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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on May 18, 2006 15:01:20 GMT -5
Rewatched Drugstore Cowboy. Still a good film, and still miss William S Burroughs tremendously. Gus van Zant is an awesome director. (The psycho remake probably isn't very good, but I haven't seen it) Especially Elephant and Last Days, those are genius.
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Post by UncleJager on May 23, 2006 10:57:48 GMT -5
I saw an ad for a Special Edition Two disc, unrated version of Boondock Saints, that comes out this week. I wonder if 'unrated' means more violence or just more explicit dialogue? Eitherway the old version was pretty good as it was, especialy since it was 10 bucks brand spank'n new.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on May 24, 2006 7:12:59 GMT -5
I saw an ad for a Special Edition Two disc, unrated version of Boondock Saints, that comes out this week. I wonder if 'unrated' means more violence or just more explicit dialogue? Eitherway the old version was pretty good as it was, especialy since it was 10 bucks brand spank'n new. From the review I read: "The extras will certainly appeal to hardcore fans, particularly the lengthy deleted scene of Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus naked as they talk to their mother on the phone" There you go, Yager. ;D
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Post by UncleJager on May 24, 2006 9:24:19 GMT -5
Actualy my regular copy of the film had that scene in the extras. So this might be a case of taking the old version sicking it on two discs, giving it a new cover and calling it 'utimate' and charging 40 bucks for it.
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 7, 2006 10:48:34 GMT -5
I just finished watching The Sum of All Fears, and I was amazed by all the inacuracies in it. To my knowledge EMPS fry electronic circutry far outside of the blast zone. So Ryan's helicopter which was brought down by the shock wave should not have a working radio, nor should any of his electronic devices like his cellphone and PDA work. Added to that all cars within the area should not work either. So in a nutshell, he could not have heard the anouncements on the radio, his cell and pda would have been useless, the GM truck he drove would have been a half-ton brick, and none of the firetrucks that we see racing around would have been able to move, unless they came from outside the EMP zone which I heard can be several hundered miles. Other possible things that should not have worked, were Airforce One, the security card, and possibly the Pentagon. That is the horror of nukes they don't just fry u but also destroy your ability to reorganize after a strike. You would think that a 'authentic' millitary author like Tom Clancy would include such vital information in his story, since the plot revolved around events that would have been damn near impossible had it been done accuratly. I also watched Hitchhicker's Guide, was rather entertaining, especialy the opening fish song. I like the fact that they gave it the BBC humor that is so prevelant in English TV programs and fit the book perfectly. THey diviated from the book a bit, but then I'm thinking they were not going for the LOR style epics here. I did find the point of view gun kinda stupid, i think it would have been equally fitting if the Vorgs were crushed by some random object building, considering thing always fall from places in construction sites. I wounder if they will finish the books?
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Post by T. Miller on Jun 9, 2006 7:49:50 GMT -5
Please tell me someone escaped the real world for a while and saw the remade Omen?? Happy belated Bday, Damien!!
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jun 12, 2006 8:15:06 GMT -5
I just finished watching The Sum of All Fears, and I was amazed by all the inacuracies in it. To my knowledge EMPS fry electronic circutry far outside of the blast zone. So Ryan's helicopter which was brought down by the shock wave should not have a working radio, nor should any of his electronic devices like his cellphone and PDA work. Added to that all cars within the area should not work either. So in a nutshell, he could not have heard the anouncements on the radio, his cell and pda would have been useless, the GM truck he drove would have been a half-ton brick, and none of the firetrucks that we see racing around would have been able to move, unless they came from outside the EMP zone which I heard can be several hundered miles. Other possible things that should not have worked, were Airforce One, the security card, and possibly the Pentagon. That is the horror of nukes they don't just fry u but also destroy your ability to reorganize after a strike. You would think that a 'authentic' millitary author like Tom Clancy would include such vital information in his story, since the plot revolved around events that would have been damn near impossible had it been done accuratly. I hope you don't expect authenticity with Clancy. Every book he writes is like a screenplay for some Michael Bay movie.
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 12, 2006 9:18:23 GMT -5
I hope you don't expect authenticity with Clancy. Every book he writes is like a screenplay for some Michael Bay movie. I guess when I used to read his books, when I was 10-14, they seemed more accurate to me. Come to think of it , I don't know if I ever finished a Clancy book. I remember I always favored Dale Brown over Clancy.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jun 12, 2006 15:35:52 GMT -5
I hope you don't expect authenticity with Clancy. Every book he writes is like a screenplay for some Michael Bay movie. I guess when I used to read his books, when I was 10-14, they seemed more accurate to me. Come to think of it , I don't know if I ever finished a Clancy book. I remember I always favored Dale Brown over Clancy. When I was that age, I was reading Michael Crichton. And I thought he was a great writer, so don't feel bad.
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Post by T. Miller on Jun 13, 2006 8:15:15 GMT -5
I guess when I used to read his books, when I was 10-14, they seemed more accurate to me. Come to think of it , I don't know if I ever finished a Clancy book. I remember I always favored Dale Brown over Clancy. When I was that age, I was reading Michael Crichton. And I thought he was a great writer, so don't feel bad. I was reading Tolkien... I'm glad I was reading somebody that stood the test of time...
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 13, 2006 11:45:22 GMT -5
I recently saw Tetsuo Iron Man, by far the wierdest thing I have watched in a while. Very EraserHead like. But while I found Eraserhead a bit annoying this one hit the spot just right. I was very suprised by how non-japanese this film felt, much more Euro-cinema, but it did have many japanese staples, the nemesis battle for one, and the way the two characters floated down the street powered by rockets in their feet reminded me alot of mechas. I think what made this film seem so Euro was the western soundtrack. Very indurstrial, alot of times it felt like a music video, to me it had a very Ministry feel. I especialy liked the grittyness of the film and the very abstract, chaotic camera moves, it turned the film from a passive watching experiance into something very taxing. Like a lot of Japanese films I can only guess what this was about. I would say it was a revenge story? Looking at the trailers for his other work, it seems Shinya Tsukamoto is realy into doing stop-motion and bio-mechanical work, though most of his other films don't seem as chaotic as this.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jun 13, 2006 15:24:12 GMT -5
If you haven't seen Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you're not missing anything. I want those two hours back.
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 13, 2006 16:53:34 GMT -5
yeah it was pretty lame, just an excuse for Brad and Angolina to pretend to have sex on screen.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jun 14, 2006 7:46:24 GMT -5
I should've known better than to watch a movie with both of those two in it. Its like when I sat through that starjob Ocean's 11.
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Post by UncleJager on Jun 14, 2006 10:21:29 GMT -5
I thought Ocean's was better than Mr./Mrs Smith. Atleast half the people in that film knew how to act.
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