Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> >
> > I love Mystery Men.
>
> Mystery Men was a great movie.
>
> What sold me on Mystery Men was that the characters were
> very much the kind of characters my role-playing-game friends
> would have come up with, only a little better. I can name
> which character matches which friend's style. For example,
> Invisible Boy was a rules-lawyer/rules-rapist character.
> The point-level of the game made a power such as invisibility
> much too expensive to get, so he made the power virtually
> useless just to be able to say he had invisibility. There
> was the disgusting-bodily-functions character, the powerful
> but seemingly insane character (who yells at her bowling
> ball), and so on.
I think the best ridiculous superhero power I've heard of (and I'm not
quite sure who came up with this one) is the ability to change someone
else's internal soundtrack. So if you get stuck on, say, a David Lee
Roth song, the superhero could change it to something different. Not
necessarily better, just different. :)
> > I love Galaxy Quest.
>
> Did you know that the DVD has a Thermian language soundtrack,
> which is pretty much nothing but that screaming/inhaling noise
> spoken by the ship's crew. I wasn't able to watch it to the
> end to see if there are any easter eggs, though.
I haven't checked out that feature. (That was the first movie Dan
bought on DVD after he bought the DVD player.)
Julia
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