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Posted by Crono on Wed Aug 25th at 7:37am 2004

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Really? I must of missed it

They pulled it off WELL in any case.


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Posted by $loth on Wed Aug 25th at 7:40am 2004

Damn my englush is poor, well, at least I am re-taking it next year

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Posted by fizscy46 on Thu Sep 2nd at 12:08am 2004

Dreamcatcher. No matter how many bad reviews that movie has gotten, it is a wonderful movie. The only reason its getting bad reviews is because it misses parts of the book (Its a Stephen King one), but so does every film interpretation of a book.

If you are going to watch it, do so in a 5.1 surround system. The voices that come on throughtout the film will come from different angles and its kind of freaky.

Yeah, and the way the movie is advertised is strange, it seems like a psychopath on the loose type of movie, when really its aboot a bunch of friend that share a telepathic link that get stuck in the middle of an virus alien invasion (The aliens are also telepathic, but unlike any other story involving aliens they aren't human like, but snake-like.)

In the end, its a wicked movie and actually somewhat scary. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Thu Sep 2nd at 12:22am 2004

Dodgeball is pure hilarity. Especially the car wash. Highly recommended to anyone with a sense of humour.

Chronicles of Riddick, from what I can tell, seems to be some sort of techdemo for what CGI is capable of nowadays. Not only is it completely full of itself and overly-pretentious sometimes, but some things just didn't make sense. If Riddick wasn't the main character, I'd probably hate it. But Riddick is just so cool, I ended up enjoying it (depsite the huge amount of "jesus christ, who wrote this crap"!" moments I experienced). Pitch Black was better. [addsig]



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Posted by Hugh on Thu Sep 2nd at 12:32am 2004

I f**king hated Dreamcatcher, the book was way better. The acting was just god-awful horrible, I couldn't give two s**ts about those actors when they got killed. The only good thing about it is Kurtz, because Morgan Freeman's awesome. It also didn't seem like a good book to make a movie out of since you'd have to explain "the line" and all that crap. Anyway. I just really really really hated the movie, wrote a 5-page paper for school on why I preferred the book, actually...



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Posted by fizscy46 on Thu Sep 2nd at 12:44am 2004

lol, you suck. The movie is good, its a summary of the book, not a direct representation of it. If you see, it says in the credits: "BASED on the novel by Stephen King"

And yes, the movie is quite confusing... Just like The Wall, it seems to have no exact story to follow, but is rather what you make of it. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Thu Sep 2nd at 12:56am 2004

I'm pretty sure all movies of books say "BASED on..." - what else would they say?
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Posted by Hugh on Thu Sep 2nd at 1:17am 2004

Meh, I didn't say the movie was bad, just that the book was better and that I hated the movie beyond belief. Either way. The things that sound fine in the book were just ridiculous in the movie, which was my main beef. Like when Beav's sittin' on the toilet and gets off it for a toothpick on a bloody floor and then promptly gets killed... it just seemed ridiculous watching it.





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Posted by Crono on Thu Sep 2nd at 1:44am 2004

Dreamcatcher sucks. In both forms. Surprise, Surprise, a 'King' story has aliens in it. God, I hate Stephen King. The Darktower/Gunslinger series is what should be made, not garbage like Dreamcatcher and Maximum Overdrive. [addsig]



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Posted by fizscy46 on Thu Sep 2nd at 2:24am 2004

If you noticed Hugh, Beav had those toothpicks with him all the time.

The aliens in it are just different though... They aren't those cheesy ones that basically every film has... Big tear-drop head, big eyes, and a saucer ship... Although you can make an exception when Mr. Gray uses telepathy to make Jonesy think he is one of those "normal" aliens before he goes into Jonesy's metaphorical mind. [addsig]



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Posted by Hugh on Thu Sep 2nd at 2:28am 2004

Beav had the toothpicks with him all the time, yes, then he spilled them on the bloody bathroom floor. Anyway, I actually agree with Crono in that King does suck. He can write good prose but the stories are rather cliched and unscary.



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Posted by Crono on Thu Sep 2nd at 4:11am 2004

You forgot: formulaic, boring, and crap. He's had about ten original ideas written into books ... ever. It seems like he just takes old stories and characters, changes the characters choices, and then mixes two of his previous books together and BAM, he has a "new" book. I think Desperation was about the last time I picked one of his books up where I didn't really know what it was about.

I think his stories would be better if he didn't explain everything. In fact, he shouldn't explain anything that is f**ked up, past a general "It might be from this" sort of situation, because it all comes off as sounding ridiculous and stupid.

Take Desperation/Regulators for example(s), Satanic aliens, who possess people and force them to kill others ... how are they defeated? A Ghost with a bible and a new found stance on religion. Come on. Thats retarded. I don't want to read 50 gazillion pages of set up to get that sort of outcome. I think his writing REALLY began getting terrible after he wrote The Stand. Because, honestly, that book is terrible.

HOWEVER, King does write wonderful characters, I just wish he'd, you know, make up more then five ... ever. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Sep 2nd at 8:12am 2004

i robot- pretty good movie, a bit cheesy, but still is not just the boring hero macho guy saving the world as you would expect. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Sep 7th at 4:42pm 2004

Shaun Of The Dead is one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I hear it's being released Stateside soon; you have NO excuse to see this masterpiece of a film. [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Tue Sep 7th at 5:13pm 2004

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Shaun Of The Dead is one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I hear it's being released Stateside soon; you have NO excuse to see this masterpiece of a film.


Yeah, looks good, I'll try and see it sometime, sort of comedy zombie thing, like They Hunger.
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Posted by fishy on Tue Sep 7th at 5:52pm 2004

i thought the camera work near the start was done really well. the way that it showed you what shaun couldn't see, even though he was walking in amongst it. some classic funnies, without a word being spoken.





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Posted by Biological Component on Tue Sep 7th at 10:45pm 2004

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you have NO excuse to see this masterpiece of a film.


NO excuse to miss this, you mean?

From what I've seen of the previews, it does actually look quite funny. [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Wed Sep 8th at 7:27am 2004

Anyone seen the new Jet Li movie Hero? Good? Bad? Indifferent? I think I will see it this weekend. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Wed Sep 8th at 7:36am 2004

I watched Jay and silent bob strike back recently, it's funny like thier others in a slap-stick comedy kind of way. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Wed Sep 8th at 8:15am 2004

Hero is good. But don't call it a "Jet Li Movie", because it really isn't about him. Most all the characters have equal screen time. Also, the movie has about a half hour cut out from the original cut (however, this is a cut that was shown in China as well, I believe its the theatrical cut, and the directors cut is on DVD).

Its good. See it. Something that really sticks out is the color themes throughout the movie. You'll see scenarios shown in different colors depending on whos talking and whether its truthful or not.

I also love that they left it subtitled, however, Jet Li has a rather disgusting voice

Its really built up on an idea about China and its 'Revolution'. I can't really tell you more. I'm sure most people will enjoy the movie. I suppose one thing to keep in mind is that, there's meaning in the movie, so don't leave it with a "That f**king sucked" attitude. If you have no idea what I mean, see it. (it doesn't suck though )



On a side note, I bought Resident Evil today, it cost about $15 (I'd pay no more then 5 or 6), but it comes with a ticket to see Apocalypse, so, I really payed about 7 for it, which justifies the buying of the worst movie thats good.

And no, Resident Evil doesn't fall under the "so bad its good" catagory, because the movie is terrible. Its just fun ... an example of a so bad its good movie is Evil Dead ... probably Mortal Kombat too. [addsig]




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