LEGION
Canonised Regular Joe
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Post by LEGION on Jun 15, 2005 7:51:51 GMT -5
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 15, 2005 9:50:03 GMT -5
good stuff....the movie not the food. Organic food rights are a little too hippy for me.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jun 21, 2005 15:39:51 GMT -5
I saw "Shattered Glass" last night and it was excellent. I recommend it to everyone. If you don't know, its about Stephen Glass, who was a reporter(or associate editor maybe?) for The New Republic until it was discovered that he had completely fabricated at least 20 articles and probably more. It is told completely objectively, and is so close to what actually happened that it is nearly a documentary. Hayden Christensen's portrayl of Stephen Glass is compelling; I simultaneously felt pity and disgust towards him by the end of the film. This is definately the best film I've seen in 1 1/2 weeks.
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Post by T. Miller on Jun 24, 2005 23:02:08 GMT -5
So what's the best one you've seen in the last 2 weeks?
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 27, 2005 11:05:44 GMT -5
I watched a couple of movies during my absence. And now I will tell u about them, cause that's just the kind of guy I am! (apparently) First off, I finally saw Hellboy, I don’t know if everyone here has seen it so I will not go into plot and such. Having never read the comics, so I probably am totally wrong here. I found the movie decent, especially when considering it was a comic book adaptation, which usually spells disaster for a movie. It was entertaining enough and not so blatantly Pro-American propaganda and cheesy shit as Spiderman. Some of the action scenes seemed like they were holding back, or had no good ideas so they just did what everyone else does nowadays in fight scenes. The real disappointment was the end. I was surprised how easily ultimate evil was defeated. I really seemed like the studio was like “Ohh holly shit, we are at 87 minutes, wrap up the story in the next 3 minutes or people will spontaneously combust from sitting in the theater for more then 90 minutes!” Second, was Epoch. I guess this movie does not qualify as an A movie, but then it’s not really a B movie either. I would say it’s a good midway down the alphabet movie. Basically its one of those alien/apocalypse movies that has no actual aliens, or that much action in it. Once again this was one of those movies they lost their direction in pretty early so they threw in some obvious 3d and a nuke and called it a day. If I had not gotten this movie free from blockbuster and had any expectations that it was going to be good I would have been disappointed. Sadly, someone thought it worthwhile to make a sequel, which I did not even waste time to consider watching.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jun 30, 2005 14:07:26 GMT -5
So what's the best one you've seen in the last 2 weeks? The best one I saw before Shattered Glass was The Aviator. Scorcese hasn't let me down yet(except for the bland Color of Money)
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Post by beefbrainmchitfist on Jul 1, 2005 13:00:06 GMT -5
I sawded the new Romero flick of greater powah, Land of the Dead, last sat. If'n'ye be a zombeh lover dis'n be a must see. I found it most refreshing to see the zombies not to be the central evil within the plot, instead Romero chose to concentrate on a single element i feel to be most relative to the majority of suffering today, greed. 'Course, if ye jest be wantin' te see mass zombie death, theres that too, plenty of it, good wholesome raise your kids on it zombie putridity.
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Post by T. Miller on Jul 4, 2005 6:53:00 GMT -5
I sawded the new Romero flick of greater powah, Land of the Dead, last sat. If'n'ye be a zombeh lover dis'n be a must see. I found it most refreshing to see the zombies not to be the central evil within the plot, instead Romero chose to concentrate on a single element i feel to be most relative to the majority of suffering today, greed. 'Course, if ye jest be wantin' te see mass zombie death, theres that too, plenty of it, good wholesome raise your kids on it zombie putridity. MMmmm... zombies... rewatched Dawn of the Dead again - if you haven't seen the DVD extras, I highly recommend it. THey add a great deal to the atmosphere of the film itself. Just be aware that they are rather lowbudget looking.... I want to see the new flick but haven;t had time nor is there anyone to go with (movies are just more fun with company, but there;s no one around )
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 5, 2005 9:53:31 GMT -5
i feel to be most relative to the majority of suffering today, greed. My understanding is that all the Romero films have a social message in them. The original Dawn of the Dead was race relationships.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 5, 2005 9:55:04 GMT -5
I want to see the new flick but haven;t had time nor is there anyone to go with (movies are just more fun with company, but there;s no one around ) I know how you feel.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 5, 2005 10:01:56 GMT -5
Recently I watched a Korean war film called Tae Guk Gi, Brotherhood of War. The basic plot revolves around a set of brothers who get tied up in the Korean war. The film had a very interesting angle, sort of similar to the Band of Brothers mini series, but in this case the main characters really were brothers. This film is worth watching several times, because you pick up more and more each time you see it.
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Post by T. Miller on Jul 6, 2005 17:51:32 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Downfall, about the last days of Hitler? I've read that it was a very well done film and I'm curious if anyone has an opinion.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 7, 2005 9:42:58 GMT -5
I will check in Blockbuster. On another note I watched a chinese fantasy film last night called legend of Zu. Quite a strange one, the plot follows the typical asian theme of magical/spiritual battle betwix good and evil. I've never seen any films like this so I can't tell you if they are all like this, but I had a feeling that I was watching a live action anime. I have no idea about the true story line cause the subtitles were unusualy small and often very sparce. I don't know if mandarin is a very complex language and it takes a lot of words to say simple things or the subtitle creater was lazy. The film was very 3D heavy, almost to the point that I was wondering if the entire thing was done on a greenscreen. I will give an analogy that only one of you might get: "3D everybody, even the mayor!" But it had the conventions of the genre such as the old master in white robe with a long beard with the added atraction of nine feet of eye-brows. These things were massive! giving the illusion of one of those chinese dragon heads with the long whiskers. I can send copies if anyone seems interested.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 11, 2005 11:25:15 GMT -5
Over the weekend I watched Sky Capton and the World of Tommorow. I was not disappointed by it cause it turned out pretty much as I accpected to. I really enjoyed the 40-50's style sci-fi/retro look of the beggining, but felt that the whole almost black and white look of the beggining was lost in the second half of the film to be replaced by a mix of Indiana Jones, and the very end reminded me of Thunderbirds. (Not that I saw that awful movie). I really wish they would have kept that early look all the way through, and had more of the robot battle stuff instead of going on to do the Lost World/Indiana Jones stuff. Overall enjoyable enough for a rental. I also want to point out the many enjoyable referances to the great sci-fi movies of the past. Most obvious was the Lost World Reference, and the King Kong log over casm scene. My favorite however was the cleaver Godzilla reference. On a different note I saw a great movie earlier, Hero. I really enjoyed this movie, from its beautiful colors, to the awsome cinematography and very enjoyable story. This is by far one of my favorite Asian films, I personaly thinks its way better than Crouching Tiger. I have not yet seen House of Flying Daggers but soon. On a related note Yimou Zhang also made two other very impresive films (that I know of) Red Sorghum (another film that's very color influenced) and Raise the Red Lantern.
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Post by chainsaw on Jul 12, 2005 1:20:29 GMT -5
One of the movies that I recently saw that I especially enjoyed was Kingdom of Heaven It was quite a shock considering that it starred an actor that usually incites vomiting when I see him. I was surprised however to find a mature and developed character in Balian. The combat scenes were immaculate, the scenery was awesome and with the exception of a few historical inaccuracies, most notably the negative way the Knights Templars were portrayed, it was a great movie. When I was reading earlier posts about the ideologies presented in the Romero films, (BTW I loved Land of the Dead also, he he) It made me think about how Ridley Scott was sure to show that both sides of the Crusades had fanatics that believed they were doing God's work. In the end it was finally realized by Balian that human life was what was truly important. Anyway, it was great, hehe, and hello everyone.
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