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

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Habbaku

Fantastic Mr. Fox is excellent as well, Liep.  I think you'll like it as much as the others.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Eddie Teach

http://www.sporcle.com/games/paultoes/100_best_scifi

Something for Ide. A quiz with screen grabs from sci-fi movies, you name the film.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

The Brain

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 16, 2014, 11:32:06 AM
http://www.sporcle.com/games/paultoes/100_best_scifi

Something for Ide. A quiz with screen grabs from sci-fi movies, you name the film.

I'm not the typing type, but nice to click through.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Duque de Bragança

The Salvation

Danish western inspired by spaghetti-western à la Leone (Flæskesteg-western?)
Shot on digital, desaturated trendy look so looking a bit weird (specially at night) with that italo esthetic.
Worth watching for seeing Cantona as a Corsican (!) henchman.
Eva Green also [spoiler]she does not speak much to say the least[/spoiler]

Mads Mikkelsen as Jon, a veteran of the Second Schleswig War, tries to follow the American dream in the Far West [spoiler]might have benefited from staying under the Prussian yoke since he would avoided lawlessness in the US frontier.[/spoiler]

Syt

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 16, 2014, 11:32:06 AM
http://www.sporcle.com/games/paultoes/100_best_scifi

Something for Ide. A quiz with screen grabs from sci-fi movies, you name the film.

87. I'm ashamed for not recognizing World on a Wire and Alphaville.
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Eddie Teach

I got 78. Never heard of either of those.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

celedhring

96 - there's several I could guess from the clues in the captions rather than the still itself.

Missed:

- Fantastic Planet
- American Astronaut
- Je t'aime
- World on a Wire

11B4V

Two movies on the list tonite;

Mibu Gishi Den (When the Last Sword Is Drawn)

Take Shelter
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Habbaku

Take Shelter is one of the best movies of the last few years.  Michael Shannon deserves an Oscar, dammit.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 16, 2014, 11:32:06 AM
http://www.sporcle.com/games/paultoes/100_best_scifi

Something for Ide. A quiz with screen grabs from sci-fi movies, you name the film.

55/100  :Embarrass:

I couldn't remember the titles of about 15 movies I had seen.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 16, 2014, 09:18:48 PM
I couldn't remember the titles of about 15 movies I had seen.

Yeah, my memory got fuzzy on a dozen or so.  So I quit.

Ed Anger

You gotta type the answer? Lame.
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Tonitrus

Quote from: Ed Anger on September 16, 2014, 10:14:35 PM
You gotta type the answer? Lame.

Your result would be "Hitler' anyway.

viper37

Black Sails.
disapointing.  I was expecting as good as Spartacus, but there's just no enough suspense.  The actors are all great, I can't see a weaker link there, but the script left something to be desired.  Can't put my finger on it.  Ah, of course, some of the accents are a little hard to the non-initiated.  I'm always having trouble understanding the Charles Vane character, though I guess he was made like this.
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Ideologue

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 16, 2014, 11:32:06 AM
http://www.sporcle.com/games/paultoes/100_best_scifi

Something for Ide. A quiz with screen grabs from sci-fi movies, you name the film.

94/100.

I feel like a tool for missing La Jetee and Dark Star.
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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)