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Mr. Blue
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Papua New Guinea
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 Posted - 09/09/2005 : 04:51:55 AM
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That, and the ones by Satoshi Kon.
"Down in the Delta, they say I was a fool for making that deal with the devil, they say I’ve got the hellhounds on my tail. But they also say this: there’s not a bluesman alive who can play the entire first part of Smoke on the Water like Hellbound Dave.
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CobraCmdr
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/09/2005 : 07:41:51 AM
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| You know, I've never really gotten into anime. I've definatley seen a lot of different styles and for some reason I just don't get it. Probably something to do with the fact that the heroes always seem to be 13 year old girls, or guys that look like 13 year old girls. A lot of times anime either strikes me as kind of creepy, or simply too silly and absurdist for me to get into. I guess it's a cultural thing. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 1:05:42 PM
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| I guess I'm the lone defender of The Matrix on these boards. Sure, the story was derivative, but it was slick, well-paced, with great scene-stealing work by Hugo Weaving and (for me, anyway) satisfying action and stunt work. My one gripe was that people made too much of the "bullet time" CGI work. Not only were the FX overhyped, but I'd already seen them before: in a Levis "swing-dance" commercial (remember that one?) and even an Oldsmobile commercial with Judge Reinhold, both of which appeared months before The Matrix came out. |
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Cullen
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 2:38:28 PM
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Originally posted by CobraCmdr
You know, I've never really gotten into anime. I've definatley seen a lot of different styles and for some reason I just don't get it. Probably something to do with the fact that the heroes always seem to be 13 year old girls, or guys that look like 13 year old girls. A lot of times anime either strikes me as kind of creepy, or simply too silly and absurdist for me to get into. I guess it's a cultural thing.
Try Cowboy Bebop and Patlabor. I ended up not likeing Bebop, but Patlabor remains one of the better animes |
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CobraCmdr
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
70 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 3:54:55 PM
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Yeah, I like a few episodes of Cowboy Bebop, I checked out a lot of the Anime series on Adult Swim, but ended up not getting into most of them.
I don't think the Matrix is overated, I just think it is overexposed. We've all seen it too many times or seen bad parodies of it too many times so it seems boring now. |
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Mr. Blue
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Papua New Guinea
648 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 6:58:42 PM
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I did like the first one, until I saw Reloaded. Kind of killed the whole thing for me.
By the way, Cobracmdr, have you ever heard of Satoshi Kon's movie Millenium Actress? Pretty cool, the characters look like they are actually Japanese, and a pretty neat story to boot.
"Down in the Delta, they say I was a fool for making that deal with the devil, they say I’ve got the hellhounds on my tail. But they also say this: there’s not a bluesman alive who can play the entire first part of Smoke on the Water like Hellbound Dave.
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 7:01:03 PM
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Hey, Mr. Blue - I heard you guys got hit with a sizeable earthquake.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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Mr. Blue
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Papua New Guinea
648 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 11:51:46 PM
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That's what I've been told. However, it seems the epicenter was a couple of hundred miles away between New Ireland and Bougainville- I didn't notice a thing (I'm in Madang).
"Down in the Delta, they say I was a fool for making that deal with the devil, they say I’ve got the hellhounds on my tail. But they also say this: there’s not a bluesman alive who can play the entire first part of Smoke on the Water like Hellbound Dave.
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
176 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2005 : 12:31:35 AM
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| Mulholland Drive. Some people seem to worship the ground David Lynch walks on and I do like his style but I found Mulholland Drive, along with Blue Velvet come to that, to be greatly overrated. It seems like what it was- an hour and a half pilot for a proposed TV series which introduces lots of various characters and mysteries with another half hour or so shoved in at the end to make it into a complete movie- not the intricate puzzle some people make it out to be. The explanations as to what was supposed to have happened by the end of the movie veer toward lame it was all a dream territory and go little way toward explaining the point of most of what we saw on screen. I admit that maybe I'm just not clever enough to get this one but it always seemed to me to be an emperor’s new clothes situation to me in terms of the critical praise it got. |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2005 : 03:05:05 AM
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The flick just WANTED to make me hate it!!! I think I'd rather sit through 10 viewings of MAC & ME than see this again -- at least I could laugh myself silly!
BREATHLESS -- Man, I'd heard SO MUCH about how great this flick was, and when I saw it the first time, I wanted to like -- I wanted to like it A LOT. I HATE IT.
Many of the flicks named on this thread have ICONIC moments and scenes that will probably always be part of the public conciousness, even if the complete work becomes "dated" and unwatchable by anybody who's not a film scholar.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2005 : 05:31:46 AM
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Footlose --> 80s crappy filmmaking at its worst. OK, I'll admit that i was amused by John Lithgow's scenario chewing, and that the cast is alright. After all, it has some of the few "teen" actors of the era that actually can act, like Kebin Bacon, Chris Penn and Lori Singer, but that's it.
The entire premise is so absolutely stupid no one could believe it, and it only ammounts for some dirty-dancing-esque sketches on how dancing is a form of rebelry (!). And what about the ending? They actually convince the fundamentalists that dancing is OK because it's on the Bible! Well, murder and alcoholism are also depicted on the Bible, so they may be alright as well. I guess that having the youngsters taking the village council to the Supreme Court for depriving them of basic freedoms wouldn't have been boring or stupid enough. |
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Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2005 : 08:35:09 AM
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Originally posted by Bobby-G
BREATHLESS -- Man, I'd heard SO MUCH about how great this flick was, and when I saw it the first time, I wanted to like -- I wanted to like it A LOT. I HATE IT.
AND HOW!!!!!! AMEN TO THAT!!!!!! And EIGHT AND A HALF and BLOWUP!!!!! |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2005 : 1:23:39 PM
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Ooh... and how could I forget Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Never before have so many famous cartoon characters been assembled together on one screen... and never before have not even one of them had something even remotely funny to say or do. And Bob Hoskins, one of our finest dramatic actors, sadly was not up to the task of handling broad comedy, let alone interacting with animated characters. (Hint to the casting director: next time, think Rowan Atkinson.)
Eye-popping special FX do not a movie masterpiece make, or has somebody already said that? |
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/11/2005 : 5:58:40 PM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
Ooh... and how could I forget Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Never before have so many famous cartoon characters been assembled together on one screen... and never before have not even one of them had something even remotely funny to say or do. And Bob Hoskins, one of our finest dramatic actors, sadly was not up to the task of handling broad comedy, let alone interacting with animated characters. (Hint to the casting director: next time, think Rowan Atkinson.)
Eye-popping special FX do not a movie masterpiece make, or has somebody already said that?
Yeah, "Who Framed" was "good", but far from "great". The best you can say about it is that it helped revive cartoons that were not aimed at the under 10 set.
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2005 : 11:04:24 AM
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Actually, to defend Footloose, I believe the defense of dancing was that dancing is explicitly accepted as valid in the Bible (there is a time to dance) and not simply that it is mentioned in the Bible.
We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
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