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Off-Topic Boards => General Discussion => Topic started by: Conway on July 11, 2004, 10:03:01 PM
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Similar to the thread on LU, what films have you seen recently? What films do you recommend? What films do you recommend against? New or old, let's share!
Last night I watched Vanilla Sky - BRILLIANT! This film has everything; drama, romance, mystery, action, horror, sci-fi, and all weaved so seamlessly into the story. Whatever your taste in films, you will likely enjoy it. I wrote a review of it and sent it to IMDB today. I'll post a link to it when they upload it.
So . . . What have you seen recently?
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Now that I think about it, I haven't actually saw many films recently... probably the most recent was Hannibal at a friend's, which was a pretty good movie, if a tad weird.
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My review of Vanilla Sky. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/usercomments-998)
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Went to the movies with my girlfriend on Friday... saw Mean Girls... it totally frucking ruled!
If you're gonna see a movie, you gotta see "Mean Girls".
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That sounds like one of those dumb real life movies, so I don't believe you.
Anyhow, the last movie I watched was Buckaroo Banzai again. I'm getting the urge to watch Battlestar Galactica, but I can't, because we don't have it. I don't even know why I want to watch it right now O_o
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I can't wait for "Aliens vs Predator"!!! >:( >:( >:( X_X X_X X_X
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One thing I've really wanted to see is the original Alien - apparently it's one of the scariest films ever made. Or something.
Anyhow, I could've went and saw Around The World In Eighty Days today, but I instead opted to hang about with a couple of friends... I don't know if the film was better than a LAN tournament of UT2K4 and a game of football-tennis (think tennis with a football, played over a fence in my garden), and I guess I'll never find out.
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I saw Terminator 2 again on a TV show. It's a good movie!
EDIT: Something hard for me: On, At, For, To... X_X So, is it ok?
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All of those things are called prepositions. The are used to descrobe one object's relation to another. There are more than 100 prepositions. You have to memorize what each one means. You used "on" correctly. One example of a mistake you could make would be "I saw a bird to my house." In reallity, the correct sentence would most likely be "I saw a bird at my house."
If I were to explain everything about prepositions, it would take me several more characters. Ask a local English teacher about them for more information.
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I have a sudden urge to watch starwars.
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Join the club.
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I saw the new version of Around the World in 80 Days a few days ago at the cinema. It was pretty cool.
Last night I achieved a feat I never thought I would - I sat through all three hours of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I don't really follow Lord of the Rings, but it was well made if nothing else.
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And it certainly was nothing else. Nothing else at all.
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I love all the Starwars movies, those that I've seen, at least. Have they come out with the 3rd one yet?
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Nah, not yet... weirdly, it seems like our supply of Insiders suddenly got cut off O_o
I think it was supposed to come out sometime next year?
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They never said when it would come out. And as for the insiders, we prolly need to re-subscribe.
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I mean I think I heard that somewhere. This doesn't necessarily mean that it is true.
And why did you italicize insiders?
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Becuase it's the name of the magazine, as in when you talk about a ship, you call it the '(shipname). Same idea.
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I don't think I'll be seeing this film: Link (http://www.ichithekiller.net/trailer/trailer_high.html) But if you're into extreme blood and violence (coughLem'kacough), it looks kind of funny.
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Well, I've just finished watching The Hole on TV, and I can confidently say that I won't sleep properly tonight O_O Pretty scary stuff.
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The Hole? Is that like the Black Hole?
Actually, I'd probably hate that movie. I only like writing about and drawing extreme blood and violence. Weirdly, I don't like watching it O_O
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THEN WHY DO YOU PLAY UT2004 YOU LYING WEASEL?!? EH?
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It wasn't so much violence as brilliantly-written horror... true, some poor guy got his head smashed in because he tried to nick a can of Coke, but that wasn't the worst thing.
As for the Black Hole, I have no idea what that is, so I couldn't say.
The plot for The Hole is that four university students get locked in some underground bunker, and only one comes out alive after a whole series of events which were, put simply, her fault. IMDB it for more/better info.
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I meant as in movies/film/I'm actually there, not computer games. And I think you could've figured that out :P
The Black Hole was a fairly old movie about some professor or something who got trapped near a black hole, was obsessed with it, and a robot named Maximillian. I remember nothing else about it except that Maximillian killed at least one person, probably a main character.
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The urge to watch starwars is no longer present.
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The best line (and part) of the movie is where Maximillian kills one of the people, and then pushes his body down the reactor and the professor says "Maximillian! You should not have done that! He was a good man." I also remember that the professor guy was doing some kind of cloning research.
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I thought he was researching the black hole.
Anyways, I think it just came out on DVD or something...
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Yes it did.
It was made in 1979, and they just put it out again on DVD.
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...Sounds interesting.who are the main characters?
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WOW! O_O I have just seen what is probably one of the weirdest and spookiest films of all time! It's an old black and white horror called 'Eraserhead', directed by David Lynch. I won't even try to explain what it's about. All I will say is that it just has to be seen to be believed. It is so abnormal, and yet the characters are so human (well, the main one is, anyway!) Everyone else is just there to add to the surrealism. If you get the chance, see Eraserhead and let me know what you think.
Check it out on IMDB for more info.
G3K, I've seen The Hole advertised. Is it any good? I looked rather cheap to me.
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eraserhead? sounds like a wierd name for a horror movie.
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Conway> It wasn't the best movie I've ever saw, but there's definately worse ways to waste two or so hours.
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Dumb Lem, it was an extremely weird movie! Not strictly a horror, but that is probably the closest traditional genre to describe it. IMDB describes it as 'Fantasy, Drama, Horror'.
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I've never seen that movie, but it sounds like it's weird, and I like weird movies.
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July 19:
1. Home Alone 2 (DVD) - funny, full of comedy (didn't finish the movie yet)
2. Around the World in 80 Days (theater) - funny, full of comedy, action
July 20:
1. Home Alone 2 (DVD) - finished it. Quite awesome.
2. Freaky Friday (DVD) - funny and cool
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my favorite movies are :
starwars episode I
starwars episode II
starwars episode IV
starwars episode V
starwars episode VI
(or in other words:starwars)
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I certainly agree, Star Wars is great. I just rewatched Tron.
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My review of Eraserhead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/usercomments-239).
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It's either sheer coincidence or an artificially intelligent database... the first result for "worst movie" in the IMDB is the first Pok&#E9;mon movie :D
Don't get me wrong, it was good at the time, just now in retrospect it seems a bit stupid. I remember the two cards I got when I went to see it; Mewtwo and Dragonite XD
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Apparently, 'Manos' the Hands of Fate' (1966) is voted on IMDB as the worst film of all time. Here is a list of the bottom 100: http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom
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I agree with all of those, even though I've only actually seen Plan 9. And that Pokemon movie must be bad. I hate those things...
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i used to like pokemon but after a few days of collecting cards it got too expensive and i realised that since i didn't know anyone else who was interested in pokemon so i just forgot about it.Troy is a really good movie.
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I watched King Arthur yesterday, and it was AWESOME!
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right now i'm spoofing the movie troy in flash.
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EVERYONE on the face of this miserable little planet NEEDS to see Spiderman 2! I saw it last night with Louise. It's even better than the first! B)
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My friend showed me 2 days ago a french magazine (who knows were he got it from. He doesn't even know french.) where they wrote that it is possible to clone Spiderman. It's also possible to clone Batman, but very impossible to clone Superman. Who wonders about that? :D
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Um, clone them from what? &#A0;:???:
Or do you mean 'create' them?
edit: actually, Batman wouldn't be a problem ... He's just a human with a funny outfit, a lot of money and a load of gadgets. So all you'd really need is the human bloke and a lot of money, which you could spend on the outfit and gadgets. But I still don't see where you'd get a Spiderman from...
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Yeah, you are right. "Clone" is not the right word. "Create" them is better.
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I'm still sceptical about Spiderman. If one existed, it'd be cloneable, but I don't know how you could make one. The wrist rope thing isn't very scientific, for a start. :-/
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I also wonder about his hands. He's to heavy to climb up walls.
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Anyone seen Brazil? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
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The movie industry is quite morally corrupt these days... pretty much the only movie I can recommend is A Man for All Seasons (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/).
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Here are the new movies I seen:
Reign of Fire (Oooooh! Dragons! :P)
Butterfly Effect
I also seen "The Ring" again. What an excellent movie! Did you were stressed the first time you've seen it?
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Yeah, I saw Brazil... but I didn't like it much. It was another one of those seen during our run of 'bleak future movies'.
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I saw Brazil for the first time last week on DVD, and it's now one of my all-time favourite films ever, tying with Donnie Darko (and a few others)! B)
Didn't you think it was funny when they're sitting in the restaurant and the bomb goes off, and everyone carries on talking as normal? Or when the audio-typist is typing in screams and other sounds from a person apparently being tortured? Or when Sam threatens to shoot Jill with his finger? :D
Of course, there's much more to it than the humour. It's also a hyperbole of how society could become, not technologically, but socially and how formal and commercial everything is, or tries to be. And how every other minute people are expected to fill out forms and receipts for everything, and all the people trying to sell him policies and what-not before he's interrogated! Hilarious!
True, it is also very bleak and creepy, and the ending isn't very pleasant. But I can't help but love it for those aspects as well!
So, how long ago did you see it? Why did you not like it?
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The Ring, Dragonslover? Was it the original Japanese version?
EDIT: I only got to see the first hour or so of the American version; needless to say, I was still a tad uneasy that night :D
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I like the torture scene, but other then that, I don't like it all that much.
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So who's seen Farenheight Nine Eleven? Opinions?
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I haven't saw it yet, but I've heard Mr. Moore doesn't mind people distributing it on filesharing networks; may as well try and download it, I enjoyed his previous film, Bowling For Columbine, as it made some very strong points.
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Is that the one were the firemen burn the books?
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No. (lol!) That's Fahrenheit 451. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary about the war on Iraq. And according to IMDB, it's banned in Kuwait. O_o
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uhhh..that's wierd.it makes sense but it's still wierd.
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Hey! Has anyone seen The Village? Louise and I saw it last night, which was its opening night here in England.
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Anyone seen Yu-gi-oh The movie? I saw it on August 15.
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It looks pretty dumb! :P
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I hate Yu-Gi-Oh. Was Fahrenheit 9/11's title based on 451?
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Well, according to IMDB, the tagline is 'The temperature where freedom burns!'
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Yu-Gi-Oh? Rubbish. Pok&#E9;mon got there first.
As for Fahrenheit 9/11, it may be very loosely based on the other film's title.
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Hm,.... I thought the offical scale for temperetures is Celsius?
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Yeah, but "Celcius 9/11" doesn't have quite the same ring to it :P
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I don't play Yu-gi-oh cards, but I like the TV Yu-gi-oh.
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Me and Lem'ka are going to be watching 'Repo Man' later today. :-/
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I saw Escaflowne - The Movie. Pretty good.
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I want to see: Anacondas! With big Ssssssnakes! :-K
EDIT: For the post, I choosed Fantasy. But it is Fantastic. Or it is the same thing?
Anyway, it could be great to put a poll with multiple choices, because I also enjoy: Action, Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller and Comedy.
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I voted Western, just to be different. B)
But actually, I don't really have a favourite. I like comedy, adventure, thriller, romance, science fiction - anything really, as long as it's entertaining and has a good plot, and doesn't have anything just for the sake of it. (A ton of fight scenes, or lots of needless gore, or too much soppy romance for example.)
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I voted thriller. I'm not exactly sure of the definition of 'thriller', but I like those sort of films. I also like other genres, especially drama, fantasy (but not magic), comedy and sci-fi.
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I hate romance movies.
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I don't have a favorite genre. To me, a good movie is simply a good movie. B)
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I like Animes of almost any kind.
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I like science fiction best, but sometimes I like comedy. And sometimes I like fantasy.
And sometimes I like horror or thillers, or....
Mostly, I like good movies. Except (in my opinion, anyhow) for romance movies, as by definition they cannot be good movies.
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I can't remember what I voted for, but comedy (especially of the Monty Python variety) is my favourite; the Fish-Slapping Dance, Twit Olympics and Lumberjack Song are all classics. Oh yeah, and Holy Grail wasn't rubbish either.
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Holy Grail's the only one I watched, but it was good. I voted for Sci-Fi as my favourite.
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No, it's not the only one you've watched. Unless you were hiding in a cave or something while we watched 'And Now For Something Completely Different'.
I liked the Holy Grail better anyhow, though.
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We never watched that, you psycho.
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Sure we did. You just have a flawed memory.
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I don't know what catagories these come in, but I like LOTR, Ray Harryhausen movies, and some others.
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The Lord of the Rings would be classified as fantasy, I believe. Except the movies. Those just ... well, I suppose I might as well restrain myself from that topic again.
I don't know about the others, though.
Edit - I mean, they'd be in the fantasy category, as well. But I hate them. I'm not saying they're in some other genre.
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Since this topic is about movies, it's safe to assume he was talking about movies.
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Yes, well. He shouldn't've been, in that case.
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I've seen a small part of A Man for All Seasons
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I'm just downloading all the episodes of Cowboy Bebop. Great Anime.
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I've recently decided that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my all-time favourite films. (Incidentally, it comes under Drama, Romance, Sci-fi and Comedy in it's IMDB listing.)
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Yeah, I loved that film too. I can't wait to get it on DVD. Incidentally, here is a list of my top 20 films of all time: http://www.ymdb.com/user_top20_view.asp?usersid=18691&ce=y
Anyone seen these? Please post yours!
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:P
Anyway, I watched Ereaser. No I really want a Railgun, too. :D
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Nice error message you've got there.
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Yeah, that site is a bit temperamental. You'll have to try again later.
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Anyone seen The Green Mile? I just saw it - Very emotional and sad, definitely worthwhile if you like that sort of thing. I know I do!
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Have you seen the trailer of: Team America: World Police from the creator of South Park? It's seems to be a cool movie! :D
Also, HERO seems to be a great movie too.
Look at the trailers here:
Movie trailers (http://www.apple.com/trailers/)
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I saw the movie "Super Size Me" yesterday... Here's I want to say for that movie: OH MY GOD!!! X_X
Is someone here saw this movie?
EDIT: More info: Here! (http://www.supersizeme.com)
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I've never saw it myself, but... wow... to eat nothing other than McDonalds for six (is it? I can't remember exactly) months... that'd bloody KILL me X_X
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I haven't seen it. I don't think it's really my type of thing. Anyway, I've just seen a film called Dark City. It's kind of a cross between The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor and Brazil. I'd definitely recommend it.
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Well Andi, it's not 6 months, but just 1!
It's terrible!
In a McNuggets, nobody knows which part of the chicken you're eating! Maybe a paw, or the head... :x
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It was G3K, not me. But anyway, here. (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/chickenhead.htm)
Man, fortunately, in my school is no canteen. Or is there? Anyway when I'm in school over midday I'm going to a baker in the near and buy a bred with salad or kraut or whatever and a piece of meat on it. So I think I eat kinda healthy.
Hm, McDoof is much nearer than that baker. I wonder why I NEVER did go there in the lunchbreak.
Oh, and because of the chicken paw: My dad was in China for some time because of business. He said they eat the paws there. X_X Fried chicken paws! Yuck!
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Fried chicken paws? :x
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My school has a canteen. It's only in another building. But I haven't ever bought something there. The queue is too long.
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It seems that The Ring 2 is coming soon! I can't wait! :D
Also, I saw the movie: Van Hellsing. A great movie of vampires! ;P
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I haven't saw The Ring, but I've got a story about someone who did...
One of my friends at school's brother once watched the original Japanese version of The Ring - apparently, he had sleeping problems for a month after seeing it. Just goes to show how scary it is, especially considering the guy is 18 years old.
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The Ring? Huh? Sounds interesting.
Btw, isn't it called Van Helsing? With one l? Anyway, Hellsing with two ll is a great film about vampires, too. But I already mentioned it. :D
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Yeah, right: Van Helsing! ;P
One of my friends at school's brother once watched the original Japanese version of The Ring - apparently, he had sleeping problems for a month after seeing it. Just goes to show how scary it is, especially considering the guy is 18 years old.
OMG! I imagine his face: =8O
I just seen the American version of The Ring and it's stressful! I just won't imagine the Japanese version.
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Sonic X is going to be broudcasted in Germany. The voices sound a bit awful in the preview. Chris is a bit squeaking and Sonic sounds like a man at middle-age. X_X
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Moral of the story?
Subtitled version is better than the dubbed version.
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And the worst horror movie of all time is . . . Starship Troopers 2. Trust me, it's pretty awful. I quite liked the first one, but not this!
Anyway, Louise and I saw Alien vs Predator last night. It was entertaining if nothing else.
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Wuaaahh!!! 12 days remaining!!! Then I can watch AVP, too!!! :D :D :D :D
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I voted comedy, but I also like sci-fi, and most other genres to some extent. One of my favourites is The Fifth Element, as an example.
My others are Austin Powers, The Matrix, American Pie, amongst others.
I saw Not Another Teen Movie and Eternal Sunshine the other day; the first was just so funny and the second was really well made. No particular reason why I got them both, just the video shop offers two films for &#A3;5.
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Some days ago I watched AVP. Excellent stuff. :D
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Anyone seen Videodrome? I just saw it last night from ebay. It's certainly weird, but ultimately pointless.
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Is someone here have seen the movie The Grudge?
It seems that this movie is more stressful than The Ring. Unluckely, I didn't see this movie.
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Anyone seen Fight Club? I saw it for the first time last night, and it's pretty cool and interesting. It's a dark-comedy/action/psychological thriller, the ending is very artistic and memorable too.
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Another one: Garfield, the movie.
Well... I thought that it was much better, but it's a classical nice movie. SFX of Garfield are very nice too.
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Conway> Can't say I've saw it, it's definately up there on my list of "Movies to watch" though - I've heard a LOT of good things about it.
DL> Again, haven't saw that one either - I can't say I was too big a fan of the comic strip or cartoons though, heh.
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I'm just coming home from "The Spongebob Squarepants Movie"!
Like the TV-series, a WTF?!-movie. ^^
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Arfs!!! Not SpongeBob!!! :x
Here's another movie that we got and that you know:
LOTR: Return of the King
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I think I saw it at a friend. The LOTR-Movies are very good.
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LOTR is okay, but waaaaaaaay overrated. I still can't believe that Return of the King ranks as no. 2 in IMDB's top 250! I mean, it was well made and all, but soooooooooo corny and clich&#E9;! O_o
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Not to mention altered, shortened, wrong, and otherwise inferior to the books.
I've not seen that particular one, but I loathe it nonetheless. And I did actually watch the first one, so I did kind of give them a chance. They failed miserably, needless to say, but still.
Enough of that, no? O_O
Ahem. On a more positive note, I just saw the first two Star Wars movies again [not I and II; IV and V]. The special editions. I'll admit, I was worried about those, but they really don't seem to have changed much. I did notice a few things tweaked or added here and there, but those certainly weren't detrimental. So I'm happy. I hadn't seen them in a few years, and that was far too long.
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Hah, I just watched both of those recently as well... the special effects leave a lot to be desired in comparison to modern-day CGI and whatnot, it still retains its brilliance regardless though.
Personally, I quite liked the LOTR movies (especially when accompanied by a rather powerful sound system :D) but I can see why readers of the books hated them, as they aren't 100% canon.
As for Spongebob Squarepants... I'm saving my money for that. XP
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As for Spongebob Squarepants... I'm saving my money for that. XP
:agree:
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If you were disappointed at LOTR number one:agree:, then your not alone, trust me, the second one is two times better than the first one and the third one is two times better than the second one.
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Whereas the Matrix trilogy seems to go in the opposite direction.
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I've only seen the first matrix. It was dumb. O_o. I don't know much of the plot either, so i really have no idea. On the matter of the matrix, i'll be quiet :shutup:
(am i the first one to use that smily?)
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Better movies -- perhaps. Better at being like the Lord of the Rings? I think not. Even though I haven't seen them. I've at least heard that they changed even more things around after that.
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LOTR is awesome if you understand the plot.(i had to watch the movie a few times to understand it fully myself). :P
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I understand the plot perfectly well. It's not that hard. I have actually read those archaic things that are known as 'books' several times, you know... what the movie makers based the movies on. Yes, I say based. They may just blatantly use the same title, but it really should be 'based'. Perhaps even 'loosely based'. It's like based.
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I find it dissapointing to find that in the movie,(LOTR) they took out the entire scouring of the shire! >:( I was looking forward to seeing how that would be made.
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Have you seen the movie: The Darkness?
For me, it wasn't stressful and scary! But some parts of the movie was very good! And you? Have you seen this movie?
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Hmmm...
As everyone can see, there is obviously a big issue with the Lord of the Rings movies. I've read all three main LOTR books, and The Hobbit. Yes, they do change some things, but in general, it doesn't seem like they change that much. The paths of the dead are definitely different, but, I can't really blame them. Imagine, recording a bunch of guys walking through a passage for about however many minutes, and then finding a door with a dead guy hanging on it, and then calling up the army and having it follow you automatically.
Even so, I don't see why the inaccuracies such as would bother you so much. The movies don't imply that the book is wrong or anything. It's more like listening to a kinnd of altered version that is still good. Also, even if specifics are missing/changed, the army movement is about 95% correct.
So, I think the movies
1. Are ,as most book-movies, not completely accurate to the book
2. Good despite inaccuracies
3. Would be too long if absolutely everything was included. I mean, each movie is already about 3 hours long. Imagine having EVERYTHING put in!!!
If you feel otherwise then go ahead and present a counter argument. It would be more than welcome. (I'm good at debates)
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Who's seen Shaun of the Dead?
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I've never even heard of it, and, I don't think anyone else has. Enlighten us and tell us the story...or if you don't want to spoil it.
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It's quite popular, here in Britain at least. It's basically a zombie comedy set in London. It's funny, gory, and very entertaining. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748
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Hey! You don't answered my question! >:(
Have you seen the movie: The Darkness? Because you didn't answer, I guess it means that the answer is no?!
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I haven't. What's it about?
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Ok, ok! Sorry! :-[
It's about a haunted house where the shape of the house is an evil symbol. So, a new family is coming in this house and there's some (supposed) stressful parts&#AD;. But the movie isn't very stressful at all.
Not like The Ring 2 that is coming in March! Oooooh! I can't wait!!!
Also, there's a movie called: Cursed about werewolves. It seams to be a good movie!
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Dragonslover, by 'stressful', do you mean suspenseful? Stressful is what you feel when you've had a busy day, or when you've got a lot on your mind or when you're really worries about something. Suspenseful is when you're eagerly waiting for something, often not knowing what it is, like in a film when you know something is going to come out of the shadows and say 'BOO!' =8O
Anyway, who's seen Monty Python and the Meaning of Life? I've just seen it for the first time today. It's full of a lot of childish gross-out humour, as well as religious and political satire. So don't see it if you're easily offended.
Wait, what am I saying? See it! See it now!
I must admit, it's not as good as Life of Brian or The Holy Grail, but it's still funny and worth seeing.
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He's been singing 'every sperm is sacred' practically all day. :-/
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Lol! It's just such a catchy song!
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Dragonslover, by 'stressful', do you mean suspenseful? Stressful is what you feel when you've had a busy day, or when you've got a lot on your mind or when you're really worries about something. Suspenseful is when you're eagerly waiting for something, often not knowing what it is, like in a film when you know something is going to come out of the shadows and say 'BOO!' =8O
Suspenseful, then!
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Another film that everyone should see is Memento. Actually, it's now a few years old, but I just got the DVD last week and saw it for the first time. It's quite confusing at first, but it all makes sense at the end. So, has anyone seen it?
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I have.
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Who's seen Lost Highway (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922)?
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Not me, but has anyone seen that old movie Space Balls? My friend showed me it yesterday, and I couldn't stop laughing!
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I haven't, but I've heard it's quite funny!
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Okay, let's revive this thread again!
Anyone seen 'Run Lola Run'?
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Actually no. What is it?
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It's like an action/thriller about a girl with an amateur gangster boyfriend who has lost a large bundle of money for his unforgiving boss. So she has 20 minutes to get the money somehow and run to the phone box where he's waiting before he robs a supermarket for the money instead. The cool thing is that the same situation is played out three times, each with different outcomes, and there are very short clips of how each set of events changes the lives of various other people on her way. It's like a cool combination of Sliding Doors and Groundhog Day, and it has some pretty humorous scenes thrown in too.
Andi has probably seen it or heard of it, since it's a German film. The German title is Lola Rennt.
It's one of my new favourites! B)
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Rennt...hm...we learned that the verb for running was "laufen" in German...perhaps my teacher is...wrong? Interesting.
Has anyone seen the movie, "Hunt for Red October"? If they have, can they tell me what it's like? I'm reading the book right now, and it's good.
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Ground Hog Day is one of my favourite films, and the concept behind 'Sliding Doors' I like, so I will have to rent out "Run Lola Run".
A film that I've seen recently that had an impact on me was 'Brazil'. The cinematography is amazing, it's like a comic book but not in a lame Batman and Robin kind of way. The film has a very serious 1984-esque theme to it, which when coupled with the general surrealness of it, amounts to a really memorable film.
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Drumnbach, Brazil is my second favourite film of all time. It's so chaotic and mesmerizingly beautiful, and the ending just blew me away! =8O
And would you believe it was directed by Terry Gilliam from the Monty Python team?! O_o
It's nice to know there's another Brazil fan here!
I haven't yet seen (or read) 1984, but I've heard good things about it (like it was a big inspiration to Brazil!) B)
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Rennt...hm...we learned that the verb for running was "laufen" in German...perhaps my teacher is...wrong? Interesting.[...]
Rather not; both is possible.
"rennen" is...I would say...a bit faster than "laufen". ;)
But it's also a matter of interpretation. At least it means "to run" either.
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Lola rennt? Heard somewhere of it.
And yes, geoo is right. It's a matter of interpretation.
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Dogville. One of the most depressing films I have ever seen, but unquestionably brilliant!
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Anyone seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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I've heard of it, and seen various clips. I haven't seen it in full.
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Ooooo . . . The Big Lebowski. So funny!
But that's . . . like . . . my opinion, man! Dude, whatever! B)
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I've seen 2001. I liked it.
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I've always liked 2001. I like 2010, too.
Never heard of the other one, though.
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Big Lebowski, big favourite of mine. One of the few decent stoner movies.
Now this story I'm about to unfold took place back in the early nineties-- just about the time of our conflict with Sad'm and the Eye-rackies. I only mention it 'cause some- times there's a man--I won't say a hee-ro, 'cause what's a hee-ro?--but sometimes there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the Dude here-- sometimes there's a man who, wal, he's the man for his time'n place, he fits right in there--and that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man, and the Dude was certainly that--quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County. ...which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide--but sometimes there's a man... sometimes there's a man.
2001 is one of my favourite films. Many people call it boring, perhaps because it's one of the few visual experiences where one can use their imagination to fill in the gaps. Although it's a good theory that the long periods of nothingness are there to convey the deep emptiness of outer space, I prefer to see those parts as intermissions in where the viewer can start working things out, or philosophise on the events that preceded.
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I prefer to see those parts as intermissions in where the viewer can . . . philosophise on the events that preceded.
Yeah, that's how I always saw it.
Just saw Team America: World Police last night. Very crude, politically incorrect, and totally hilarious. Check it out if you haven't already.
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So, anybody seem a film called Mulholland Drive? It's one of the weirdest and most confusing films ever made, surely.
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So, anybody seem a film called Mulholland Drive? It's one of the weirdest and most confusing films ever made, surely.
I think my nomination for the weirdest and most confusing go to "The Silence of the Lambs" :D