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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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garbon

#9315
May 02, 2013, 11:30:09 PM
I saw The Big Wedding tonight. About as dreadful as you would think. Also felt like deja vu.
"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.

Syt

#9316
May 02, 2013, 11:51:35 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2013, 11:04:04 PM
Just thinking about Antichrist makes my balls crawl up inside my abdominal cavity and cower in an extended hostage standoff.

It was amusing watching it at the Vienna film festival in '09. A room full of pretentious twats who were not quite prepared for what was shown on screen. :lol:

Also, I won one of the collector's items bags of the festival (they have pretty sturdy bags, in a different colour/design every year - they can't be bought and are only given to Viennale guests and a few lucky winners during screenings - bags can go for up to 75€ on ebay).

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

#9317
May 02, 2013, 11:53:37 PM
Nice man purse Syt. :P

Syt

#9318
May 03, 2013, 12:11:38 AM
Indeed it is. I use it every day. :P
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.

Ideologue

#9319
May 03, 2013, 11:51:49 PM Last Edit: May 04, 2013, 12:06:40 AM by Ideologue
Christine (1983).  Imagine Halloween, except it isn't boring and Michael Myers was a car.  It sounds stupid, right?  WRONG.

Just how many Plymouth Furies does it take to make a fantastic film?  According to IMDB, 25, if you smash, crash, and burn (!) the shit out of 16 of 'em and do it to the unbeatable musical combination of John Carpenter and Alan Howrath's signature stylings and classic 50s and early 60s hits.  Throw in some enormously effective stunt driving in easily lethal conditions, bafflingly good special effects which I cannot readily explain, relatably human characters who rarely fail to be funny and charming, and what appears to be a time-traveling Chris Pine working in the early 1980s under the name "John Stockwell," and you're there.  Could Carpenter do any wrong between 1981 (Escape From NY) and 1994 (In The Mouth of Madness)?  Well, I've never seen Memoirs of an Invisible Man.  But, Chevy Chase vehicles notwithstanding, my count is eight movies in a row that either verge on excellence,* hit it on the nose,** or surpass it into the realm of timeless art.**  That's a hell of a streak.

I'll let this one go with one of cinema's greatest last lines: "God, I hate rock 'n' roll."

B+

*Christine, as noted; Starman; Escape From NY (iirc); Big Trouble in Little China
**Prince of Darkness; They Live
***The Thing; and, the masterwork, In The Mouth of Madness
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ed Anger

#9320
May 04, 2013, 08:09:03 PM
Watched the end scene from Last of the Mohicans. The sheer amount of badassery in the last 10 minutes of that movie pleases me.
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Admiral Yi

#9321
May 04, 2013, 08:11:37 PM
Watched a bit last night of some flick with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams getting it on in 1940s North Carolina.

God Rachel was a hottie before her ass exploded.

11B4V

#9322
May 04, 2013, 08:15:17 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 04, 2013, 08:09:03 PM
Watched the end scene from Last of the Mohicans. The sheer amount of badassery in the last 10 minutes of that movie pleases me.

:thumbsup:

Great quote here.

QuoteGreat Spirit, Maker of All Life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire of my people. He is Uncas, my son. Tell them to be patient and ask death for speed; for they are all there but one - I, Chingachgook - Last of the Mohicans.
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Eddie Teach

#9323
May 04, 2013, 08:17:30 PM
I don't think I've seen any films in which McAdams had an exploded ass.
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Queequeg

#9324
May 04, 2013, 08:22:15 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2013, 08:11:37 PM
Watched a bit last night of some flick with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams getting it on in 1940s North Carolina.

God Rachel was a hottie before her ass exploded.
Wait what?  She's still really skinny. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
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CountDeMoney

#9325
May 04, 2013, 08:22:47 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2013, 08:11:37 PM
God Rachel was a hottie before her ass exploded.

I saw The Vow from just last year the other night.  I noticed no ass explosion, save my own from the godawful predictability of the plot.  Rachel, on the other hand, looks to be in tip-top ass shape.

Admiral Yi

#9326
May 04, 2013, 08:26:10 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on May 04, 2013, 08:22:15 PM
Wait what?  She's still really skinny.

It was ginormous in that movie about meeting Hemingway in 1920s Paris.

CountDeMoney

#9327
May 04, 2013, 08:29:40 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2013, 08:26:10 PM
It was ginormous in that movie about meeting Hemingway in 1920s Paris.

Maybe it was just the period piece clothing...?

Viking

#9328
May 05, 2013, 02:47:42 AM Last Edit: May 05, 2013, 01:02:52 PM by Viking
I watched Iron Man 3 unspoiled. It was very good. The effects were good, the characters were generally true to their natures, the story fit the Iron Man genra and it was a pretty good movie. Certainly the best Marvel CU movie. There was a little kid and he didn't ruin his scenes. The only downside are the opening narrations and the narrated epilogue which was probably shot after the rest of the movie.

It was a christmas movie released in May. Why not thanksgiving?

Edit: Because Thor: Dark World and Captain America: Winter Soldier happen at Christmas time as well?
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Kleves

#9329
May 05, 2013, 08:00:25 AM
Iron Man 3. Really big, really stupid, and fairly fun.
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