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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 10:19pm on 19/10/2007 under , , ,
Cliffhanger is a bloody awful film. I know this, sadly, not only because I'm watching it now, but because I've seen it twice already.

John Lithgow is awesome. But he's much more awesome when not playing some bizarrely nebulous Euro-baddie.
Janine Turner, who was Maggie in Northern Exposure and is the reason for watching this film, does not sell straight very well. Though I would be more willing to buy it if she weren't supposed to be in love with (are you fucking kidding me?) Sylvester Stallone. I'm willing to buy him as an action hero, but a romantic lead? Not remotely. And she's playing a pilot and mountain rescue worker but she's the squeeling-est bird imaginable. It's offensive and I'm also not buying it.
The women, elder types and persons of colour are all treated as canon fodder, in a remarkably offensive manner. I'd completely forgotten that in the ten years since I've seen this.
God. This really is awful.

And in MUCH better news, thanks to the ever fabulous [livejournal.com profile] vanillafluffy, Go watch this on youtube. Hilarious John Winchester vid.
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posted by [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com at 06:18am on 20/10/2007
It's true. I am fabulous.


And so modest.
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 02:12pm on 20/10/2007
Who needs modest when you have fabulous? *g*
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posted by [identity profile] sadelyrate.livejournal.com at 09:11am on 20/10/2007
I have an aversion to Sylvester Stallone-flicks, so I hope you'll forgive me for not commenting on Cliffhanger, 'kay? :)

But that video... *glee*
It's one of the best things I've run across on YouTube!
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 02:14pm on 20/10/2007
I have an aversion to them too. I think this one and Demolition Man are the only two I've seen... He's AWFUL.

that video did make me so happy! I try to never go to youtube on my own, after a period when I would end up spending five hours at a stretch there, so now I only go on recs. And what a great rec that was!
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 02:14pm on 20/10/2007
I'm pretty sure it's only to be expected *g*
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posted by [identity profile] victorian-tweed.livejournal.com at 11:13am on 20/10/2007
LOL...why are you watching it?

I'm watching Bye Bye Birdie in all it's retro fabulousness. Ann Margret, Janet Leigh, the wonderful Paul Lynde. The big loud Broadway songs. What's not to love! :-D

I will check out the youtube goodness when I'm back on ADSL.
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 02:16pm on 20/10/2007
Janine Turner. I can't resist her. I had the hugest crush on Maggie on Northern Exposure for YEARS and she just calls to me.

I'm pretty sure that I will be able to resist from here on out though. Because damn it only gets worse.
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posted by [identity profile] victorian-tweed.livejournal.com at 09:13am on 21/10/2007
I was a Northern Exposure fan too. At the time, I kept pet mice, and I had a pair named O'Connell and Fleischmann :-)

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posted by [identity profile] milady1844.livejournal.com at 02:03pm on 20/10/2007
I remember sitting in the theatre watching the opening credits for Cliffhanger and when the credit "Based on a premise by" we started laughing, cause that wasn't a good sign. And ever since, whenever we see a movie where the plot's half-assed, we just say, "Based on a premise by..." :)
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 02:18pm on 20/10/2007
That's brilliant! :D

Damn Janine and her siren ways...

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posted by [identity profile] milady1844.livejournal.com at 02:20pm on 20/10/2007
Yeah, she's what kept me watching Northern Exposure for all those years!
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posted by [personal profile] zillah975 at 08:12pm on 20/10/2007
Oh man, I love that video! I've got it saved on my other computer (thank god - this one refuses for some reason, damned Vista) and it never fails to make me laugh. :D

Also, yes, even Janine Turner cannot come close to saving Cliffhanger. Just watch old NE eps instead. *nods seriously*
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 08:18pm on 20/10/2007
for a horrible moment I thought the video you loved was Cliffhanger. Then I realized :D

It totally makes me laugh every time. Um, not that I've watched in four or five times in the last twelve hours...

Sadly, old NE episodes don't seem to present themselves on my TV nearly so often as Cliffhanger. Ah, NE. Dad taped every episode diligently for me the first year i was in England and I watched them all in two days.
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