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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Jun 27th at 9:48am 2004

Farhenheit 9/11 still isn't released here. Damn, I want to see it. [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Sun Jun 27th at 10:06am 2004

? quote:
Well it must be a cold day in hell, because this movie is straight-forward and fairly accurate with little, if any, twisting by Moore (unlike Bowling for Columbine).


Somehow I doubt that... (-: [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Jul 6th at 1:22pm 2004

I thought I'd revive this topic from the abyss, it doesn't deserve to die just yet.

I saw Shrek 2, and it's bloody hilarious. Go see it purely for Antonio Banderas as Puss 'n' Boots, in full Zorro mode. John Cleese is vastly underused though.

I also recently watched Se7en and The Godfather for the first time. The former is a brilliantly dark film-noir detective...thing. And it's by David Fincher, so you know it's good. As for The Godfather, I regret not seeing this movie earlier. I didn't think Al Pacino could be any better as a mob boss than in Scarface. Well, Francis Ford Coppola sure showed me. I''l be watching Part 2 ASAP.

I saw Farenheit 9/11 as well, and I was severly dissapointed. Bowling For Columbine was great for being able to pick apart US society and it's relations to gun violence, and while it wasn't always as accurate or as objective as Moore wanted you to think, it was still somewhat though-provoking and enjoyable. Farenheit 9/11, however, is just a venemous attack on President Bush and the war in Iraq. That's it. There's nothing here that makes you think at all, it's just attack after attack after attack. It's an exteme liberalist's view on the Bush Administration, and as such, it is boring. There's not much ground here that hasn't been covered before. I was at least expecting something new, but nope. While not a bad film, it's still a dissapointment for me. The images from Iraq are truly disturbing however. I'm glad that it will open a lot of people's eyes, whether the film is telling the truth or not. [addsig]



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Posted by Cassius on Tue Jul 6th at 3:12pm 2004

It has often been said that liberals are not funny (by me that is) and Fahrenheit 9/11 proves this beyond a doubt. The point of that movie, no matter what your political perspective, was to appeal to your petty side: here, laugh at other people who you don't know - after all, there are about ten f**king banjoes playing in the background, that must mean they're stupid!

One realizes that in a movie that is entirely devoted to destroying Bush, Moore speaks more often than him. Fair and balanced.

The first time I saw it, it was great; the second time I could barely keep myself in the theater.

[addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Tue Jul 6th at 3:17pm 2004

Well, I just watched "Chihiro - Spirited Away". It's not a new movie, perhaps a year old or something. It has a very special style, but I really liked it.
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Posted by matt on Tue Jul 6th at 4:04pm 2004

The guy in BFC who thought you should be able to keep nukes in your home (as long as you wern't going to use them) cracked me up. Also the cartoon bit was good, portraying 'a short history of america'. The last film I saw through was Minority report, which gets better each time I watch it.



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Posted by $loth on Tue Jul 6th at 4:23pm 2004

? posted by Kage_Prototype

I saw Shrek 2, and it's bloody hilarious. Go see it purely for Antonio Banderas as Puss 'n' Boots, in full Zorro mode. John Cleese is vastly underused though.

For you, I could.....do

[addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Tue Jul 6th at 9:14pm 2004

I Saw Spider-Man 2 (last week), Matchstick Men, and Master and Commander.

Spider-Man 2 was awesome to no end, of course.

Matchstick Men was ... well ... unless you think only the ending of a movie makes a movie, see it, otherwise, ITS CRAP.

Master and Commander was the most boring and pointless movie I've seen in the last 5 years. Dear lord, I don't know how so many people thought this was 'the best movie of the year'. It's basically watching Russel Crow refusing to give up. There are so many people on this ship that they try making important characters and the movie just falls flat on its face. Since there are so many, when something 'important' happens to one of them, you don't care, because you don't recognize that character.
There's really only about three characters in the entire movie that are very constant.

But, overall it was crap ... 136 minutes of 1807 s**t! [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Wed Jul 7th at 12:19am 2004

I can see that me and Crono have quite different taste in movies...
I thought F911 was a load of unsubstantiated propaganda (although quite funny at times).
I liked Matchstick Men.
Master and Commander is one of my favorite seafaring movies.

Haven't seen Spiderman2 yet, although I suspect I will like it. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Wed Jul 7th at 1:40am 2004

I don't see it as "tastes"

That's like saying I love all of Michael Moore's documentaries, or I think every movie by Riddly Scott is bad. Or every sea-movie is bad.
Likewise, you can't assume that since I think Spider-Man 2 is great that I'd like every comic book movie sequel.

It all depends on the movie its self and the word 'taste' implies a genre and is incredibly misleading.

Don't jump to conclusions just because of three movies. I could list countless movies that I love that I'm sure many others love, would you then say that those people and I have the same tastes? If you would, that doesn't make sense.

Also, if you liked the first Spider-Man movie, you will probably love the second. David Koepp didn't write it!! It still has some Raimi cheesieness, but it fits, since it's Spider-Man. [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Wed Jul 7th at 6:13am 2004

Taste in movies does not necessairily fall directly on genre lines. I don't see what you are on about liking or disliking all of a certain sort of movie. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Wed Jul 7th at 1:57pm 2004

Seen a 'few' horror movies in the past week:

The first four in the friday the 13th series, They get a bit repetative after a while, and are a bit outdated, but still pretty good.

The ring, very good movie, i reccomend this to anybody, except lil kids.

A nightmare on elm street[ 1 and 2] Nicely done, again a bit outdated, but still good, the second one pics up about half way through.

[addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Wed Jul 7th at 8:40pm 2004

I just saw "Fahrenheit 9/11".

Good documentary, but it got a little boring when he explained the oil-company-things. (or maybe I just don't like economic things ... could be me)

Powerful moments:

  • The moment where they're telling bush the nation's under attack. His face !
  • The woman at the and (before the white house), complaining about her dead son, falling to her knees and praying.
  • The nightly search in bagdad (some shaky cam images)
I really, really hope this movie has an impact on the elections. (negative for Bush ... don't shoot me, I've got several good reasons to think Bush is a ***.)
[addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Wed Jul 7th at 11:11pm 2004

Just watched 'love actualy' not a bad movie at all. 8/10 [addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Wed Jul 7th at 11:16pm 2004

The woman at the end is an opportunist. As long as her sons are alive and she gets respect, she's all cool with the military and going to war, but as soon as her son dies, WHAM, she now hates bush and the war. What the hell. When things are OK, she's fine, but as soon as the going gets rough she changes her entire set of belifs?

Her son knew the risk he was getting into. She knew the risk he was getting into. In a war, s**t happens. There are always casualties, and just because you have one doesn't change any of the arguments about going to war in the first place.

Imagine if before the war she said "I am for the war if my son lives through it, but against the war if he doesn't". She would instantly be labeled a hipocrit.



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jul 8th at 12:12am 2004

just re-watched "Miss Congeniality" .. funnnnny as hell..

the sentence that kills me every time, is when she is watching the movie takes of the past pageants and says "If i only had a brain" i piss myself watching her reactions

[addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu Jul 8th at 6:45am 2004

I haven't seen Fahrenheit 9/11, nor do I plan to. The reason? I refuse to pay for political propaganda. I feel something of that sort should be distributed through some grassroots VHS campaign or something, not costing me $9.50 to get in. Oh well, I'm not a big documentary fan anyway.

Recent viewing for me included Spidey 2 (awesome), Rocky (figured it was about time), The Runaway Jury (great) and Paycheck (very good). It's odd, I hate hate hate most courtroom/detective TV dramas, yet whenever there's a movie of the genre, I generally end up liking it. Why is this? I think it may be because the main characters of the TV series tend not to change from show to show, versus in movies where it seems they are very involved in the case as people. Take Mystic River - this detective story could have been used as a plot in a one-hour crime show easily. But instead, it's a movie, and focuses on characters instead of plot. What you get out of it is something completely different than a simple investigation, the climax of the movie is not when Kevin Bacon confronts the perpetrator. The one-shot nature of a movie allows anyone to be a weasel, and creates a bit more of a sense of danger as anything could happen to anyone at any moment. In comparison, you pretty much know nothing of note's gonna happen to one of the main detectives on a TV show.

Anyway, Paycheck was also really good, and was much better than I expected. The fight scenes were kept quasi-realistic, without crazy kung fu or anything like that. The movie played out more like a game of King's Quest than I imagined; I had heard going in that his nineteen items were clues to help him solve the puzzle. As it turned out, most of them were tools that he knew he would need, not clues. I found this a lot more interesting. The budget was kept to a level where the sfx people couldn't do anything ridiculous, like say a terrible CGI fight scene atop a church organ. Not a major milestone in cinema, but a very enjoyable action flick.





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Posted by mazemaster on Thu Jul 8th at 9:15am 2004

It doesn't look like you'll have to pay for it considering that <link url=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/04/140240&mode=thread&tid=188&tid=97>Moore recently stated that he was OK with people downloading F911 off the internet</link>.




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Posted by mazemaster on Thu Jul 8th at 9:19am 2004

Oh bugger all the editing option requires java or somesuch.

It doesn't look like you'll have to pay for it considering that
Moore
recently stated that he was OK with people downloading F911 off the
internet.



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Posted by $loth on Thu Jul 8th at 11:17am 2004

I think he said in his lastest book, 'dude, wheres my country?' that he doesn't care about the money, i think this proves it, btw, i haven't read all the book, just the intro, but still, it was gd.

[addsig]




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