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? quoting Crono
Yeah, Christian Bale (Bale-American Psycho + Bale-Equilibrium = Bruce Wayne). Val Kilmer was in Batman 3 (the first bad one) Michael Keaton was in the first two (the second one being the best so far ... but soon to change).
So it is! They look very similar in the film, I got confused. Lets just be thankful it isn't George Clooney again!

Yet he's actually a good actor (seriously). I think Batman and Robin was unfair to the cast. It was just so crappily made ... why is Mr. Freeze's suit powered by diamonds?

The thing I don't get is that normally, Val Kilmer just oozes cool, and you'd think playing Batman would be a perfect opportunity ... but no. Damn Joel Schumacher
. "We want to make it like the 60s TV show, like it was meant to be", I believe he said once. And the real kicker is that all his other movies are dark and f**ked up (like Batman should be ... along with Daredevil.)

Wilson, no it wouldn't. Are you forgetting who made it? Mr. ISuckAtMakingMovies himself: Michael Bay.

watched "Men of Honor" again.. great flick.

Constantine is...decent. Visually it's spot on, and Reeves does a
better job than I expected (even if it's still a bit sub-par). Still,
he was at least likeable, and making such a cynical bastard likeable
isn't always easy. A bit long though, and the tiny romance sub-plot was
laughably half-arsed. I was glad that they didn't have the obligatory
"make-out at the end of the movie" scene.

Was I the only one that laughed at "I need a mirror! At least...3 feet
high!" It was just such a bizaare and random thing to say IMO. :smile:
Obviously, if you knew why he needed one by reading the comics or
something, you probably wouldn't think the same way.

Recommended if you need to kill two hours, at the very least.

Wow, I was so bored last night that I watched "spice girls the movie" Oh my god what total s**t. It was a great waste of a night though.

re-watched "An Officer and a Gentleman" .. been ages but still top shelf viewing..

considering i am a Gossett fan, its no wonder :biggrin:

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I have no intention of ever watching that movie, but as a Kids in the Hall fan I have to ask about Mark McKinney's role in the movie. Does he earn his paycheck? Funny character or one of the boring foils to the "zany" antics of the Spice Girls?

Just saw Run Lola Run. Pretty good. Very unusual style.

Sorry Orph...but I found Taxi to be really poor. Full of every cliche in the book and I don't think I laughed once. Well, maybe one or two nose laughs but nothing to write home about.

I've been watching my Red Dwarf series 6 DVD over the last few nights, and its still as funny as ever. Also got the Little Britain charity DVD and Robbie Williams makes a suprisingly good 'lady'.... :wink:

don't apologize. i hardly make anyone laugh around here, even when i think its a gut buster.

my humor is only one of many things i am segregated for. :biggrin:

that movie was clear full of my kind of humor. i also watched Sean of the dead. it sucked. it had even more of those clich?'s you mentioned. in fact, it was made up of nothing but. and look how well that movie was received around here.. so, go figure. shrugs

Heh, that's the beauty of Shaun Of The Dead though. We all know it's full of cliches and that's what makes it great - the whole film is a play on all the zombie films out there. I wouldn't go as far as calling it a spoof, but it's not far off.

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<DIV class=quotetext>Heh, that's the beauty of Shaun Of The Dead though. We all know it's full of cliches and that's what makes it great - the whole film is a play on all the zombie films out there. I wouldn't go as far as calling it a spoof, but it's not far off. </DIV></DIV>

well, you know my taboo habits right?

well i no longer need to taboo movies from the net, i can taboo originals. and i refused to waste a DVD+R on it.. wasting a rental fee was waste enough :/
i'm sorry, it was just horrid.

Hehe, A.H it's called a self knowledge, just like scream, Wes Craven
intended it to be full of cliches with stereotyped characters and the
plot although the plot was modernised into a public place instead of a
secluded house of the edge of the woods.

? quoting Adam Hawkins
Heh, that's the beauty of Shaun Of The Dead though. We all know it's full of cliches and that's what makes it great - the whole film is a play on all the zombie films out there. I wouldn't go as far as calling it a spoof, but it's not far off.
well, you know my taboo habits right?
well i no longer need to taboo movies from the net, i can taboo originals. and i refused to waste a DVD+R on it.. wasting a rental fee was waste enough :/
i'm sorry, it was just horrid.

You could just use -R, they're cheaper and more devices support them.

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You could just use -R, they're cheaper and more devices support them. </DIV></DIV>

that brings up an interesting subject.

around here -R and +R are the same price, but what exactly is the distinctions between "minus" and "plus"
now i know a RW is re-writable, but what is the + and - thing all about?

Not much. The information is stored differently. I don't know what the differences are. However, I do know most devices suppprt -R and not +R because of this information storage difference. Try looking around for some information.

-R is way cheaper here. However, I just got a 50 pack of DVD-R for $12.50 ... and then to my surprise they gave me a form for a $10 mail in rebate! $2.50 isn't too bad :smile:

Taking that most -R 50 packs are like $30 and +R is around $50 or so.

thanx crono, i will get me some minus ones and try them next. :smile:

[edit] Just noticed, "Recently Watched" takes over first place in replies :biggrin:

Isn't -r more supported than +r I've heard.

In film studies were gonna be watching the wicker man so will tell you
what I think of that in a couple of weeks. ATM we've just finished
watching brief encounter and now we are watching a movie called
beautiful thing. It's a british movie about 2 boy's who fall in love
with each other, it's OK tbh as it's not all that dingy that you might
think it is.

Watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow the other day, and it was
pretty crap. I liked a lot of it visually, and I dig the setting (so
"Crimson Skies" esque), but the plot was so winding and "what the
f**k?!" that you couldn't help but laugh at how unlikely it all was.
Not that it was going for realism of course.

$loth, your Media Studies course sounds a lot more fun than when I did it. We didn't watch a single film in two years!

Anyway, I watched 'The Village' last night and thought the 'twist' actually spoilt the film. I felt cheated by it. At one point, it was almost redeemed by making you think the twist was an elaboration of the truth, but no! Flippin 'eck, it's not easy trying to explain this without spoiling the film! Hopefully anyone who's seen the film knows what I mean?

$loth, your Media Studies course sounds a lot more fun than when I did it. We didn't watch a single film in two years!
Anyway, I watched 'The Village' last night and thought the 'twist'
actually spoilt the film. I felt cheated by it. At one point, it was
almost redeemed by making you think the twist was an elaboration of the
truth, but no! Flippin 'eck, it's not easy trying to explain this
without spoiling the film! Hopefully anyone who's seen the film knows
what I mean?

I know exactly what you mean. It's a film that hinges entirely on it's
"surprise twist" just one big slap in the face really. Those who
plan to see it: you probably already thought of the twist and discarded
it as being "rubbish" or "too easy". And if I've just potentially
ruined the movie for
you, then good, I've saved you the trouble of seeing it. Because the
only reason I watched it to the end was in case another similar twist
showed up (I'm sure those who've seen it could wager a guess as to what
that twist is). It was a genuinely interesting
premise as well; Shyamalan just had to ruin the whole bloody thing by
not being an imaginative writer.

$loth, your Media Studies course sounds a lot more fun than when
I did it. We didn't watch a single film in two years!

Actually, this is in film, although I do media aswell. We haven't
watched that many films, only bowling for columbine so far. But we do
watch a lot of episodes of sitcoms atm and do some presentations on
scenes from films. Oh also we've just finished making our thriller
movie intros :wink:

I'm amused you have a course that involves watching sitcoms. What kind of shows are you viewing in that? Hopefully not "According to Jim" or "Yes, Dear."

In media the topic we are doing atm is gender representation and
sitcoms. We've only been doing british sitcoms atm like butterflies,
royale family, spaced (i think it's called that, with the guy from
shaun of the dead) and the office (don't know why people think this is
funny, it sucks.)

Obviously never worked in an Office then...

They must be so bored to find that stuff amusing.

Watched "The Terminal" while i was visiting in Texas.. good solid 5 star flick.. :smile:

Rented/Watched Anchorman

It was horrible, simply horrible. :sad:

I liked Anchorman. Will Ferrel just totally kicks ass.

My mom rented the China Syndrome, it's really old and about dams breaking down or something like that. It was good though.

Just rented "Ladder 49"

been waiting for this release for months. /me hopes its as good as the previews.

funny, this is one of the few movies i could not obtain a HQ taboo of :sad:

sighs

Wife insisted on watching "The Terminal" first.. me and my big mouth, I just had to tell her how great it was :biggrin:

Just finished Ladder 49.. definitely worth a watch guys.. definitely.

Just finished this

nice new twist to a tired old series of movies.

Just rented/watched "Into the sun"

typical Segal.. 1 1/2 thumbs up.

A typical Segal film gets 1 and a half!? What about a Chuck Norris film?

0.9

sorry, i never liked Norris films.

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Just finished the remake of "Flight of the Phoenix"

not better or worse than the original, but being a fan of both Mr. Stewart and Mr. Quaid.. I don't think i could chose. :/

Watched Alone In The Dark out of curiosity...bleh. Worse than RE.

rented/watching "The Chronicles of Riddick" the directors cut..

2 thumbs up :biggrin:

Alone in the Dark does look pretty awful, but at least it seems like a
step up from the guy's last game based move "House of the Dead" (which
from the trailer, had NOTHING to do with any of the games!). Oh and
don't worry Orph, I'm not a Chuck "The f**k" Norris fan, just checking
you didn't rank too highly :biggrin:

Oh God, The Crappicles of Riddick. The game is cool though.

Oh man, I wanted to see Alone in the Dark so bad. Just because it looked so terrible. And it had one of the best psuedo-elit-b-list-actors: Stephen Dworf.

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It was horrible, simply horrible. :sad:

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I never thought I'd have to say this to you, but I do.
Die.

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Die.

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with my dying breath i say "horrible"
/runs

Watched 'The Grudge' (US version) last night. Nothing special but some nice tension build-up throughout. It's always better when they only give you glimpses of the big bad.

Watched 'The Grudge' (US version) last night. Nothing special
but some nice tension build-up throughout. It's always better when they
only give you glimpses of the big bad.

Saw it too ... it was OK, too bad they had Sarah Michelle Gellar in it. She acts like a pancake.

Just watched Mulholland Drive. Not a new movie, from 2001, but still it
was one awesome movie. One of the best I've ever seen. Still trying to
understand the movie. If you haven't seen it, do so, I strongly
recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/

I watched The Jacket
last week when it came out. I have to say that I was pleasantly
suprised, the movie was quite a bit better than I expected. The
ending was good as well, I appreciate what the writer did and am happy
to see that Hollywood is willing to open its mind a little, even if
critics aren't.

wow cool, /me likes Jennifer Jason Leigh.. i might have to check this one out :smile:

I watched The Jacket
last week when it came out. I have to say that I was pleasantly
suprised, the movie was quite a bit better than I expected. The
ending was good as well, I appreciate what the writer did and am happy
to see that Hollywood is willing to open its mind a little, even if
critics aren't.

This isn't directed at you, but I'm sick of this "Hollywood Makes One Movie" attitude. Because it simply isn't true.

Anyway, I saw the Jacket last week as well. Not what I expected, that's for sure. But I enjoyed it.

I don't think that Hollywood makes one movie, and I said that I'm happy they don't. I think that critics review one movie.

I own Mulholland drive, have seen it several times, and still have no freaking clue what the hell is going on in some parts. If you liked that, you may be interested in one of Lynch's other films, Lost Highway. I personally think it's one of my favorite films, but it's incredibly abstract and random. But, if you dwell on it enough, it really does make sense.

You have to realize though, that Lynch doesn't make movies in a normal manner. Basically, he has starts with characters, and various abstract images of what the characters do. Certain visions if you will. He then worries about tying everything together with a storyline, as opposed to most directors who have a storyline in mind first, and create situations based on that.

Once you understand that, things get a bit easier to disect- simply look at the individual parts as being completely atomic first- try to understand the symbolism on that level, then work your way up through the chain, and try to see where everything comes together. If you want, I can give you the basic rundown on Mulholland based on my analasys.

I loved the scene in the restaurant when the guy talks about his dream. The atmosphere builds up in such a nice way.

The music is fantastic and those vague, dark tones in the background
through the movie really give a creepy feeling. I think I'm going to
read some analysis and then watch it again, so feel free to tell what
you think of it. :smile:

I'll definitely check his other movies out as well. Has anyone seen
Twin Peaks btw? I'd like to know what this series is like.