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BeardofPants · 10-30-2004, 12:56 PM

Kill Bill vols 1 & 2 rock.

Recently, I watched Punch Drunk Love with Adam Sandler. By the same guy who did Magnolia. Frickin' awesome movie.

I also watched Phone Booth, which alright. Prolly not worth a re-watch though.

Spock · 10-30-2004, 05:23 PM

..Gee that's a bit harsh don't you think? There's more history in Japan than Australia and I bet you could do a triangle fare to include both if you had the extra shekels.

..I'm very past life attached to Japan.

Starr Polish · 10-30-2004, 09:06 PM

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Actually if you've ever been to Japan (at least on your first trip) it's easy to appreciate LIT, we loved it.

Or any place with a foreign language and culture (though obviously it'd be more poignant if you've been to Japan...something I plan on doing). I completely understand that lost feeling.

***HOBBIT*** · 10-30-2004, 09:23 PM

just saw Donnie Darko.. and I am very confused. What did I just watch ??!!

Grey_Wolf · 10-31-2004, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Spock

..Gee that's a bit harsh don't you think? There's more history in Japan than Australia and I bet you could do a triangle fare to include both if you had the extra shekels.

..I'm very past life attached to Japan.

Well, unfortunately, me and airplanes (that is the pressure to one's ears) to mix very well. And, of course, Japan has more history than Australia (that is if you only count the later colonists and not the aboriginies - who beat Japan by a very long shot!).

Spock · 10-31-2004, 12:10 PM

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Well, unfortunately, me and airplanes (that is the pressure to one's ears) to mix very well.
...PARDON CAPITALS BUT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE THE TYPE FACE AS WE USED TO DO BEFORE THIS SITE CHANGED.
I TOO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE EUSTASIAN (SP?) TUBES AND KNOW IT CAN BE QUITE PAINFUL. FORTUNATELY I DISCOVERED A COMBINATION OVER THE COUNTER MEDS THAT HELP A GREAT DEAL. SINCE FINDING THEM I'VE ONLY HAD ONE SERIOUSLY PAINFUL FLIGHT.

And, of course, Japan has more history than Australia (that is if you only count the later colonists and not the aboriginies - who beat Japan by a very long shot!).

YEP, I REALIZED THAT AS SOON AS I HIT "SEND". STILL IN ALL JAPAN IS BEAUTIFUL ONCE YOU GET OUTSIDE OF TOKYO AND EVEN IN NOOKS AND CRANIES IN THAT COSMOPOLITAN CITY.

Grey_Wolf · 11-01-2004, 05:46 AM

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YEP, I REALIZED THAT AS SOON AS I HIT "SEND". STILL IN ALL JAPAN IS BEAUTIFUL ONCE YOU GET OUTSIDE OF TOKYO AND EVEN IN NOOKS AND CRANIES IN THAT COSMOPOLITAN CITY.

My financial resources doesn't allow me going there either.

sun-star · 11-04-2004, 02:30 PM

I've just seen "Five Children and It". I love E Nesbit's books (though this isn't my favourite) and the adaptation was beautiful. The child actors were very impressive and Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead was great, as always.

I don't know why film-makers think stuff only happens in Britain during the wars - this was relocated to WW1 which it considerably pre-dates. I don't mind though - gave me a chance to see Alex Jennings as the soldier father *melts*

***azalea*** · 11-04-2004, 03:15 PM

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just saw Donnie Darko.. and I am very confused. What did I just watch ??!!

No kidding! I caught the last half of it on cable one night, and I have no idea what was happening.

thranduil · 11-04-2004, 04:08 PM

i dont understand it either.

Mercutio · 11-04-2004, 06:12 PM

"Heart of Darkness" (starring John Malcovich, based on book by Joseph Conrad).

*shiver*

Millane · 11-06-2004, 04:27 AM

went and saw Hero last night, hmmm still undecided about it but im going again tommorrer so ill reevaluate, very crouching tiger-esque, esp the music...
and then last night i watched the Big Lebowski and i realised once again why its one of the greatest movies ever made, i hadnt watched it for awhile but ive still seen it a shitload and every character gets me pissing my pants, that seen with Jesus and the guys in the bowling alley, hilarious.

Grey_Wolf · 11-06-2004, 04:53 AM

Resaw (is that the expression?) The Day After Tomorrow yesterday, with my parents. It is pretty awesome!

**Nurvingiel** · 11-06-2004, 07:16 AM

I was disappointed in "The Day After Tomorrow". It had so much potential, but it was bogged down with stupid scenes like the wolves on the boat, and the fact that they were outside when the eye of the storm hit but magically lived etc.
There were some cool scenes, like when people are crossing the Rio Grande, when the Mexican government allows sanctuary to the Americans if all third world debt is forgiven, and the survivors in New York (it's always New York

) coming out onto the rooves. All the scenes with Sir Ian Holm were really cool.

I just saw the Mask of Zorro! This is set at the same time and place as "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Cool eh?

Rewatched is the term you're looking for.

Linaewen · 11-06-2004, 09:29 AM

I watched 'The Day After Tomorrow', or rather, about 15 minutes of it. It looked kind of stupid and unrealistic to me, but that could just be me.

Watched 'The Sound of Music' last night. Now that was good stuff.

Tomorrow 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' is on so I'm looking forward to that.

Grey_Wolf · 11-06-2004, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

I was disappointed in "The Day After Tomorrow". It had so much potential, but it was bogged down with stupid scenes like the wolves on the boat, and the fact that they were outside when the eye of the storm hit but magically lived etc.
There were some cool scenes, like when people are crossing the Rio Grande, when the Mexican government allows sanctuary to the Americans if all third world debt is forgiven, and the survivors in New York (it's always New York

) coming out onto the rooves. All the scenes with Sir Ian Holm were really cool.

Yes, it was quite bombastic, but the effects was pretty neat (that was what I really was referring to).

I just saw the Mask of Zorro! This is set at the same time and place as "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Cool eh?

The Mask of Zorro is a very neat movie. I love movies with a lot of swordplay in them.

Rewatched is the term you're looking for.

And thanks.

The acting in TDAT wasn't particularly good, though.

**Nurvingiel** · 11-06-2004, 09:53 AM

Yeah, the acting wasn't the best, but it didn't detract from the movie. I thought Anthony Hopkins was quite brilliant (as usual), and Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were hot (as usual).

I love a lot of sword play in movies too! It was very cool to watch in Zorro.

I get annoyed when someone blows an obvious opening to kill their opponent though. It makes them look incompetent or stupid, which I know isn't the effect they're trying to get accross.

With this movie, I also wish the bad guys were a tad more complex. Captain Love was sick, and insane, but he was totally one-sided and boring. There could have been a lot more done with his character. Same with Raphael, though he wasn't sick like Love, and he was a smidgen more complex.

Grey_Wolf · 11-06-2004, 10:07 AM

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Yeah, the acting wasn't the best, but it didn't detract from the movie. I thought Anthony Hopkins was quite brilliant (as usual), and Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were hot (as usual).

The acting in The Mark of Zorro was medium, but as you say Anthony H never did a bad movie. Banderas does a good impression of Zorro and ZJ is hot as you stated.

I love a lot of sword play in movies too! It was very cool to watch in Zorro.

I get annoyed when someone blows an obvious opening to kill their opponent though. It makes them look incompetent or stupid, which I know isn't the effect they're trying to get accross.

Perhaps they wanted to get across that Love was so full of it that he couldn't kill his opponent at the first meeting.

With this movie, I also wish the bad guys were a tad more complex. Captain Love was sick, and insane, but he was totally one-sided and boring. There could have been a lot more done with his character. Same with Raphael, though he wasn't sick like Love, and he was a smidgen more complex.

Perhaps, but I think they went for the REALLY GOOD GUY/REALLY BAD GUY scenario.

Now I have to write something here too otherwize I can't post this.

***Jonathan*** · 11-06-2004, 12:40 PM

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I just saw the Mask of Zorro!

What did you think of the Swedish subtitles?

Katt_knome_hobbit · 11-06-2004, 02:22 PM

I just saw The Incredibles.

I give it one million moots up!

Oh my gods! It was so fabulous! The hair. The HAIR!

People were complaining that the plot was rather dry, but that was because it was satirizing the dryness of every super hero film ever!

YAY!

10-30-2004, 12:56 PM	#181
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Kill Bill vols 1 & 2 rock. Recently, I watched Punch Drunk Love with Adam Sandler. By the same guy who did Magnolia. Frickin' awesome movie. I also watched Phone Booth, which alright. Prolly not worth a re-watch though. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-30-2004, 05:23 PM	#182
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	..Gee that's a bit harsh don't you think? There's more history in Japan than Australia and I bet you could do a triangle fare to include both if you had the extra shekels. ..I'm very past life attached to Japan. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Last edited by Spock : 10-30-2004 at 05:25 PM. Reason: oops

10-30-2004, 09:23 PM	#184
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11-04-2004, 02:30 PM	#188
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I've just seen "Five Children and It". I love E Nesbit's books (though this isn't my favourite) and the adaptation was beautiful. The child actors were very impressive and Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead was great, as always. I don't know why film-makers think stuff only happens in Britain during the wars - this was relocated to WW1 which it considerably pre-dates. I don't mind though - gave me a chance to see Alex Jennings as the soldier father melts __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

11-04-2004, 04:08 PM	#190
thranduil Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 345	i dont understand it either. __________________ "The first rule about Fight Club, You don't talk about Fight Club."

11-04-2004, 06:12 PM	#191
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	"Heart of Darkness" (starring John Malcovich, based on book by Joseph Conrad). shiver __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

11-06-2004, 04:27 AM	#192
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	went and saw Hero last night, hmmm still undecided about it but im going again tommorrer so ill reevaluate, very crouching tiger-esque, esp the music... and then last night i watched the Big Lebowski and i realised once again why its one of the greatest movies ever made, i hadnt watched it for awhile but ive still seen it a shitload and every character gets me pissing my pants, that seen with Jesus and the guys in the bowling alley, hilarious. __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free,

11-06-2004, 04:53 AM	#193
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Resaw (is that the expression?) The Day After Tomorrow yesterday, with my parents. It is pretty awesome!

11-06-2004, 09:29 AM	#195
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	I watched 'The Day After Tomorrow', or rather, about 15 minutes of it. It looked kind of stupid and unrealistic to me, but that could just be me. Watched 'The Sound of Music' last night. Now that was good stuff. Tomorrow 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' is on so I'm looking forward to that.

11-06-2004, 02:22 PM	#200
Katt_knome_hobbit Dead Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: on the floor, under the table, just to your left, your other left Posts: 1,486	I just saw The Incredibles. I give it one million moots up! Oh my gods! It was so fabulous! The hair. The HAIR! People were complaining that the plot was rather dry, but that was because it was satirizing the dryness of every super hero film ever! YAY! __________________ How to Survive the Sillmarillion I thought that Alcohol was just for those with nothing else to do. I thought that drinking just to get drunk was a waste of precious booze. But now I know that there's a time and there's a place where I can choose To walk the fine line between self control and self abuse. "Lacerations make complications, but welts go away in a day."

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