Movie Death Match 2007 tuh 2008

14. Edward Scissorhands v 19. Space Camp

Space Camp was Joel's favorite movie when he was a kid. He used to watch it whenever he was home sick from school. At one point the spaceship doesn't have enough oxygen to get home, and the Nasa engineer explains that it is because "this bird wasn't flight-ready." Little Joaquin Phoenix also becomes friends with a robot named Jinx after helping to repair his wires or something. When he fixes him, he tells Jinx that "Max and Jinx are best friends forever". And then Jinx overhears Max, in a moment of despair, saying that he just wishes he could go to space. So Jinx waits for all the kids to sit in the shuttle for a fake, space camp "test drive", and then loads a program that actually launches the shuttle to space. And while he's doing it he repeats "Max and Jinx, friends forever" in robot voice. I agree with Joel these are funny quotes, and that I probably would have watched Space Camp as much as he did if I'd known about it as an eight-year-old. But I also think that Tim Burton has never made a better movie than Edward Scissorhands, and that he probably never will. So I guess I'm just not ready to vote against it.

Labels: Edward Scissorhands