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#4001 Aptorian

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 08:33 AM

Anomander, on 28 March 2010 - 03:17 AM, said:

Apt, I refuse to accept any criticism from you when it comes to taste in movies/actors/etc.

I have impeccable taste when it comes to movies. It is simply that the members of this forum have no idea what a good film is...

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 08:49 AM

I'm pretty sure you are outgunned there, Apt. This forum actually reflects fairly broadly held tastes.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#4003 Aptorian

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 10:19 AM

It's a crazy world out there, somebody has to serve as the last bastion of good taste.

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 10:32 AM

OK, I watch Lady in the Water. As many of you may remember, I'm one of the biggest M. Night Shamalamamamaman apologists out there. I even liked The Happening. But dear God, this was a dumb movie. Just bad on so many levels. Giamatti was the only thing this moviie had going for it. M. NIght;s worst movie.

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#4005 Aptorian

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 10:45 AM

Worse than the Happening?

EDIT: Never mind, you said you liked the happening.

This must be a very bad movie.

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 12:54 PM

Apt you have as much taste as my dog.
I've watched him eat his own vomit, and wag his tail whilst doing it

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 12:56 PM

Have you tasted your dogs vomit? You might be missing out on a treat, you know...

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 12:58 PM

I'm not

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 05:36 PM

I think I've gots to agree with the Apt... Oceans Twelve was just dildos.

Of course, not one of those three has anything on The Sting.

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 06:43 PM

Jusentantaka, on 28 March 2010 - 05:36 PM, said:

Of course, not one of those three has anything on The Sting.

Hear, hear.

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 09:14 PM

Aptorian, on 27 March 2010 - 05:12 PM, said:

Anomander, on 26 March 2010 - 10:24 PM, said:

4. Ocean's Twelve. A great ensemble cast, not as good as Ocean's Eleven but I preferred the European setting.

5. Ocean's Thirteen. An enjoyable end to the trilogy but definitely the weakest film of the bunch.

Thirteen is the weakest? Are you kidding me?!

Ocens twelve was so bad that even now, so many years later I become angry when thinking about it. It's up there among Spiderman 3 and Terminator 3 it the category of the shittiest of shitty manuscripts.

They have this really poor attack plan that gets them caught, then the B team does a really crappy attempt at rescuing them and wind up arrested as well, only Matt Damons legendary super criminally clever parents save their asses. Then there's this weird final scene where Clooney reveals it was all a ploy to trick the sleazy frenchman. You see, they meant to get caught by the police and registered by Interpol, it was all a part of their plan.

What. Utter. Bullshit.

The third one was okay, but only really seemed that way because 12 was so bad.

By god, I agree with Apt about a movie. Hide ye heathens, soon sulfur will rain from the sky

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Posted 28 March 2010 - 09:44 PM

Im not going through this entire thread right now, but has anyone else seen 'Let the Right One In?'

Swedish film about a wierd hermaphrodite/androgenous? vampire girl who makes friends with a schoolboy.

Very atmospheric and underplayed, loved the ending!

So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 06:22 AM

Traveller, on 28 March 2010 - 09:44 PM, said:

Amazing movie and creepy as shit. Not really looking forward to the US version in the fall however.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 08:09 AM

Traveller, on 28 March 2010 - 09:44 PM, said:

Its been showing at a little cinema around the corner for a while now. Love the cinema as you can drink beer in it

Been dying to see it but the GF dont want to

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 08:09 AM

Traveller, on 28 March 2010 - 09:44 PM, said:

Hermaphrodite/angrogenous? Where did that come from? I thought she was just a little girl. Did I miss something?

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 08:13 AM

Ocean's 11, 12 and 13 are something of a cosmic anomaly. They managed to put a truckload of big names and great actors into these films, and they're still pretty shitty. All three of them. They did an amazing job at wasting time and money.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 08:14 AM

Watched LADY VENGEANCE on the weekend, great movie... very different tone to OLDBOY but i gather its because there is a female protagonist.
Now i just got to watch SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE and id have seen the entire revenge trilogy!

Anybody seen it?

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 09:27 AM

Mezla PigDog, on 29 March 2010 - 08:09 AM, said:

Traveller, on 28 March 2010 - 09:44 PM, said:

Hermaphrodite/angrogenous? Where did that come from? I thought she was just a little girl. Did I miss something?

It's implied but never actually stated or explained. The scene where she's shown to have a what appears to be a scar leading to assumptions she's be sown up, ect. The book I believe goes into much more detail concering her backstory as well as establishing that she is 'androgenous' and several hundred years old. Just as the issue of pedophilia is largely left vague in the movie and made much more implicit in the book. Also interestingly enough, the girl playing the role had her voice dubbed with someone older and considered less 'feminine'.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 10:13 AM

Regardless of what it says in the book she's not androgynous in the film I don't think - amazing flick though.

I'm gonna hit the cinema big time this week.

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 11:12 AM

I'm going to go out on a limb here and agree with Apt on the Ocean's franchise:
11 - Very good
12 - utter, utter crap. As in considered suicide by donating brainz to Abyss type crap. Decided against it because I thought my extra polluted thinkymeatz might give him the runs.
This is as opposed to my normal level of polluted thimkymeatz.

13 - good, but it's mostly because you were so appalled by 12

And I have seen Ben Hur maybe 5-6 times. Awesome film, even these days.

Which begs the question: Who is the modern equivalent of Charlton Heston at the top of his form?

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