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Venkman
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Good point on Draco. Wasn't this the book in which he is shown a really active member of the Death Eaters?
And I agree on Sirius' death. I liked how it was handled here in the movie because it looked like he went down fighting. In the book it was more like a quick cheap death. Even though it really was a quick cheap shot in the movie, it happened right after he wtfpwned Malfoy. The whole short sequence of him and fighting Harry side-by-side was great.
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Merusk pretty much nailed my feelings on Harry Potter. I thought it was very well done, although I could have used more Tonks scenes, especially in tight clothing   Helena Bonham Carter. She does sexy/crazy better than anyone on the planet. |
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Merusk
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Good point on Draco. Wasn't this the book in which he is shown a really active member of the Death Eaters? Draco's not really a death eater. That's his dad, Lucius. Draco's used a lot (at his aunt's goading) in the next book, but it feels more like trying to appease his family and fear for his father and of Voldemort than really having his heart in it. (Thus some of the theories that Dumbledore had Snape kill him to save Draco's soul.) However, yes there was a lot more about Lucius being a DE, and lot of other things left out. The Rita blackmail, the importance of Luna's dad's paper as counter-propaganda, the inquisitoral squad, Hagrid compaining that the other half-giant (the female school prof from Goblet of Fire) wouldn't help him w/ the giants, much much more about Percy and his betrayal of his family to further his carreer, and IIRC this was also where they introduced that Fleur was getting it on with another of Ron's older brothers. Not to mention the Centaur scene earlier in the forest, the Centaur who replaced the divination professor, the final reveal of WHO did the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort in the first place, the 'special' mirror, anything at all about the Quidditch season, the usual house points race, an a lot more about the Order, the Black family and Kreecher the house elf. Trying to fit the somewhat important bits into the movie was enough to take it to 2:30. Trying to fit all that was left-out would've been insane. Unlike a lot of other authors of modern fantasy Rowlings doesn't have a lot of "fat" other than tangentional plotlines and character development. You have a 400 page book, there aren't 150-200 pages of description and rehashing you can toss-out. |
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Yegolev
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New King Kong, or most of it. I liked it a lot except the T-rex fight was too long, the bug scene was a tad ridiculous, and I just never liked that Kong dies at the end.
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The PJ King Kong was at LEAST an hour too long. And not very good.
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Johny Cee
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The PJ King Kong was at LEAST an hour too long. And not very good.
The plot was too obviously a tenuous string connecting a bunch of FX/action set pieces. |
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murdoc
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Movies about big monkeys don't need to be 3hrs long.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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MrHat
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Movies about big monkeys don't need to be 3hrs long.
Unless the monkey is dancing or making farting sounds. |
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Yegolev
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Maybe I liked it more because I was playing Etrian Odyssey while watching it. It was pretty long, though.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Yegolev
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Last night I watched about half of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. Awesome.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Furiously
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Which one had Jack Black? I thought he was the real monkey...
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Yegolev
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Jack Black was pretty decent, but then I liked his occasionally cheesy delivery since I felt it fit in with the movie and his character. In a more-serious movie he would have been terrible, but alongside man-eating leeches and ice-skating gorillas he was not bad.
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HaemishM
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King Kong was WAYYYYY too long. By the time we got to see Monkey Demolishing New York, I was fucking half asleep and punch drunk. That movie would have been great as a 90-minute, frenetic romp with cheesy Black dialogue and hot Naomi-nons. As it was, it was painfully pretty.
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MrHat
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Anyone see Captivity? The poster on the Metro in DC intrigues me every morning. This poster. |
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I think its a disaster flick done in the usual cinema verite style that supposedly makes stuff edgy and authentic. |
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HaemishM
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It's J.J. Abrams Cloverleaf project. There are some Internet sites out there adding to the mystery similar to the I Love Bees thing, but not much has been done on it.
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Signe
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Thanks! I started googling the Cloverleaf stuff and I'm still confused. What is THIS bit and is it not working or is that little circular thingy it? It's bothering me! |
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Lantyssa
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Thanks! I started googling the Cloverleaf stuff and I'm still confused. What is THIS bit and is it not working or is that little circular thingy it? It's bothering me! When it opens into a ball with geodesic figures on it, you have to play simon says. That leads to a video then a different ball. |
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Venkman
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Yea, supposedly (according to JJ), this is just a bunch of fans doing a bunch of cool things. I suspect emerging ARG though. The quality of that experience and the other connected ones are too consistent to be a bunch of hacks making crap up from seeing a teaser that tells the audience nothing.
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Riggswolfe
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Thanks! I started googling the Cloverleaf stuff and I'm still confused. What is THIS bit and is it not working or is that little circular thingy it? It's bothering me! Ethan Hass has been explicitly stated to not be connected at all to the movie. It is apparently connected to a video game coming out in the next year or so but honestly I don't remember its name. |
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Something that lead into a long discussion on Star Trek novels about 2 pages back  |
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schild
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Cloverfield is going to be awesome.
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Ironwood
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I'll take that bet.
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Velorath
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I'll take that bet.
Come on, a director with a resume like this one can't miss. |
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Oban
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Felicity would have rocked with collision detection.
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Ironwood
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Heh.
Seriously, I'll take the bet.
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Abagadro
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Harry Potter is fantastic. I agree. I really enjoyed it. It's the first of the films that really made me interested in picking up the books and reading them. I think I'll wait for the 7 book box set coming out in a couple of months and pick them up. |
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Roac
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Harry Potter is fantastic. I agree. I really enjoyed it. It's the first of the films that really made me interested in picking up the books and reading them. I think I'll wait for the 7 book box set coming out in a couple of months and pick them up. Same. Wife and I just got back from it, and it's one of our favorites of the series. I like that it's darker, and I like that they traded off cutting out lots of plot in order to focus on character development. Umbridge was awesome. I think the bit with the pen is my vision of hell. |
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Riggswolfe
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That particular book is the worst of the lot and broke the "they get better as they go along" trend. Thankfully the next one "Half Blood Prince" was by far the best of the books, though I suspect it'll be hard to make as a good movie.
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It weill be very, very hard to make well if they follow the same "Only follow H,R,&H" formula. You really need to see some of the Narcissa & Beatrix stuff to get more of Malfoy's story. I imagine dropping that plot line will prove bad for the last book & movie.
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Ironwood
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Just watched Children of Men, finally.
Christ.
That's an eye-opener.
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Hayduke
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I liked the Harry Potter movies, but I'm not sure how many I've seen and how many there are. They're all too similar to me, so I don't really follow the series. I don't really understand why people obsess over them though, they're just good popcorn flicks imo.
That Cloverfield movie looks like crap though. Just a bunch of shaky handheld camera work with a lot of foreplay for a zomg CGI monster who you'll only get to see in 1 second clips of zoomed in shots of his sweaty taint.
The PJ King Kong movie was kind of long, but I liked it. One reason was because they gave you TIME to enjoy the special effects. It wasn't pieced together like it was done by some ADD crackmonkey.
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shiznitz
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Just watched Children of Men, finally.
Christ.
That's an eye-opener.
In that vein, I just saw Pan's Labyrinth. I enjoyed it but it wasn't omgwtfbabyjesus. |
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HaemishM
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Both Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth were teh awesome. Children of Men moreso than Pan.
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