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#1061 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 01 January 2006 - 05:06 PM

Still need to see King Kong...
I saw Dodgeball for the second time with my g/f the other evening. It is wonderfully silly that film!

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Posted 01 January 2006 - 08:55 PM

I truly did like Equilibrium, but then I'm a fan of the guy being the main character

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Posted 01 January 2006 - 08:59 PM

Watched "Batman Begins" last night on DVD again. Closest any movie has come to what Batman is really like (in the comic world). He's dark, he's scary, he's not exactly operating within the law. And the acting (except the eternally insipid Katie Holmes) was great; no hamming or camping it up. Just solid performances with depth.

We tried to see "Walk the Line" a couple nights ago but a snowstorm changed our plans. Ended up staying home, drinking beer, eating BBQ, and watching "The Ref". A fine holiday movie with such positive family values. And just having Dennis Leary, Kevin Spacey, and Judy Davis together in a movie is a treat.

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Posted 03 January 2006 - 06:41 PM

watched batman begins and that was bloody awesome!! soooooo much better than i expected although the only down point was that it had katie holmes in it but other then that it was ace!

watched narnia aswell, was disappointed. the only good point about it was aslan and the music

watched kingdom of heaven and i absolutely loved it, it was fantastic!! orlando bloom wasnt annoying for once (thats because he didnt talk much)

equilibrium was great and i'm looking forward to pirates of the caribbean too

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Posted 04 January 2006 - 09:30 PM

Ain't watched Kingdom of heaven. Heard it wasn't as good as expected. What were the highlights? Besides orlando not talking much.

Also recently watched vanhellsing anime and exorcism of amy rose, both really creepy but somehow worth it.

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Posted 05 January 2006 - 12:38 PM

Kingdom of heaven isnt that Bad really.
Ridley Scot did it and I would say Gladiator was better than KoH.
But its still worth seeing on Dvd, maybe not so when it was on the movies though.

Went and Rented mr and mrs smith yesterday.
Worst movie EVER. I mean I was expecting at least some sort of story or something like that. there is literally NO story, I kid you not.
2 assassins marry each other, 5 years later they find out their both assassins, some pretend killing follows, they decide to stay married and not kill each other.
There was very little comedy, Brad Pitt seemed like he was trying to make the odd part funny. Sort of succeeded.
ALL the action was just straight out unbelievably crap and BS.

Biggest waste of 2hrs of my life.

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Posted 05 January 2006 - 03:06 PM

Tiste Simeon said:

I saw Dodgeball for the second time with my g/f the other evening. It is wonderfully silly that film!

I was channel hopping the other night and came across a film called "Heavyweights" that was weirdly hilarious. It was basically a kids film about kids at Fat Camp. Ben Stiller was the guy in charge of them losing weight. It must have been where he got the inspiration for his character in Dodgeball because he was a bit of maniac and tortured them and all sorts of terrible stuff. Seeing a load of fat kids chase after a cow with sticks because they're starving was really really funny! Does that make me cruel? In my defence, they were American kids.

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Posted 05 January 2006 - 03:47 PM

Morgoth said:

I truly did like Equilibrium, but then I'm a fan of the guy being the main character

Well the plot stretches a bit thin in places but I am a big fan of Christian Bale, thought he was excellent in American Psycho, so-so in Reign of Fire, excellent in Batman Begins and I am looking forward to seeing the Machinist as well. Of course he's done loads more besides but I think he's pretty underrated.

Although they are both old 80s movies I watched Fletch and Fletch Lives the other day and I have to say I think they are brilliant, I know they use some artistic licence for the first film compared to the book and the 2nd is entirely made up but they are funny films and Chevy Chase has a field day in them.

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Posted 10 January 2006 - 03:03 PM

I saw "Grizzly Man" on DVD. It's a documentary about Timothy Treadwell, an activist who spent 13 summers in Alaska living with grizzly bears. Treadwell was a fascinating, bizarre, and slightly disturbed person who treated the grizzlies like pets - and was eventually killed by them.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 12:26 AM

Okay, I just watched Open Range starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall for the first time in about a year and a half. Man, I love that movie. Bugs me that more people didn't see it. Great film...

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 12:39 AM

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Okay, I just watched Open Range starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall for the first time in about a year and a half. Man, I love that movie. Bugs me that more people didn't see it. Great film...

I saw in theaters when it came out. The gun fight was absolutely amazing with those big speakers booming like crazy.

I saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou a couple weeks ago. I loved it. It's one of my all time favourite movies now. So awesome.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:36 AM

Yes. Though not by any stretch the only excellent part of the film, the gunfight may be my favourite ever. It was brutal in a way that I've never seen in a Western before. Not gory, because it wasn't that. It wasn't Wild Bunch type excess. It was just brutal. There was no music during the whole thing, which I think was key. I never thought Kevin Costner would be able to pull off menacing (ever seen The Bodyguard?), but he did it here. And the villagers slowly plucking up the courage to take back their town? Awesome.

I resisted seeing The Life Aquatic for quite a while, because I liked Royal Tennenbaums so much that I didn't want to see Wes Anderson just repeat himself, and make a "Wes Anderson Movie" instead of a movie (which was how the trailer made it look). Well, he did sorta repeat himself, but in a way that didn't seem tiresome. I liked it a lot and I was prepared to hate it. So that's pretty good, I'd say.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:47 AM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/
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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:57 AM

Best part: Samuel L's going to be tasering the snakes into submission. Sweet. If this movie is half as hilarious as Anaconda, I'll see it in the theatres twice.

Wait... I mean, Samuel L as Nelville Flynn is going to be tasering the snakes into submission. Sweet.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:04 AM

So...who else here got suckered into buying this so called "extended" edition of the Lynch version of Dune?

I want to make like Stewie and burn them all with a blow torch...yess...blow torch...

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:09 PM

Jen said:

So...who else here got suckered into buying this so called "extended" edition of the Lynch version of Dune?

I think nobody, because it's a shameless butchering of the source materiel and a pretty crappy movie in it's own right

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Anyone seen Spielberg's Munich yet? Now there's a well-directed, well-acted and interesting movie.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:42 PM

On DVD I've seen:

Lord of War - eh...
Red Eye - not bad.

And in theater:

Brokeback Mountain - yeah, I liked it. Though I think I was like one of two guys in the theater (and no, me and the other guy weren't together - I went with Mrs. Longhorn, thank you)

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:50 PM

Jen said:

So...who else here got suckered into buying this so called "extended" edition of the Lynch version of Dune?

I want to make like Stewie and burn them all with a blow torch...yess...blow torch...

I was curious about this. Did they extend it enough for it to not completely suck? Well, I doubt they could do that... how much longer is it now? Is it just a waste of time? I know nothing about it.

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 02:55 PM

I know the original length of recorded footage was about five hours, so yeah, how much did this special edition have?

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Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:45 PM

I saw Last days of Sophie Scholl this weekend. It's nominated to an Oscar and it's a pity German films cannot recieve best actress awards. It was one of the most powerful acting I've seen in a long time. No over acting here and no cool effects. Trust me though. You'll not find many boring minutes in this movie.

This Movie is a must see for anyone interested in Free Speech and the sacrifices some has to go through for it - and by no means only applicable to Third Reich. It is unfortunatelly a reallity for many people in dictatorships like Iran etc.

See it.

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