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#2281 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 06:25 AM

Just watched Taxi Driver for the first time ever, somehow. It was good. It suffered from overhyping though, I've heard for the past 20 years it's the best movie ever. It was good, but not the best ever.

Agree about Juno and Sweeny Todd.

Eastern Promises was pretty good. The Russian mafia thing was a nice change of pace from the italians, and Russian culture fascinates me.

Saw Awakenings today too. Good stuff, gets pretty sad.

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#2282 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 05:20 PM

Need some more good movies to add to my Amazon DVD rental list. Any ideas? I have been browsing a couple of the pages here, but I can't be bothered to read back through tons of chat about it.

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#2283 Darkwatch

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 07:02 PM

Don't rent "In the Name of the King" I watched it with friends last night because the video store didn't have "Heavy Metal". The only redeeming thing about that movie was the fact that as cynical gamers we kept making gaming jokes about the whole thing.

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#2284 Obdigore

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 07:05 PM

Darkwatch;312414 said:

Is that the Jason Stathom movie about... dungeon seige I think? If so, I heard it was horrible, and not horribly good like the evil dead movies.

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 07:17 PM

Obdigore;312418 said:

Is that the Jason Stathom movie about... dungeon seige I think? If so, I heard it was horrible, and not horribly good like the evil dead movies.

Yes it is that movie, and yes it is bad and not in a good way.

Comments started off like this:

"Man that's one hot looking peasant woman."
"Well she's signed her death warrant."
"Wait you forget the golden rule in bad hero movies, the boobs always survive"

After that point the wife had been renamed Boobs.

"What... Is that Ron Perlman?"
"You mean Hellboy?"
"Yeah."
"Yes it is."
"What the fuck is he doing in this film?"

"Man she doesn't look so good"
"She needs a remedy... A long hard remedy, from Ray Liotta"
"That was disturbing"

"Hey isn't that Blood Rayne, stripper climbing down the vine?"
"Yep"
"Wait are all the rangers women?"
"It would appear so and they're manhating valkyrie rangers."

"The orcs are look like they're wearing solidified shit for armour."

"The tactics of the orcs are stupid, charging up a dirt slope in a rainstorm, all the humans have to do is hold position and... So I give the humans two minutes before they charge like morons."
"There we go"

"Dude, are those ninjas?"
"Yes"

"Burt Reynolds is the king..."
"I weep"

"Did he just pick up a chick in an orc dungeon?"

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#2286 Obdigore

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 07:41 PM

So what you are saying is pick up the movie, get some alchohal, and pull a MST3K on it?

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#2287 Darkwatch

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 08:19 PM

Obdigore;312447 said:

So what you are saying is pick up the movie, get some alchohal, and pull a MST3K on it?

Basicly, though any mood altering substances will do.

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#2288 Illuyankas

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 10:48 PM

So, I got M. Night Shymalalandnjasifvpdiuhfdg's new film, The Happening, spoiled for me by a video marked New Trailer. It was exactly what I was expecting to happen just from watching the first trailer. WHAT A TWEEST is losing any remaining touch he may have had.

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#2289 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 11:57 PM

OK then, DW I read your list of reasons why I shouldn't watch this film, and I was thinking "Well it sounds fairly awful, I will avoid it." Then I read this:

Darkwatch said:

"Dude, are those ninjas?"
"Yes"

I need to watch this film.

Oh, and "Heavy Metal" is a great movie.

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#2290 Thelomen Toblerone

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 12:25 AM

Just saw Iron Man again.

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 12:57 PM

I became catatonic after the word 'Boobs'...

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:21 PM

ensure it doesnt happen again

#2293 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:17 PM

Just saw the film "Fracture" with Anthony Hopkins and it was fabulous! It is a gritty legal thriller about a guy who kills his wife, admits it, but is a genius and no-one can find any evidence (sounds like it doesn't make sense, but you need to watch it - I don't want to give away any spoilers.)

Also, last week I watched "Goya's Ghosts" with Natalie Portmann and Javier Bladem. It was a strange film, but it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be Portmann and Bladem were both excellent in it, but the plot got quite boring in the middle. Still, worth a watch!

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