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Saw "Return of the Sith" or whatever it's called on my brother's
computer today... I guess it's the best of the new Star Wars movies,
but that's not really saying anything. It had some funny lines though,
like "You're breaking my heart!" I laughed out loud at that one. The
main thing I found humorous throughout the movie was how retarded
Anakin was compared to how cool Darth Vader is. Truly boggles my mind.

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Maps! - Audio blog!

Saw War of the worlds.

I liked it, the ending left something to be desired but you have all made good points to that.

spoiler-

I didn't like the happy ending, I mean the kid should have been
dead. If the aliens sent 2 probes, and 3 footmen into that one
house you would think that they would have picked up rob after owning
all those military dudes.

but when spealberg does a movie, you know that everything will turn out ok for the main people (like that robot kid moive A.I.)

There were also alot of plot holes, apart from the almost invunrable
Ray. Like that camera that was still working when the tri pod
popped out of the ground. Also, why did the alien lasers pop
people like zits with out hurting their cloths, yet those same lasers
could saw a building in half? Or the kung-foo grip of that army
dude in the tri-pod cage?

-/spoiler

I really like Cruse in that movie though, he didn't play the cliche
bum-who-turns-into-super-man, he was just as scared as everyone else
and you could tell he was on the verge of falling apart. That
girl did a great job too, though she screamed and freaked out a little
too much.

another spolier-

I though it was neat how they had the part with the aliens checking out
the human artifacts in the house, if it wasn't for the killing all the
humans and spraying their blood over everything I think they could have
been kinda nice.

Saw Fantastic Four. All I'll say is, if you don't like the comic book: you wont like the movie. They're virtually identical (feel, story (almost), dialog, ... editing)

Needless to say I liked it, but I also like the comic, so.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Just watched War of the Worlds. It was good. Yup, nothing to say that hasn't already been said.

i kinda agree with what dr glass said on war of the worlds. i thought it was really stupid that the cruise's son survived.

just watched Team america worldpolice - probably one of the funniest movies ive ever seen loved the singing terrorist in the terrorist bar

hotel new hampshire - 1980's controversial drama. strange but good. several family members die starting witht he dog then the gradfather then the mother and youngest son in a plane crash then the yougest daughter (8 or 9) commits suicide. a rape scene and several references and in fact scenes of incest. but altoghether a pretty good film.

Rented Assault on Precinct 13, enjoyed it more or less... the funniest
scene was when Laurence Fishburne's character had a gun and was
surrounded by 8 cops... I 100% expected him to bust out some Matrix
moves.

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Maps! - Audio blog!

Saw War of the Worlds this last weekend. Not much to add to what's
already been said, though despite the somewhat weak sappy ending with
the kid, I was quite impressed by how dark and unrelentingly menacing
the film was.

One of the best parts of the book, the Thunder Child, was missing. A great shame.

Combining the artilleryman and the chaplain characters into that one
guy in the basement made sense, but they turned it into a silly
hide-and-seek sequence.

Plot holes too numerous to mention. But apart from that, worth seeing.

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Just rented/watched hide and seek

A must see.. If for no other reason than to see De Niro in a totally uncharacteristic role. No stereo typing here folks. :eek:

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Well I can't really say much more than what has been said about war of
the worlds. The ending sucked, tom cruises performance was just acceptable, and did those tripods remind you of HL2?

I also saw ringu the day before yesturday, how could this be called
scary? I even gave it the chance of watching it in the dark by myself,
the remake is scarier. The (original) gudge is better imo.

I just finished watching Seven, this is a quality film, the beggining
was a bit slow of the ground (the scene crossing between morgan freeman
at the library and brad pitt was a bit boring), p.s. that ending was
mean :sad: .

I watched a couple of tarantino's older films, namely pulp fiction and
resivour dogs, the latter I feel is slightly overated, you can tell it
is bordering between ametuer and pro, which shows as pulp fiction is
more polished with a better storyline.

Can't wait until Land of the Dead hits the cinemas.

I went to see Madagascar. Ok?, the penguins were cool, but a lot of the
jokes in the movie were too kiddy. (Animals bumping into things ...
looooooooool ! ... not.)

The American Beauty spoof was brilliant, tho !

Best part: http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/madagascar/clips/madagascar_clip6_wm_300.wmv

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Well I can't really say much more than what has been said about war of
the worlds. The ending sucked, tom cruises performance was just acceptable, and did those tripods remind you of HL2?

Heh. When you first see the tripod come out of the ground and start shooting people in the movie, I had to fight an extremely strong urge to shout out "Strider! Strider!"

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Reminded me of the book series The Tripod Trilogy.

I had to do it for summer reading sometime around fifth grade. It
was a set in a universe quite like medieval times, but with tripods in
control and humans enslaved.

I forget the author so if anyone knows what I'm talking about, speak up.

John Christopher

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Just rented/watched Million Dollar Baby.

Gotta be one of the best movies I have seen this year.. "Five Stars"

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Just rented/watched Coach Carter.

2 thumbs up.

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Just rented/watched Million Dollar Baby.
Gotta be one of the best movies I have seen this year.. "Five Stars"

I've been a little sceptical about renting this, but now that you've posted this i'll have a look.

$loth said:
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<DIV class=quotetext>Just rented/watched Million Dollar Baby.
Gotta be one of the best movies I have seen this year.. "Five Stars"

I've been a little sceptical about renting this, but now that you've posted this i'll have a look.
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Dude, my success rate for choosing movies you all will like is nil. This movie has to cater to your tastes. All I can say is, "Its a Clint Eastwood Directed film" If you know his style, you'll know its your taste or not.

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Just rented/watched Hostage

Typical Willis movie, but good none the less.

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The only Eastwood movies that are bad are: Mystic River, Bloodwork, and that other one that I can't remember the title of. Most all his other movies are fairly good.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

These 'Madagascar' clips are funny:

http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/madagascar/clips/madagascar_clip6_wm_300.wmv

http://www.dreamworks.com/trailers/madagascar/clips/madagascar_clip2_wm_300.wmv

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

and that other one that I can't remember the title of.

Yeah, I don't like that one either.

I've got out a movie called The Bunker, got a pretty good cast, it's an british horror movie set in a WW2 bunker.

British horror? Doesn't work in my mind.

the bunker was a pretty good movie.

just watched me, myself, and irene. funniest movie ever.

also saw pulp fiction, thats a damn good movie as well. im quite a fan of quentin tarantino

rival said:
just watched me, myself, and irene. funniest movie ever.

"Irene... Why am I peeing like I have had sex all night?"
Classic..

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Let me think....

"Anger Management"

Actually very good acted - But i just totally don't like the plot. It's somewhat stupid (considering the lesson in the end).

The more I liked "Pacifier". Even it wasn't very intelligent. I was absolute positively surprised how they managed to merge action with family movie. And Vin Diesel proves that he's able to adapt in a half new genre.

/me goes to bed now

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Spaceballs is such a crappy movie, but such an awesome movie. Pwn.

spaceballs is a great movie. the best scene is when dark helmet goes to 'ludicrous speed'

quality stuff.

I like his safari hat, and then they start combing the sand dunes :biggrin: hahaahhaha sweet.

Hard Ball - much better than expected

i recently watched 'Best Counter-strike frags ever' a pretty well made indie film by some obscure website. it had a good soundtrack and damn amazing cs 1.5 frags. its amazing how good some people are at cs.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

I saw Hitch tonight.

Most painful movie I've watched in a while. A few parts with the
King of Queens guy were funny, but the whole Will Smith love line was
so syrupy and unbearable. All the lovey dovey lines, and
diagetic music...

Altogether too much chick and not enough flick.

no, best spaceball scene is the asshole one.

"i said shoot across her nose, not up it!"

"sorry sir, doing my best"

"who made that man a gunner?"

"I DID SIR, HES MY COUSIN!"

"who is that?"

"hes an asshole sirole"

"i know hes an asshole whats his name"

"that is his name, Philip J. Asshole"

"and his cousin?"

"hes an asshole too sir"

"well jesus, how many assholes we got on this ship

"YO!" (everyone stands and rasises their hand except the guy in the bottom left corner)

"hmmm, well KEEP FIREING!"

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Nickelplate is my dad

Primer: Fun 70 minute indie sci-fi brain teaser.

Jacket: When has Brody led us astray?

The Machinist: Check up on Pre Batman Christian Bale.

I heart huckabees: Fun if you don't think it's actually trying to be serious.

The Life Aquatic

funny movie and very artistic....great stuff. Fans of Wes Anderson will enjoy.

I watched The Life Aquatic a few days ago tooooo. Very strange movie, I
suppose that's what you call artistic :razz: I just didn't expect all the
action, yowza...

The eye goes to Goldblum, of course.

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French Toast said:
British horror? Doesn't work in my mind.

/because all we are good for is sappy romantic comedies, right? :rolleyes:

Watched 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake the other night. Not bad, but kinda ties itself up in knots trying to be clever.

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Watched War of the Worlds at the weekend. Really enjoyed it up to the ending; not only Cruise's son miraculously being alive, but also that the ending sequence felt very rushed to me. The initial 99% consists of aliens totally steamrollering the human race and being seemingly invulnerable - yet in the space of a few minutes the aliens had all died off and the movie had ended.

Also recently watched Independence Day (the mid-90's alien invasion movie) for the first time. I now know why I've put off watching it for about a decade: it's total garbage. Will Smith plays himself once again, wisecracking his way through the film. The US President and a hick farmer are ace jet fighter pilots and somehow succeed where the might of the World's professional armies failed. And the best is saved til last; uploading a virus to the alien computers to disable their shields...obviously the Microsoft grip on the Operating System market extends throughout the Universe too.

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<DIV class=quotetext>I watched The Life Aquatic a few days ago tooooo. Very strange movie, I suppose that's what you call artistic :razz: </DIV></DIV>
Not really. It being strange is just the surface. There are a lot of funny moments a lot of people wouldv'e missed, like when Steve Zissou is introducing the cast and he says "Juan Guarez, editor, sound man..." When he says that, line the audio is choppy and badly edited....there are a lot of other parts to the move that were funny, too...anyway....

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<DIV class=quotetext>Watched War of the Worlds at the weekend. Really enjoyed it up to the ending</DIV></DIV>
Agreed. Spoilers herein. I wish everyone wouldv'e died. That was the cheesiest bullshit everyone being alive. If everyone died it wouldv'e been 4X's better.

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<DIV class=quotetext>Also recently watched Independence Day (the mid-90's alien invasion movie) for the first time. I now know why I've put off watching it for about a decade: it's total garbage.</DIV></DIV>
I love that movie. Good effects. Decent plot. Entertaining.

I'm trying to remember this awesome part from the Life Aquatic.
For some reason I laughed myself silly. Ithink it went;

"You know I'm not good at this whole apology thing so if it's all the same, I'll skip it."

"Alright."

"I'm sorry."

I think it went something like that. God it was awesome.
But yeah, wierd movie. And I don't see why they used stop frame
animation.

How about this one:

Hennessey: Is this my espresso machine? Wh-what is-h-how did you get my espresso machine?

Bill (company stooge): Well... uh... we f**kin' stole it, man.

hehe

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it was good. It was also
really weird. I also felt that Johnny Depp didn't live up to all
the hype about his performance.

War Of The Worlds is great also. It really brings terror into your mind. Thats all I'll say.

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Dark Tree said:
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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting keved</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Watched War of the Worlds at the weekend. Really enjoyed it up to the ending

Agreed. Spoilers herein. I wish everyone wouldv'e died. That was the cheesiest bullshit everyone being alive. If everyone died it wouldv'e been 4X's better.

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yeah that would have made it 4x better. it should have ended really abruptly as well like tom cruise and his daughter running down a street with the big ass tripod after them to the back ground of some of that desperate sort of music they usually play in those sort of scenes when that laser thing blasts through a building crushing both of them in thousands of tonnes of brick.

also the aliens in war of the worlds were pathetic they just looked so frail.

indepence day was a great film. the best bit was when will smith kicks the aliens ass after they crash or whatever.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

Just to touch base with WOTW again (spoilers)...

...It's like the music and ambience is heart pounding....those things going around stomping asses like nobodys business and you're like AMERICA, f**k YEAH! And then....at the end you find out Dakota Fannings' brother is alive and you're like...Godammit....and then....they go to Boston and all the Grandparents and stepparents and mother is alive and you are like....oh Jesus titty-f**king Christ....and then little Dakota runs up to her mommy and hugs her to the sound of some inspirational music and you're all like someone just shoot me now please for God's sake. It is then, out of nowhere a tripod should f**king step on them ALL in one big step...just crush the s**t out of them. The camera pans out from the flattened alien food and fades to black. Eat s**t Steven Spielberg.

It was like sex without an orgasm.

Speaking of death, destruction, and sex....anyone see the movie 'Crash' from 1996? (Not the 2004 Crash, that was just in theatres, which is also good, but the one directed by David Cronenberg). It's pretty good for those who like unrated psychotic movies. :wink:

? quoting French Toast<div class="quote"><div class="quotetext">British horror? Doesn't work in my mind.
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The Wickerman? One of the most cult horror movie of all time?

I haven't got round to watching the bunker yet, I've been watching a
movie called session 9, half way through it (fell asleep, teaches me
for watching a movie in bed).

Also going to be watching White Noise and Saw.

$loth said:
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The Wickerman? One of the most cult horror movie of all time?

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/methinks for me the problem is identifying what IS a British film. It used to be easy, all the funny accents kinda gave it away but now I am unsure.

But for me I guess I reflect Frenches comment. I cannot envision good horror movies with British anything. I am sure its not the acting, its the silly accents.

I dunno. shrugs

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Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it's exactly as you might
expect it; effectively th same thing, but done in Tim Burton's own
peculiar way. And Johnny Depp does a great Michael Jackson; very odd,
wierd guy.

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I Ain't Gettin' On No Plane, Foo'

To me, when I hear british horror, I think of something like this;

Two british guys are sitting in a well decorated room, sitting in large comfy chairs next to a blazing fire.

"I say Reginald, this tea is magnificent1"

"Yes, quite."

"Let's have a packet of crisps as well, shall we?"

"Yes."

"Oh my, I forgot the crisps!"

And that violin music plays in the background the one that's classic
kinda horror with really highpitched na na na na and then a low rumble.

"Don't look now" is a British horror film and one of the best ever - the only downside being Donald Sutherland's funny accent.

"Omen" wasn't a bad film either - if you can ignore Gregory Peck's silly accent.

"The Wicker Man", as Sloth pointed out, is excellent - and features a naked Brigitte Bardot. What more do you want?