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HaemishM
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I'm really tempted to see it, but I'll have to wait until I have constipation. That turd blossom should clear it right up.
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Abagadro
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Caught Michael Clayton as part of my study-avoidance psychosis. Very good film.
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Mazakiel
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Just got back from 30 Days of Night. I liked it overall, though the ending was rather anticlimactic. More so than I found the graphic novel to be. Decent popcorn flick though.
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Margalis
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30 Days of Night wasn't bad, a horror movie that isn't a slasher flick, a remake, torture porn or a sequel is pretty rare.
Edit: I just saw Batman Begins, was good, but Katie Holmes sucks. She is a terrible actress, always looks like a deer in headlights and she talks about of one side of her face.
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« Last Edit: October 21, 2007, 08:14:58 PM by Margalis »
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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stu
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I just thought her face was lopsided. I'm glad they didn't make her an offer for the next one.
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30 Days of Night intrigues me, and I usually HATE horror films. Is it a vampire movie or zombies or what? Is it all just startles and scares, or is there a plot/backstory?
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Riggswolfe
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It's vampires. Basically, they are in a town in Alaska during a month of night time and the vampires lay siege. (From what I can tell.)
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It's vampires. Basically, they are in a town in Alaska during a month of night time and the vampires lay siege. (From what I can tell.)
Ooooh. That might be fun. Maybe I will sneak in a flask to save me if the movie sucks too bad. I would even settle for campily fun, like Vampires. |
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DraconianOne
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 Vampire girl sporting Neubauten tattoo. I'm sold. |
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Mazakiel
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Yeah, if the picture didn't make it clear, these vampires aren't like Anne Rice-ish noble emo predator types. It gets made clear time and time again, these things are vicious monsters finally able to cut loose and have fun, and alot of people suffer for it. Definitely much more beastlike than anything else. A common way to describe the vamps in 30 Days is shark-like, and having seen the movie, it's a decent way to sum them up.
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stu
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Ewww. Someone get that girl a toothbrush.
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Apparently she has been into the cherry Kool-Aid again.
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Oban
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Just watched Beowulf in IMAX 3D.
Do not want to spoil it for anyone, but if you can see the movie in IMAX 3D, it is well worth the money.
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Just watched Beowulf in IMAX 3D.
Do not want to spoil it for anyone, but if you can see the movie in IMAX 3D, it is well worth the money.
That's the only way I'd recommend seeing the movie. For anything other than the eye candy on an IMAX 3D screen, the movie is absolute crap. |
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Saw American Gangster monday with the brother, not a must see, but definately worth the money. Hitman on wednesday...I hope they didn't fuck it up (they did)
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Oban
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For anything other than the eye candy on an IMAX 3D screen, the movie is absolute crap.
Agreed, I imagine that on a normal screen it would seem like a rather boring two hour cut scene. Also, had to spend four minutes on wikipedia last night to make sure that I was not going senile. The movie would have been better if they had stuck to the one thousand five hundred year old version of the screenplay. |
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Also, had to spend four minutes on wikipedia last night to make sure that I was not going senile. The movie would have been better if they had stuck to the one thousand five hundred year old version of the screenplay.
If they did that tho, there'd be no reason to show Anjelina's CGI ass, rite? I just can't see paying money for the movie. Maybe when it hits Netflix, and I'm effectively paying $.25 per person to watch it. |
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I'm going out to Watch No Country For Old Men tonight. Something tells me this flick is going to be excellent, which I need, because the last three or four movies I've gone out to see have been terrible.  |
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Oban
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I just can't see paying money for the movie. Maybe when it hits Netflix, and I'm effectively paying $.25 per person to watch it.
If you ever want to see Beowulf, you really owe it yourself to see it in IMAX 3D. It makes it bearable , heck even enjoyable. The whole movie is in 3D. Unlike other IMAX 3D movies that only ask you to put on your glasses for a few minutes, you keep your glasses on from the start all the way through the credits. |
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stu
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If I haven't read Beowulf, might I like this movie? We have an IMAX in FT. Lauderdale that I've been itching to go to.
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Merusk
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There's awesome and then there's "Worth $53" of awesome. No special effects, and, in fact, no movie out in recent memory is $53* of awesome.
I'll wait for netflix.
* Price quoted is based on movie tickets alone for 2 adults and 2 kids. Why? Because goddamnit it's cheaper to take the kids than get a fucking sitter. Who wants a strange teenager in their house blowing their boyfriend and fucking on your bed, while eating your food then demanding $20+ for the 2 1/2 hours away from their parents anyway? That's before you even get into the issue of, "is this a movie I can even TAKE the kids to..."
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« Last Edit: November 16, 2007, 03:02:22 PM by Merusk »
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stu
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lol. Alright, alright.
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Dear Diary,
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Oban
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... That's before you even get into the issue of, "is this a movie I can even TAKE the kids to..."
Lots of blood, people torn in to pieces, sexual innuendo and semi-nudity. |
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Mazakiel
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Personally, I thought Beowulf sucked. I had thought it'd be a decent popcorn flick, but it really didn't even get there. I know I never want to see it again.
And, honestly, probably not something to take small kids too. There were alot of little kids at the showing last night, and I heard alot of confused questions throughout the movie. Alot of people seemed to have thought that since it was computer animated, it'd be suitable for four year olds.
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The "I am Beowulf!!!" clip in the trailer pretty much says everything I need to know about that movie. I'll probably never watch it.
[EDIT] Also, I'm rabidly against this kind of heavy CGI flick.
[EDIT] Ray Winstone kicks ass though... Can't believe it's him that says that line.
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Samwise
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I dug Beowulf. So did the girlfriend. I was initially skeptical of the all-CGI thing, but I ended up approving of it. If for nothing else than the fact that with every movie like this one that gets made, this: Alot of people seemed to have thought that since it was computer animated, it'd be suitable for four year olds. becomes a less tenable viewpoint. Also, I think they hit a new high mark in 3D-rendered boobies, and I salute them for that. The story takes a sharp turn from the source material right around where Beowulf meets Grendel's mother. I think the premise of the movie is that this is what "really" happened, and the story that we know is the "embellished" version that was handed down since then. There's a scene in the movie where an aged Beowulf listens to a bard sing the Song of Beowulf in the form that we have today, based in part on the (false) account that Beowulf gave of that encounter. |
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Strazos
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I thought it was ok, but I only saw the normal version.
At first I had a hard time with the writers deviating from the olde epic, but I think I'm over it now. I'm usually a stickler for people deviating from the source material, unless they have a good reason.
At least they Tried in Beowulf.
Also, I too approve of the large CG racks. Also, I thought Ursula (Beowulf's waif from the latter part of the movie) was very well-done.
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Johny Cee
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So... No Country for Old Men out now, and not being shown anywhere near me. I'm livid.
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Abagadro
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It's supposed to open wider on Wednesday I believe.
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So... No Country for Old Men out now, and not being shown anywhere near me. I'm livid.
I was originally supposed to get a print of it in last Friday, but ended up with Love in the Time of Cholera instead. Needless to say I wasn't too happy with that decision. It is being shown nearby in Palo Alto though, so if I don't get it for the wide release, I'll have to head down there to watch it. |
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. Who wants a strange teenager in their house blowing their boyfriend and fucking on your bed Webcam. The profits from your PPV site should offset the babysitting costs, with enough left over to put the kids through college. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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. Who wants a strange teenager in their house blowing their boyfriend and fucking on your bed Webcam. The profits from your PPV site should offset the babysitting costs, with enough left over to put the kids through college. Until the feds get you for  . Pass thx! |
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Riggswolfe
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Personally, I thought Beowulf sucked. I had thought it'd be a decent popcorn flick, but it really didn't even get there. I know I never want to see it again.
And, honestly, probably not something to take small kids too. There were alot of little kids at the showing last night, and I heard alot of confused questions throughout the movie. Alot of people seemed to have thought that since it was computer animated, it'd be suitable for four year olds.
I had mixed feelings about the movie. I understood they were trying to show Beowulf as human instead of a larger than life hero. I understood they were trying to show the difference between legend and reality, but overall it was just...eh. And some woman brought her two kids with me. One was probably 10 or so and I kept glancing over to see the kid alternating between her hands over her eyes and asking her mother questions. I had alot of mixed feelings because I suspect the kid will have nightmares from this movie. Then again, my mother took me to see an American Werewolf in London when I was around that age or younger and I turned out all right. For the most part. |
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Hmm. My old man took me to see Werewolf when I was like 4 or 5. That scene where his family gets gunned down by those mutant nazi demons (while they were watching the Muppets) fucked me up pretty bad, and still does.
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HaemishM
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I finally got to watch Spider-Man 3 and Transformers this weekend.
Goddamnit, but what a pair of shitty shit shit shit films. Michael Bay needs to be facefucked by an Alien facehugger until his death. There was no reason for Transformers to be MORE campy than the goddamn cartoon. Also, Megan Fox's parts made the movie watchable. Shia Lebouf was likeable as well, but that movie blew more than a pr0nstar on a bender.
And I have to agree with schild about Spider-Man 3. That movie singlehandledly killed the franchise. It was like 3 good movies compressed into one shitty, nonsensical douchey movie.
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