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Started by FunkMonk, March 10, 2009, 08:53:46 PM

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Grey Fox

#30
March 14, 2009, 11:33:04 AM
Quote from: Weatherman on March 14, 2009, 11:31:22 AM
The Last House on the Left.  :o

Did it suck?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Syt

#31
March 14, 2009, 11:33:59 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on March 14, 2009, 11:18:44 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 14, 2009, 02:32:16 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on March 10, 2009, 08:53:46 PM
Just watched There Will Be Blood again. Still my favorite movie of the decade so far.

Very good movie, even if totally different from the book it's based on, both in focus, plot, scope and overall message.
Never read the Sinclair novel it was loosely based one. I don't imagine the line "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!" is in it.  ;D

The book is more about the struggle between Capitalists and Workers, with the son who wants to do right by both the workers for whom he feels compassion and his father who he loves caught in the middle. He's also not deaf/mute in the book, and we see him grow up through the roaring twenties, mingling with movie starlets and trying to help folks caught in the anti-red crackdowns of the time.

I found mostly interesting how much of the rhetorics in work disputes (both from employers and employees) remains the same, 80 years later.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Weatherman

#32
March 14, 2009, 11:34:51 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 14, 2009, 11:33:04 AM
Quote from: Weatherman on March 14, 2009, 11:31:22 AM
The Last House on the Left.  :o

Did it suck?

Basically a 2 hour long revenge/slasher flick.

Syt

#33
March 14, 2009, 11:37:12 AM
Quote from: Weatherman on March 14, 2009, 11:31:22 AM
The Last House on the Left.  :o

Did you know it's based (assuming you watched the 1972 movie) on an Ingmar Bergman film with Max von Sydow, "The Virgin Spring", set in medieval Sweden?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053976/
Highly recommended movie.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Weatherman

#34
March 14, 2009, 11:40:17 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 14, 2009, 11:37:12 AM
Quote from: Weatherman on March 14, 2009, 11:31:22 AM
The Last House on the Left.  :o

Did you know it's based (assuming you watched the 1972 movie) on an Ingmar Bergman film with Max von Sydow, "The Virgin Spring", set in medieval Sweden?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053976/
Highly recommended movie.

Yeah. The 1972 version is much better than the new one imo.

Syt

#35
March 14, 2009, 11:52:20 AM
Speaking of remakes. Just watched the classic documentary "Red Dawn" again. Whatever they're doing with the remake it can only fail.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Admiral Yi

#36
March 14, 2009, 04:46:46 PM
Aliens Director's Cut. 

PDH

#37
March 14, 2009, 04:55:04 PM
Quote from: Syt on March 14, 2009, 11:52:20 AM
Speaking of remakes. Just watched the classic documentary "Red Dawn" again. Whatever they're doing with the remake it can only fail.
You are so right.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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garbon

#38
March 14, 2009, 04:57:57 PM
Mean Girls!
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

#39
March 14, 2009, 06:00:52 PM
Charlie Wilson's War - a bit underwhelming; I thought at first it was a comedy; turned out to be a biopic.

Burn After Reading - pretty funny, I'd say solid 7 out of 10.

Octavian

#40
March 14, 2009, 07:07:52 PM
I have been watching some Star Trek Next generation. When fighting the Borg why don't they just beam a warhead over to the Borg Ship and detonate it? Surely that must destroy them.

If you let someone handcuff you, and put a rope around your neck, don't act all surprised if they hang you!

- Eyal Yanilov.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.

- Bruce Lee

Syt

#41
March 15, 2009, 04:07:02 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2009, 04:48:02 AM
Extras is great, and actually it gets better. The Ben Stiller one is so-so. Wait till you get to Kate Winslet, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. I was pretty much rolling on the floor laughing. :P

Watched the Kate Winslet one. Brilliant. Not to mention that her pining about how you have to make a movie about the Holocaust if you want a guaranteed Oscar is kinda ironic now.  :D
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Martinus

#42
March 15, 2009, 04:10:46 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 15, 2009, 04:07:02 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2009, 04:48:02 AM
Extras is great, and actually it gets better. The Ben Stiller one is so-so. Wait till you get to Kate Winslet, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. I was pretty much rolling on the floor laughing. :P

Watched the Kate Winslet one. Brilliant. Not to mention that her pining about how you have to make a movie about the Holocaust if you want a guaranteed Oscar is kinda ironic now.  :D
Heheh yeah. I mentioned that when she got the Oscar. :D

That being said, you need to hedge your bets these days. I can't wait until someone makes a Holocaust movie about a retarded Jewish gay rights activist.

Syt

#43
March 15, 2009, 04:12:56 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 15, 2009, 04:10:46 AMI can't wait until someone makes a Holocaust movie about a retarded Jewish gay rights activist.

A biopic about Siegebreaker?  :o
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Martinus

#44
March 15, 2009, 04:22:51 AM Last Edit: March 15, 2009, 04:25:54 AM by Martinus
Quote from: Syt on March 15, 2009, 04:12:56 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 15, 2009, 04:10:46 AMI can't wait until someone makes a Holocaust movie about a retarded Jewish gay rights activist.

A biopic about Siegebreaker?  :o
"The Golan Heights". The story of an unlikely gay love between a IDF soldier and a Hamas terrorist, set against the backdrop of the clash of civilizations and religions. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Will Smith. Directed by Ang Lee and Gus van Sant. Music by Queen.

Edit: Excuse me, I now need 10 minutes of a personal time.
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