I Found Tihs Movie To Be Rather Pedestrian...

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68%. Very few I've heard of but not seen, only 3 that were made after 1990. A lot of the older ones I might never have heard of, let alone seen, had I not had a film major as a roommate for a few years.

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Movie link time:
How many of IMDBs top 250 films have you seen?

Me: 88/250, 35.2%
Didn't count the ones in there I've only watched half of though.

BOTP'd.

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NEw peel, "New" links, remember?

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20%

DrT: black powder might be magnetic, but it would at best scatter on the ground showing field lines, not fucking fly around the room like a magic magnet-seeking cloud. [morbo]Magnets do not work that way![/morbo]

I agree about the field lines, but black powder, aside from being severely anachronistic, really only contains charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur.  That being said, the magnetism appeared to be highly selective and possibly magic.

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Cinema Paradiso

It's foreign, so that makes me faggy and pretentious, but it was great.

9.5/10

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DrT: True, it did later attract gold as well, even LaBoof knew that this was impossible and said so in the movie.

* Gopher takes down the lantern and bashes lucas in the face with it.

They had better have been pressured to use that script by the government as part of a plan to prepare the american people for the revelation that the government has had contact with aliens for decades. It is the only defense I can imagine for them putting their names on this steaming turd.

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Apparently in the indiana jones universe, the catholics AND the new-age nut-jobs are both right. I'm willing and able to suspend disbelief quite a bit, but "aliens built atlantis and taught early man to farm" and "Jesus was the divine son of god and if you drink from his favorite coffee mug you can live forever" are just not two ideas I can comfortably hold on to at the same time.

I haven't seen the movie yet... so I don't know how crazy and ridiculous it gets.  I'm sure turning toward the alien stuff isn't quite the flavor you expect from Indiana Jones, but I don't see a good reason why both of those statements can't be true.  If God exists, aliens can't?  Or they can't teach early man to farm if Jesus (the divine Son of God) could have a 'magical' cup that defies our normal perceptions (assuming God is omnipotent, the cup thing could be achieved in a multitude of ways, including without breaking the laws that govern the Universe, I am sure).

So... as I said, it's probably a little off-putting to see in your Indiana Jones, but personally, I could suspend disbelief if that wasn't the only problem with the movie [and also shia leboof wasn't in it].

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Seen 26%. Yeeeeesh.

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* Gopher invites rach to a movie.

Unfortunately I've seen all the good ones, so we'll have to go see something shitty instead. I never did see Kangaroo Jack, or Crocodile Dundee III. Either of those would be fine.

Nick: We talked about this a bit on irc, but for the record I suppose if your definition of christianity is broad enough to allow for a physical-entity god who uses technological slight-of-hand rather than supernatural power, then sure, the two can be reconciled fine.

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36%

Is there one for Bottom 100, Fazey?

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Movie link time:

   How many of IMDBs top 250 films have you seen?

   Me: 88/250, 35.2%
   Didn't count the ones in there I've only watched half of though.

Seen: 29.2% (73 of 250)
Own: 22* of 250 (8.8%)

* Will be 23 next month (WALL-E).

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Laura (1944) lol!

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42.4%

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40.4%

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46.4% There were a few I didn't count cause I only saw parts of, also some I'll probably never wtch becaus friends revealed the ending

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87.6%

Also, I hate a lot of those movies.  Toy Story sucks dick for example.

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Really? Some of them I didn't think deserved to be there, and I'm not sure Toy Story is actually one of the top 250 movies of all time, but sucks dick? Too harsh.

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87.6%

Also, I hate a lot of those movies.  Toy Story sucks dick for example.

20%

Unedited: And you suck dick.

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Well, for one thing Gopher, IMDB has a tendency to throw new movies onto the top 250 list... this actually makes sense, but it's hard to compare them to classic movies that have been around for 50+ years until time has aged them a little.

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32.4% here, but I want to protest because Invasion USA isn't on that list.

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Neither was Red Dawn, was it?

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I (finally) saw Slumdog Millionaire in Toronto. It took like an hour and half to get there, in traffic jams, but it was worth it.
Everything I expected it to be. Ooh, also, there was only 3 other people in the whole theater, which was totally unexpected as the per-theater average box office for it is huge. Nobody was standing at the booth to take the tickets, so I could have gotten in for free :O.
I feel like a foreigner going to the city because there's more Asians and Indians there than white people. It's always an interesting experience going to the city though. I got Hocus Pocus by KV in the mall too (which I shall start tonight and put the Stand by Me book on hiatus)! oh right, the movie,

9.7/10, Sunshine is still my favourite Danny Boyle movie, but this ranks up there too.

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24.4% ...I suck. I used to see movies all the time.

Why doesn't Gopher invite me to the movies? I'm tall, and I can talk about shoes and liquor, too.

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Seven Pounds.

I haven't watched it yet, but A+ for the internets.

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Masty: Well, since Rach apparently turned me down, I guess you're better than nothing. I warn you, though, I was planning on pulling the old bottomless popcorn trick, and I've already done the prep work so I'm following through with it anyway.

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I (finally) saw Slumdog Millionaire in Toronto. It took like an hour and half to get there, in traffic jams, but it was worth it.
Everything I expected it to be. Ooh, also, there was only 3 other people in the whole theater, which was totally unexpected as the per-theater average box office for it is huge. Nobody was standing at the booth to take the tickets, so I could have gotten in for free :O.
I feel like a foreigner going to the city because there's more Asians and Indians there than white people. It's always an interesting experience going to the city though. I got Hocus Pocus by KV in the mall too (which I shall start tonight and put the Stand by Me book on hiatus)! oh right, the movie,

9.7/10, Sunshine is still my favourite Danny Boyle movie, but this ranks up there too.

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Garfield's Fun Fest

Really fucking stupid.... We already know that Garfield isn't that funny and/or at all.

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The end of that sentence makes no sense. Oh, it's hojew.

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hahaha.

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Just watched Pineapple Express, had some really good/funny fight scenes in it. I seriously couldn't even laugh sometimes it was so funny.

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Madagascar 2
Yeah, there is something disturbing about some of the animal relationships in this movie. Kung Fu panda is better. I cant believe Twilight got rated lower than this. But the kids will like it.

2 out of 5

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~I like em plumpy. I like 'em chunky, chunky, chunky~

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The Thing
Hehehe, look at Kurt Russells hat!

p.s. I'll never trust another human being or animal again.
*gets flame-thrower*

B+

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Saw Taken tonight, it was very good actually. And way better than that The Day The Earth Stood Still movie, don't know why they called it a remake, there were about three things alike with the original one. Still, Keanu Reeves completely saved it for:

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#17).

Ranked #23 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997].

Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. [1995]

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#28). [2007].

Although he got most of those last century, I think he still deserves all of them.

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I just watched Heat.

Really loved it. Everything a movie should be, and the bank scene was mind blowing. Just well made all around, and I'm not that big a fan of crime dramas.

10/10, I gave Slumdog a bit lower, but my expectations for that were extremely high.

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Dude, Al Pacino was all kinds of horrible in that movie. His overacting ruins any chance of a 10/10. Please adjust your score. k thnx.

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The Thing
Hehehe, look at Kurt Russells hat!

p.s. I'll never trust another human being or animal again.
*gets flame-thrower*

B+

Dude the scene with the blood samples...Jesus that was intense.

But I learned that there are two men who I would trust most in an apocolyptic situation; Harrison "The Man" Ford and Kurt motha-fucking Russell...if it was 1986 again...I can pretend.

EDIT: Oh yeah Bruce/John Willis/McClane can be the sidekick. Out of all three of them he's the only one still kicking.

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I dunno.... we've thought Snake was dead before.

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Dude, Al Pacino was all kinds of horrible in that movie. His overacting ruins any chance of a 10/10. Please adjust your score. k thnx.

Quiet please.  I can never quite hear what Al Pacino is saying.

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"I'm sorry Al, can you say that line just a tiny bit louder, the boom guy just isn't getting it."
lol

Gonna watch Escape from New York next, Carpenter and Russell again (who I've heard met about a 3rd movie, "Escape From Earth")