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Reply #35 on: December 16, 2005, 08:09:29 AM

Now that I'm warmed up....For further clarification:

Mulholland Dr. provoked a powerful response from me at the end. Despite NONE of it making sense. And, as a bonus, it gave me a hard on.

Powerful response and hard on = Great story

There is nothing else. This is what makes a great film.
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Reply #36 on: December 16, 2005, 11:01:55 AM

When did this site become a place to creep each other out? Is that a new thing?

Watts is Hotts, btw.

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Reply #37 on: December 16, 2005, 11:25:00 AM

Laura Harring > Jessica Lange > Naomi Watts.  But they are all very pretty, so I don't think you can say anyone's hawt-o-meter is off for preferring one over another.  Acting wise, reverse that list (or, better yet, just take Harring off it).

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Reply #38 on: December 16, 2005, 11:53:39 AM

The 76 Kong is one of the first movies I remember seeing in the theatre ( I R OLD). I didn't realize until many years later exactly how hot Jessica Lange was in it. I was probably too busy having the piss scared out of me by Kong and the giant snake.

It really is a damned good movie. Just saw it again a couple of months ago. Am eagerly looking forward to the Jackson version, but I am not sure I can sit through a 3 hour movie. The latest Harry Potter flick was long enough for me.

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Reply #39 on: December 16, 2005, 12:11:45 PM

I am not sure I can sit through a 3 hour movie.

Wow, how old are you?   wink
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Reply #40 on: December 16, 2005, 01:28:58 PM

I am not sure I can sit through a 3 hour movie.

Wow, how old are you?   wink

Get off my lawn!

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Reply #41 on: December 16, 2005, 03:15:00 PM

Mulholland Dr. provoked a powerful response from me at the end. Despite NONE of it making sense. And, as a bonus, it gave me a hard on.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Reply #42 on: December 16, 2005, 03:46:19 PM

I don't know. You tell me? I merely stated my basic, personal rules for how I appreciate art. If a work manages to say just one profound thing, despite any other flaws, then I'll still think it's great. If it has a hot chick in it, then even better.

Yet, both you AND Paelos are creeped out. I don't see the big deal here, but maybe I should pat myself on the back anyways.
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Reply #43 on: December 17, 2005, 06:48:56 AM

Mulholland Dr. provoked a powerful response from me at the end. Despite NONE of it making sense. And, as a bonus, it gave me a hard on.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Reply #44 on: December 19, 2005, 06:23:10 AM

Saw Kong on friday.  It was too long.

Yes, there were women in the audience crying at the end, but all the guys I talked to were pretty much of the same opinion, too fucking long.  The death race 2000 with dinos that went on for 15 minutes pretty much ruined my enjoyment of the movie.  After that I was hoping it would just end quickly.

Oh, and what the fuck does everything on that island eat when it can't get white people?

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Reply #45 on: December 21, 2005, 11:55:00 PM

Oh, and what the fuck does everything on that island eat when it can't get white people?

Yes.

I think a better title for this movie would have been The Island of Giant Suicidal Animals.  Every single goddamned animal on that island had me wondering out loud why the fuck it was doing what it was doing.  Why is that T-Rex dropping a mouth ful of nice plump food so it can chase after some skinny white chick?  Okay, why are TWO OTHER T-REXES joining in the chase?  Okay, now why are all three of them FIGHTING a BIG ANGRY MONKEY that can obviously kick their asses?  How about eating one of those giant leeches instead?  They look pretty meaty and easy to catch.

The ending did make me sad, right on cue, but that's not a difficult feat to accomplish, so meh.  Basically it's a B-movie with a sad ending and a giant budget.  Oh, and Jack Black not being funny.  Bleh.

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Reply #46 on: December 22, 2005, 12:36:23 AM

In the video games, the dinosaurs attack everything else and eat everything else WHILE whitey is fighting them. I fear that the game might be better than the movie. /sadf
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Reply #47 on: December 22, 2005, 05:12:42 AM

The 76 version of Kong was the first movie I ever saw in a theater.   It scared the piss out of me and brought me to tears, both in equal doses.  The fact that I must have been...(does some quick arithmetic)...around 3 or 4 years old at the time probably explains my reaction.  But nevertheless, the movie is permanently burned into my memory as something grand and emotional, and I will always think of it as "great" even though it probably deserves much less.

If the new version manages to evoke even a shadow of my the response it did back in 76, I will be happy.

Anyway, who the fuck takes a 3 year old to see King Kong?  Even thinking about it now gets my heart racing (I haven't seen it since).

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Reply #48 on: December 22, 2005, 12:51:00 PM

I saw it, and I hated it.

It was long and terribly boring even though they were trying to keep me on the edge of my seat. Oh look, we're running from <insert monster here>. Oh no, <random crew person> died. And now <new monster> is chasing us. How scary. Oh look, here's a giant monkey. How human he is, and yet violent. Awww, he makes funny faces. Now we're running again. For THREE HOURS.

The movie needed to have CCR's "Run through the Jungle" on the soundtrack. That might have saved it for me. Probably not though.

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Reply #49 on: December 22, 2005, 02:05:41 PM

Saw it, liked it.  Didn't notice my ass falling asleep while watching the flick.  Passing the asleep-ass test in a three hour movie is pretty good testament to how entertaining I thought the flick was.
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Reply #50 on: December 22, 2005, 03:19:12 PM

The teaching Kong sign language bit turned me off to the film. That and the cheesy looking special effects.
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Reply #51 on: December 22, 2005, 04:36:02 PM

I did like the Ann and Kong bonding scenes, cheesy though they were (though the sign language was over the top, I agree).  Kong himself was actually somewhat sympathetic and believable as a character, especially for being a giant ape.  Unfortunately, that just threw the ridiculous one-dimensionality of everything else into sharper relief.

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Reply #52 on: December 24, 2005, 12:24:53 AM

I did like the Ann and Kong bonding scenes, cheesy though they were (though the sign language was over the top, I agree).  Kong himself was actually somewhat sympathetic and believable as a character, especially for being a giant ape.  Unfortunately, that just threw the ridiculous one-dimensionality of everything else into sharper relief.

YES.  Completely agree.  Why the fuck should we care about the Jack/Ann romance at all?  I did like the relationship between the newbie crew member and the first mate, though.  Especially since they talked about Heart of Darkness.

A big problem, too, with modern cg special effects is their physics is all fucked up.  I mean....  a couple of tons of monster is NOT going to be as agile or manueverable as they make them.

Someone said it earlier, but, if Carpenter's "The Thing" was released today it would win all kinds of awards.  The purely physical special effects just look better.  Give the action a great sense of realism.

I think you have to give Jackson credit for being able to make a blockbuster that also is not a complete popcorn flick.  We have too many big-budget popcorn flicks with no redeeming qualities already.
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Reply #53 on: December 28, 2005, 01:27:08 PM

Someone said it earlier, but, if Carpenter's "The Thing" was released today it would win all kinds of awards.  The purely physical special effects just look better.  Give the action a great sense of realism.

I think that was me, but if not I agree. I saw Kong, the physics did look off. Especially when he was swinging his hand around with Ann inside of it, his arm was moving too fast and she was just jerking along slightly out of synch.

Overall the movie was what I thought it would be - way too much CGI monster movie. The scenes with the stampede and with the bugs could have been cut entirely. I wasn't bored but I wasn't excited either - I imagine I would be very bored with a repeat viewing though.

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Reply #54 on: December 28, 2005, 02:28:31 PM

Overall the movie was what I thought it would be - way too much CGI monster movie. The scenes with the stampede and with the bugs could have been cut entirely.

The head-sucking worms bit was the high point of the film =/

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Reply #55 on: December 29, 2005, 12:29:35 PM

I enjoyed the movie and liked the empathy between Kong and Watts.

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