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#4801 Serenity

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 09:26 AM

The Two Towers extended edition on blu-ray. I think my favourite of the additional scenes in that movie was the one with Faramir and Boromir at Osgiliath. Having said that, this was the first time I've watched it since Fringe has been airing, so when Denethor appeared I shouted "Walternate!" <_<

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 09:45 AM

Serenity, on 23 July 2011 - 09:26 AM, said:

Oh my god, I thought the same thing! LOL!

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 12:34 PM

Serenity, on 23 July 2011 - 09:26 AM, said:

Forgot the extended edition of blu ray was out. A purchase is on the cards

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 02:39 PM

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Not bad... Not bad...

But I'll ask this - OK, so there's a flying car - I know, I know, magic! But! How the hell do you steer something in a 3d space with a steering wheel?

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 03:08 PM

Gothos, on 23 July 2011 - 02:39 PM, said:

You're thinking too much my friend. Just enjoy brother. <_<

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#4806 Gothos

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 03:20 PM

King Kazma, on 23 July 2011 - 03:08 PM, said:

Gothos, on 23 July 2011 - 02:39 PM, said:

You're thinking too much my friend. Just enjoy brother. <_<

Hah, well, yeah, I can do that. It's just that, say, Sanderson would've thought up some working way of driving it logical within the setting. Erikson would've probably have Ron drop a few dozen cryptic remarks about how it works and the power behind it. Bit different style I guess

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 04:12 PM

From what I've been told (I managed to avoid the Potter movie rush for the most part, even if I couldn't dodge the books) the second movie is by far the worst, which is a good thing because otherwise the fifth would be killing people and wearing their skin, and a big burly tattooed projector is not the least obvious monstrous thing in the world. So it's all up from here, apparently.

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#4808 Gothos

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Posted 23 July 2011 - 04:59 PM

So I've been told, and so I am finding to be true. Finishing Prisoner of Azkaban now and it's rather entertaining. It surely gets darker and more Sirius (hah!) as the films/books go on (with the execution bein a rather massive statement on that matter), and I think I might like the following films too.

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Posted 24 July 2011 - 10:30 PM

Gothos, on 23 July 2011 - 03:20 PM, said:

King Kazma, on 23 July 2011 - 03:08 PM, said:

Gothos, on 23 July 2011 - 02:39 PM, said:

You're thinking too much my friend. Just enjoy brother. <_<

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worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 25 July 2011 - 12:43 PM

Saw a whopping 3 movies this weekend: Potter 7, Captain America, and Horrible Bosses. Since I've posted my thoughts on the first two elsethread, I'll comment only upon Horrible Bosses. You need to see this film, if only for the performances of Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell as the titular bosses. Hilarious.

Also Netflixed the Coen Brothers' TRUE GRIT, cuz the wife had never seen it. Good as ever.

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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 01 August 2011 - 07:08 PM

Saw HORRIBLE BOSSES today. Unfunny, mean-spirited crapola. We laughed MAYBE once. Since when did making your leads nonredeemable, monumentally stupid people become considered "funny"? Like seriously, I'd rather have watched my cat play with a toy mouse for two hours instead. A GOOD comedy movie needs a heart of charm or the like to really make the humor stick. Instead of that here we have for example Jamie Foxx who instead of being given funny lines is NAMED Mother Fucker Jones...so the writers didn't have to make him funny, and instead they just choose to make it so every time someone says his name it's a "forced" funny. I guess I shouldn't have expected much from the guy who directed Four Christmases, and the people who wrote the Geena Davis Show and the PJ's...plus the squirt kid from Freaks and Geeks who grew up and decided he could write comedy. WTF?

Waste of time. Don't bother.

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Posted 01 August 2011 - 11:40 PM

Hey, the PJs, if you're talking about the claymation Eddie Murphy vanity project, was actually decent.

The gumbo contest episode was hilarious.

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Posted 02 August 2011 - 12:08 AM

Agreed. It's kind of confusing how sharp Eddie Murphy was there compared to pretty much every single thing he's done since. It wasn't exactly The Boondocks or anything, but it was halfway there which is still pretty good.

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 12:59 PM

Watched LIMITLESS.

Effed up direction.

Really bizarre cinematography....like seriously. Crazy zooms, and insane lighting and the like all spell amateur hour to me. It's kind of jarring to have a zoom that lasts for almost 15 seconds, and disorienting. Past that, the idea to use warm toned filters for the time when he's on the drug, and cold green and blue ones for when he's not...while inventive...just hammers home the fact that "Hey, unless you are on this fantastic drug your life is dull and dreary." No seriously that's what I felt when I watched it. It's never a good thing to alienate your audience from the proceedings like that.

Very minor spoilers below:

The script is piss. For an idea that actually sounds really awesome, A drug that let's you use all your brain power, the script is surprisingly weak and at times fucking annoying. There is one point where there is no drug left and Bradley Cooper needs more to get out of his situation and he monologues that the only place he could have got some is now coursing through the body of the bad guy he just knifed to death who's blood is spreading on the floor....and...did you guess it yet? Yeah, he starts to lap up the blood to get a fix. Now leaving the health hazards in doing such a thing aside, I'm supposed to buy that a teeny clear pill that has distributed itself throughout this bad guys' bloodstream can then be absorbed with enough potency by Cooper by lapping up a few small swallows? Are you fucking kidding me? Does the limitless world not adhere to the laws of biology and physics? Yeah, that was the kind of movie this was. Oh, and in the trailer they make it seem as if DeNiro is a shady person behind the drug...nope, he's a corporate bigwig who Cooper wants to use to get in good with and get rich off of. You get that? The guy wrote a bestseller in 4 days after he took this pill...but the best he can come up with to make millions is to get involved with complex corporate business....WHAT?! You can probably invent the next iPod or something like that....I mean the movie spends like 45 minutes telling you that on the drug Cooper can pretty much do everything but fly...and that's the answer his new fancy brain gives him? Dude, just invent something, or write the next HP and run off and live in a fucking castle on an island for the rest of your life, it's not rocket science...which you should KNOW!

Fucking WEAK. Waste of time.

This post has been edited by King Kazma: 04 August 2011 - 01:04 PM

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Posted 05 August 2011 - 08:17 PM

Help. I need help. I am trying to think of a film I watched years and years ago. It is similar to the movie "Big" yet ends with the girl ending up young again with the boy rather than just the boy turning back from a man into a boy, help, it's wrecking my head.

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Posted 05 August 2011 - 09:07 PM

King Kazma, on 01 August 2011 - 07:08 PM, said:

I disagree. I saw it with my girlfriend, we both loved it.

The 3 main characters were great together, and felt like they were best friends. The bosses did a great job being unlikable. While it was goofy, and a little out there, it was very funny. It's also nice to see a comedy that doesn't have a love story in it, either.

I agree Jamie Foxx wasn't great, but he was only in 3 (maybe 4?) scenes, so not big deal there. There is always a character that falls flat. His last scene was great, though.

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Posted 05 August 2011 - 09:33 PM

Tattersail, on 05 August 2011 - 08:17 PM, said:

13 Going on 30?

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Posted 05 August 2011 - 09:35 PM

wolf_2099, on 05 August 2011 - 09:07 PM, said:

King Kazma, on 01 August 2011 - 07:08 PM, said:

The leads were irredeemable schmucks who were attempting to commit murder with less than any remorse about doing so. what jokes did you laugh at? Cause most of those jokes were dug up out of campy 1980's raunchy camp movie's and not even remotely funny anymore.

that anyone can like this movie is beyond me...but hey to each their own, glad you guys enjoyed it and got something out of it, cause I wanted to punch the writers in the jaw for their insolence.

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Posted 05 August 2011 - 11:48 PM

Horrible Bosses kicked fucking ass! ! ! ! ! !

* Jennifer Aniston's tour de force! She will be hard pressed to top this!

* Sure Jamie Foxx's character sucked... good, hopefully this will diminish his clout in hollywood.

* Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day for the motha-fuck'in win! Funny across the board!

Oh, and don't forget Kevin Spacey. When his character said "you still call your gandma 'na na'" and then laughed hysterically, I think I may have peed a little when trying to contain my own laughter.

FOR THE MOTHERFUCKIN WIN!

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Posted 06 August 2011 - 04:55 AM

watched priest the other day. Cant quite put it into words...you see, it sucked, only it sucked magnificently. I was amazed with the corny, cheesy lines, overdone musical overtures and dead pan machismo. The vampires werent clean shaven sparkly sons of bitches. They were ugly slimy, sightless super mutants. I loved how unglorified they were. It just all made ridiculously corny cheesy sense. Hats of to a writter willing to make the church the commercial power mongering patriarchy. Thats a gutsy move. Cheesily done, but gutsy.

On the whole i give it an awesomely average 3 out of 5 runaway vampire trains. Yes they had one. And it was delightful.

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