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Kill Bill Vol. 1 Just rented it. Insanely bloody, but it was good-and I nearly choked on my dinner in exclamation when the 5 seconds of "Master of the Flying Guillotine" music popped up during the House of Tea Leaves battle. I also like the way the plot is like a book - Tarantino did say he wrote the script originally in novel form, so I like how he kept with that a bit for the movie. I kind of like movies that jump every place and then converge those places back together at the end instead of following a single linear fashion.
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Grim
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Kill Bill Volume 2:
Saw this the other night, and it was really good, but I didnt enjoy it as much as the first part. After watching this it becomes really evident that Miramax simply cut Tarintino's movie in 2, and I feel it suffers slightly because of it, almost like tuning into a TV show halfway through it screws with the narrative of the story, I would have hated to have been in there not seeing the first one.
Apart from that the movie was great, funny, action packed, and few events that you just dont see coming, pack that all together with a chinese version of Yoda and you have quite an enjoyable evening.
Go see this now, especially if you saw the first Volume.
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SlaytanicMaggot
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Hellboy Really good movie-but it's too damned short! The movie would be up there with 'Spiderman' and 'Batman' in terms of how good it is if it had given a little more back story to Abe Sapien and the bad guys and the action scenes had been a tad longer (or maybe I'm just getting too damn used to watching 3 and-a-half hour long movies with 40 minute battle sequences...). Hopefully the sequel will explain those characters a little bit more, since it seems that at least Rasputin and the Nazi woman will be back for the sequel. And it better not just be called "Hellboy 2." But props to Dark Horse Comics-HEADQUARTERED IN MILWAUKIE, OREGON! Home state boys! whoo!
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Jamesbondcja
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Mystery Men
Ok so I know that this flick is a few years old and indeed I first watched about 3 years ago. Though a week or so ago I bought the DVD for £3 and just re-watched it. Wow it is really great huh? The acting from the entire cast is really good to exellent aswell as having a truely great script.
Anyway to anyone who hasent seen this I highly suggest this exellent flick!
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Woodbot 2.0
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Harry Potter and The Sorcer's StoneI decided to re-watch the first wo Harry's for the new film coming in June. Anyway,this one was good. The special effects was the best part of the film.The film did have a few good laghs,too. It was great when the mail went all over the house. The scenes at Hogwarts were amazing! From the moving stars to the ghost that float around,it had so much imagination. The only bad part of this one was Hermonie being to much about school.Like this line: [ Hermonie:I'm going to bed before you get us both killed or worse expeled[/b] Grade:4/5
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Zed 85
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The best part about the Harry Potter films is Alnwick Castle Hey, if I still lived up near there perhaps I could have auditioned (can't spell) to be an extra! Oh well...*sigh* But seriously, I quite enjoy the HP films even though I haven't read any of the books. I do think the second one was better though.
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Grim
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Originally posted by eggsandwich: Isnt it called 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'?
In all the countries that count, it was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Nixorbo
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DOOP Secretary
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Merlin's kidney stone.
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davierocks
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I heard that they changed it to sorcerers in America because Ameican children would be too dumb to get their young heads around the word "philosopher". Is their any truth in this?
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Nixorbo
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DOOP Secretary
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That's the story I heard, davie.
@scarymonkeyman: They said "sorcerer" in our release. The question is, who did the dubbing for whom? I don't know. Ask Chris Columbus.
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Action Jacktion
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Shots in which they say the name were filmed twice, once with each name.
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Mr. Potter
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No, The Truman Show showed that.
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Nixorbo
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Originally posted by Ranadok: That, plus they changed a bunch of other "British" terms into American ones. True story: in the first two books, they called it "soccer." In the second two, they called it "football." British slang is the best slang ever, by the way.
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Grim
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Gothika: Saw this last night, I really enjoyed it probably's Halle Berry's best role yet. It was quite suspenseful and a touch on the scary side. One of my friends found it quite scary, where as I found it only shocking, not really all that scary.
Enjoyable with a good plot twist! A must see
On the topic of Jim Carrey, recently I saw his new movie, "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind", like the Majestic it was a serious role and he was really good in it. The story is sort of told backwards and it makes for a very good watch!
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VelourFog
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« Reply #33 on: 04-30-2004 22:16 »
« Last Edit on: 04-30-2004 22:16 »
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Originally posted by Coilette: The Majestic
It may be a Jim Carrey movie True but it's damn good! False! that movie was about as manipulative as "Pay it Forward." If we are talking mainstream sentimental Jim Carry movies, I like the Truman Show better. The best non-ass-talking Jim Carrey movie is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Now that is underappreciated. RE: HP- The American books have illustrations at the chapter headings. I don't think the other books have those, or am I wrong. We like pictures! ------------------ award winning cuteness
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David A
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Originally posted by VelourFog: RE: HP- The American books have illustrations at the chapter headings. I don't think the other books have those, or am I wrong. We like pictures! Lister: "Hey, there's pictures in here." Cat: "Yeah, that's another cat thing. Sometimes we put pictures in the book that go along with the story. We call that illustration." Lister: "Yeah, Cat, we have those too." Cat: "Wow, you monkeys are smarter than I thought."
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Mr. Potter
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« Reply #35 on: 05-01-2004 01:08 »
« Last Edit on: 05-01-2004 01:08 »
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Originally posted by VelourFog: that movie was about as manipulative as "Pay it Forward." If we are talking mainstream sentimental Jim Carry movies, I like the Truman Show better. The best non-ass-talking Jim Carrey movie is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Now that is underappreciated.
True, but I don't think ESOTSM is entirely underappreciated. It's already in the top 50 in the IMDB and its box office was decent for a film of this kind with almost one third of the theaters other movies get. It's also the highest grossing movie from Kaufman and it has made more money than The Majestic. But yeah, The Truman Show is still miles ahead in the box office. And speaking of Kaufman: Being John Malkovich I watched this movie tonight and I was blown away. The visual style of the movie is subtle but interesting, the direction by Spike Jonze is excellent, the performances are superb (Malkovich is specially hilarious), and the script is unlike anything I've ever seen/read. I think this movie is better than Jonze/Kaufman's followup Adaptation (also a great movie). Anyway, if you haven't seen it, you're missing a lot. Now, I can't wait to watch ESOTSM.
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I've just been to see Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind . Now I'm not saying that it was a bad film, really I'm not, I quite enjoyed it, however I did not go in in the right state of mind. Because... well lets face it, it's Jim Carrey, whenever anybody thinks of him it is about the comedy that he's done... rather than the serious stuff, not that i dislike the serious stuff, I really like the serious stuff, but well... As I said I didn't go in with the right state of mind. Aside from that, and the intense complexity of the chronlogical order of events I thought this was a really good film. 8 out of 10, or thereabouts.
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