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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 5th week of April DVDs: Alien Bestiality Porn, Foreign Genius Children Films, Golden Compass & more!
Hey folks, Harry here with this week’s DVD PICKS AND PEEKS. Some interesting films here – Especially the 3 Criterion Children’s films – which I can’t recommend enough – and of course the exact opposite – THE BEAST FROM SPACE. But there’s more… As usual you can click on any of the box art or titles and be taken to Amazon where you can choose to purchase or learn more about the title in question. If you do purchase – a small percentage of the price will go to continue this column – which I hope you good folks enjoy. Well, enough from me, here ya go…
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
I really did enjoy this film – it’s a very pretty movie – and I prefer it to THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE – not the story, but the execution. I love the look of the universe – and Sir Ian’s Polar Bear just rocks hard. I also love how completely realized the universe they created here was done. That said – it’s sad that we’ll never see the rest of the series… most likely. This was a very strong film with a pretty weak ending. This is a gorgeous disc.
THE RED BALLOON (Criterion Collection)
One of the truly beautiful art films… for children. The film is about a boy and a sentient red balloon in the streets of Paris – and though the film has no dialogue – it is captivating for every second. There’s no need to have dialogue – everyone knows the joys of having a balloon and not having a balloon – and to own a magic sentient balloon… what inflated bliss that must be. One of the great great children films – that will captivate the youth in anyone… no matter their age or supposed maturity. Criterion and Janus have done an amazing job bringing this film out!
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
The biggest problem that MIRAMAX had this past year was they had too many wonderful films under their banner. You had the films they did with Paramount Vantage – and then there were films like THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY – which is easily amongst the highest regarded films of 2007. Having had a period of my life where I was partially paralyzed – the power of imagination and a desire to not merely accept one’s fate… I completely understand. I created AICN during my bout – and Julian Schnabel… who created one of my favorite films from a few years back, BASQUIAT, he has again created an amazing film about the human existence. Brilliant film. Fantastic story. Seek this out!
THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES, VOLUME THREE – THE YEARS OF CHANGE
Well – I don’t know if you’ve caught INDY fever yet, but I’m very much getting caught up with it – It doesn’t help that I’ve now seen in the last year… every single episode of the YOUNG INDY and the original trilogy of films. I love this series – and Sean Patrick Flanery is wonderful as Young Indy. This series is huge. Besides – the historical nature of it… I love. In particular the Ben Hecht and the Jazz episodes are so much fun. And the final chapter set within the world of classic Hollywood… what a joy! If you have the first two sets – how could you not get this set?
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
I’m so Anthony Mann’s bitch. He has me. I love his films. I love his work on EL CID, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, THE GLENN MILLER STORY, NAKED SPUR, WINCHESTER ’73, SIDE STREET – and then all those black & white crime films and noirs. Mann was a director that came from “B” movies to create great epics. Including EL CID, my favorite epic. FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE is gigantic – the cast… forget about it… Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Omar Sharif, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland and on and on and on…. When you hear people say… “They don’t make em like that anymore” – this is one of the films they may very well be mentioning!
WHITE MANE (Criterion Collection)
A story of a young French boy and a wild white stallion – that he manages to befriend and break – and the tale of how they’re both trying to escape the influence and threat of man. By the same director of THE RED BALLOON and equally satisfying. Criterion and Janus has done a remarkable job of rediscovering and offering this film to us DVD lovers. Wonderful film.
SALUDOS AMIGOS / THREE CABALLEROS
Sadly this DVD does not contain the rare Disney animation/live-action test film shot at a Donkey Show – that my father saw in San Diego’s Comic Con back in the mid-seventies… heh… not that we’re ever likely to see that test film that came from the initial tests that Walt financed… and is now merely a legend – till it resurfaces, if ever. I love these two films – as a child I traveled with my parents throughout Central and South America – so these cartoons were seen and beloved in my household. They’re not really narrative features, but compilation features loosely tied via live action and animated sequences. It actually resulted in some of the wildest and trippiest animation that Disney ever did. So – if you don’t know anything about Jose Carioca and Panchito… and if you love Donald Duck – who gets a case of Latin fever… well you must discover these films. They were created to help endear us Norte Americanos to our Southern friends at the behest of the U.S. Government. Pretty cool! Can you imagine our government asking Disney to make an animated film to help relations with our Middle Eastern situation – to be a peace offering? Can you imagine? I sincerely can’t.
KING CORN
A documentary that will scare the corn out of your shit! It is pretty much the opposite of the below Government Pro-Corn propaganda. There’s an evil to corn – and especially what has become of corn via genetic mutations and pesticides. I highly recommend the above documentary – as well as looking at the below “History of Corn” – it’s fascinating and informative. And they’re not nearly as corny as me.
PADDLE TO THE SEA (Criterion Collection)
This is a stunning, stunning short film. I know it might seem pricey for something that runs just 28 minutes – but folks – if you love art…. Wow. This is a film about a carved toy wooden canoe and it’s journey from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean. The photography is truly remarkable – check it out if you want something beautiful that is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Amazing.
ANGELIQUE COLLECTION ( ANGELIQUE, ANGELIQUE: THE ROAD TO VERSAILLES, ANGELIQUE AND THE KING, INDOMABILE ANGELICA and ANGELIQUE AND THE SULTAN )
Before there was EMMANUELLE – there was ANGELIQUE - set in the world of 17th Century France (and other locales) this classic Sixties French Erotica series was epic… featuring the adventures of a French Courtesan at the time of some of the most extravagant debauchery in history. Twas classic. And HOT! Filled with hot French nudity and great sets and costumes – this is one of the very best “adult” film series of the period. Really cool that it has finally hit DVD!
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH – The Complete Animated Series
Infinitely superior to the live-action show – finally you see her as she was meant to be seen… as a cartoon. She’s way sexier, way cuter and way funnier than anything on the live series. And this is every single episode. If you have young girls in your house – this will be a fave.
THE LIVING END
It’s the very LIVING END man! Heh. This was the first Gregg Araki film that I saw. It concerns a gay hustler and a film critic that have AIDS and go on a “Fuck The World” adventure that some would claim was highly irresponsible – and a truly classic and exciting work of Gay cinema. One of his very best films.
THE BEAST IN SPACE (Unrated Version)
You see THE BEAST – the crazy as fuck foreign perverted as fuck bestiality fuck film? Well, the beautiful Sirpa Lane is back – and this time it’s alien bestiality and it’s sleazier and even more fucked up and insane than the first film. If you really like seeing insane shit that can’t even wrap your mind around… that you can’t believe someone made… much less allowed to be put inside of another human being…. This is the film for you. It will knock you on your ass. Seriously. This is astonishingly flabbergasting and did I say… its fucked up? Cuz it is fucked up. Very fucked up.
That’s it for this week – next week I’ll be going into P.S. I LOVE YOU, BELLA, AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER BOOK 3 FIRE, Vol. 3, I’M NOT THERE, TWISTER (Blu Ray), MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE, TEETH, THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, THE CAR, THE DEVIL’S OWN (Blu Ray), SERIAL MOM, SAAWARIYA, LA ROUE, HIYA KIDS! A 50’S SATURDAY MORNING BOX, 2007 ACADEMY AWARD: NOMINATED SHORT FILMS, GRIZZLY RAGE, SHALL WE DANCE (Blu Ray), MACON COUNTY LINE, BRAVESTARR-THE MOVIE, DEVIL TIMES FIVE, ABOMINABLE and much more! See you then!
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Netflixing Golden Compass today...
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cool, they sadly don't make 'em like this anymore.
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cool, they sadly don't make 'em like this anymore.
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Herc said the Jazz episode of Young Indy was boring.
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that's cuz he's old and deaf
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then you shouldn't have too much trouble taking him out. ;)
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will watch this one.
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... a couple of days ago. I can't remember what site I read it on (dammit). But apparently Golden Compass passed $300 mil. overseas and that was what made it possible. I think it would be smart to make The Subtle Knife, keep the budget a little lower, distribute to fewer theaters in the US, and the same amount of theaters overseas but not sell distribution rights this time. It stands to actually be profitable if, this time, if the studio (now WB) is smarter.
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This used to crop up at cinemas in the UK back when it was common practice to have an accompanying short - i.e. when they at least used to try to give value for money. It's probably over 30 years since I've seen it but can clearly recall most of it, lovely and strangely sad film.
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I get to enjoy both Narnia (not so much Lion Witch & Wardrobe but Caspian looks tits) and His Dark Materials.
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Maybe there is some international erotica-cut, but the German version I remember doesn't really sound like your description. (Although I was a kid and playing in the living room, while my mother watched it, but STILL it sounds like a different movie!)You mean 'Angelique' with the actress who also was in Bava's 'Black Sabbath', right?
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It's supposed to be "we", obviously.
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Harry, it just dawned on me you didn't highlight the DVD release of In the Name of the King! Did Uwe Boll not buy any banners to justify a plug from you?
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I really appreciate this column and you've really dug up some interesting picks this week. You're doing a great job with this column and I just wanted to express my gratitude.
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Red Balloon will throw you down a well, Red Ballon will send you straight to hell.
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My moneys on Aslan, Lorek is too slow from all those years of only drinking coke. Man next weeks pics are going to be slim pickens, releasers are hoping people start going to the theaters. Can't wait for teeth. And I second Nico, wheres Dungeon Siege? Did AICN lose some bet to Boll saying that they can never say anything about his movies? I mean there hasn't been anything about the petition... i don't think?
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I loved that.
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By definition, acknowledging that there is a god/God/dust/whatever to kill precludes it from being atheist.
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Although maybe only in concert (i.e. sans Tim McGraw). Haven't heard any others yet, but the gang is still rocking so I have faith.
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not ever done anything as a kid and now an adult that he cannot relate to any film ever made. All i'm thinking of is space travel but im sure as a kid he must've visited or seen a shuttle take off.
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Harry you buggin'.
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I read the books, and there is a great movie in there somewhere, it just needs to be re-edited and extended. The director threatened to do so one day, I can wait (if it pans out).
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DAMN was that an AWESOME movie. and FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE!!! So great to finally, finally have the Mann epics on DVD.
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Harry, you've got to write about what that was all about.Discretely, of course, always very discreet.This was an actual live action/animation test? With what characters?
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cartoon character in the Middle East thing already covered.
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on the cover of THE BEAST IN SPACE. Although, it is an early color sketch of that work, not the final, gloriously dark finished version.
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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is great but it's tone is the exact opposite of that cover design..........................TDK will pown.
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Listened to the new Def a few times already. Their best stuff in possibly two decades, although I'm one of the few who thought Slang was a great album. But the new record will rock your socks off. Only one ballad in the mix too.
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Further hobbled by the lack of anything by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. How the hell do you inset paragraph breaks into your posts?
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...available directly from severin-films.com. I don't work for these guys or anything, just thought I'd pass it along. Also dunno if it's that much different from the presumably softcore version you get at Amazon. Probably just some XXX inserts.
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Wow! Nostalgia Trip! Haven't seen those since I was a kid in grade school so going on close to 30 years...Thanks for the memory trip Harry.
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To enter a line break, insert without the spaces.
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I am under the impression that this version of THREE CABALLEROS is a revised version with edited scenes and was recut to be more PC-friendly and the original that we saw as kids will never be released as it was. True?
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In your haste to bash the athiests and homosexuals you forgot to get a dig in at evolution too. And if you really want to do this thing properly - you absolutely need to have something negative to say about immigrants. Preferably gun control too. C- more effort required next time.
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Thanks. I should have figured that out from my old HTML days.King Corn is the only thing this week I added to my Netflix queue. So I take it Golden Compass isn't worth even a rental?
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Is the entire series worth picking up?
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Node32774: how can it be atheist fantasy? By definition, acknowledging that there is a god/God/dust/whatever to kill precludes it from being atheist.
You're right. Atheists wouldn't try to kill God. REALLY BAD CHRISTIANS would be the ones trying to kill God. Watch out for them! -
Apr 29, 2008 1:58:26 PM CDT
I know nothing about Pullman or the Dark Materials series
by hawaiian organ donor
So maybe I should STFU but I suspect his caving in and downplaying the anti-Christian theme of his book was due to pressure from New Line telling him to keep it on the down-low lest it impact ticket sales. In retrospect he should have maintained his stance because it ended up bombing in North America after all.I don't give a crap about Miley Cyrus but Disney, the media and assface housewives are all in a tizzy over a photograph which amounts to nothing. She's had to apologize to stem the backlash when deep down we all know she shouldn't have to apologize for a damn thing. Who cares? Kids in third world countries are dying due to food shortages as I type this and some asswipe Disney executive and right-wing idiot housewife are in a tizzy over a 15 year old girl's bare back? Have they not been down to a beach lately?It sounds to me like Pullman was turned into an apologist as well for no other reason than he's shilling a product and he needs to keep his corporate backers happy.
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They digitally removed a lit cigarette from Goofy's hand in one segment, so he's posing as if he's holding a cigarette WITHOUT THE CIGARETTE.
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place your bets on which one gets book 2 made first. i laugh at people who rent eragon, or buy it. i will do the same for compass.
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"And I think Rowling's an idiot who caved to PC pressure"
Who from - the Gay Wizard brigade? Seriously, where was the the pressure coming from to make a fictional magical character gay? Did I miss out on some marches?
Anyway, so what if he was gay? His sexual preferences weren't relevant to the story at any point and therefore (correctly) went unmentioned. If you now re-read the stories (with this new knowledge) do they now become a tense thriller everytime Ron and Harry's get summoned to Dumbledore's office? Is their virtue in mortal danger?
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will take you straight to hell. or at least the porn shop like on mr. show.
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The movie tanked due to the studio chopping the entire end off and re-editing other scenes to try and make it make sense. It obviously was a bad idea, so why are they releasing that version on DVD? It's pretty much guaranteed to do just as poorly as the movie (which lessens the chance of them being willing to release the double-dip director's cut).
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With an international haul like that, the should make the second story. And yes, the bad pacing was due to an idiotic suit decision to shuffle scenes around.
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I don't think you should be allowed near movies or literature anymore. Or, ya know, rational human beings. You're like one of the dwarves at the close of Lewis's THE LAST BATTLE, clapping your hands over your eyes and ears and dismissing everything around you except your own preconceptions. And your vitriol and vulgarity, even as you try to defend Christianity... man oh man, what a steaming pile of hypocrisy. Enjoy your magic, barbaric, hateful misconceptions about divinity and, well, everything else...
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WTF are you talking about Harry? Sean Patrick Flanery makes Young Indy a nerd. River Pheonix. That's how you play Young Indy.
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I recently read all three books and found them quite powerful. Just beautiful stories.
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Apr 29, 2008 4:07:41 PM CDT
I really couldnt care less what Pullman is like in person
by lovecraftfan
Theyre just great books.
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can't wait..
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Sean Patrick Flaherty SUCKED as Indiana Jones. He completely nerded up Indy. There was absolutely no way I could see that kid turning out to be Harrison Ford. You have to have a little charisma to pull off acting like Ford and SPF had none. River Phoenix was great as young Indy though...course he was dead and too famous anyway for the show.
The entire series was a bore anyway. And the fact that Indy met pretty much EVERYBODY that was historically famous at the turn of the century was almost as pretentious as an episode of Murphy Brown and all her name dropping.
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Yall check out movie called party 7 and karaoke terror..
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you say that its okay to be anti-christian in a TB, but what makes you mad is that pullman made millions of dollars being anti-christian. well hell, if you can make millions being anti-christian, then sign me up. We all know Christians have found enough ways to make millions just being christian.
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When I read the books I thought it was pretty obvious that they were written as a kind of anti-Narnia. In Narnia, the all the protagonists are good little boys and girls, and if they, like Susan at the end of the 7th Book, actually grow up to be real people, well then they can't get into the Heaven that follows Narnia. Lewis always said that Narnia wasn't allegory, but that the Narnia Universe was a Christian one, in that God and Heaven existed in it.
In Pullman's Dark Materials, there's also God, and Heaven, and Hell, and angels. They just happen to be frauds, usurping God in the Battle that preceded Paradise Lost. Lyra and Will are the direct opposites of the Pevensies, and IIRC they end up "creating heaven on Earth" by having sex. Pullman by his own admission saw an untapped market - that being a kind of alternate childrens' fantasy not beholden to ooutdated Christian morality, and he was successful. In His Dark Materials, God exists, but he's a withered old man that his blown away (literally) by the real world, and the being that has usurped God gets eaten by ghosts. Oh, and don't forget the gay angels, and "The Serpent" being a woman who's simply had and enjoyed sex.
Look, I'm an atheist, and I thought a fair bit of what Pullman did was fun (and funny, see the gay angels bit) and I definitely sympathise with wanting to create a fantasy series that's not so overbearingly Moral (even Harry Potter fell to this a little in its final book), but the series really just turns to shit. It falls into all the same didactic traps that Lewis' Narnia did, and it's nowhere near as inventive as Narnia ever was. And the less said about the inane evolution Horse-Wheel subplot the better.
Onto Harry Potter. I think it would have been better leaving a hint or two in the books about Dumbledore's sexuality and then not saying anything, because at it stands now in the books it seems like he's just a flamboyant dresser who had an unusually strong friendship with the kid next next door, and Rowling's comments about him being gay make him seem either like a stereotype (the first thing the reader ever learns about him is that he's wearing a purple cape) or like she's changed it retroactively. That's not to say she's pandering to anyone, because in every other regard her own morality for the books shines through clearly, but she obviously knew the uproar that Dumbledore being gay would cause (hence she didn't include it in the books) so I think announcing it so publicly wasn't he way to go about releasing that information. -
Indy IS a nerd... he's a professor and loves archeology. If you actually watch the show in sequence you'll see that Flannery plays up Indy's innocence in the episodes that take place earlier, and then he becomes more hard-edged as he goes through WW1. But Indy never had much coordination or finesse, and Flannery portrays that as well. It's like you guys think Indy's James Bond or something... he's not smooth at all.
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We used to watch this in elementary school when I was a kid 3 or 4 times a year.. we loved it
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for real, not having read 'his dark materials,' this was informative.
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messing with ya.
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just messing with ya hazza.
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It seems like I just was thinking of it the other day. Can't wait to buy it. I believe I recall the balloon movie too, do they kill it with cigarettes?
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Apr 29, 2008 10:25:49 PM CDT
pullman says there is no god, writes a book with god in it.
by ironic_name
whatta moron.
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love the big ginger man.
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by a 12year old with ADD. Characters would pop in and out for no goddamn apparent reason and things would happen out of the fucking blue with an actor simply mentioning it and like 1 second later these ridiculous situations would happen. What a piece of shit.
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Apr 29, 2008 11:02:16 PM CDT
BILL PULLMAN WAS GREAT AS THE PREZ IN INDEPENDENCE DAY!!
by bringingsexyback
I don't care if he believes in God or not!!
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That bestiality movie in the DVD picks.
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"Neighhhhh neigh neeiigghh."
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And I don't for a moment believe he pulled a muscle. He forgot his routine and faked an injury to get out of it. He should've gone home, not Shannon.
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He would NEVER let Edyta fall, even if he was in agonizing pain. Such is the gentleman that he is, compared to the lame as hell Cristian.
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No doubt about that.
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Apr 29, 2008 11:49:47 PM CDT
I LIKE MARIO A LOT THOUGH, CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE LOW SCORES
by bringingsexyback
I think it's because he's black. There's no other explanation. He's really fucking good. And you can tell Karina is pissed about it.
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Oh, what?
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is a prime example of diminishing returns- the first book was OK and thin, the second was half ok but fatter, and the third was bloated beyond belief and utterly unreadable dreck. Boring, trite, poorly written garbage with long convoluted sub-plots that add nothing to the story. It is honestly one of the worst books I've ever read. And pullman is a compete shithead- as much as I want to agree with him.
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So what? What difference does it make? it isn't as if there is a passage where dumbledore lubes up snape whilst snape gets head from Flitwick. it is pointless, pathetic and borderline homophobic to give a shit about this.
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From your first post I did have you pegged as a 'Bible Thumping Crazy Conservative'. However since you've persisted in your reasonable replies and level headed discussion (and that kind of behaviour just wont fly around here) I'll take that back. Now you just come off as someone who has an unsually strong dislike for Messirs Pullman.
For the record I like both the Narnia and the DM books. Allegory and subtext (which I barely tend to notice) come second, by a long way, to a decent storyline and compelling characters. Although I will admit the 3rd DM book wandered a bit too much for its own good.
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In the animated TV show The Critic, if i remember correctly.
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99 in fact. lufty
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....were the greatest presidents on film ever.... "get off my plane"
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Was the best president in Mars Attacks.
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Seriously, how did New Line come to the conclusion that Chris Weitz would be a good choice for The Golden Compass? I know you can say that Peter Jackson was untested and never had a hit, but at least he was nominated for an Oscar and his movies showed that he can handle crazy situations and that he is obsessively involved in the movies he makes. Chris Weitz is like a non successful Bret Ratner, he makes one small comedy that hits big, a decent British comedy and everything else has sucked. He rejected Tom Stoppards script, to write his own? Why because his Oscar nominated script for About A Boy shows that he is better at adapting books then Stoppard? He wanted to quite because the film was technically too difficult for him? Jackson has like a team he works with on every movie, not just his brother (who didn’t do shit for this movie). But whatever, you always know a movie is going to suck and not be a huge success when the pre production is littered with problems. I just want to know how they decided that Weitz was the man for this project? I haven’t read the books so I don’t know if there was an amazing movie there, but something with ass kicking Polar Bears, there had to be something. I guess after watching that movie about Robert Evans, its clear that once a producer scores a hit, they can pretty much get who ever they want to make the film. I guess somehow Andrew Miano convinced Michael Lynne that his man Chris was the guy for this. Miano and Lynn didn’t bother to look at American Dreamz are where like, AMERICAN PIE! I love that movie, ok here’s our company have fun destroying it! I wonder if the people that created the Coke Cola bears got an Oscar for this movies win for all there years of hard work developing Polar Bear computer effects, you know the team behind this movie had to study those commercials. I wonder if they got a special thanks?
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The only release this week I'm excited about. I was going to email Harry and ask him to include it in this weeks column but thought he would be on it already. Oh well. I've been waiting 3 years to see it again. Can't wait. Thank you Synapse Films.
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Apr 30, 2008 11:24:26 AM CDT
"you always know a movie is going to suck and not be a huge succ
by shepard wong
Um, Jaws. But I get your point.
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Yes! Missed this at the Philly Fest a few years back. Finally I'll get to see it.
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Yeah good point, there is always an exception.
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Shut up! When did that happen? I loved the Golden Compass! It was such a great movie, please please please make the next one!
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thanks Harry! i feel educated! awesome little movie.
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I rented "The Golden Compass" yesterday, and I thought it was very enjoyable - not quite as anti-religious as I was expecting/hoping for, but the effects were spectacular, and the lead actress was great. And I enjoyed Kate Bush's voice during the end credits.
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ridley scott took inspiratoin from it for gladiator, but fall is still better! and i ilked gladiator.
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You can buy it directly from Severin or from Amazon. Amazon does sell a few hardcore movies. Ones I can personally vouch for are Forced Entry and Teenage Twins. I purchased both from Amazon. The former is not so good unless rape is your fetish. The latter is classic dopey 70s porn.
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...in the 60's and 70's on those old 16mm projectors. I must have seen it 12 times in elementary school. I think it was used as an excuse for teachers to go out and have a smoke, or a quickie in the janitor's closet. I loved it, and I'm glad it's getting released on DVD.
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Don't judge me.
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I will finally get to see Vagina Dentata! And Bravestarr - The Movie. I love Bravestarr. In a totally gay way.
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Harry, have you seen Guatemalan Handshake? It was just released this week, and I didnt even know that until reading David Gordon Green's introduction for it (that apaprently accompanies the dvd).
I saw the movie 2 years ago, at the Maryland Film Festival and was quite impressed with it. Originally we just chose it because it fit a nice innocuous slot between two other movies, but it ended up being the best thing I saw there. It's a strange little film that follows a small community in rural P.A. after one of their own dissapears during a momentary reactor problem at Three Mile Island. It's a difficult film to explain, but for those who like combo descriptions , I'd say think Napoleon Dynamite meets The Twilight Zone. The cinematography and the very natural performance of the young girl who played Turkey Legs really sold the movie for me. Todd Rohal's odd humor and insight helped it along as well.
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This yank saw it once a year for a few years in a row in primary school - musta been a half-assed attempt at teaching history .. or whatever. We also saw the Red Balloon - and distinctly remember all the chilluns cheering when the teach ran it backwards when rewinding. Those halcyon days of pre-vhs...
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the term "Alien Bestiality Porn" just made me spew cherry coke (spiked) all over my keyboard. wtf
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he actually found someone sicker than him...huzzah...btw, the red balloon is one of my fav films....im gonna run, not walk, and buy a copy for myself and my nieces and nephews
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hmmmmm...
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true, harry's somewhat consistent porn recommendations indicate perv status.
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of course
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That is all.
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