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Old 09-06-2010, 11:12 AM
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Yeah, it sort of looked like another "looks great but meh" Tim Burton film.

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Old 09-06-2010, 01:17 PM
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I agree with Stormlight, but I have to say when Alice goes all white knight on the Jaberwocky's ass I was pleased.
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The Men Who Stare At Goats

Well, what do I say. Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges were great. George Clooney was George Clooney, a little bit loony, a little bit sweaty, Clooney. The CGI Youtherizing™ of McGregor, Bridges and Clooney was great. The story, unbelievable, then quite plausible, then they put LSD in the water and eggs. Somehow, I believe shit just about this weird actually did go on in the military, and some of it probably still is.
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I've tried watching it twice and couldn't get into it. Should I stick with it?
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I finally plodded all the way through Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It's definitely better than the other two prequels, by a wide margin in fact. I think it would even be a good film (not great, of course; it still has wooden acting, unconvincing character motivation, and plenty of crap dialogue) if it weren't for the vacuum pressure of the first two films' suckage draining the life out of it.
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Watched Repo Men last night. Halfway decent action flick, but the plot was pretty obvious. What wasn't obvious was the ending. It just sucked that they ended it the way they did. Hmph. Of course, the fight scene towards the end in front of the "pink door" was pretty awesome (it's the french version ... and a crappy one at that).

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I finally plodded all the way through Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It's definitely better than the other two prequels, by a wide margin in fact. I think it would even be a good film (not great, of course; it still has wooden acting, unconvincing character motivation, and plenty of crap dialogue) if it weren't for the vacuum pressure of the first two films' suckage draining the life out of it.

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I've tried watching it twice and couldn't get into it. Should I stick with it?
I'm not sure I would bother. There are more important things you could be doing, like looking for interesting shit on Google Earth.
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Saw The Other Guys today. A satiric look at Ponzi schemes. And other stuff about society.
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I'm enjoying Broadway Danny Rose on IFC. I love Woody Allen so. He is infinite good.
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Old 09-08-2010, 09:55 PM
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I finally plodded all the way through Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It's definitely better than the other two prequels, by a wide margin in fact. I think it would even be a good film (not great, of course; it still has wooden acting, unconvincing character motivation, and plenty of crap dialogue) if it weren't for the vacuum pressure of the first two films' suckage draining the life out of it.

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In other news, saw The Kids Are All Right over the weekend. Not bad. Not what I expected from trailers, though. A number of arcs just sort of trailed off. Best line: "Usually in those kinds of movies, they just get two straight women to fake it."
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I would never claim that Piranha 3D was a good movie, but I certainly enjoyed it well enough.
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i saw Bronson. what a great movie. it's been talked about in here before. i recommend it.

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I also saw The Time Traveler's Wife. I enjoyed it but that might be due to my having read and enjoyed the book. I wonder how it would have been otherwise. And hey, Brad Pitt had executive producer credit. So I had a very Brad Pitt afternoon at the cinema.
I had never heard of this (the movie or the book) but it was on HBO a couple days ago and I liked the description so I watched it. I thought it was really good. It felt to me more like a relationship drama set in an unusual framing device than a science fiction film, and I still liked it! :giggles:
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Old 09-11-2010, 12:34 PM
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Enjoying In Bruges. Not what I expected, but then I try to avoid spoilers.

Quite a cast for the smaller rolls, Julius Caesar, Amon Gothe, Mistress from Psychoville, Guy Who Went After Jack Bauer.

You will probably find it recommended a few pages back. I like to be current.

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Nowhere was a movie made entirely of sex scenes, but also alien probing.

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. Rather strange. :shrug: Good background noise I guess.
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Nowhere was a movie made entirely of sex scenes, but also alien probing.
So a classic then?

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Old 09-12-2010, 05:19 AM
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Unfortunately In Bruges suffers from too many "idiot plot" devices. Enjoyable if you ignore them, but they become very hard to ignore.

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I watched "$9.99" tonight on Netflix. Australian/Israeli stop-motion animation collaboration. Visually beautiful. The story is interesting. I liked it.
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Kick Ass. Liked it, but

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No, actually I kind of liked those. Not that I'm a fan of violence. And I do have to hide behind a pillow during the particularly (potentially) gruesome scenes. Like I did last night during a couple of them, like, for instance,

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No, actually I kind of liked those. Not that I'm a fan of violence. And I do have to hide behind a pillow during the particularly (potentially) gruesome scenes. Like I did last night during a couple of them, like, for instance,

No I meant having a little girl defeat big guys. I likes my Uma, but Uma cannot fight her way out of an oil soaked paper bag.

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Uma is 7 feet tall and 40 years old. She's not a little girl by any conceivable measure.
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Old 09-13-2010, 01:39 AM
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Uma is 7 feet tall and 40 years old. She's not a little girl by any conceivable measure.
Uma is only 5'11" to 6"--that is "37 Frenchies" for you European lot--and still cannot fight her way out of a paper bag.

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