― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

tony scott's amazon short film ("agent orange") is one of the worst things i have ever seen.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

BOUNTY HUNTER ROLL CALL!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil_james.bruce/BOBA-FETT.jpg

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2004/08/12/149314/bhpic.jpg

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

WHO'S A BOUNTY HUNTER?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Domino! HARVEY!
Domino! HARVEY!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

How can you not love the scene where Generic Sorority Girl points out [Keira's] lack of boobage, so [Keira] breaks her nose? It's like... meta, bro.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

This will be approximately 400% better than A History of Violence.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

You people are weird. This looks wretched.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

the trailer made it look like an edgier, less watchable version of the tv bounty hunter show with "dog".

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

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― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

MY NAME IS DOMINO HARVEY

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

i will never in a million years persuade her indoors to see this.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

SAY MY NAME BITCH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

this movie is completely batshit.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i'll just say

IAN ZIERING. BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN.

AS. THEM. SELVES.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

DABNEY COLEMAN

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I think my growing acceptance of goofy and/or ultrapop music (see: Crazy Frog) has pushed all the rockism into the film-enthusiast portion of my brain and now I want to bludgeon Tony Scott with a shovel for this. (A shovel, of course, being comparatively mild a blunt object compared to the tent pole with a cinder block attached which I have scrawled the word "McG" on with red sharpie. But still. Fuck you, Tony Scott.) I just saw the classic late '60s Japanese Yakuza hitman/New Wave mindfuck Branded to Kill so any attempts to get me to see this celluloid gonorrhea are going to be met with repeated index-finger-knuckle-to-the-eye-socket jabs. On myself, maybe, if not to the person trying to coerce me to see it.

And now I've got that fucking Van Morrison song stuck in my head.

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

IAN ZIERING. BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN.

AS. THEM. SELVES.

wtf!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I can see this as a free preview this week-Should I do it? (I kinda hate KK in everything but Bend it Like Beckham, though)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

if you want your dome blown

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

good batshit or bad badshit though? I am leaning towards bad just based on previews but Brian Austin Green? He's still alive?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah i have heard bad things already

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

though steve sanders may sway my vote

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

i don't even know if the words "good" or "bad" are appropriate

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

oh , I am so there.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Would you call Man On Fire batshit in the same way?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I AM MALCOLM X, BOUNTY HUNTER

― I was CRYING when Magin Johnson did donuts in a magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

i would definitely call man on fire batshit in the same way.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

hands up if you knew this was written by donnie darko guy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

(man on fire was better though)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

considering tony scott hasn't made a good film in something like ten years i find it hard to believe this is going to be any good, plus everyone i know who has seen it has said something along the lines of, "stupid, awful, etc"

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Everyone said that about Man On Fire, too. AND THEY WERE WRONG.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

every bad thing people are going to say about this movie will probably be right, but that doesn't make it any less fucking singularly insane and weirdly fascinating

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

i took a dump once and filmed it in jittery, fog-shrouded 2.35 to 1! 15 million the first weekend!

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

MAN ON FIRE WAS FUCKIN GREAT PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW IT. YOU ALL KNOW IT.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

would have been all right if denzel had spent the entire movie actually on fire, like a walking tire yard fire, killing bad guys via lingering hugs.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that would've been pretty good too.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

then he could have had a whole string of fantastic one-liners:

"you're toast"
"do you feel the burn?"
"is it getting hot in here or is it just you?"
"you're fire"
"smoking kills"
"that's what i call a heated conversation"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

They already did that though, in He Got Game.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/movies/14domi.html

Manola Darghis liked it.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I did not go see this, after all.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't even want to see this, but the trailers have already got me walking round the house being all:
"My name is Domino Harvey and I am a bounty hunter" and "I want a little fun." Or "fahn" as you have to say it in the super-dooper jolly hockeysticks English accent.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

that says 'i want to see this' to me, anna.

― N_RQ, Friday, 14 October 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't really like action films. Plus it could have really bad consequences for my diction. I think I may end up speaking like Tara Palmer-Tompkinson for a week if I saw it.

― My name is Domin... (Anna), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Goddammit, now Ebert's review made this look like some completely batshit post-modern stroke of deconstructionist genius. What the hell?

― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I can not stand KK's plummy voice.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

TOM WAITS IS IN THIS?

"Then there's Tom Waits, whose songs are on the soundtrack and who pops up as a visionary denizen of the desert. He gives a ride to the bounty hunters, who are stoned out of their minds on mescaline and have crashed their van. They were fed drug-laced coffee by the mom who'd been watching "The Manchurian Candidate."

(sfgate review (bad))

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

uh-huh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

i'm telling you dudes, it's a trip

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

should I see this movie on drugs?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

hands up if you knew this was written by donnie darko guy

*puts hands up*

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

not both hands!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

anyway my final "thoughts" on this movie are that for a film that's so preposterously stylistically complex there's no damn reason the plot had to be as well. bad plot!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

+ her story is interesting enough w/o some dumb intricate heist

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I really love Roger Ebert. When he gives a damn, his reviews can be beautifully evocative without just telling you "this is bad, don't go see it."

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

i liked it. kind of gave me a headache, but it was good!

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

it was much better than i expected! pretty fucking weird, though.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

i have no fucking clue what i think of this movie

― anthony, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

i have about as much desire to see this as i have to get my balls bitten off by the ED-209 robot from 'Robocop'.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

im going to bed.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

This was kind of crazy, but not as crazy as Man On Fire (no rectal bombs, for one thing) - I like how the scenario leading up the dude's arm coming off is never spoken of again, no biggie at all.

Really could have been shorter - the Choco/Mickey scene in the hotel room was so unnecessary. Yeah, we get it, Choco's in love, some weird family/menage shit going down, etc.. Cut 20-30 minutes out and it's a much better and more enjoyable movie, I think.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Sunday, 16 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

bah so this bombed but i still want to see it. 'the gospel' is still hanging around in the top ten - has anyone here seen it? interesting story

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

WORST

MOVIE

EVER

SOMEONE

PLEASE

TAKE

TONY

SCOTT'S

COCAINE

AWAY

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 17 October 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't even cut that fast! There was nothing in this film as illegible as the fight scenes in Batman Begins, nothing as crazy as cutting in Ben Hur over Al Pacino's speech in Any Given Sunday and it looked positively normal compared to, say, Natural Born Killers. The only thing that came close was the mescaline scene, and that's a time-honored tradition of filmmaker-druggie BS.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

such a weird oliver stone moment

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 October 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

can we get into spoilers now?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 October 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

****** SPOILERS WHOA WHOA HOLY SHIT ********

***** HOLY SHIT SPOILERS ******

**** I'M GOING TO SPOIL SOMETHING. ******

**** OK WATCH OUT ********

ok so how WEIRD is it that the big climactic shootout is pretty much EXACTLY THE SAME SCENE as the climax of true romance?!

******* OK THAT'S IT ******

*******END OF TOTALLY MINOR SPOILER ********

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 October 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

I'll probably see this movie, but god damn her accent is annoying.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

Saw this over the weekend...

The bad: KK's constant "My name is Domino Harvey and I am a bounty hunter" neutral Eurotrash line.
The good: everything else! Mondo ultra-trash insanity attempting to masquerade as high concept. 90210!

Now I'm wondering if there really is a Sam Kinison memorial statue in Needles.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

No. There isn't a Sam Kinison memorial in Needles.
That happens to be where he crashed his car and died.

Sick joke.

BTW, does everyone agree that is movie is the worst piece of crap for the year?

― Adam S, Friday, 4 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

No.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 November 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Not even close.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

that cameron diaz toni collette plane crash was worse than this incoherent trainwreck.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

i think domino is more clever about race then crash was...

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

but not as clever about race relations as harold and kumar. plus harold and kumar is better.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

given

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

please explain

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

this is some incoherent, fucked-up shit.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 18 March 2006 07:07 (twenty years ago)

completely insane movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 18 March 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

but so, so awesome.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 18 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Saw this movie last week! IT WAS AWESOME WOW.

― Dan (SO MUCH FUN) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 18 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

i watched a few bits from this in the library the other day. crazy cuisinart editing patterns. like oliver stone, sometimes it's so off-the-wall hectic that it becomes interesting. also a pretty pronounced stylized color palette. i'm not saying it's good or it's bad, but i'm curious to see the rest.

― amateurist0, Saturday, 18 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I kinda think the ultimate difference between Ridley and Tony is that the former has a concept of 'taste' that the latter eschews. This is not meant to criticize either.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 March 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i don't see how anyone could have liked this film. 10 mill at the box office seems about what it deserved

― gear (gear), Saturday, 18 March 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I love the oversaturated color palette, it's just great to look at. It's sort of like Richard Linklater mixed with McG (the guy who did the videos for Smash Mouth's "Walking On The Sun," Fastball's "The Way", Sugar Ray's "Fly.") Hilarious/awesome.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

my film popism only extends so far

― gear (gear), Saturday, 18 March 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah i thought it was pretty boring to be honest. keira knightly is a kawful kactress though.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 18 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

verdict- kind of awesome. keira knightley should have been in aeon flux.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I actually thought everything about dude from afghanistan was completely hilarious.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

This movie sucked. And, no, Keira Knightley should not have been in Aeon Flux.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

So weird. Someone came into my office about 5 minutes ago asking about Domino Harvey and this movie. Serendipity abounds.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

What a weird thing to just be wandering about the office, asking.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

It was like the longest trailer ever for some other movie that someone should have made instead.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, OTM, that is how I felt about it. Was that green-yellow light/filter specifically applied to make Lucy Liu and Keira Knightley look like hags btw because otherwise that shit needed to go ASAP.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Lucy Liu in this vs. Lucy Liu in Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever vs. Lucy Liu in Code Name: The Cleaner vs...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Was that green-yellow light/filter specifically applied to make Lucy Liu and Keira Knightley look like hags btw because otherwise that shit needed to go ASAP.

Yeah, what the fuck. Casting eye candy and doing your best to make it unattractive is fine if you're making Monster, but not an action movie. Especially not an action movie that thinks it's a lighthearted romp but comes across like cinematic glitch-hop.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

The worst thing about this movie is that every complaint about it makes it sound awesome.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

i was gonna say, 'cinematic glitch-hop -- ja bitte'

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

that's exactly what i've been thinking! b/c i still haven't seen this and hold out hope for it at least being action-y
xpost

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

The worst thing about this movie is that every complaint about it makes it sound awesome.

I dunno. I haven't seen it, but I can't stand even the trailer. It looks overstyled to the point of being near-fetishistic, and formless. The kind of movie you're supposed to look at instead of watch.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

how come no one but ilx ever talks abt this movie i mean it sucks right i have not seen it

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

The kind of movie you're supposed to ~~look at~~ mainline instead of watch.

Fixed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

OK awesome things about this movie:
1. Christopher Walken
2. The scene where Keira Knightley punches 90210 in the face
3. for the most part, the casting
4. the main story arc is interesting

OK bad things about this movie:
1. Tony Scott et al has done everything possible to hide and flash up the story arc for no apparent reason
2. The entire first hour being nearly unwatchable

OK really, really atrocious things that tip the balance to just flat out "bad movie":
1. THE SOUNDTRACK, WHICH IS OMNIPRESENT, AWFUL, AND UNBEARABLE TO THE POINT OF RUINING SCENES COMPLETELY
2. the drugged out scene--fuck off, OOOER you're moving the camera all wonky like, now Keira Knightley's got her clothes off--this is different from the rest of the movie how? Oh right, because Tom Waites shows up for NO REASON WHATSOEVER. OK.
3. the fact that she keeps saying "My name is Domino Harvey. And I. Am. A. Bountyhunter." One time is one thing but to have that keep showing up throughout the film? It's not very good as a meme.
4. I almost busted out laughing at the nooooooooooooooo u killed my bitches nooooooooooooo gun fight at the almost very end.

It is completely overstyled to the point of wanting to shake whoever greenlighted the whole thing, shouting, "No one ever actually watches 3 hours straight of McFly and Hype Williams videos, please don't do this." And it's annoying because this could've been really good!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I had trouble even watching it. It would have been easier in the theater where I'd have no choice, but I'm not sure that's a selling point. I rented it when it hit DVD, thinking maybe I'd been unfair because I'd downloaded a screener and watched it on the laptop, but no, same problem. So much of it has an interstitial feel, like they're just doing a cutesy little thing that isn't working, and any minute now they'll go back to Showing You A Movie, but any minute never comes.

Ally is right about everything, except I don't think I'll give them much credit for Good#4, and I would have been okay with Gratuitous Tom Waits if the rest of the movie had been different.

Kids From 90s Trendy TV Show Playing Themselves And Being A Little Self-Effacing About It And Then Getting Punched is such a great thing that it pisses me off that this movie did it instead of some other movie.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh another bad thing about this movie is Mena Suvari popping up every once and a while. NO. GO AWAY.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I still go with what I said upthread.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

My brother is studying filmmaking and he looovvees Tony Scott. I absolutely don't get it.

I rented this movie and thought it was terrible. Then my bro gave it too me as a present! I still love him though...

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

this movie seemed like a very long superbowl ad. i thought maybe it was selling keira knightley but then at the end there was no 800-number to call.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I hear everything you guys are saying but this movie was still awesome.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I bought this cheap on DVD during the Tower close out. Still love the green/yellow color saturation.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 January 2007 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

worst movie.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 22 January 2007 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

EDGAR RAMIREZ!!!!!!!!!

― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:21 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

what

― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 04:05 (six years ago)

Downloading the Vudu app so I can watch this again

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 04:11 (six years ago)

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