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[syk]

Goodfellas 

[Sophie Scholl]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

[MadImmortalMan]

Sergei Bodrov's Mongol.


Excellent. 

[Ed Anger]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

Yeah. it was ok. On the Ed Anger scale, it is worth an afternoon matinee.

[katmai]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

Yeah. it was ok. On the Ed Anger scale, it is worth an afternoon matinee.

How do you get out of the house to go watch a movie eh?!?!

[Ed Anger]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

Yeah. it was ok. On the Ed Anger scale, it is worth an afternoon matinee.

How do you get out of the house to go watch a movie eh?!?!

Walk out door, get in car, drive to movie theater? 

[katmai]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

Yeah. it was ok. On the Ed Anger scale, it is worth an afternoon matinee.

How do you get out of the house to go watch a movie eh?!?!

Walk out door, get in car, drive to movie theater? 

Leaving your poor wife with the 17 kids!

[Sophie Scholl]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

Yeah. it was ok. On the Ed Anger scale, it is worth an afternoon matinee.

Ah, right.  I do recall that review now.  I kind of wanted to see Daybreakers, but the theaters around here have it on early showings only.  Bastards.

[Ed Anger]

Question:  Has anyone seen The Book of Eli yet?  I'm tempted to try to catch it tonight.

Yeah. it was ok. On the Ed Anger scale, it is worth an afternoon matinee.

How do you get out of the house to go watch a movie eh?!?!

Walk out door, get in car, drive to movie theater? 

Leaving your poor wife with the 17 kids!

She was right beside me. i lock the kids in the shed, Mike Leach style.

[Capetan Mihali]

Creepshow 2.  Not as good as the original, and only 3 stories rather than the 5 from the first one.  Also, they redid the Creepshow Creep such that he is basically a clone of the Crypt Keeper, only not decomposed. 

I think I like Creepshow 2 better than the original....

Hey lady: thanks for the ride!

[Malthus]

It played him as fairly sympathetic, yes, but didn't shy away from the fact that his death was ultimately his own fault.

I don't think it came close to displaying his idiocy.  The movie made it look like he was careless and got trapped in the wilderness by an impassable river, and then died because of poor survival skills.  In reality he was never trapped, he could have safely crossed the river 1/4 mile away from where he tried to and walked to civilization any time he wanted to.

Heh, the traditional classic in this genre is a book called The Lure of the Labrador Wild.

http://www.amazon.com/Lure-Labrador-Wild-Arctic-Adventure/dp/1592285716

Summary: around the turn of the century, a bunch of adventerous New Yorkers with no particular wildreness experience set out to explore the interior of Labrador for fun. Local natives suggest that no-one has explored in the direction they want to go, because there is no food that way, and so going in that direction tends to be a virtual death sentence. The New Yorkers laugh hearty, manly laughs at such cowardly advice, and go anyway. Hilarity ensues!

[Savonarola]

Sex and Zen

You know you're in for a wild ride when you see the "Golden Harvest" logo at the beginning of a film.  They bring... quality films from Hong Kong to the United States; but even by their standards this one is out there.  The plot is that a horny Buddhist scholar marries a virgin.  The scholar goes to the city to study Buddhism but is really there for the women.  He befriends a thief who refuses to help the scholar procure woman until the scholar is hung like a horse.  So the scholar finds a doctor who specializes in limb transplants and the scholar exchanges his penis with that of a horse.  No, really, that does happen in the film.  Equally odd is that while he's away his lonely wife learns to paint...   well... without using her hands to hold the brush.  Eventually she is sold to a brothel and when the couple meets again they barely recognize one another.

[Barrister]

It played him as fairly sympathetic, yes, but didn't shy away from the fact that his death was ultimately his own fault.

I don't think it came close to displaying his idiocy.  The movie made it look like he was careless and got trapped in the wilderness by an impassable river, and then died because of poor survival skills.  In reality he was never trapped, he could have safely crossed the river 1/4 mile away from where he tried to and walked to civilization any time he wanted to.

Heh, the traditional classic in this genre is a book called The Lure of the Labrador Wild.

http://www.amazon.com/Lure-Labrador-Wild-Arctic-Adventure/dp/1592285716

Summary: around the turn of the century, a bunch of adventerous New Yorkers with no particular wildreness experience set out to explore the interior of Labrador for fun. Local natives suggest that no-one has explored in the direction they want to go, because there is no food that way, and so going in that direction tends to be a virtual death sentence. The New Yorkers laugh hearty, manly laughs at such cowardly advice, and go anyway. Hilarity ensues!

Heh.  Once or twice a year some damn fool southerner goes on a canoe trek, gets hopelessly lost, and gets puller out by a very expensive helicopter search (since most are at least smart enough to tell the RCMP their intended travels).

[PRC]

Moon.

Pretty good sci-fi - bit of a mystery film at first trying to figure out what is going on and then when it hits, becomes a good psychological kind of thing.. can't say to much without giving any spoilers but it's a damn good film.

[Caliga]

I think I like Creepshow 2 better than the original....

Hey lady: thanks for the ride!

I liked that vignette the best, yeah.  But the first two were pretty weak.... especially the one where the teenagers were eaten by an animated floating garbage bag.    The story for that one was pretty good, but the "special effects" and atrocious acting ruined it.

In the first Creepshow, the vingettes starring Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson and the one with Adrienne Barbeau ( ) were outstanding.  The only thing with The Crate (the one with Barbeau) is that it would have been much better if she ended up eating the creature, given the personality of her character, rather than the other way around.