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Posted by Monqui on Sun Aug 1st at 5:04am 2004

I don't wholly agree with that, Crono. The 6th Sense at least has an atmosphere of creepyness, I suppose. Unbreakable wasn't the worst movie ever, it was at least intersting to me. Signs was pretty crappy, the logic behind the whole "swing away" bit was just offensive to me. I know the movie tried to focus on unintentional foreshadowing/coincidences in life, but that's a bit of a stretch for me.

This one just looked pretty. It had a nice environment built up *in theory.* I can imagine a very creepy experience coming from an isolated villiage surrounded by woods, cut off from all other societies, with beasts skulking around the outskirts. A good premise, but it doesn't hold at all in the film.

I'm a writer at heart, and as such I can really easily put myself into most situations and get inside characters heads, and can feel what they feel. In other words, it's hard for me NOT to get drawn into films and books. Now, I'm not saying that everyone should do this and judge his other films accordingly- but I could get into them, and I felt weirded out for a while when I was in them. This one is just a pile of drivel- even if you DO get into it it'll just shove you out with bizzare "twists" that don't make much sense. The other movies don't do this as badly.

Blargh. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sun Aug 1st at 5:15am 2004

Unbreakable was his best movie. The ending was just a little short shot. Signs most definatly blew. And the 6th sense was entertaining ... once and only once.

I think he's getting worse as he goes. When you stoop to having a fake interview which is trying to be 'creepy' as a special on TV to pimp your new movie, which obviously sucks, is just a new low. [addsig]



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Posted by Cassius on Sun Aug 1st at 5:32am 2004

Unbreakable owned my bones with tea and scones loaned from a bemoaned chrome telephone.





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Posted by matt on Sun Aug 1st at 9:42am 2004

? posted by Cassius

Unbreakable owned my bones with tea and scones loaned from a bemoaned chrome telephone.

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Posted by $loth on Sun Aug 1st at 3:58pm 2004

Unbreakable was an excellent movie!

Watched bad boys 2 last night, its quite a gd movie, 1 and a half thumbs up.
Started watching reigns of fire, the beggining is quite catchy.

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Posted by ReNo on Sun Aug 1st at 5:16pm 2004

Reign of Fire is a pretty poor movie but the hilarious ending "jump" makes up for it [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Aug 1st at 7:46pm 2004

Pulp Fiction - recently watched. It's a shame I had to wait this long. Movie rocks, 'nuff said.
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Posted by ReNo on Sun Aug 1st at 11:12pm 2004

Saw King Arthur tonight, not bad but not great. I agree with whoever said it was trying to be an epic but simply failed. It didn't feel like a grand scale movie such as Troy or Gladiator at all. That said, it was entertaining, and it featured "teh hotie!!!1" Keira Knightley (albeit looking like a zombie for her introduction to the film) so it was probably worth watching. The fight on the ice was exciting and impressive, but most of the other battles were lacking, and the entire film didn't have enough momentous battles. The final fight didn't seem like it should be the end at all, I expected at least one more afterwards.

Meh, I tend to like most films, I enjoyed it despite its shortcomings.

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Posted by Ferret on Sun Aug 1st at 11:22pm 2004

King Arthur: = blew

Bourne Supremacy = blew

The Village = blew

no good movies out. They were all pisspoor. And on unbreakables, I'll stand out and say that blew too.





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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Aug 2nd at 12:39am 2004

did king arthur really ... blew ... in what way ? It looked pretty good ... Clive Owen, swordfights ...
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Posted by ReNo on Mon Aug 2nd at 12:44am 2004

Pretty poor swordfights actually, and the camera work takes the typical "make it shaky so people don't notice the lack of fighting abilities" approach to the extreme. Some nice sequences, particularly the ice fight, but otherwise rather...

Unimpressive - the American "epics" are far more awe-inspiring.

Uneventful - not enough battles, hints of character depth and development are under-developed.

Unoriginal - doesn't break any new ground, this is nothing new from the likes of Braveheart or Gladiator, both of which are better films.

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Posted by Biological Component on Mon Aug 2nd at 2:11am 2004

shaky camera blows. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon Aug 2nd at 2:56am 2004

Anyone else watch 'sex lives of the potato men'? I though it was funny enough in places. It's a bit strange though, but I suppose that's part of its charm.




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Posted by myrmidon on Mon Aug 2nd at 3:06am 2004

until this moment, i had never heard of 'sex lives of the potato men' [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon Aug 2nd at 3:12am 2004

It mightn't have made it over to the USA, it's an English film. It's very crude, but it's mostly implicit.




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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Aug 2nd at 6:34pm 2004

I loved The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, to varying degrees. Not the best movies in the world, but I guess I just like the director's style. He really knows how to immerse people, I guess the people who slip below the radar are the ones who hate his movies.

And there's a reason you haven't heard of "Sex lives of the Potato Men". Its because apparently it's the worst british film ever. [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Aug 2nd at 6:42pm 2004

I just watched "Johnny English". It's OK, but the fun factor never reaches the Mr. Bean level ...
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Posted by Crono on Mon Aug 2nd at 8:24pm 2004

"Plan 9 From Outer Space" has been rated by the academy as the worst film ever and Ed Wood Jr. as the worst Director of all time. [addsig]



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Tue Aug 3rd at 3:43am 2004

? posted by Crono
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" has been rated by the academy as the worst film ever and Ed Wood Jr. as the worst Director of all time.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. They're up there, the cementary is over there, and I'll be locked up in there!"

Clear-as-mud.

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Posted by Crono on Tue Aug 3rd at 4:54am 2004

However, you can't bash Plan 9 too much, simply because Ed Wood (the movie) is awesome.

A lot of people have made insinuations that Tim Burton has an undying respect for Ed Wood Jr.

He made Ed Wood, a film (loosely) based on the life of Ed Wood Jr. Then Burton made his own catastrophe of a space movie, Mars Attacks. [addsig]




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