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Drippy_taco
Professor
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You'll notice that mine was on the 18th and yours was on the 19th, good ol' not-weird chronological order if I've ever seen it.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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The Goonies
Classic 80's movie. Group of kids, whose neighborhood is about to be razed to make a golf course, find a map to pirate One-Eye Willy's (a name like that can't be on accident) treasure ship. Along the way they must outwit Willy's traps and a family of bumbling criminals. Very good movie. As a side note, the main character can be seen in theaters today as Samwise Gamgee, best friend of Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings.
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bart182
Professor
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k-pax
What can I say...Great movie. Acting was brilliant, and the plot was very mind bending and clevor. It was kind of like the 6th sense, so if you dont like mind bending endings, dont watch it. 9/10
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FishyJoe
Honorary German
Urban Legend
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I saw a bunch of movies yesterday. Semi-old movies were being played at the local college auditorium for a dollar(but I showed up late and nobody was there to take my money, so I got in for free. I know I don't need to tell you this, but free stuff rocks).
Ghost World
I remember nerds liking this movie. And I'm kind of a nerd, so I figured why not. I started out hating it...it seemed too "quirky" for me, with weird characters just for the sake of being weird. But towards the end the movie really started to grow on me. The main character(the american beauty chick) was cool, and I could relate to her and her lack of trying to get a job. Her female friend was really hot, too.
I usually hate Steve Buscemi, but he was alright in this movie. I loved the little real-life images this movie recreates...for instance, there's one part where Steve Buscemi stops his car and lets a family of pedestrians cross the street, and he gets pissed off because they are walking so slowly. I know that situation all to well...the fat mom with two strollers, the bratty kids with their light-up sneakers(jumping up and down, and stomping their feet to make their shoes light up). Also, there's this shot with a business man walking out of a porno shop. You have to see it to know what I'm talking about...the guy walks out, clutching his briefcase, and looking around sheepishly. I've seen that image in real life, and even though it's almost a throw-away thing in the movie, it made me laugh a lot.
A Beautiful Mind
Aw man, now I'm tired of typing about movies. Oh well...this one I saw in a real theater. It was actually pretty good. All the spy scenes were cool, especially the car chase...it was kind of disappointing to find out that they were all just a bunch of schizo fantasies.
Also, what's the deal with Jennifer Connelly? She went through the whole movie without aging, and then suddenly at the end she's like 100. And where was Clint Howard? I heard from someone that he's supposed to be in every Ron Howard movie, but I didn't see him anywhere in A Beautiful Mind. But oh well...it was still a good movie.
I also saw The Others again, but I think I've already reviewed that. It was more boring the second time around, but not too bad.
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SpacemanSpiff
Space Pope
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snatchi saw that movie on dvd this weekend. in english, or at least an accent that claimed to be it. subtitles were a must (ever tried to understand some gypsy gibberish? good.). but, f*ck it, this movie rocked. it's basically a gangster story about some diamonds, illegal box fights, sneaky russians selling guns, even more sneaky gypsies and strange britishs feeding corpses to pigs. and other stuff. it's funny (sometimes at least), and especially, it's fast. after about 10 min (all people need to be introduced and the tone needs to be set) the story takes a breathtaking speed and captivates you. a problem might be that there are like 20 characters in the story and they're all important, but hey, a little excercise for your brain . plus this movie taught me something very important: there's not a single f*cking thing in the whole f*cking english language you can't express with the words f*ck, c*nt and sh*t. the movie makes such a f*cking excessive use of these words, it's opens up a whole new dimension. i really recommend this movie. i'ld say: 9/10
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FishyJoe
Honorary German
Urban Legend
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Rat RaceI thought this was a pretty bad movie. Some of the gags were funny(Jon Lovitz usually had the best scenes), but they were all pretty cartooney and unrealistic. I wonder if it was originally written to be animated. I can't help but think most of these gags would work better in cartoon form. At the very least, animating it would mean we wouldn't have to look at Whoopie Goldberg. So it would already be a million times better in that format. As bad as the movie was, it kept me and my friends entertained the whole time. And I liked the weird gambling games those rich guys came up with. Those were actually really funny, and reminded me of the kind of crazy shit me and my cousins bet on. But again, everything is too farfetched, and I hated half the actors, and the finale with Smash Mouth was terrible. Way to date your movie, guys. I don't recommend this movie.
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Tzlk
Professor
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« Reply #226 on: 03-17-2002 14:21 »
« Last Edit on: 03-17-2002 14:21 »
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"Tank Girl"
All right now so that some of you actually go out and see this movie and appreciate the joke in the Calendar I will try my best to review this movie! Well overall its pretty wierd, but its funny. Its about a futuristic world were water is very very scarce and this evil man tries to fuck it all up and its up to tank girl ro save the world. Its an old movie 80's so its a bit...(correction it came out in 95?!?!)strange but still entertaining. I liked it. GO RENT IT!! IT WILL ONLY BE LIKE 2.25!! ITS WORTH IT!!
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bart182
Professor
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Resident Evil
THIS MOVIE RULED!!!!!!!! Everything about it was great! The zombies were scary, and the acting was really great. 9/10
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Ice Age
You know I hate to plug anything I saw advertised on the Fox website, but I gotta tell ya, this was a good movie. Beautiful animation, a storyline that (for the most part) kept you guessing, and genuinely likable characters (even if they were voiced by Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Denis Leary), combine to make the 85-minute movie a lot of fun, bordering on a joy, to watch. Easily ranks with Shrek on my list of best animated movies.
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BrainSluggo
Starship Captain
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Originally posted by cellery: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (20th Anniversary Edition)
One weird thing I noticed was that the g-men had walkie-talkies in their hands instead of the guns they had originally. Making things a little more politically correct maybe?
Seņor Spielbergo had the guns digitally erased, not so much for "political correctness" but because of the personal discomfort he has come to feel about gun-related violence (especially now that he has children of his own) since this (and his more gun-heavy movies like Raiders)was made. While it wouldn't be practical or realistic to erase them from Jaws or Jurassic Park, he thought they had no real place in E.T. and, in hindsight, shouldn't have been included to begin with. Some people loathe and mock this decision, but I don't mind. Guns really didn't add anything to the picture; in fact, their use in the "roadblock" bit was over the top. (Did anyone honestly believe they were going to shoot children? C'mon.) However, I'd rather he'd just completely reshot the key shots; now the agents hold walkie-talkies...like rifles.
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BrainSluggo
Starship Captain
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VelourFog might like 2010 better. Directed by Peter Hyams, better known for cheesy hit-or-miss action movies like Outland, Capricorn One, Sudden Death, The Relic, The Musketeer, Running Scared, and End of Days, this one goes into detail about why HAL went nuts, what The Monolith is all about, has a spooky scene about air, and a suspenseful SFX-scene about atmosphere-skimming. It suffers from excessive John Lithgow--and too much "earnest" narration by Roy Schieder--but it's a fun little time-killer that does not overtax the frontal lobes with obscure poetry.
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