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Lantyssa
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Julia Stiles - He used to wang her, I know that look, it's the "you don't remember you wanged me?" look. I wish I had amnesia to blame for situations like those.
Yeah, I get that look a lot too. I would think you're the one giving the look. |
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tazelbain
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See, that is exactly the impression I got as well. But they just dropped it.
I liked that they dropped it, because normally it would have unrealistically moved it to cheesy dialog and a sex scene where you can't see anything. But instead they realized there was nothing they could do about it and moved on. |
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See, that is exactly the impression I got as well. But they just dropped it.
I liked that they dropped it, because normally it would have unrealistically moved it to cheesy dialog and a sex scene where you can't see anything. But instead they realized there was nothing they could do about it and moved on. I guess you could take her continued efforts on his behalf as proof of a previous personal relationship, but action movies are NEVER that subtle! I still like my idea of the full frontal shot. I don't have any idea why I find Julia Stiles attractive, but she has some quality of some kind that does it for me. She certainly isn't classically 'hawt' or anything. |
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I guess you could take her continued efforts on his behalf as proof of a previous personal relationship, but action movies are NEVER that subtle! I still like my idea of the full frontal shot. I don't have any idea why I find Julia Stiles attractive, but she has some quality of some kind that does it for me. She certainly isn't classically 'hawt' or anything.
She's a woman, therefore, you should want to see her naked. Attractiveness is simply a measure of how much you would enjoy seeing them naked. Edited to fix my weak quote-fu |
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schild
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Julia Stiles has been hot since Down To You. Hell, she was even hot in 10 Things I Hate About You.
She's hot like Morgan Webb isn't.
That is, weirdly.
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Her hotness sneaks up on you. I see pictures of her or a quick flash of her in a commercial and think, 'eh, she's cute.' When I actually see an entire peformance from her instead of just a snapshot, that's when I realize, 'ooh, hawt.'
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I'll agree with you that it's odd how hot Morgan Webb isn't. That being said, I'd totally stick it in her pooper while calling her a cunt and punching her in the kidneys. I'd have my own booth at both E3's after that.
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Ironwood
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Yeeeeaaaahhhhhh....
Anyway, about the Box Office and movies and whatnot....
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MrHat
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Diner is one of my oldest memories of film.
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Lantyssa
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Stardust is awesome. It's now one of my favorite movies.
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Stardust is awesome. It's now one of my favorite movies.
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Really? I didn't think it was that great. Was it based on a children's book? |
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DraconianOne
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Really? I didn't think it was that great. Was it based on a children's book?
It's based on a book which is inspired by fairy tales but isn't actually a children's book per se. At least, not unless children's books have started permitting the use of the word 'fuck' in them recently. |
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MrHat
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That's why I was wondering. The movie was confusing for me. It seemed it wanted to be a children's tale but had a lot more 'advanced' fair in it, i.e. banging the gypsy girl, having a baby, killing peeps lots and lots. No "Fuck" in the movie though. Shame.
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Re: The dark is rising. I feel like that movie shat on the favorite books of my childhood and thus on me. I still have those books. Damn them. I knew it was going to be awful the instant I heard the narrator and saw the stupid fucking 'normal USA kid' backdrop.
That was so awful. I thought I was being rickrolled with a trailer for some other film. It's like some kind of homage to the awfulness of fantasy movies before Peter Jackson fixed their image. |
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Lantyssa
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It's a fairy tale, not a children's tale.
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You know how Schild loves to rant about gaming journalism and how they're all sellouts and shills etc? Everytime I read a good review of the Bourne Ultimatum by a professional reviewer I do the same to my friends.
Did you see Bourne Supremacy? If so, what did you think? How did shaky cam in Ultimatum compare to Supremacy? Only then can I decide whether I should pay attention to what you're saying or just ignore you. :-D I saw Supremacy and left the theater very angry that the franchise had been ruined. The plot was ok but..well you know the rest. Because of Supremacy I have no plans to see Ultimatum. Greengas killed Bourne more effectively than all of the CIA and I hope that hack never touches an action franchise again. |
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Yegolev
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Sunshine. Far better than 28 Days Later. I actually liked it OK, having checked my science brain at the door. Bit predictable.
My wife didn't tell me what we were going to see. I should have figured it out, though, since the last movie we watched was Redeye, and before that it was Batman Begins for a second time. Last week she asked me we could watch 28 Days Later again, and of course I replied "Why?!".
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Sunshine. Far better than 28 Days Later. I actually liked it OK, having checked my science brain at the door. Bit predictable.
My wife didn't tell me what we were going to see. I should have figured it out, though, since the last movie we watched was Redeye, and before that it was Batman Begins for a second time. Last week she asked me we could watch 28 Days Later again, and of course I replied "Why?!".
Sunshine was ok, I think it could have been a bit better. The "bad guy" and the whole thing had an Event Horizon vibe to me. 28 days later and 28 weeks later were both pretty good, but I think you just have to be kind of into the whole "zombie" genre of movies to like them alot. |
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You know how Schild loves to rant about gaming journalism and how they're all sellouts and shills etc? Everytime I read a good review of the Bourne Ultimatum by a professional reviewer I do the same to my friends.
Did you see Bourne Supremacy? If so, what did you think? How did shaky cam in Ultimatum compare to Supremacy? Only then can I decide whether I should pay attention to what you're saying or just ignore you. :-D I saw Supremacy and left the theater very angry that the franchise had been ruined. The plot was ok but..well you know the rest. Because of Supremacy I have no plans to see Ultimatum. Greengas killed Bourne more effectively than all of the CIA and I hope that hack never touches an action franchise again. Ah wait - so you haven't seen Ultimatum? So, in fact, I should ignore everything you say about the movie! :-D I probably would anyway as I enjoyed Supremacy. Not so much first time around but second time around I thought "this is better than I remember". Also, I've only ever seen it on a TV at home where the shaky cam is probably less intrusive. |
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Riggswolfe
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Ah wait - so you haven't seen Ultimatum? So, in fact, I should ignore everything you say about the movie! :-D I probably would anyway as I enjoyed Supremacy. Not so much first time around but second time around I thought "this is better than I remember". Also, I've only ever seen it on a TV at home where the shaky cam is probably less intrusive.
From all I've heard the shaky cam is even worse in Ultimatum. Why should I waste money to get pissed off at hack film making? |
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Yegolev
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Sunshine was ok, I think it could have been a bit better. The "bad guy" and the whole thing had an Event Horizon vibe to me.
28 days later and 28 weeks later were both pretty good, but I think you just have to be kind of into the whole "zombie" genre of movies to like them alot.
I will say right up front that we are going to disagree on this. I don't think 28 Days was good, at least not starting with the second movie that was tacked onto the first one. I like zombie movies, though, the Romero stuff as well as things like the Australian Undead (awesome). 28 Days started out as a zombie movie but turned into something about human intraspecies violence. I suppose a lot of people liked that, enough it got a sequel anyway, but I didn't care for it. I wanted zombies and terror and ruined cities and whatnot. Did not see 28 Weeks, and since Cillian Murphy isn't in it, I don't think my wife will be putting it on the Netflix queue. Sunshine, yes it could have been a lot better but all things considered it came out better than I expected. Predictable, bad science, poorly-designed ship, but not offensive as a whole. At least the second half-movie was more or less related to the first half-movie this time. It's all about keeping your expectations low. |
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Sunshine was ok, I think it could have been a bit better. The "bad guy" and the whole thing had an Event Horizon vibe to me.
28 days later and 28 weeks later were both pretty good, but I think you just have to be kind of into the whole "zombie" genre of movies to like them alot.
I will say right up front that we are going to disagree on this. I don't think 28 Days was good, at least not starting with the second movie that was tacked onto the first one. I like zombie movies, though, the Romero stuff as well as things like the Australian Undead (awesome). 28 Days started out as a zombie movie but turned into something about human intraspecies violence. I suppose a lot of people liked that, enough it got a sequel anyway, but I didn't care for it. I wanted zombies and terror and ruined cities and whatnot. Um... have you watched a lot of zombie movies? Because to some extent or another, a good number of them (especially the Romero stuff) deal with the idea that other survivors can be as much or more of a threat than the zombies. Now I admit, that can get overdone (the Walking Dead comic book series has become a prime example of that, but then it's amplified by the fact that the book ships on a fairly infrequent basis). |
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Um... have you watched a lot of zombie movies? Because to some extent or another, a good number of them (especially the Romero stuff) deal with the idea that other survivors can be as much or more of a threat than the zombies. Day of the Dead - scariest thing about it is not the zombies but the psycho commander in charge of the base. It's so good that 28 days later more or less copied it entirely for the 2nd half of the film (even down to the chained up zombie soldier!) |
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Zombie movies are very, very RARELY about the zombies. There's always something else going on.
Indeed, all disaster scenario media usually end up as stories that are not about the disaster itself, but the reaction to it.
Which was why that follow up Triffids book was shite : The guy who wrote it thought that The Day of the Triffids was scary because of lethal plants. It wasn't. It was scary because everyone went fucking blind.
Anyways.
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The good zombie movies are never really about the zombies. The bad ones always are.
I've found I want to like more zombie movies than I do. Basically I like Night of the Living Dead and the remake, both were excellent. 28 Days Later was ok, too. All about how humans react to situations more than what that particular situation is. Return of the Living Dead was good for the campy humor mostly, I forget Day of the Dead. Land of the Dead was awful and should be banned from existence.
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Yegolev
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Maybe I like bad zombie movies. I'm OK with that. But why did I like Land of the Dead and not 28 Days? Land was practically a political piece. I lay a lot of blame on the general construction of 28 Days as basically two separate movies. Sunshine, I felt, had the same transition but it was executed much, much better; basically it was "tense space mission/Armageddon" for the first part and "space alien on board/Alien" for the second part, yet it had a good solid thread running through the whole thing. The shift in 28 Days was jarring. So, I don't know as much about movies as I do games and can't analyze them terribly well, but I do know what I like.
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Did not see 28 Weeks, and since Cillian Murphy isn't in it, I don't think my wife will be putting it on the Netflix queue.
This is funny to me. My wife is somewhat (and inexplicably) terrified of Cillian Murphy and will refuse to watch most movies that he's in. |
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Did not see 28 Weeks, and since Cillian Murphy isn't in it, I don't think my wife will be putting it on the Netflix queue.
This is funny to me. My wife is somewhat (and inexplicably) terrified of Cillian Murphy and will refuse to watch most movies that he's in. In her defense he's creepy. There's a reason he was so good as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins. |
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Superbad cracked me the hell up. The first honest highschool movie I've seen in a long time. The kids looked like high school kids, and the dumb things you do around the opposite sex were about right.
Really captured the hunt for alcohol aspect of high school, and the getting shanghai'd to the wrong party that's just a fucking disaster.
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Ya, the whole "bad things happen" aspect of it was done really, really well. Rang true to life.
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True to life? That is stretching. If I talked to a teacher the way Seth talked to the Home Ec teacher, I might have been beaten. The cop arc is right out of fantasyland but it was still funny and held the movie together. I have also never ever heard of a "period blood" incident but it is within the realm of possibility. The ending was pitch perfect.
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"bad things happen" aspect of it
I quoted myself so you could see what I actually said. I had plenty of experiences back when I was 17-19 like that where it started with some grand plan that then went to total shit in a handbasket and ended up in very weird places with very odd things happening. |
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You had a very unusual span of teenage years, or I had a very boring one. I think the biggest 'grand plan' I ever had was being 15 and taking my girlfriend's car to go buy condoms without her knowledge. OOoh, zany.
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Abagadro
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Maybe so. I had plenty of things go sideways like they did in the movie (no, not the same stuff, but equally odd/out of control).
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