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Harry's Top Ten Films Of 2009!!!
Hey folks, Harry here with my top ten of 2009. Many of you may remember that I never did come up with a 2008 Top Ten. That’s because… I hate doing these things. Especially put them in any order. It just sucks. I also hate that I get yelled at for having films that are not in general release, but that I may have seen via my various duties as a programmer of Film Festivals – along with just the fact that I get shown things very early.
This was a tremendous year for film in my opinion, though perhaps not for the traditional “awards” genres. However, in the Animated, Science Fiction and Crime genres… Well, it was exceptional. That STAR TREK, KNOWING, LOVELY BONES, CORALINE, THIRST, OBSERVE AND REPORT, BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL: NEW ORLEANS, THE HURT LOCKER, A SERIOUS MAN, TRUCKER, THE INFORMANT!, MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, UP IN THE AIR, ANTI CHRIST, PRECIOUS, IN THE LOOP, BROKEN EMBRACES, IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, BROTHERS, AN EDUCATION, THE HANGOVER, ADVENTURELAND, BIG FAN, ME AND ORSON WELLES, THE ROAD, INVICTUS, SHERLOCK HOLMES, (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, DRAG ME TO HELL, THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, ETIENNE or WATCHMEN… not to mention the great documentaries of the year… though I have to admit, I didn’t see a single Doc this year that came close to being nearly as brilliant as MAN ON WIRE last year… Well, that none of those wound up on my top ten.
Honestly – it’s been a while since I had a top ten, filled with movies that I’ve seen or desired to see repeatedly and sometimes fanatically. But this year… in addition to the 10 below, I have to single out ADVENTURELAND, DRAG ME TO HELL, STAR TREK, OBSERVE AND REPORT, WATCHMEN and CORALINE as being truly fantastic films that have become high rotation watches.
The following ten films though… These are my picks for not merely the best of 2009, but the most compelling, memorable and outstanding features of 2009.
10. FANTASTIC MR FOX
We start with Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s THE FANTASTIC MR FOX. There is something instantly timeless about this film. The aesthetic of the Stop-Motion is completely counter to every theatrical stop-motion feature I’ve seen so far. The fluidity of animation isn’t quite there, but there’s a joy to the motion… and a subtlety to the colors, which just makes it all pop off the screen. I love how it feels so completely and utterly British, while still sounding American and looking a bit like the wonder of something starring Jean Paul Belmondo. It is an exquisite combination that makes this a film, that at least in my household, we’ll watch in and around Thanksgiving. It feels like a Thanksgiving story, doesn’t it?
9. BRONSON
Remember TRAINSPOTTING? The fury and giggles it unleashed? Not since that film, have I seen a mean nasty British film that so thoroughly thrilled me in a theater. Tom Hardy’s performance is amongst the most thrilling I’ve seen. Watching him in this film felt like watching a live performance in a theater, it communicated that vivacious energy that comes from a live performance, but via the emulsion of film. Truly a tremendous film. Director Nicolas Winding Refn, known from the PUSHER series – is somebody we should all keep an eye on. This is the first film of his to crack one of my top tens, but I have the distinct impression it won’t be his last. And if Tom Hardy doesn’t get nominated for Best Actor – there’s a crime taking place!
8. MOON
Duncan Jones came out swinging with MOON, one of the top three Science Fiction films of 2009. Contrary to DISTRICT 9 and AVATAR, both of which are in this Top Ten, MOON works wonders through Model work and excellent compositing… Not the pixelly magic of digital animation. MOON features one of the best male performances of the year with Sam Rockwell’s lonely Sam Bell, who is stationed alone upon the surface of the Moon mining something like Unobtanium, that is a miracle mineral helps to solve the world’s energy woes. His only companion is a sentient computer named GERTY, voiced by Kevin Spacey. The twists and turns this film takes should absolutely never be spoiled.
7. AVATAR
AVATAR falls further back on this list, mainly due to the fact I haven’t had enough chances to see it, yet. The other films on this list, I’ve watched many times now. AVATAR in two viewings, once upon a half blurry screen at a Critic’s Screening here in Austin, then the other as the end-capper for BNAT1138. I look forward to next seeing it in IMAX 3D. That viewing could catapult this higher upon my list. My favorite female performance of 2009 is in a small film called TRUCKER, starring Michelle Monaghan. That said, I absolutely love Zoe Saldana’s Neytiri. I know the performance is mainly that of Zoe, and when you look at the physicality, the grace of her actions… then just the subtle work she does that someone translates perfectly into the guise of Neytiri… it is breathtaking. This film is going to be a landmark achievement in effects and story-telling. Not only is this the best work since Andy Serkis/Gollum/Weta’s… but magnified on a scale that we haven’t seen before. There is a curious side of me that wonders what wound up on the cutting room floor. I really do long for a longer cut, but I wonder if we’ll ever see more than what is in theaters, due to the expense of rendering those scenes, which were most likely cut early in the process. But what is here, will lay the groundwork on a larger world of Universe Building. The first film that we’ll see the effects of this film will be Andrew Stanton’s JOHN CARTER OF MARS – and with AVATAR’s grosses – I’m betting Stanton is thanking Cameron for laying some of that groundwork. Tremendous artistry and one hell of a yarn!
6. GEU-RIM-JA SAL-IN (aka PRIVATE EYE)
Now – I love Guy Ritchie’s SHERLOCK HOLMES with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson, but this year in South Korea – a first time Director/Screenwriter did his own adaptation of SHERLOCK HOLMES, but instead of taking place in Victorian London, it is that same period, but in Korea – and it isn’t centered around Doyle’s wonderful characters, instead they’re “the Korean version.” At this point, Korea was a single country, not yet divided. And the Holmes-like character is a former police detective, who left the ‘force’ in disgrace and became a Private Eye that mainly specialized in catching wives or husbands cheating on their spouses. The Watson-like character is at University, trying to learn Western Medicine techniques, but can’t gain access to cadavers, so when he happens across a body in the woods, he practices on it, only to find out later, it’s a famous body. And all the Korean papers are talking about what happened to him. He employs our PRIVATE EYE to find who really did the murder. This turns into an excellent Holmes-ian mystery, but is less like the cases that Holmes usually was involved in, and feels closer to CHINA TOWN, but decidedly Korean. Saw this at FANTASTIC FEST where it blew me away!
5. THE SQUARE
From this pick forward – you’re dealing with films that I love at a primal level. These top 5 films are movies that make me swoon, that each are incredibly powerful works of cinema and couldn’t be more different. This was the first film I saw at SXSW FILM FESTIVAL this past March. I saw it again at CINEVEGAS (which sadly won’t be happening in 2010 ☹) Nash Edgerton’s thrilling Film Noir is a classic of the genre. It is a film that is absolutely brutal, like a great Noir should be. Everyone that does ill, has that ill revisited upon them a 1000 fold. It’s all about a man in a loveless marriage, who has found a woman he loves. And she’s in a loveless marriage and loves him. They have a plot for how they can, in one fell swoop, get the nest egg to strike out on their own. It all goes, very badly. David Roberts & Claire Van Der Boom play the two lovers – and they’re fantastic. Nash Edgerton is a phenomenal new talent behind the lens, prior to this – he was Ewan McGregor’s stunt double in the Star Wars prequels and did stunt work in the MATRIX series, SUPERMAN RETURNS and a host of Australian shot flicks! And his brother wrote this!
4. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS could very well indeed be Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece. Every time that I watch this, the film grows. I love watching every character in this film. It isn’t just the brilliance of Christoph Waltz’s Best Supporting Actor winning performance as Hans Landa. There’s a giddiness I get watching Sylvester Groth’s Goebbels or Til Schweiger’s quiet menace as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz or the crazy Bostonian Eli Roth’s performance as Sgt. Donny Donowitz or Diane Kruger’s Bridget Von Hammersmark. Or Daniel Bruhl’s Zoller trying to catch the eye of Melanie Laurent’s Shosanna – or her and Jacky Ido’s Marcel’s death pact to take out the Nazi High Command… or Michael Fassbender’s amazing Lt Archie Hicox. OH – then there’s every word coming out of Brad Pitt’s Lt. Aldo Raine. This is a masterful film.
3. UP
There really is nothing to say about UP, beyond the fact that it is a perfect film. This is a film that so deftly tells what on the surface seems to be a tale of whimsy, but before you know it, you’ve been hit by an emotional sledgehammer, as if swung by John Henry, himself. From Ed Asner’s brilliant voice work as Carl Fredricksen – to the precocious voice of Jordan Nagai as the rotund Wilderness Explorer, Russell… it is perfect. The creep factor that Christopher Plummer puts into the creepy Kirk Douglas-y Charles Muntz is brilliant and unhinged. This “cartoon” is more adult than most every film we got to see this year. Brilliant film and the very best yet from Pixar… which has a habit of making critics say that. Keep it up guys!
2. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Emotionally, this film owns me. So much so that it talked itself out of being my pick for number one sheerly based upon the fact that it leaves me so emotionally wrecked after every viewing, that I can’t stand to watch it too often. It is an over-whelming film. It conjures emotions that no other film I know of has elicited in me. This and DISTRICT 9 have been arm wrestling with each other for my affection ever since I saw both of them. Spike Jonze has officially earned a lifesized Bronze Statue of him, to be erected outside of his Elementary School with this film. And he should be wearing Max’s Crown in the statue.
1. DISTRICT 9
So… What made Neill Blomkamp’s film leap frog WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE in the final estimation? Originality, incomparable effects superiority, a wondrous cultural shift in film location and the performance of first time actor, Sharlto Copley. On the commentary on the Blu Ray – Blomkamp tells us that Sharlto joked about this being a Mel Gibson film, in terms of how tortured his character was, and I agree… it is a stunningly masochistic character, but one that deserves everything that came to him. In a way, this is a remake of the Vic Morrow story from TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE – but told in a manner so vastly exceeding anything like that film, that it stunned me and continues to stun me. Sharlto’s Wikus is a xenophobic racist rat bastard – who also happens to be a sweet family man. His Wikus reminds me of Ricky Gervais’ David Brent. He’s so loathsome, while still, somehow retaining enough charisma to get you to root for him. The filmmaking style is again unique – fusing the mockumentary with straight hardcore science fiction narrative filmmaking – to create a hybrid story unlike any that I’ve seen before. This, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and STAR TREK are my most readily rewatchable movies I’ve seen in the last several years. Each showcases an incredible amount of talent, but with Neill… he does it in such a beautifully non-US-centric way, that it made me want filmmakers from all over the world to sit down and adapt American production styles and genres to their own culture. With PRIVATE EYE and DISTRICT 9 and THE SQUARE – we have the mystery, sci fi and film noir genres done better than we’ve seen them done domestically in ages.
You may notice that I haven’t littered this year’s BEST list with 2010 titles. I will say that Scorsese’s SHUTTER ISLAND and Matthew Vaughn’s KICKASS would easily crack my top ten. But I decided to let them compete with next year’s. As it is, Rian Johnson’s BROTHERS BLOOM, which I mentally place in 2008, should be at #6 this year, had I not considered it part of last year’s.
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We get it here in Australia on New Years Day. Simply cannot wait to see it.
I'm quite pleased to see it getting such good reviews, as well as mentions on years end lists such as this.
As for 'Up', it wasn't that I thought it was bad... I just didn't think it was that good. -
Happy Holidays to everyone. Nooch
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Fourth!
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Merry Christmas to all!
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I got nothing from ADVENTURELAND, WATCHMEN and CORALINE, enjoyed Moon, District 9, and Up, hated Drag Me To Hell and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and don't plan to see Avatar, ever.
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....I...what? Two viewings under the belt here and I can't think of any word longer or more apt than "meh" to describe any aspect of the story, narrative, or dialog. It should share an "audience hand holding" award with Star Trek 09. Remember a decade ago when we were all bashing The Phantom Menace for being written for toddlers, full of plot holes, and skating by on the "scale of CG effects" gimmick?
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is there going to be a top 10 blu-ray list this year? i still am thankful for the Chinese odyssey point out
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I live in LA but am in Kansas City right now freezing my balls off! Was going to go rent a bunch of flicks from blockbuster tonight to watch but I'm stuck in a BLIZZARD!
Your TOP TEN LIST makes me smile on the inside and remember why I've been coming here everyday for the last 5 years. Merry Christmas Harry to you and your family. Keep it up good brother! -
would be nice
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I would go with: (in no order)
book of eli
inglorious basterds
star trek
sherlock holmes
moon
a serious man
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I am so looking forward to rewatching this, great call for best of the year Harry!
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book of eli is 2010
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I wanna see Bronson so freakin' bad.
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It's really been a great year at the movies - a record setting one - so to hell with those writing off the cinema and let's all enjoy the show!
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Thanks Harry, for giving me something enjoyable to read post-jack off for what seems like the last 10 Christmases.
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Bring it on
Paul Blart
Ghost Rider
Fantastic4:Silver Surfer
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And I wasn't too impressed with Up. Yeah, the visuals are nice, but the story left more to be desired.
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Alien vs Hunter & Terminators were tough competitors though...
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Was GOLD
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The film of the year is...
BLACK DYNAMITE
That's for me, but it should have at least been in that Top 10.
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Kris Kringle is bringing me more midichlorians!
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or district 9?
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snyder really did try, but as a film maker he is still lacking in the maturity to have made a classic
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Harry that was a really good article and most of the movies you list are a little over my head but I liked Avatar A LOT!!! I think you should have put New Moon on the list for sure. It was the most successful movie this year and also about the coolest movie in a super long time. Avatar and Up were good movies also, but New Moon was my best movie of 2009. I hope you have a great Christmas Harry your web site is my favorite.
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weird list imo
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Dec 25, 2009 1:10:24 AM CST
those are ten good movies but where's THE ROAD !?!?!?!?
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Way better than UP. Wall-E was also way better than UP.
And I'd like to know where to find THE SQUARE since zip.ca (Canadian netflix) has no results .... -
Not listening.
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Easy the best film I saw in 2008, cept almost noone else in Oz saw it cause people are fickle like that, and only go to see a homegrown movie if its a piece of shit with Nicole Kidman in it made with US money like 'Australia' (the movie I mean). It didn't even win any of the awards it deserved, because they all go to feel-bad, white guilt movies, not that 'Sampson and Delilah' didn't deserve any, but thats an exception. 'Balibo' turned out the same, but at least got some recognition.
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Avatar It's why I go to the movies. To see something I have never seen before. :)
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is easily the best film ive seen (somehow up has still managed to me but i cant see that hit me like district 9 has), i also still have to see hurt locker and moon
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COINCIDENCE?!
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Hangover third.
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Number 1. Hands down. I LOVE this movie. I added the digital copy to my iPhone and before bed just wanted to watch a second, and I went through the whole movie. Some great films this year, but fuck, I love this movie.
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Merry Christmas, Harry and everyone else! Though I don't think you should have rated Avatar without having seen it the way it was meant to be seen - in 3D.
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d9 is just another pile of steamy horseshit.
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And really James Cameron telling the fool to fuck off and calling him an asshole instead of just signing his damn Avatar Poster is beyond fuck idiotic. Even Axl Rose can be seen at an airport in Asia being MOBBED and he was just cool as hell and signed away. Dumb Cunty move Cameron.
But asshole or not goddamnit Avatar is love. Its everything I truly love about the greatest of all fantasy or scifi films. It takes me away to a fantastic world beyond my imagination with wonderful creatures I care about. And Avatar has done this better then any movie since classic Star Wars. I love it, and married or not, I love Neytiri. -
Can't remember a year so diverse, a cartoon w the emotionaly strongest 10 mins of any film, a sci-fi antihero tale in s Africa. Can't wait for 10'!
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Seriously Harry, I dont think Ive ever agreed this much with one of your lists. The only thing I totally disagree with is Avatar. It's truly a Christmas miracle.
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Text below, ho!
Honourable Mentions: Inglourious Basterds, The Hangover, Watchmen,
This Is It, Up in the Air, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Terminator
Salvation, The Road, Extract, The Informant!, Drag Me to Hell, Friday
the 13th, Thirst, Observe and Report, State of Play, Bruno, Harry
Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Tetro, Tyson, The Girlfriend
Experience, Avatar
10) In the Loop
War is Hell and office politics are worse. When a minor British
official declares invading Iraq is “unforseeable” it launches
political in-fighting between the U.S. and British government. This
is a bitter, dark comedy that uses wacky bureaucratic characters for a
cynical chuckle. Kind of like the BBC version of “The Office” with
more profanity. The numerous rants by Peter Capaldi as a political
enforcer makes In The Loop a winner.
9) Zombieland
Survivors of a zombie outbreak fight the undead as they travel across
America. Woody Harrelson is a badass zombie smasher, Emma Stone is
endearingly amusing and Jessie Eisenberg is an awkward hero. It’s
very funny with cool splatter (garden shears zombie decapitation
FTW!), interesting effects work (the way the film’s “rules” blend into
the frame) and the zombies are deadly and fast. At its heart,
Zombieland is about how these people form a happily dysfunctional
post-apocalyptic family. Also, best cameo ever!
8) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Prolific German auteur Werner Herzog’s remake of Bad Lieutenant is
weird, delightfully trashy, and full of prostitution, corruption,
crack, and violence. Nicolas Cage is absolutely nuts as a drugged,
amoral cop trying to solve a gangland murder of a family in New
Orleans. You can never tell what side he’s on. The multiple
screw-jobs in the finale are amazing. Any flick that ends with a character tripping balls and chuckling at fish is something special.
7) The Hurt Locker
Iraq war movies usually moralize about the rightness of it, but Hurt
Locker is thankfully devoid of moral authority. Instead, it focuses on
a bomb disarming squad led by Sergeant James (Jeremy Renner), their
deadly job, and their sanity fraying while the clock ticks to the end
of their tour. It has a sly sense of humour, interesting characters,
strange digressions, one sweet sniper shoot-out, and the white knuckle
bomb defusing sequences have a visceral and gritty immediacy. The
film’s closing seconds are plain awesome.
6) Up
Pixar’s latest film concerns an old man and a kid Wilderness Explorer
traveling in a floating house to an isolated mountain full of rare
creatures, an obsessed hunter, and a dimwitted mutt named Dug. With
exciting action sequences and very funny gags, every frame is a wonder
to behold. Up balances an emotionally wrenching opening with crazy
stuff like talking dogs that fly airplanes and hyperactive annoying
birds. Somehow, these two extremes hold together.
5) Moon
Sam Rockwell puts in two great performances as the sole man on a lunar
mining station whose only companion is a robot named GERTY (voiced by
Kevin Spacey). The isolation may be driving the astronaut mad or there
may be a larger conspiracy at work. Duncan Jones’ direction is
chillingly effective and the plot keeps coming up with fascinating
twists. But the real marvel here is Rockwell as the lonely spaceman
coming face to face with himself, literally, and his job’s dark
history. Moving and mind-bending.
4) (500) Days of Summer
A quirky and heartfelt romantic comedy that skips along the timeline
of a 500 day relationship between Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and
Summer (Zooey Deschanel). Both Gordon-Levitt and Deschannel are
perfect; he’s a hopelessly lost romantic prone to mindless
dish-smashing and she’s the unattainable flighty girl with a gleam in
her eye. First-time feature director Marc Webb gives visual pop to an
intimate character piece, throwing in musical numbers and an
avant-garde black and white interlude with balloons floating away to
signify sadness.
3) Anvil! The Story of Anvil
A documentary about the Canadian metal band Anvil who have been
plugging away for 30 years, still working at regular jobs and
moonlighting as rock stars. It follows them through failed European
tours, the pain of recording their thirteenth album, and trying to get
a record deal. Lead singer and guitarist Steve “Lips” frequently
freaks out as drummer Robb frequently quits the band. But the power
of metal keeps them together, keeps us enthralled, and keeps warhorses
like Anvil knocking ‘em dead.
2) Star Trek
Director J.J. Abrams slaps a shiny coat of paint on an old sci-fi
standard for a new audience. When James Kirk’s (Chris Pine) fate is
thrown off by a time-traveling villain, he boards the starship
Enterprise to save the galaxy. Abrams’ Trek has action, humour, and
iconic characters as it zips to beautifully shot sequences. If you
don’t know “Star Trek”, it’s easily accessible. For Trekkies, there
is an undercurrent of destiny as the crew comes together. Thanks to
the inventive time-travel story, it’s the first movie ever that is a
sequel, prequel, reboot, and remake all at once. A seprebootmake!
1) District 9
Wikus (Sharlto Copley) is a corporate official forcibly relocating
stranded extraterrestrials out of a South African slum who contracts
an alien disease that makes him a wanted commodity amongst the
military and slumlords, and salvation lies with the aliens he tried to
evict. Allegory for race relations, segregation, and corporate greed?
Check. A robot blowing up a guy’s head, aliens attacking humans, and
somebody morphing into a monster? Double check. District 9 mashes
together documentaries, body horror, sci-fi epic, buddy films,
sociological analogies, first-person videogame shooters, personal
redemption stories, and action flicks. What else do you need?
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Just out of curiosity, did you see The Cove Harry? Anyways, like the list, didn't quite realize what a good year its been until I start seeing these top ten lists with quite a bit of variety to them. Hopefully I'll have a chance to catch up with many of the films I missed.
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5) The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
On the eve of his brother’s wedding, smarmy Matthew McConaughey is
visited by three spirits of his romantic life in an effort to turn
into a perfect chick flick boyfriend. Featuring Lacey Chabert as a
screeching Bridezilla, Jennifer Garner being bland, and some guy from
Road Trip in old man makeup. Emma Stone in an acid-wash jean jacket
and 80s hair trying her damndest to make the flick work can’t save it.
4) Hannah Montana: The Movie
Teen pop sensation Hanna Montana/Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) goes to
the country to lean the joys of Republican life. Generic tunes, Cyrus
hamming it up, and Billy Ray Cyrus in an achy-breaky romantic subplot
ensues. It completely sells out its own convictions by the end
because point of the movie is “you can’t be Hanna, you gotta be Miley”
but at the end, to hell with it, Miley has to be Hanna cause she’s
kewl! Uh, what?
3) Obsessed
Absolute trash and not fun trash. Ali Larter is obsessed with her
boss (just like the title, get it?), slowly becoming crazier and
extremely irritating as the movie goes on. Didn’t they stop making
female stalker thrillers in the 90s? Seeing “Sasha Fierce” as a
suburban mom is laughable. When the movie pulls out an exploitive
catfight that can’t raise more than an eyebrow, you know it’s in
trouble.
2) Land of the Lost
Will Ferrell headlines an FX comedy about a scientist transported to a
land of dinosaurs, aliens, prop comic gags and tacky set design. This
movie doesn’t appeal to kids because of its scatological and sex
humour, and it doesn’t appeal to adults because it’s nauseatingly
juvenile and stunningly unfunny. Including supporting role by the
anti-funny, Danny McBride, who oversells every line.
1) 2012
This movie does NOT MAKE A LICK OF SENSE! The reason for the end of
the world is gobbledegook about solar flares and Mayan calendars. The
impossible escapes are insulting to anyone of moderate intelligence
and the FX lose their appeal after about five minutes (it’s a two and
a half hour movie). Someone tell me why the ship was going to crash at
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*clap clap clap clap clap* Tyson and Anvil PWN Man on Wire. It was a decently made documentary, I liked the heist vibe that kept it rolling, but basically my problem with it was I didn't find a dude walking between the WTC as Magnificently Fucking Transcendental as the film KEPT GODDAMN INSISTING AT EVERY MOMENT! People crying, saying it was beautiful. C'mon, get some sense and stay on the ground. Better documentary last year that was overlooked: Young @ Heart. Old people in nursing homes take a singing act and some are driven to finish and some driven into the grave. That was some moving shit there, even an old dude making a lame Coldplay song seem something perfect with the old guy's breathing apparatus acting as a lonely metronome to the song. Great stuff. Way better than Man on Wire. And as for Wild Things Are... excellently shot with some very good moments, and a hellova lot more moments of hipster tunes and overly maudlin ambiguously dark moments, Tony Soprano acting as Tony Soprano the Wild Thing and he has a monologue about how it feels to have your teeth fall out. So it's The Chronicles of Narnia with more parental abandonment issues. Uhm, yay?
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Definitely one of the funniest films of the year.
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FANTASTIC MR FOX hits Blu in Feb. BRONSON isn't scheduled for domestic release on Home Video yet, MOON doesn't hit till Mid January, AVATAR has no Home Video release yet scheduled. PRIVATE EYE has no US distributor yet, much less a domestic home video release, same with THE SQUARE, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS & UP just came out. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE hasn't announced when its hitting home video yet. And District 9 just got released this week. SO - if by 3 of my top 10 you mean ALOT... though I think that would actually qualify for being deemed a MINORITY of my top ten. But you probably learned a new form of Math.
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Granted, when I saw it there was this insanely annoying teenage mental case of a girl sitting directly behind me that wouldn't shut up the whole movie. I never wanted to punch someone (particularly a female) so bad in my life. Still, the whole talking dogs thing seemed incredibly uninspired, silly, and unfunny. The film definitely didn't seem that "adult" to me, Harry. Certainly wasn't near bad but nowhere near as good as Wall-E or The Incredibles to me. Then again I am anxious to see it again without the flapping cunt behind me, and maybe I'll enjoy it more then.
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Solid comedy, dug it a lot, the opening shot of them is just gold, but I do think it takes it's time to rev. up and all the best gags come in the latter half of the film, climaxing (heh) with the digital pictures credits. Solid comedy, very funny, and one of those bad trip movies that keep getting worse and worse for the protagonists. As for Up and not digging the talking dogs, I don't get it. "I was hiding under your porch because I love you." = GOLD!
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Of course... thats not the main reason why I enjoyed it.
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Though after seeing Up again on blu, I wasn't sold as much as I'd been when I saw it in 3d in the theaters. I don't know where it went wrong with me, I had such a great experience in the theater... Oh well. What were your favs of the decade Harry!?!?!
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10. Transformers 3
9. Terminator Salvation
8. Drag me to Hell
7. UP
6. Coraline
5. Zombieland
4. Inglourious Basterds
3. District 9
2. Avatar
1. Star Trek
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In no particular order: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, MOON, A SERIOUS MAN, UP, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, BRONSON, THE HURT LOCKER, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, MESRINE (if you count both parts as one movie). Not seen the new Cameron and I didn't like DISTRICT 9 (to me, it just felt like a mixtape compilation of the director's favourite movies). If I had to choose one over the others, I'd go for LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Yeah, I know it's been hanging around for almost 2 years now, but I saw it on its UK premiere in April, and it's easily the strongest movie of the past couple of years for my money.
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That Expectations/Reality scene is a piece of art.
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If Star Trek got RT's best reboot of the decade and yet didn't make it onto this list, I cannot without a straight face consider this to be Ain't it Cool News.
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please no "Star Trek" hate today. It's Xmas…
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10. District 9, 9. 500 Days of Summer, 8. The Hangover, 7. A Serious Man, 6. Where the Wild Things Are, 5. Moon, 4. Up in the Air, 3. Zombieland, 2. Inglorious Basterds, 1. Up
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1. AVATAR 3D
2. Inglourious Basterds
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Thanks for showing me I'm not alone in my dislike for Where the Wild Things Are. I don't begrudge those who like the movie, I just don't get alllll the love it's getting.I think Jeff on Communtiy summed it up perfectly when he said this (about Paul Rudd): "I see the appeal and I would never take it away from anyone, but I would also never stand in line for it."
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Dec 25, 2009 2:34:35 AM CST
Nine, 9, and District 9 should all get nominated for Best Pictur
by sifodyasjr.
just because it would be funny.
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An animated film I only know through a terrific looking yahoo trailer. Did that flick ever see a release? And to other talkbackers, no one cares about your top tens.
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not even the best AUSTRALIAN film of the year
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"I am smilin'."
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I've seen all these lists coming out about the best. How about something that show what NOT to do to a movie?
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District 9 #1, Inglorious Basterds #2, Up #3, have yet to see Avatar but highly doubt it would crack my top 50.
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And I'm surprised to not see The Road on this list as well. That film was easily top five in my book.
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Fuck everything from G.I. Joe to Transformers to Paul Blart. People keeping seeing that shit no wonder movies get worse every year. Goodbye, future, nice knowin' ya.
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easily best movie of the year from what ive seen. i would have a hard time coming up with a top 10, but for once i think Harry's list isnt full of useless shit. congrats Harry!
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Hey, what about Watchmen, Harry? Much underrated, minor masterpiece. Immensely rewatchable too. Yeah I know that a lot of you guys hate it, yeah it's got flaws, and I recognize those, but this and Rambo are the only two mainstream movies with balls from the last ten years. Remember the days when a gory Arnie action pic would open big at the box office? Those days are gone, now that Michael Bay and his kiddy-porn toy movies have taken over, but at least we had a glimpse with Watchmen and Rambo of how things used to be. Hell, Robocop was a huge film back then too, and bloody as anything. I miss those times. Damn you, Michael Bay. Damn you to hell!!!
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But that's an awful list. What about the Informant? How can a shitfest with little bearing and story at all that is District 9 topple over a REAL movie?
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entertaining but too flawed to really make my list.
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good fucking movie. I wish i was George.
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...The siren song of a once legendary talent disappearing down the toilet bowl.
Rushed exposition (including that badly abused bane of slovenly directors, voiceover), directionless dialogue disguised as cleverness (pretty much Tarantino's aimless cokehead interview jabbering translated into French or German and projected onto the big screen), hiding behind the skirts and trousers of worthier talents (beautifully framed, well-acted crap), and worst of all, no particular destination in mind except to pinch this turd off on the viewer's chest in classic Cleveland Steamer fashion and let them sort out what the fuck the creator intended...expect a lot of references to "subtext", as its apologists try to appeal to some sort of higher power of "homage" to explain the appeal of this Dirty Sanchez of a cinematic shit-stain.
By condoning this excrement you encourage the emperor's nudity and prolong his blindness, so a king-size FUCK YOU to all the critics who slobber over this shit sandwich. You're loaning money to a junkie and calling it charity. -
Avatar
Transformers 2 - go fuck yourselves
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Could you be any more of a smug prick?Still, if I was a hideous fat fuck who somehow couldn't stop being so AFTER SURGERY I'd want to over-compensate too, probably.Shite list, poorly written, and inclusion of arthouse fare is merely a lame attempt at appearing cultured and deep, you mainstream fuck.
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what did you think of "Inglorious Basterds"? I heard it was pretty good…?
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Want to know why? Because of that exquisite scene where the previously creepy Spacey-bot reaches up to enter the password for Rockwell's dying clone.
That single moment spoke so much in a unique act it was just amazing...about the potential of machines to one day exceed man's so-called morality (a key theme in another classic, BLADE RUNNER), about compassion in general from one intelligent being to another, about the meaning of love and devotion, about finding a friend in the worst of times...the list goes on and on.
An exquisite "hard SF" movie that hammered home the meaning of "humanity" in a completely, sneaky, unexpected and almost painfully moving fashion. Easily one of the best of the decade, and the continuation of a proud SF tradition including 2001, both ALIEN movies (there were more? Who cares) and, aw fuggit, let's include AVATAR...a beautiful, simple minded woman with a kind heart. -
'Nuff said.I didn't hate "Inglourious Basterds". I AM confused why it's so disliked though—not the best movie of the year, but not a failure either…
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@ Bass Ackwards
$9.99 got limited runs in big cities, it hits DVD in February. It's a low budget film and on the surface it shows, but is actually quite a well put-together film. The stories are good.
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Yeah, and I heard that the opening sequence with Christoph Waltz was "brilliant"...
Except that, the entire sequence was meaningless. If he knew the Jews were hiding at the farmhouse, he'd simply have his men comb the property and kill everyone on sight. If he didn't, he'd comb the site anyway. SS officers didn't exactly have Miranda rights to worry about. It's Tarantino trying to look clever about something he plainly knew nothing about.
The Nazis weren't exactly known for their subtlety. They killed and arrested first, asked questions of (tortured) survivors later. Read a book on the activities of Klaus Barbi if you want to know how they actually operated in France during WW2...QT obviously didn't.
Just one example of the show's Swiss cheese-sized plot holes.
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Did you not exercise an elementary human reaction and groan aloud when Waltz began his offer to surrender to QT's invincible Basterds? Like you knew exactly what was going to happen and couldn't believe that this supposedly wily, crafty villain couldn't see exactly what was in store for him?
Why, it's almost as dumb as thinking that a seasoned SS officer would sit down and initiate a quaint parlor game with a trio of suspected spies with no backup plan to arrest said suspects whatsoever...
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Frankly, it's exquisite.
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Is the best film of the year and is without a doubt the best ACTION film of the decade.
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got tons of blurays this morning, including basterds and speed racer. love that film despite all the haters :-) can't wait to see it on blu.
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Your taste sucks. I'll see to it that ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL arrives on your doorstep the moment it turns up on polymer.
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enormously boring and self indulgent films...shame on you Harry
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"Hello, little guy! It's the sweetie man coming!"
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Now THAT's proper movie geek prioritizing. Well done, Harry... and Merry Christmas.
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Better or worse than "G-Forche"? Cast your vote now!
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Stop eating yourself to fucking death. I saw you on a recent TV broadcast and it creeped me the fuck out. You look awful.
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District 9 disappointed me, expected a totally different film to what we got. I think my vote goes to The Damned United. Great film and great performances by Sheen and Spall
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was just about to write back about your inglorious 'rushed exposition' comment, are you serious?!
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—ah, fuck it…Enjoy the day you lot. Go see a movie.
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YES!
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That's just me.
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Dec 25, 2009 5:14:03 AM CST
That's actually a great little list, Harry.
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
Good call on UP and BRONSON and MOON! I really gotta see BRONSON again - that sequence set to music in the mental asylum was incredible, and who knew the guy from ST: NEMESIS could pull off a performance like that?Thanks also for bringing attention to a Korean movie I've never heard of that sounds interesting.Happy Christmas you big geeky asshole, and Happy Christmas to all the other geeky assholes on this site!
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Just like Antichrist, Drag Me To Hell, and Star Trek. Ok, Avatar is the least deserving of bashing of all these, but still, mindblowing visuals aside, it's just awful.
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at least we know you have no taste...
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Merry Whatever back. Rushed exposition? You mean, when the director actively chooses to have Samuel Jackson's disembodied voice EXPLAIN what's going on (like the whole subplot of explosive film stock) rather than SHOW it (the hallmark of a true auteur)?
About as subtle and "genius" as changing history to allow his blundering band of assholes (who only would have gotten entire scores of French resistance killed in retaliation for their clumsiness...out-brutalize the SS?! Even the Soviets couldn't pull that one off!) kill Hitler.
Yawn. You're SO clever, Quentin. Keep making showy nonsense...it makes latte fuckwits feel special endorsing it. PULP FICTION? Ancient history, because this dwarves it...having now wasted the talents of actors and technicians on both sides of the Atlantic, you're a true international *artiste* now.
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to death." lol. I've never seen such Holiday cheer followed by a swift kick in the nuts. A Kodak moment.
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that movie was pure shit.
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if Gilliam stuck with it instead of the nobody who directed '300.'
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"Noughties". Heh. Like that one.
Seriously, what a rotten fucking decade. I started it loathing Republicans, now I'm catching them and eating them.
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10. Avatar:
Not the best movie ever made. This movie pushes the envelope on both 3d film technology and CGI, entertaining and beautiful to look at.
9. Bad lieutenant port of call New Orleans:
I hope Nicolas Cage keeps going on this path. Cause as far as I'm concerned this is one of his best performances in YEARS. Great film. I absolutely love the scene where Nic Cage is just looking at the iguana. That scene went on forever! Hahaha wonderful!
8. Zombieland:
Nice, little film about survivors after a zombie apocalypse. I'm a sucker for (good) zombie flicks so this one had me smiling from here to here. I absolutely love this film.
7. The Hangover:
Not a big fan of comedies but this was just lovely. Had an old school feel to it. If this was made in the 80's it would have starred the cast of Ghostbusters, John Candy and would have been directed by John Landis. My favorite scenes have to be the Mike Tyson scenes and, of course everything with Leslie Chow. Toodaloooo mothafuckaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
6. Moon:
Looks like they keep this whole space thing in the family. Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie directs this little gem of a film. Sam Rockwell is amazing in this film. I will not tell you anything about the film. I might spoil it for you. A must see and instant classic!
5. Watchmen:
This film will keep people divided but I think in time it will get the respect it deserves. It is a brave attempt and I for one think it works. Great film.
4. Black Dynamite:
Again I'm not a big fan of comedies but this one had me laughing out loud. Filmed so authentically you might mistake it for a film that actually came out of the early seventies. Great performances by the whole cast (especially Michael Jai White), a masterful soundtrack and genuinely funny.
3. (500) Days of summer:
Beautiful. Just beautiful. A very honest look at that old “boy meets girl” story. Just see this movie.
2. District 9:
Excellent, Fresh, exiting.Sci-Fi at its best. I for one still hope that Neill Blomkamp gets a chance to make a Halo feature film. As far as I'm concerned he has more than proved himself to be an excellent film maker with this movie.
1. Star Trek:
The film I had the most fun with this year (and saw multiple times in the cinema). This film is truly for everyone. I even saw this film with non-geeks and even they loved it. Excellent performances by the whole cast, great visuals and sound FX and most important of all...it was FUN.
Have a wonderful Christmas you guys and a great 2010!
PEACE!
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nice choice on the square btw harry... although wasn't it made and released in australia last year... just reased in the us this year??.. great film either way, also nice to an australian film in your top 10... anyway its seems to be that its been a pretty great year for australian films and films in general... oh and merry whatever and nice new year and such and such to everyone I suppose...
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Oh, fuck "Holiday cheer". Arbitrary dates on a meaningless calender. Death knows no such holiday. Harry, grab the fucking reins.
Oh, and while WATCHMEN was fanboy poison (always in short supply), it hit the spot. I'll rank it number "2" on my "best of" list just because it made possessive fuckwits cry in their lattes.
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This is your chance to answer for your assertions, rather than run away...
Seriously, didn't you didn't find if fucking retarded in STAR TREK when NewKirk found OldSpock after five minutes of running on a moon (I guess...it was Vulcan's moon, right?), and after a short walk later, encountered the most creative being in STAR TREK history (NewScotty...a guy who made even warp drive unnecessary, by inventing a transporter that could beam a person onto a starship warping at full speed from several light years out?).
You don't think that's incredibly shitty fucking writing? You think that's the best that cinema has to offer this year?
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You haven't learned that Terry Gilliam isn't one of the most overrated, erratic directors to suck air since he accidentally farted out BRAZIL?
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Bruce didn't mention the scipt as one of the reasons he loved ST.
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If the writing "sucked donkey balls", that hardly qualifies it for the best movie of the year, hey? I'm getting really sick of motherfuckers substituting visceral reaction for actual quality.
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Inglorious Basterds is the 'Emperor's New Clothes' of 2009 films...at least we KNOW Lars Von Trier as a wanker, but this was easily Tarantino's laziest limpest effort yet..it starts with a terrific opening scene and quickly descends into a self indulgent mish mash of poorly paced scenes, woefully awful casting (Pitt all jaw, Roth limp as a tea towel), try-hard Kubrick-esque humor (hitler) and an ending so telegraphed and lead character so underdeveloped I'm stunned ANYONE felt ANYTHING...I was hoping this was a return to form. It's a mess.
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1. Watchmen 2. (500) Days of Summer 3. Avatar 4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 5. Star Trek 6. Coraline 7. Hurt Locker 8. Up 9. Adventureland 10. Public Enemies (Will be netflixing Distirct 9 and Inglorious Basterds this weekend so list will likely change)
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but what about the Liberal Marxist blah blah de fuckin blah...spit..blah blah
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...I won't vivisect Up and show its bloody guts make for the messiest Pixar story ever told (though it's not the studio's worst and it's still in the bottom of my top 10). But I've watched it three times. It doesn't posess the least bit of coherence (three films rolled in one) and it can be deemed emo-manipulative in its opening minutes. A half-assed PIXAR film if there ever was one. Still, the dogs make it a minor comedic triumph (and the visuals are their usual PIXAR-grade amazing). Awe-vatar is my number one this year, by an interstellar margin...White Ribbon and Prophet are pretty much the only omissions (acquired tastes), along with (500) Days and the no less sublime Coraline.
Watchmen almost made the comics boring in retrospect (almost, thankfully), despite the great care and love put into it. Biggest disappointment of the year for me... and probably for Zack Snyder as well (you gotta feel for him). Merry end of the decade to all, especially to Zack Snyder, who spent half of it making a really elaborate turkey. -
who didn't get enough hugs when they were growing up
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A movie that captured the feeling of teenage angst and instability anno 2009 so effectively? With Robert Patterson who can be said to be the new Marlon Brando? It was the biggest hit of the year! Merry Christmas everybody!
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8 year-olds, dude.
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Exactly. If Tarantino ever has a hope to returning to the masterful form shown in RESERVOIR DOGS, PULP FICTION, JACKIE BROWN or briefly glimpsed in KILL BILL, VOL. 1, it's not through celebrating his excesses and wasted efforts culminating in the masturbatory distraction of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.
I'm beginning to get the sick feeling that a lot of his critics never even knew what went RIGHT with PULP FICTION and are just hopping on board at this late stage in a pathetic attempt at hipness.
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Incorrect. I hugged your mama plenty nine months before you were born.
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He knows when he's right, and knows when to ignore a criticism that is valid. Like the Blu-Ray post on this thread: he's right. Notice he never touches the jabs at his grammar or ADD train of thought. And why should he? It doesn't keep any of us from reading...
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That was pretty bold. Lots of stuff people assumed would be on your list didn't make the cut and there was a ton of stuff on there that I've never even heard of. Where the Wild Things Are is the only pick that I don't get. The movie refused my advances and in the end Spike didn't put out. I understand the urge to run back to the locker room and tell everyone you totally sexed him, but it's just wishful thinking. The reality is that the viewer and Where the Wild Things Are had a nice time at the movies, but the magic didn't happen. I would slide Coraline into that slot and remove Cameron's Avatar to the just missed list because it was really just another "Universal Studios" tour of Mann's Chinese Theater in a moving seat.
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I said in one of the Avatar talkbacks that I was so sure you'd say Avatar was the best film of the year that I'd give you a 20$ bill if you didn't. I was obviously wrong, and I'm a man of my word. Your admins surely have the email I signed up with years ago, send me your address and I'll send you a crisp 20$ bill.
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AVATAR (while on shrooms)
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got plenty of hugs thanks...I've even got my own independent critical faculties. You could take that thumb out of your puss and try developing your own.
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and he hasn't even seen Avatar precisely as it was intended. Too much emphasis on FIRST and not enough on QUALITY.
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Pocahontas with blue people....that is all.
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That tells me either you're thick as a plank or simply haven't seen it. These cocksuckers with their glib little once liners...so fucking lame.
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That movie looks like a winner.
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Initial impact, how much I think about the film, and how much I want to rewatch it are all key in determining my favorite films of any year.
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7 places solely dedicated to Jar Jar Abrams' SHIT TREK, and the reminaing 3 dedicated each to Tranformers 2, Terminator Salvation and 2012.
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Dec 25, 2009 7:42:56 AM CST
Good list. Was expecting u guys to controversial for the sake o
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going to tell me that this "story" is groundbreaking? Yes the visuals are incredible and worthy of seeing on the big screen but this story has been done a dozen times from Dances with wolves to Pocahontas. Hell he even rips off his own Aliens. Giovanni Ribisi is nothing more than Paul Rieser and Sigourney is wasted. I liked it but story wise...c'mon.
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...rewatchability is an interesting and volatile variable when thinking about a movie...it's an important part of loving a movie, but it clouds your judgment.Rewatchability is a very specific quality...I've seen plenty of truly great movies that haven't given me an urge to repeat the experience. I've seen a few great movies that left me happy to have seen them, but absolutely determined to NEVER repeat the experience ever again. I've seen great movies that I can't wait to see again, but deliberately deny myself because when I do finally see them again I want it to be as close to that first time punch as possible.Off the top of my head I think the movies I saw the most number of times in the 00's are HIGH FIDELITY, 28 DAYS LATER, and SUNSHINE. Why?...I'm not really sure. Are they good movies?...yes. Are they the best movies of the 00's?...no.Rewatchability is mysterious.
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Yes, AVATAR is a flawed movie, and I can't help notice the flaws. However, overall, it's a good movie. But not better then MOON, the way i see it. No, MOON and DISTRICT 9 are indeed better movies then AVATAR. both, in their own way, were more original and awe inspiring then AVATAR, despiste being smaller productions. Still, all said and done, AVATAR can still be classified as a good movie. It is a good movie. Flawed but good. And given the scarcity of good genre movies this year, to dismiss AVATAR is just folly.
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Best way to rewatch SUNSHINE is to watch it with the scientist comentary on. I have been tempted to buy the DVD just for that audio comentary alone.
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Fuck that asshole. Biggest idiot on the internet.
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...that the foreign films listed here WILL be remade and watered down for American audiences...
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How can this people call themselves movie geeks not like, or at least enjoyed INGLORIOUS BASTERDS? What is wrong with this people? Is there any correlaction between the people who hated INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and who liked Jar Jar Abrams's SHIT TREK?
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...I particularly like the way he acknowledges the process of accepting the initially impossible premise of a SF movie...and then going about making all the science as accurate as possible within the framework of the story.And I like the little story about why Alex Garland wrote the story in the first place...
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Dec 25, 2009 8:16:43 AM CST
DEVIN FARACI'S FIXATION WITH UNDERAGE CHILDREN CONTINUES.......
by tehcreepythinman
He may be joking but I think that there is more truth behind this article then he's letting on. http://chud.com/articles/articles/21963/1/EXCLUSIVE-IS-THIS-SONY039S-CHOICE-FOR-SPIDER-MAN-4039S-VILLAIN/Page1.html
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not dismissing Avatar. It was quite enjoyable. I just found it a little derivative. BTW Sunshine is a great movie until the odd ending. Sort of became Event Horizon there. Pretty great up until then.
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Star Trek was really disappointing. I don't know if it was an awesome theater experience, but it didn't do anything for me on DVD. I love all the inside jokes and references, but if I didn't know anything about Star Trek... would they make sense to me? Plus, Nero is not a very memorable villain. District 9 I did see in a theater, and I liked it a lot. But it's not really great. It's paced a little too fast in the beginning. Christopher is the only human character in the movie. Seems to me there'd be quite a few people who sympathetic to the aliens. And the ending is just a set up for the sequel. I hate it when movies do that.
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...doesn't rape your childhood: he makes your eyes water and climax. Some feel a burn but that's because they're so frigid they could find jobs working as AC units. Hum... Merry Christmas to all... I mean it: even lowly haters deserve a truce; a respite from that joyless, empty existence they so often mistake for a tasteful life.
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...it's a very misunderstood movie...it's not really SF, it's really a metaphysical movie...like THE FOUNTAIN maybe. It's about death and knowing for a fact it's just a matter of time. Also it's a reversed HEART OF DARKNESS...it's HEART OF BRIGHTNESS. The insane/superhuman captain at the end got too close the the heart of brightness...he got too close to immortality and it made him crazy...
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10. Inglourious Basterds
9. (500) Days of Summer
8. Watchmen
7. Coraline
6. Taking Woodstock
5. Star Trek
4. The Princess and the Frog
3. The Brothers Bloom
2. Up
1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Haven't yet seen SHERLOCK and BLACK DYNAMITE (I think) certainly would've made the list if I'd seen it (Three theaters in my hometown showed TRANSYLMANIA, but not one showed BLACK DYNAMITE. Someone's getting kicked in the nuts for this, I assure you.) -
For what it's worth. Here is my list. Please God make it count.
10. Avatar (the game changer)
9. The Hurt Locker (edge-of-seat stuff)
8. Inglourious Basterds (coolest film of '09)
7. Harry Brown (Sean Harris is worth the ticket price alone)
6. Bronson (best male performance of '09)
5. Brüno (tears streaming down both cheeks)
4. District 9 (Best sci-fi of '09)
3. The Informant! (funniest film of '09)
2. Antichrist (dark & moody)
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Watchmen kills almost every movie in your top ten. Where the Wild Things are? Seriously? Maybe for 10 year olds ughhhh. I do appreciate District 9 being in the top spot. It made number 2 on my list.
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the beginning of the movie almost made me cry. it's incredible how consistent the pixar studio is. if you don't like UP then i believe you truly lack a soul. i think pixar is a throwback to the black and white years of film.
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He's an asshole. I hate to say it, because he's responsible for some of my favorites (Aliens, the Abyss, True Lies), but damn, the airport incident is telling. Sure, the autograph guy turned out to actually -be- an asshole because he's auctioning the poster on eBay, but Cameron wouldn't know that (unless he has a fucking crystal ball). Turning down someone who wants an autograph... and doing it in such a scathing fashion... is very uncool. I love getting autographs, shaking hands, sharing even a few seconds of someone's time when I'm their fan... if Cameron went off on me like that, I would have given him both barrels, too. Fucker.
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Dec 25, 2009 9:22:37 AM CST
FlickaPoo, SUNSHINE WAS GREAT EXCEPT FOR CAPTAIN CRISPY.....
by tehcreepythinman
I saw it as more of a metaphysical Sci-fi movie in terms of tone and spirit. The third act bullshit with the insane Captain was needless and the movie would have been much stronger without it. The Fountain is a beautiful movie. I listen to the soundtrack often. I also liked both of those movies better then Avatar.
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Harry, you DID have a 2008 top ten. "Let The RIght One In", "The Dark Knight", "The Wrestler", and so on and so forth. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39592
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...and no-one else I've spoke to seems to agree. Spoiler, obviously...
Landa kills Shoshannah's family > Shoshannah escapes > Shoshannah becomes bitter and vengeful BUT NOT OF LANDA > Landa and Shoshannah meet in the restauraunt and after that their history is never focused on again.
Why did Shoshannah want vengence on the Nazis and yet never even take into consideration that she could murder the guy who murdered her family in the first place?
Excuse I seem to get from people on this point are that Shoshannah thought Landa would be in the cineam and burnt alive with the rest of them, which WOULD be fine but she never ever mentions this! There isn't a single moment to suggest Shoshannah has even considered taking revenge on him. She doesn't confide in her projectionist/lover about Landa killing her family, or even spare a pensive gaze to suggest she is considering this (initially, anyway) critical plot point.
Then when I say this people say 'yeah well you shouldn't need it spelt out for you!' And that's just daft. I don't want it to be melodramatic, I just want it to be acknowledged! Somewhere, at some point, it should have been addressed but it never is.
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nobody did a better job this year at acting.
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Dec 25, 2009 9:44:57 AM CST
Yeah, Sunshine was great for 2/3 then fucked the goat at the end
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Terminator Salvation kicked Watchmen ass.
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Completly agree with you on SUNSHINE. My problem with the ending is not so much the ide itself, which i dig (any mvoie that has a scientist kicking the ass of a religious fanatic and gut him is always welcomed), but the way that Danny Boyle presented it.But my peeve complain about SUNSHINE is a type of scientific goof which, frankly, more and more pisses me off when i see it. And even the scientist who did the consulting for the movie can't help but coment on it when the scene shows, and even he sounds exasperated when he sees it and has to explain why it's nonsense. What i'm talking about is the usual holylwood fashion of showing instant freezing when people are exposed to sub-zero temperatures in the vaccum of space. and this is complete bullshit. In vaccum, you barely lose heat. that's the reason why thermo bottles have a vaccum between their two recipient walls, the internla and the external. We lost our body heat fast on Earth because we trasnfer it to the cold atmosphere around us. that's why we freeze so far in here. but in spac,e there's nothing for the heat to be trasnfered to, because it's an VACCUM. So, heat is loss through irradiation. Which is the slowest way to lose heat in the whole universe. In a vaccum, regardless of it's local temperature, it would take you hours if not days, to freeze over. In fac,t that one can only lose heat through irradiation is the major problem that all astronauts face in space. It's easy for heat to build up due to solar light, but it's hard to lose it, evne in shadow. This is why spaceships and spacestatiosn are either coloured white or made or reflective materials, to reflect most of the solar light out, and thus try to avoid the most amount of heat buld up possible. And still heat build up occours. which is they they need a complete refrigeration system, like the cars use, but on a bigger scale, and then they need those wing-like heat exaustors to get rid of that excessive heat. The irony is that in space, you far easier die from heat excess then from freezing.And yet, movies keep on fucking that up.
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Dec 25, 2009 9:50:01 AM CST
UP was great for 2/3 then fell off, but didn't fuck a goat
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
It is still top fifteen though.
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That's why Shossana is a hero. If her only beef was merely with Landa, then she would be merely a person seeking PERSONAL revenge. But Shossana deos something greater. She sacrifices her own life to get rid the world of a greater evil. Thus, to get rid of the whople of the command structure of the 3rd Reich. Is what Shossana did revenge. Partly, yes. but she revenges to the right people. The the people who iniciated and were ultimatly responsbile for the whole machine hat lead to the death of not only her own family but all the other jews. What she does is more then revenge, it's more akin to retribution and to help rid the world of it's greatest evil. Her action, her sacrifice, is the stuff of the greatest of heroes.
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Dec 25, 2009 9:54:03 AM CST
Or you could die trying to read that long winded mangled english
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Of Asimov's
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Dec 25, 2009 9:57:10 AM CST
As for Sunshine being a metaphor - Bullshit
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
If 2/3 of a movie is straight hardcore SF, but you fuck the goat in the last 1/3, ii was not a metaphor, it is an excuse for piss poor film making and writing and editing and all kinds of shit-shit.
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I can see that too, I really can. In fact I applaud it as a direction to take her arc in rather than making it a straight revenge plot, but that's not what bothers me. It's the fact that it is NEVER acknowledged by the film that Shoshannah should want to kill Landa for what he did. Like I said if there was just one small scene or even a small moment within a scene to show that Shoshannah had considered this and decided to put it aside then I would have no problem with it, but she never does and that makes me really struggle to sympathise with her as a character because I cannot relate to someone so unrealistic in their motivations.
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SUNSHINE is SCIENCE FICTION. It even tries to be hard-SF, thus the reason they even bothered to hire a scientific consultant, which himself became the major inspiration for the character of Cilliam Murphy. The metaphysical aspect is just an add-on, a bonus. Which make sit richer, yes. but it is a sciene fiction. To dismiss that is foolhardy, pardon me saying it.
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Pulp Fiction. Nothing will ever touch that QT movie. Inglorious Basterds needed an action scene or two more to exemplify why they were so feared in Germany. Just sayin.
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One of the best unseen sci-fi movies in years!
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Dec 25, 2009 10:02:56 AM CST
How the fuck can a Big Mac remind anyone of Avatar?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
How do you possibly tie those two things together? How?
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sure why not he was great
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Dec 25, 2009 10:07:17 AM CST
'Lop you treadin on dangerous territory
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
The Avatar PC police will swarm you if you even hint at making fun of anything about their masterpiece.
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...first of all, I'm a sucker for a surprise or a change of gears...and Captain Crispy was both.Captain Crispy is a Kurtz type character...the sun represents life/death, or god, or heaven or whatever...Crispy spent too much time stationed too close to the source and he "went native". I think one of the main threads of the movie is the fact that all the protagonists are scientists...they are all facing certain death...it's just a matter of when. They are also trying to come to grips with the idea of sacrificing themselves for the greater good of humanity...but without the old religious assurances of eternal reward...they know they will just be space dust. None of them seem to have any kids, so they won't even have biological "immortality" through their DNA. Like THE FOUNTAIN, they have to face extinction without the comfort of a literal heaven.So you can read Captain Crispy any number of ways...he's been too close the The Source for too long and has developed his own twisted sort of religion. He gets to be the crazy fundamentalist religious nihilist without that part having to go to the usual bible thumper or Muslim fundamentalist. I thought he was a good way to play out the potential destructiveness of certain religious world views without resorting to the usual stereotypes. Similar to THE FOUNTAIN, he could represent what would happen if you really could achieve immortality...a cautionary tale. You're better off dead. Better to let yourself literally rejoin the energy of the universe.I've got other angles I won't bore you with...I also thought he kicked ass.
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Drag Me To Hell. not in the top 5, but deserving of a 6-10 slot.
In The Loop. somewhere in the 3-7 range, only the brits can pull off something like this movie.
Anti-Christ. someplace in the top 5. its a little slow, a little pretty, and will leave you with a couple of scenes you will take to your grave. stuff that you will never get out of your head. -
...the concept is metaphysical. Science fiction is the delivery tool.Garland wrote the story after reading that if the universe is expanding eventually it won't contain enough energy to sustain life. He had always assumed that humanity could just move on to other planets or something when the sun finally gave up the ghost. ..he was horrified at the idea that life, all life in the universe is ultimately doomed. It gave him a little existential crisis and SUNSHINE came out of it...
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But that was a joke I couldn't resist.
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Dec 25, 2009 10:17:39 AM CST
How the fuck can a Big Mac remind anyone of Avatar?
by peanutbutterslut
Both McDon's patrons and the Navi have to eat strange, alien meat.
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are all ridiculously overrated.
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Dec 25, 2009 10:23:03 AM CST
...Conti, re: "not your cup of tea" and the need for a new...
by flickapoo
...expression.I'm partial to "this might not pop you corn".
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Dec 25, 2009 10:23:08 AM CST
Netiri ate some 'strange Alien meat' gobbled it up good too!
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Made dude switch his species over it too!
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Dec 25, 2009 10:23:24 AM CST
"Avatar" could be considered ground breaking with it's story tel
by evangelion217
because of how it tells it through it's visual effects, and uses them to create an entire planet that is fully explored and developed. Same goes with the characters that inhabit the world. So while the story isn't original at all, Cameron's attempt at telling it could be considered original. And the visual effects are absolutely ground breaking. :)
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The scene where Shosanna is stuck at the table with Landa is the most terrifying scene in the whole film. Shosanna knew who Landa was. She couldn't be sure that he didn't know her, too. I think it's kind of retarded to demand of Shosanna that she want to get revenge on Landa individually, or that she is unsympathetic because she's not overcome with pedestrian motives. Besides - that scene shows that while she could get revenge on Nazism as a broad concept, Landa, to her, was far too terrifying to confront. It's one thing to fight evil - it's another to fight the devil.
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Dec 25, 2009 10:26:49 AM CST
Monster Ark on Sci-Fi! Best movie of the year
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
CGI kicks Avatars ass and the story is original!
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But it's still a good film.
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...but I'll take it over the alternative. And if you turn it way up and experience it with red wine and popcorn it has its fucking moments...
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Dec 25, 2009 10:36:37 AM CST
So, every movie that screws the goat has a deeper meaning?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Well hell, that makes Battlefield Earth of fuckin masterpiece of metaphorical storyteling.
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I'm not saying I wanted pedestrian motives at all. My problem is I don't think she displayed any outward motives whatsoever. I even agree with you, the scene at the restaurant is staged brilliantly. In fact I also see your point about Landa being too terrifying for her to confront. I wasn't airing my complaints because I wanted to put the film down. I wanted to hear a convincing counter-argument to what I saw as a glaring plothole.
That said, I won't know until I see it again if a few seconds of Shoshannah crying at the table then never dwelling on Landa ever again will be enough to convince me, but if it does I will be more than happy to admit it. -
It's Brut Rose Champagne in my house, you need the bubbles to counteract the saltiness. GOOD GOD, it is fucking amateur hour in here. AND, Sunshine is a BRILLIANT sci-fi. I agree with Asimov on this, 100%... it's a sci-fi with an actual, carefully thought out existential theme, which is why it goes down in history as being one of the GREATEST SCI-FI FILMS EVER MADE. It's up there with 2001 as far as being intelligent and genuinely fascinating, which is what sci-fi, in my opinion, should be. And Asimov, to dismiss the whole thing over the freezing-in-space thing is bunk. The scientist said in the commentary that yes, it was a MAJOR scientific faux-pas to include that scene... but then in the next sentence, he went on to say that is is such a cool scene, so great to watch, and so beautifully filmed, that he can't begrudge the writers and director for keeping it in. (I DO own the disc with the commentary, and when I watch the film I generally watch it AGAIN with the commentary, right afterward. It is totally kick-ass.) Sunshine goes down as one of my top 10 favorite films of all time. Brilliant.
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I guess I just don't see it as a plot hole. For myself, I didn't need her to have a moment, besides the scene in the cafe, where she sets her mental sights on Landa - the utter terror that shows on her face after he leaves showed me all it needed to. But even so, it's not until after the cafe that the plot is hatched, and I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that Landa was on her mind when she decided - but even though her specific situation may have inspired the revenge, she knows well enough that her experience was emblematic of the greater problem of Nazism in France, and because of her primal terror of Landa, the best way to get revenge against him was to attack the institution that created him. I guess I just assumed a more complex process going on for her - I agree with Harry that Basterds is Tarantino's masterpiece, because even though it presents as exploitation it's an object lesson in "show don't tell".
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You're the first people I've brought this up with to actually offer me a considered response. I only saw it a few days ago and I already want to see it again, now more than ever.
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Minus the fact that New Moon and TF2 came out in 2009 it was pretty good. District 9 and Avatar hell even Star Trek gave me lots of hope. Don't really care what mindless morons say about Avatar I fully enjoyed it and Cameron is a god to me. Black Dynamite though was the best comedy of the year hands down and should be on that top ten list. Also Inglorious Basterds was also just a brilliant movie. Those claiming it's over rated, fine, but you have to admit you had a good time watching it. Pretty fun movie there if you get the stick out of your ass and just enjoy it.
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Umm....Can't exactly be down with that. Hurt Locker was easily one of the best films of the year.
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I will never read ANYTHING Harry writes again. EVER. I mean, did you SEE 'Drag Me to Hell'? Christ, what an absolutely unrelentingly stupid and awful movie. Unless maybe you're eight years old.
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1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Hurt Locker
3. Where The Wild Things Are
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what exactly were the twists and turns of moon?
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MADE MY BALLS ITCH! FUCKING BOSS ASS!!!
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I fully expected you put Avatar first. It doesn't deserve it and you didn't put it there.
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make my top ten. It was much better than I expected. While the songs were not as memorable to me as other disney films of old i thought the animation and voice acting was top notch and nothing beats solid hand drawn animation.
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Down to personal taste I guess. Nothing for King Kong or the Rings trilogy? Jeez. But this is why I come here, and have been for 11 years. Here's to another 11. Merry xmas to Harry, the team, and all my fellow talkbackers, whatever your geeky persuasion may be.
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with it's gigantic sweeping backdrops is starting to really grow on me. The more it settles in the back of my brain, the higher it rises in the list in my head. I just watched District 9 again and it seemed to lost some of it's charm beyond Wickus. I still dig the movie but there's something about Avatar that's suddenly start o bubble up as an odd classic.
I'm not a man of lists either because it's hard to give a numerical value to these things. I'd say "Where the Wild Things Are" and Fantastic "Mr. Fox" would top of mine, just because of the raw nature of those two films. They are just 2 wonderful films that stick out. I really enjoyed Zombieland too. Red Cliff 1 and 2 were phenomenal. Inglorious is a hoot... lists are hard. I'd just do a 3 lister and say Wild Things, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Avatar are my faves, just to shear joy and there use of technology. Haven't seen Moon or Up in the Air yet. I really dig "Observe and Report" too. Actually add that to the list. I know people did dig that film, but if you did, there's just something awesome about it's rawness in the comedy realm of things. I just love that pan shot at the end with the flasher, fucking genius.
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...I don't get your hate of voice over. The whole "show not tell" theory of filmmaking is as OLD as FUCK. What are you, my film professor from 20 years ago? That is a totally empty and useless criticism. The fact of voiceover does not automatically turn something to shit. Since films have become 'talkies' its been totally open to filmmakers to use any means at their available to tell a story, whether that's through dialogue, words at the front of the film, or yes, voice over. What really matters is how effective the technique is in telling the story. The whole "its got voiceover ergo its weak filmmaking" argument should die. You're just being a pretentious douchebag if you say otherwise. Imagine movies like Ferris Beuller's Day Off with out it...
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But I've only seen 5 of the movies on your list, never heard of two of them. So maybe that's why. I'm glad District 9 is #1. That's my 2nd favorite this year. The others I saw were okay. I didn't like WTWTA. I thought IB was uneven put most movies this year were messed up one way or another. AVATAR was great to look at, but the same old story. UP I thought went to hell when they started chasing that bird. *sigh* I wanna go back to last year.
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Screw Ferris. Imagine Taxi Driver without VO...
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Best Movie of 2009
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How did you rate the blockbuster season this year? I personally feel it was one of the worst years ever.
Terminator Salvation, Transformers 2,GI JOe etc, Wolverine. The big budget material sucked in 2009. -
Just kidding, I enjoy your perspective.
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The final confrontation between Wikus in the prawn mech and the soldiers took way too long. Too many shots going on at least twice as long as they should have. The "agony" of the dying mech was laughable rather than suspenseful. Overwrought and melodramatic and poorly paced. Essentially all of the flaws of exec producer Peter Jackson at his self-indulgent worst. It didn't ruin the movie, but definitely docks it a point and keeps it from being the #1 movie of the year.
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So whay if that was Garland's genesis for the story? You think that SF writers don't think like that as well? It all starts weith the concept, of course. But the most important thing is this: could that be story be tld if it wasn't SF? and in the case of SUNSHINE, no it couldn't. Thus, it's fully SF. that's the thing. You can't remove the SF out of SUNSHINE. In that regard, it'sone of the purest SF movies made in the last ten years. The metaphysics is within the themes explored, which in fact is not anything that is strange to SF, quite the contray. If anything, SUNSHINE is a clear throwback to a type of classic SF that rarely gets made today. SUNSHINE is SF through and through. Your problem is that you might think of Sf as a lesser genre, and that it unusually got beefed up in SUNSHINE. No, ths is wrong. If anything, SF has gotten dumbed down by having turned most of it into action movies. SUNSHINE is classic SF.
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the trailer for the remake of THE KARATE KID. And if the anti-chinese propaganda busllhit wasn't bad enough, the lead actor is that obnoxious little tyke, the Lil' Willy, Will smith's son. This kid is obnoxious beyond description. If he is such an unsufferable shit now, imagine when this prick turns adolescent!
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Ash (Fantastic Mr. Fox Jason Schwartzman)
Wikus
Aldo Rane (Waltz was an amazing character, but there's just something about the stern goofball of Aldo that sticks in my head.
Max (Where the Wild Things Are)
Mr. Chow (The Hangover)
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This was a good year for the small movies, but a terrible year for blockbusters. Every one of them except the latest Harry Potter and Avatar were pure agonies.
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Avatar in IMAX 3D more than made up for all the horrible blockbusters. It's going to be the blockbuster of all blockbusters, and the film that 2009 will most be remembered for. Hopefully it'll stay in the IMAX theaters for a few months.
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By this time next week, the District 9 dvd will be in my hnds. UK release this coming Monday. Stupid day for a DVD release if you ask me - and nobody did, but there ya go.
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Dec 25, 2009 1:20:46 PM CST
I hate annoying, atention starved children so...
by lavatory love machine
I hated Where The Wild Things Are
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Whatever, at least he didn't put Crap In The Air on his list unlike every other Jason Reitman cock sucking critic.
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I do not get the love for that film. The Cove and Food Inc were 100 times better then that thing. Shit Bigger/Faster/Stronger and Dear Zachary were a million times better then Man On Wire last year as well. Harry doesn't watch enough documentaries.
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Do you like QT? Like respect him as a director?
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Whoever it was above that posted the line, "Hey, little guy. It's the sweetie man coming." I re-watched the movie recently and that line made me laugh my ass off. My only critique upon repeated viewings of D9 is that the use of the blood splatter on the camera lens gimmick (I counted at least 5 times they used that trick) and I don't like the mounted front cam on the MNU soldier as he's entering MNU headquarters going after Vickus and Christopher who are stealing back the black liquid cannister. I have a real appreciation for Sharlto's performance tho. And that's his first role ever? GTFO. Fuck. All my Hollywood actor friends and their endless acting cla$$e$ (taught by acting teachers who never made it big themselves, phsyician heal thyself!) and this first time actor, Sharlto, just comes in and delivers the most well-rounded, passionate performance of the year. There's a lesson in there.
HURT LOCKER is great for the first two acts and then completely loses it's way in the third but I fucking LOVED the epilogue and what it says about the addictive nature of combat and post traumatic stress syndrome. I have some military friends who had some probs with the military aspects of it, tho. Like when (spoiler) Ralph Fiennes gets killed by the sniper, you would never just take up an exact position that had a lethal bead on it from an enemy sniper like he did.
And motherfuck WATCHMEN and STAR TREK, I hope Snyder and Abrams are both crying their eyes out as absolutely NO ONE is including their films on their year end best lists. Both of these films suffered from the hubris of egotistical directors who didn't respect or trust their source material and thought they could do a better job reiventing subjects that've stood the test of time. -
Dec 25, 2009 1:55:57 PM CST
The movie i had the most fun with this year was...
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
Pandorum. Strange, i know, but the movie really satisfied me and it was one of the few times i left the cinema this year thinking how much i love movies.The twists at the end kick ass!
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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is a remake!!
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Best comedy of the year.
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Up is on there?! the hell and where the wild things are......At least he didn't put twatlight, and where is the ultimate directors cut of watchmen?! and star trek?
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Dec 25, 2009 2:03:37 PM CST
darthwaz1, um have you seen the original Inglorious Bastards?
by soylentmean
QT's version has very little to do with the original, which might have a lot to do with QT's spelling.
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I felt it was not one of the best movies of the year
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Dec 25, 2009 2:07:35 PM CST
Devin Faraci = "biggest idiot on the internet" Browncoat_Jedi?
by skyway moaters
... erm, no. While I have absolutely no love for Faraci, I'm afraid that honor goes to: AsimovLives! - Self-fellating pedantic asswipe.
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Idiots its way diffrant from the orginal if not BETTER! BEst thing from Quentien since Plup Fiction
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I have it on blu
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1- I'm not sure we disagree much on this...it might be mostly semantics. I would only ad that pure SF needs to get certain technical things right to succeed. In my opinion a SF movie with a metaphysical theme can bend the rules to make its point. In THE FOUNTAIN I don't really give a shit if you could make a bubble space ship with a tree in it...that's not the point. To me it's a mistake to judge a movie like SUNSHINE by the same rules you would use for straight SF.2- If we can't agree, that's fine. I challenge you to a Christmas Vinho Verde drinking contest...winner takes all.
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The reason i see that Shossana deosn't go on revenging on Landa as soon she finds he's in Paris is because she is trying to survive in disguise in occupied France. She has the play lowkey, and to go revenge still during wartime would be a needlessly risk. It would thrown all her cares for all those years, adn also all the trouble her family and the french farmer had invested on her for all those years as well all for nothing.But rememeber this, in her plan to burn down the cinema with the Nazi elite, Landa was one of the people in the theater as well. He would be one of her victims as well. so, her revenge would be complet,e she would revenge, not only herself, but her family, her fellow jews, and her country, all in one stroke. Frankly, it think it's brillant.
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I think you are making the classic mistake of mistaking hard-SF with the whole of SF. I see many do that. It's the second common mistake people do about SF. The first and most common is mistaking Star Wars as the whole of SF. Don't worry, most non-SF fans do that. Many people happen to like some SF movies and books, but not the whole of the genre. Me, i'm a SF fan. Forgive me is sometimes i happen to be a bit precious about it, buit i get tired of the dismissive ways people talk about it, and this suprise some get when a SF mvoie do manage to have a brain behind it, which justr denotes ignorance for the genre more then anything else. I'm getting fed up of people thinking of SF just as excuses for action movies about space battles and killer cyborgs.
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Dec 25, 2009 2:26:42 PM CST
Yeah, but Shosana and her black lover are killing themselves, to
by zombieheathledger
Locked inside a burning building means EVERYONE dies.
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You don't need excuses to drink vinho verde, mate. You just do it ;-)
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That's why it's called a sacrifice for the greater good. Heroic action stuff.
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Dec 25, 2009 2:29:03 PM CST
Shosana shoul've killed the French farmer who betrayed her famil
by zombieheathledger
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...I just think the rules are a little different. Apples and oranges and all that.You're definitely the bigger SF fan though, so if you say it's all SF that's fine.Now, about that contest...
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I thought there was a Mrs.Flickapoo. What hell are you doing on AICN on Christmas with us pathetic single shut-ins who live with our Mothers?lol
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If Flickapoo is occupied on AICN, that means the Xbox is free... you see where I'm going with this? -Mrs. Flickapoo
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...and posts occasionally, so it's not as weird as you think. The family that impales together stays together.We're doing Christmas tomorrow...and again on Sunday...
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Dec 25, 2009 2:52:17 PM CST
The fact that Observe and Report is mentioned in this article...
by moonlightdrive
makes the entire content worthless.
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and she knows her shit. By the way, how are you, Mrs FlickaPoo? Having a merry yule?
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It wouldn't be a context, it would be a pleasure. But you need to have seafood to go with it. Oh really.
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"THe family that slays together stays together". It's from THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. The brillant 1974 original, not that Michael Bay produced piece of shit remake.
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I've got Inglorious Basterds playing in the background and it's not really interesting me that much. I've played all my new Xbox360 games now. I don't want to start my new book yet.My only option left is to get drunk.
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...I promised the Mrs. that when we eventually make it to Portugal I will open my mind and try every damn barnacle, mollusk, and crustacean you guys have to offer...Mrs. Poo sends her warm regards...last night we drank a nicely aged Bual.
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What a paltry list. "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS could very well indeed be Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece." Harry, you say this about every single Tarantino film. Also, Avatar is a landmark in storytelling? Are you serious? Avatar is the most generic... regurgitated pablum ever created. It sets the standard of 3D moviemaking... that's about it. Avatar has made $137,268,000 (domestic)...+ foreign $255,686,953... hardly "setting records" here unless you're just merely referring to 3D movie records. Jackson's "King Kong" must have broken records as well $218,080,025 (domestic)...+ foreign $332,437,332....*cough* not *cough*. Both of those films were great eye candy... but complete stinkers.
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1. The Hurt Locker
2. Shutter Island
3. The Road
4. Star Trek
5. Taken
6. State of Play
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. The Informant!
9. Where the Wild Things Are
10. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
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I want it. Does anyone know anything about it? Help.
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The Hurt Locker: Intense. Hyper-Real.
Inglourious Bastards: One of the best written and acted films of all time. No one in their right mind can argue this point and if you do you don't know what your talking about.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Pure joy. So much joy to be had! I have never sat though a film with a smile over my face the entire time. Delightful!
Star Trek: Fuck you Star Trek nerds for hating this movie! Who do you think you are?! No wonder you you guy's never get laid! This is a kick ass action flic with mindblowing visuals. I know you guy's like your Star Trek movies really boring but no body likes to watch BORING MOVIES!!!
Avatar: I've seen this twice now and plan to see it a few more times. I'm so in awe of this film that I can't fully express it. See it to believe it. A land mark film. Simple.
The Hang Over: So painfully funny. I can watch this movie all the fucking time.
Adventure Land: Not since Lost in Translation has a film captured time and place.
District 9: It never ever stops moving fowards with a crazy ass pace.
Bright Star: One of the best looking movies I've seen all year. It sucker punches you. It left me breathless.
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I barely saw top 10 movies this year in theaters. I aint gonna pay full price to see some of those movies.
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Now I'm scared.
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2. Inglourious Basterds 3. Watchmen 4. Paranormal Activity 5. Let the Right One In
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District 9 is extremely overrated. I strongly disagree that you can still root for the main character. I was never able to. I hated him. it took me out of the movie along with all the cliches and the overall lack of engagement with the audience. Where the hell is Star Trek? District 9 huh? Hmmpphh! Shmuck.
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Dec 25, 2009 3:54:05 PM CST
Right, i've made it through fifty minutes of Inglorious Basterds
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
And i can't do any more.This is what happens when your relatives think they can buy you movies for xmas. :(
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You know what's the new liquourish drink i discovered? It's called Agwa De Bolivia, and it's an liquor made of extract of herbs, the most predominant tbeing coke leaf. And no, it's not liquid cocaine, because they remove all traces of it from the leaf so to make the drink. It0's a legal drink. And it's very good. Very strong too. I drink it in small quantities. Some claim it's to be drunk with tonic water, but i have tried and doesn't taste as well. check it out,if you can, and is legal in your neck of the woods.
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The guy has uploaded a 'backwards' version so Youtube won't take it down, but it's there.
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5. Watchmen 4. Hangover 3 Zombieland 2. Avatar 1. Star Trek
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Good for you, friend. I would place District 9 at the top of my fave Sf movie list too if not for the fact that i have a personal preference for MOON. But good choice, friend.
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Can i ask you if you are italian? Because your nick uses the name of the vulcano but in the romance languages version (italian, spanish, portuguese, french, etc), not the english version which is Vesuvius.
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is fucking retarded...does NOONE think this film is being held up to some standard OTHER films with just as typical archetypes and plots are not? It's like bitching about Cyrano or something...its a story that gets RETOLD...Avatar is great fresh take on this. All this pissing on it smells of snobby fucktard desperation...
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I'm actually Brazilian, so yep you got that one right.
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Ddue, about the INCEPTION trailer... for soem strange reason, it showns backwards... it does make some sense! Which means that Nolan might have used a lot of camera trickery for shootting or presenting the movie, as in many images that will be in the movie will be played backwards, to make it look weird and unreal. Wow!! Has Nolan made the first movie ever whwere you can watch it both played foward and backwards??
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E eu sou português! Como vais tú aí pelas terras do verde e amarelo?
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For conce i'm going to agree with you on that. No, the story of AVATAR is not bad because it's simple. A simple story does not necessarily equate with being bad or weak. Quite the contrary. Many great movies have simple storie,s but very rich in context and subtext. Like, for example, the godfather, which is basically a simple story, but rich in nuances and subtext and detail. Or 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY.And i see that Cameron went for the same type of deal with AVATAR. And why not? Frankly, if there has been a problemwith too many blockbusters today is that they have choked the stories with too much plot, but with no themes or subtext or nuances. Frankly, if i had to chose, i would prefer Cameron's approach.Well, it seems we finally got to agree on something, quantize my friend.
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for me to poop on
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Man On Wire was entertaining but absolute duck fluff compared to Dear Zachary which punches you so hard in the gut its hard to breath amidst the tragedy..
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I remember you as being one of THE biggest AVATAR critics when that first trailer came out.
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The moment the film canisters are discussed and we get that cringingly ridiculous montage with the Bowie song the ending is telegraphed SO loudly it feels utterly perfunctory when the place catches fire...the entire film is perfectly described by the cafe scene where we have this potential menace that disipates into boring wank until the time the gunfire starts its impossible to give a fuck about who dies one way or another. That to me seems at complete odds with the skills at play in Reservoir Dogs.
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Is my number 1. District 9 was amazing too. Both left me wanting more!
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correct...in my other comments here I've actually addressed my direct concerns about the trailers compared to what i actually saw...one small example..the characters seemed a bit 'light footed' in the trailer..simply not there in the finished work.
Damn, even the fact I was watching blue pussycats with tails didn't bother me one tiny bit. The subtleties of the mocap were wonderfully translated.
I think it's a mistake to dismiss the immersive nature of Avatar, isnt that precisely what films are about? I was delighted to be proven wrong...which was my exact wish in my earlier comments.
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When your preview doesn't make sense, it's time to pack it in.
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Just because you didn't like it, don't tell others about the ending.
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is not true.. you will simply not find any comments by me about smurfs and shit.
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...pretty closely it seems. My main concerns were very light feet and very heavy handed dialogue. Haven't seen it yet...is there hope for me?
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oh fuck you cretin..Tarantino TELLS you loudly throughout..theres NO fucking surprises whatsover...the films been out many months. Fuck you and your DVD/Blu Ray...loser.
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yes, you'll find the way all the parts fit together pretty much confirms Cameron's skills as a filmaker
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Dec 25, 2009 5:18:56 PM CST
No Hurt Locker but a bunch of foreign weirdo shit?
by jeangrey_x23_lesbosex
Up in the air, Kick-ass, and Hurt Locker were all better than District 9
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Dec 25, 2009 5:19:06 PM CST
one doesn't have to say smurfs and shit to have been...
by zombieheathledger
one of THE biggest critics. Several posts, dismissive attitude, argumentatively condescending to opposing views will also quantize, er, qualify you.
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Dec 25, 2009 5:20:22 PM CST
I groaned several times during some of the dialogue
by zombieheathledger
in AVATAR.
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Oh this is fucking GRAND. YOU are telling ME about 'dismissive attitude, argumentatively condescending to opposing views'...thats first class RICH..You really are one of the most pompous ghouls on here. Fuck you and your groaning..you're a dickhead and a hypocrite...keep talking asshole.
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...people came at you with knives drawn...if you cowboyed up and managed to survive, pretty soon you found yourself arguing that Cameron is an anti-Semitic pedophile who beats his wives and has never made a good movie in his life...nobody stays clean in poo flicking fight...
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know what?..i dont give a flying FUCK what YOUR definition of ANYTHING is...you're a whining pussy...you took some shots from me in other threads and you didn't like being challenged...grow up and take that pole outta your ass.
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Dude, you're like a puppet on a string. So easy to manipulate. A simple tug and you practically give yourself a coronary. You have SERIOUS anger issues dude, I suspect you are very unhappy with your life. I won't lower myself to your level with cursing instead I hope you have a happier 2010 and a very merry Christmas, LOL.
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OK OK, its a little better then Year One but not much. I still don't understand how this is considered a good movie. It having a good shot of Best Oscar is kind of sad.
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jerk, boy, jerk! LOL!
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...oh!...I don't know whether to cheer or hold you down while Zombie does his righteous work on your ass...Greasy thumbs up all around.
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Oh, no, you used "cowboy up" from that other TB, LOL.
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Did you ever seen Up In The Air? I remember you shitting your pants and crying like a baby when you thought I gave the ending away?
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Dec 25, 2009 5:32:45 PM CST
Nah, Flick, even I take a break from flamewars on Christmas
by zombieheathledger
it sure is fun to watch quantize turn beet red with steam coming out of his ears, though, haha. Too easy...
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take your elevated idea of acceptable dialogue and GO HOME. Nobody in a theatre needs to HEAR YOUR OPINION at the time...fill the walls in places like this with your wonderful critical ear - where you can be appropriately ignored or make a fool of yourself.
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I'm just playing wackamole. You're such an egotistical douchebag you're dreaming if you think it takes any effort on my behalf to point out what a pompous black hole you are. I'm smiling the entire time. Bring it on.
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Any other time, sure, I'll delightfully hand you your ass again for willfully trying to spoil a movie (even tho you didn't 'cuz you don't read none too good) for everybody just because you personally didn't like it. Btw, I remember a few others joining in on your beatdown as well. And to answer your question, no, I haven't seen UP IN THE AIR yet, but I intend to and still don't think you have the right to TRY to spoil it or any other movie for anyone. Merry Christmas to you, Series!
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I've pwned this limp dicked self aggrandising bag of shit every time.
The only righteous work he does is on his own ass, fingering it 24/7.
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Everyone telling you to shut up then sure. So i have seen it. Vera Farminga is married in the end. Happy Kwanza. Movie still sucked.
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If someone portrayed Jews in such a fashion as QT did the German people, he would never work in the biz again....
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Dec 25, 2009 5:42:59 PM CST
No Terminator 4? Land of the Lost? Fast and Furious? BATTLE FOR
by zillabeast
Glad to see it.
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Dec 25, 2009 5:42:59 PM CST
No Terminator 4? Land of the Lost? Fast and Furious? BATTLE FOR
by zillabeast
Glad to see it.
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Dec 25, 2009 5:43:40 PM CST
Fully Agree with Harry's no.1. District 9 is an amazing movie.
by hint_of_smegma
Utterly brilliant, and it makes you weep for the loss of Blomkamp's Halo. Masterful stuff, genius, one of the few truly great movies in the last two decades.
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Suuuurree, there's no steam, quantize. Your two posts read like the Father battling the heater in A CHRISTMAS STORY. Just a steady stream of expletives "fuck, dickhead, asshole, fuck, pussy, ass!" Yeah, you're a regular placid, reclining Buddha in a sea of tranquility there Q, lol. (I think you are just so used to being so white knuckle, twitchy, wide eyed incensed aggro that that's become your comfort zone. It's sooo easy to set you off on your tirades, dude. Hilarious.) Carry on, oh zen master, lol.
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Nice revisionism. Not a single poster told me to "shut up" but I think I remember at least three others calling you out for your douchiness. But really, yuletide cheer to you and here's hoping you get more happiness in 2010 so you aren't so desperate for attention negative or otherwise in the new year :)
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Even others notice the sack of whup ass I deliver to you like Santa. You only have YOURSELF in agreement with you. (But I get the feeling you're kinda used to talking to yourself, amirite?) Really, let's enjoy a cup of human kindness today, shall we? LOL.
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1. Avatar 2. avatar 3. avatar 4. avatar 5 avatar 6. avatard 6.avatard 7. avatard 8 avatard 9. avatard
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Still haven't seen a handful of movies that have a shot at my list (like The White Ribbon, A Prophet, Dr. Parnassus, Sherlock Holmes etc.) But so far here's my list:
1.Up In The Air
2.Fantastic Mr.Fox
3.The Brothers Bloom
4.A Serious Man
5.Up
6.The Hurt Locker
7.Inglourious Basterds
8.Precious
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Get ready for the WORLD OF HURT, Quantize is about to unleash on you, LOL.
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Yeah at first people were upset but after I admitted that ebert can't write no one cared. And when you came back the next day and the day after that still crying to mommy about it, people told you to shut up. But hey keep lying to yourself. I'm just trying to save you from seeing a shitty movie.
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Look at his post to Dutch Rudder earlier in the thread, calling him a 'cretin', 'loser,' and 'fuck you." Hey quantize, did somebody shit in your cheerios as a child?
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Is that true that Vera gets married? Dude, you are fucking prick! I'm supposed to be taking my wife to that tomorrow night. Thanks a lot, asshole!
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Dude take your wife to something else. She'll appreciate you for the smart move.
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Sorry, dude. He should seriously get banned for willfully spoiling a movie for everone like that.
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...do you know any women?The man's wife will NOT thank him. I don't emoticon, but if I did I'd use one now.
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Thats right you like to cry for the banning of people like a child. I wish I could say it REALLY is a spoiler but its very obvious the whole time, and just the movie is so awful its too hard to really care about anything to even have anything spoiled for you. Seriously Old Glory, stay in and rent World's Greatest Dad. Similar themes just ones WGD is actually funny and good. WELL unless your wife is a big fan of The Men's Warehouse commercials, then take her to see Up In The Air, its like a two hour commercial.
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...I just noticed someone new in another talkback called Vlad The Inhaler...
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Dickhead. This board would be so much better without disruptive idiots like you and quantize. Thanks again for spoiling the movie, really.
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The Science of Moon = You can walk on the Moon as if you're walking on Earth. No fuck that! Moon didn't even study the Moon landing films. They just ignored it. This instantly ruined the movie for me.
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Nobody comes on this site to have you decide which movies should be spoiled for them. And Flickapoo what did you mean by that?
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...isn't worth seeing is like telling a guy that FEMME FATALE features Rebecca Romijn in a light lesbian scene but isn't worth seeing.You're just going to get blank stares...
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Whatever I've facilitated more convo on this site then you ever will. Seriously, your gonna see the movie and go, fuck me Series7 was right. Me and my wife Zombieheathleger will then go home to a sexless night because of that crappy film. Should've had a V8.
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Wasn't it supposed to open today?
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Well, imagine this back pack is your life. Now start filling it with shit. Yeah I don't really know where to go with that. My comeback was going to be as empty as that movie. Flicka, are you mad at me for ruining Up In The Air?
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talk about making you feel unclean.
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Dec 25, 2009 6:30:04 PM CST
Haha, that's right Series 7, try to deflect by attacking me
by zombieheathledger
Everyone is wrong but you, right, buddy? Someone else calls you out on your egotistical douchebaggery and suddenly I'm his wife? It can't be that you are acting like a total fuckwad, right? And you should get a pass for said behavior because you've 'facilitated more convo on this site,' LOL. GTFO. As I have said of you before, you're like that episode of South Park where everyone loves the smell of their own farts. I saw somebody get banned in the original District 9 for spoiling I sincerely hope it happens to you as well then you'll see how happily the "convo is facillitated" without your willfully spoiling egotistical douchiness. Do it, Harry, for God, for England, and St. George!
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whimper whimper LOL.
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did all that hate finally burn him up from the inside?
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David Brent isn't loathsome. Where do you get that reading from the show?
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Merry Xmas!
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I just don't care about you, your a douchebag. You just sit around in your step dad's basement hoping for people to get banned. And yeah everyone is wrong but me, thats the whole philosophy behind this web site.
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...I don't know yet. I might have forgotten by the time I see it...or I might not care...or I might be pissed and come hunting you.I won't see it until it comes out on DVD, so if I do come for you you'll never see it coming...BANG! BANG! BANG!Two posts to the head and one up the ass...take that motherfucker!We're good until then though...
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and I'm not the guy to deliver that.
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...since I haven't seen THE ROAD, NINE, or HOLMES yet
5 BEST: 5. TRANSFORMERS2 4. THE HURT LOCKER 3. MOON 2. STAR TREK 1. ZOMBIELAND WORST: 5. ANGELS AND DEMONS 4. 2012 3. SAW 2. HALLOWEEN2 1. WOLVERINE. -
I haven't seen UP IN THE AIR yet either. Great job, Series7, take a bow, fucko.
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"How can this people call themselves movie geeks not like, or at least enjoyed INGLORIOUS BASTERDS? What is wrong with this people? Is there any correlaction between the people who hated INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and who liked Jar Jar Abrams's SHIT TREK?"
With all due respect, AL, I would argue that BASTERDS suffers from EXACTLY the same issues plaguing DAWSON'S TREK...it's a beautifully shot, impeccably performed (with the exception of Pitt, who looked like he had a pantload stewing for 2 1/2 hours) coat of turd polish...same as TREK.
The story is crap (Jeezus...CHANGING HISTORY to make your plot function?!), QT couldn't decide if he wanted the Nazis to be either buffoons, HOSTEL victims or sinister intellectuals, so the entire mess has no focus, and with his craftsmanship on the wane, all the little postmodern flourishes (like the name HERMANN GORING sketched on the screen with an arrow, or Jackson's voiceover) just looked gimmicky as shit.
Oh, and what about the larger meaning of the movie, which is basically saying both the Allies and French Resistance were pussies who needed to use the "Cheney doctrine" of terror and torture to get the job done right? How about THAT shit?
(Wouldn't work BTW...not only did the Germans have Allied POWs who would pay for the Basterds' Geneva indiscretions, but does anybody remember that the Nazis were also well known for killing civilians at a ten or twenty to one ratio for supporting partisan activities?)
And sorry, but I really don't give a shit about the filmmaker's "intentions" or his "love of cinema"...the movie either functions or it doesn't, and all the sentiments in the world won't fix what eventually winds up on screen. It's like putting first rate steak sauce on dog food. -
Don't forget to get your favorite treats at the concession stand. Enjoy the movie.
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I still haven't seen even more than half of those films. I'm about to watch Inglorious Basterds tomorrow though. Only ones I've seen from there so far are D9 and Avatar, and I gotta tell ya, while I thought D9 was a VERY well-done film with plenty of originality and very good acting and special-effects (especially if you consider its $30 million budget), Avatar won me over more. But I guess it's because, being an artist and all, I'm a sucker for colorful places and fantastical new worlds, which Avatar achieved probably better than any film I've ever seen. It was just a beauty to look at, and not just for the visuals, but for the compelling story that carried it through. But in the end, I think Avatar and D9 are too different to even compare. They both may be sci-fi, yes, but offer completely different ways of entertainment. I'd still consider D9 in my top-10 list though. Probably even in the top 5 :)
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I'm more of a curtsy guy myself.
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Seriously man, do you respect QT as a film maker or not? If so I want to know how you feel about him naming Star Trek as one of the top 8 movies of the year.
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With those shitty ass trailers. QT always like to butt fuck himself about how much he knows about trailers. So if he gives me a trailer that looks like a straight to VHS movie, then thats obviously his intended point behind the movie.
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Dec 25, 2009 6:59:23 PM CST
yeah, I bet you are 'more of a curtsy guy,' series, LOL
by zombieheathledger
So what were you saying about me being the only talkbacker offended by you spoiling movies on purpose? LOL. And who's the douchebag? I don't see anybody calling for my banning while we're up to three for you. Tool.
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Dec 25, 2009 7:00:38 PM CST
It's legitmate complain about Avatar's lack of original story cu
by tall_boy66
Cameron movies generally have great stories that are original an unique (despite whatever people may complain about Terminator being ripped off from some Harlan Ellison works). Avatar, for all it's razzle dazzle, has simply one of the most unoriginal stories, and simple characters, Cameron has ever made. Now the razzle dazzle and ingenuity and inventiveness of the world that Cameron created certainly makes up for it and the 3D is amazing to make a pretty fucking great movie. But it's not Aliens or Terminator or Abyss or even a True Lies. But Cameron's bar is set so high by his previous work, that it's even hard for anyone to reach it. Basically, are there any lines or moments in Avatar that'll be up there with "Get away from her, you bitch" or "Hasta la vista, baby." or even anything as funny as anything Bill Paxton says in True Lies? Unfortunately, no. But it looks pretty goddamn pretty and the final act is amazingly intense to watch, so it gets a high marks. But it ain't perfect and it ain't that original.
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My favorite movie of all time, GOODFELLAS makes extensive use of voiceover, so no, I'm not an anti-VO "douchebag". In the case of GOODFELLAS, the VO is balanced against how the characters behave onscreen, revealing an essential distinction between what a person thinks as a mob member as opposed to what they're allowed to say or do.
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The Good, The Bad & The Weird was my fav film of 2008. Are you telling me that Private Eye is better? You won't answer me Harry, so I'm asking those who have seen it who aren't too busy assholes. Because I'll see it because I LOVE Korean Films. But I can't believe for a second that it's better than The G, B, U. Because that film is amazingly great. Just saying, promoting, expressing. Love.
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Go hunt down that talk back and see for yourself. Keep thinking yourself in such high regard, and really after anyone sees that movie they'll thank me.
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I agree with you about The GBW, have you seen red cliff? I've got parts 1 and 2 right now, been meaning to. Also what did you think about Thirst I was not too impressed by it. Haven't even heard of Private Eye, but I think The GBW will be in my top five this year. I think Harry may have seen it in 2008 as well. Go look at a bunch of these guys list from last year and I bet its there.
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Does anyone wonder if the James Cameron airport thing was a setup? How did this person know that Cameron would be at the airport, and have a poster in hand ready to sign. Also, Cameron was just in Tokyo for the premiere - is it possible he just got off a flight from Tokyo to LA? I would be a bit testy too. I don't think we all have a right to harass celebrities at every moment in their lives. Plus, if the guy felt the movie sucked so much, why have a poster ready to sign? Plus, TMZ cameras are conveniently right there? Wow, what a coincidence! Setup setup setup.
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Hahah what a coincidence we posted the same story. Yeah I bet it was a set up, the dude was probably a paparazzi. I agree with James, I don't agree with JC though. You know the guy who played Christ. I went to go see him at one of these things called Church, but its one of those modern day churches with rock bands and you can donate money by credit card? Its all fucked up. Anyway he came to talk and it was ok not too preachy. But he would only sign this fucking $30 new version of the bible he reads with other famous people. I had my Outlander and Passion tickets to sign. And it wasn't so much him, but the church people. If they didn't see you holding a $30 audio bible in the line they kicked you out. I wanted to say something but I know how churchies get with their rules and what not. Probably try to ban me from the church as well. ZHL, you big into churching?
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My boss took his kids to see Alvin and the Chipmunks today. I almost started to object but figured it was a losing battle...there is good kids stuff out there but why the heck do parents keep taking their kids to this crap?
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Yeah this really has been a good year for kids films. First time in a long time where Pixar wasn't my favorite.
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Dec 25, 2009 7:30:08 PM CST
I'm so fucking sick of this James Cameron story
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Seriously; it's in every talkback.Who fucking cares?
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Kind of like Garfield 2, but then again Garfield wasn't even a very big hit compared to Alvin. Its also sad, because you can bring your kid to see Avatar. I remember seeing the Abyss in theaters when I was a kid.
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www.whatreallyhappened.com
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http://www.aintitbalenews.com/ Live the dream.
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Series 7, you're in the wrong for spoiling a movie as new as UP IN THE AIR. I don't really even want to see that movie, but just on principal you're wrong. And I'm pretty sure even if I did I still wouldn't thank you. It seems you are the only one here holding yourself in a high regard. Sorry, just callin' em as I see'em.
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Not only is it one of the most pointless websites on the internet, it's run by one of the biggest douchebags who ever lived.Fuck DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD.
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...(50% new, 50% old school), WALL-E, and JUNGLE BOOK.She has better taste than any one of us here.Couple more years she's going to be running circles around all you guys...
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just a persons user name provides the lolz like CHRISTIAN_BALE_TRASHED_MY_LIGHTS
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Dec 25, 2009 7:41:58 PM CST
hahaha at the brainless fucking retard suggesting DRAG ME TO HEL
by manifestchaos
that movie was awful, and I like Raimi. It was somewhere just above Spider-Man 3 in quality but miles, FUCKING MILES, below everything else he has done. Mediocre as shit: rarely funny, never scary, hardly interesting, not a whit original (which I understand was the point but a self-consciously cliche B-movie needs to be GOOD to succeed, and this wasn't). On a scale from zero to your-ball-sack-getting-stepped-on-by-a-rock-climber-wearing-crampons I'd give it a six.
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.... when it's Eli Roth who acts about as well as Yao Ming limboes. Honestly, his baseball bat scene was the most cringe-inducing thing I saw in a movie theatre in 2009. The man cannot act, he's just a smarmy fucking douchebag. Why the fuck would anyone cast him in a movie????? It's not like Hollywood ran out of Jews...
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...I head over there every once and a while...mostly to see what StuntCock is up to with his Queen For A Day column.Mr. DickBlood is weak shell of his former self now that he's completely surrounded himself with the like minded. I used to get a kick out of the old bloody boy, but his qualities only come out in talkback melee. Playing lord of the manor doesn't suit him.And they gave G.I.JOE five out of five fists or whatever it is...I don't see how you recover from that...
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It's amazing how far you can go using one joke. In the case of AIBN, you can go about as far as Tiger Woods leaving his house.If I ever think my life is shit, i think about the possibility that somewhere out there is a person who has checked that website every single day. That's 365 days of logging onto a website built around posting photoshopped pictures of things with Bale's head in them and made-up news that's about as funny as a 24 hour channel dedicated to Larry The Cable Guy.That's a scary thought people. Someone like that EXISTS.
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Yeah you are probably right. AIBN isn't for you. You are more suited for this place or probably CHUD. Flicka, remember you enjoyed Year One. Isn't it he without sin shall cast first stone or something like that.
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You remember that one TB'er No Diggity? That came out of the woodwork to shit there and promote the shit out of Drag Me To Hell for the two weeks it was in theaters? GOING ON AND ON about it? It sounded like someones assistant from the marketing team for the movie. That was sad.
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Take her to see The Princess and the Frog. Its well worth seeing. And it gives you the greatest gift of all this Christmas, Keith David singing. Probably one of the greatest movie moments in history.
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I agree with everyone else that you don't post enough on here to have an opinion that matters. But hey bucko just callin' em as I see'em.
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was the end any good?
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I've been told by the many tattle tales on this site, not to give away the ending of the movie. But NO in short, Cloondawg does not die, but you are going to like the way you look in our suits.
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Go look up the track listing for the Avatar score, it does a good enough job summing up the movie. Or think about where it should go, and it goes there. And Joel Moores character isn't really resolved.
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Wow, you really are a hateful little bitch. How many flamewars are you gonna get into in one thread?
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Dec 25, 2009 8:23:30 PM CST
I'm watching Sherlock Holmes on Sunday
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
And I swear to God that if it's anything less than enjoyable, i'm gonna verbally kick Continentalop's ass. Reading his constant support for the movie on these talkbacks is the only reason i bought my ticket.
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...hehe, nice.I, however, never gave YEAR ONE five bloody fisting fists out of five. I believe my review was that I drank a bottle of champagne...I watched the movie...I laughed hard four of five times...I had sex...it was a good night.Who among us has a better Wednesday night?
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wow Fuckwad. Did your older sister teach you that? FLAME ON!
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...she's only two and change, so she's not ready for a theater yet. Next year maybe.Keith David is one of life's small gifts. We're trying to save movies with a really great narrative until she's old enough to remember seeing them. I saw my first theater movie at four (SNOW WHITE) and I still remember it...it rocked my little world.
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Beelzebubba don't throw your pearls before swine. How ya been, man?
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...but after having watched a bit of the "restored and enhanced" version of Return of the Jedi, I believe that Lucas should have his director's privileges revoked. This has been beaten to death on TB's here, but I truly believe he has totally lost whatever genius he once had. It's like he used it up. The well is DRY.
I also believe that, having heard what I've heard in the press, that Cameron should not be allowed to write dialogue or plots anymore either. He should be confined to adapting other writers' stories for screen (which I think he would be phenomenal at, since using less brain power for his "plots" and "dialogue" would leave him more energy for the things he DOES do well.) -
...and The Meaning Of Life. Because you've all been waiting for it.I try to never ascribe moral or ethical values to anything that happens in talkback. Talkback is a free for all...unlike life, if you don't like what happens here you can just turn off your computermachine and walk away. I like to post with a wink and a big stick, and if someone gets in a good shot I'll be the first to tip my hat. I usually get to movies late these days...so I've gotten pretty good at dancing around spoilers since they are to be found in virtually any TB about a movie that has been released but I haven't seen yet.Series7, I haven't fully researched your spoiler tussle, but it sounds like maybe sort of you were a bit of a deliberate prick...and maybe sort of you enjoyed it. I myself enjoy being a prick from time to time, especially with alcohol...they're two great tastes that taste great together. (um, did that sound weird?).In the spirit of Christmas, my verdict will seem excessively lenient to some. I decree that Series7 shall either...1- Compose and post a 5000 word essay about YEAR ONE and what he liked about it.Or...2- Give ZombieHeathLedger one full body sponge bath to ease his mouldering zombie flesh in the presence of witnesses.I hope that we can all agree on this verdict in the spirit of Peace On Earth, Good Will Towards Men etc...etc...and get on with the important business before us in the new year.I have spoken.
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I hope you liked it. If not, look me up in Hollywood. I'm usually free on the Weekends (Mon-Thursday night I usually go to boxing or Muay Thai).
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As I want to care, I just can't help but feel in the right regarding the movie. Until all of you have seen it you can't really say one way or another. How about this, lets all go out and rent World's Greatest Dad so we can all watch the greatest performance of the year and all feel good that Bobcat is going to be involved with the future of cinema.
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Just watched the trailers for The Square, Bronson and Private Eye. Being as those are the only three movies on your list i either haven't seen or at least heard of.
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If you read my reviews and my comments I said I liked it but it isn't perfect. My complaints were directed at those who were criticizing the movie based on the ads. ( admit. bad trailers but they didn't reflect the movie very well.
I also had a problem with all the so-called Holmes fans criticizing how it wasn't accurate. So far every criticism I have heard has been not based on Doyle's work but because the movie doesn't resemble a Rathbone-Bruce films. -
...I'm almost afraid to see it. The idea of a great new performance by Robin Williams...I'd give up hope I tell you...I suggest you go for the sponge bath...it'll be over quicker and you can think of England the whole time..
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Series7 already gave my asshole a tongue bath after I ate a particularly large been and cheese burrito, lol. So I really don't need or want a sponge one from him, lol. Plus, I'm just loving watching all the hate being directed to Series7 who really deserves it. Y'know, after reading his last post, I kinda feel sorry for him like I would a retard. He obviously just does not possess the mental capabilities to understand why he doesn't have the right to decide for everybody else which films are worth seeing (and thus you are free to spoil). It's the epitome of hubris and disrespect and yes, kinda retarded. It makes him just utterly loathsome, clueless, and blindly full of himself. FUnny thing is, I was initially having a little fun with quantize (another Mr. Congeniality candidate), but it was Series7 who decided not only to hijack this thread and rehash an old thread but to REALLY spoil UP IN THE AIR this time as some desperate plea for attention. He just. doesn't. get it. Oh and btw, Series7, the count is up to four talkbackers who think you willfully spoiling a film makes you a douchebag who should be banned. Remember that when you bring it up again in future talkback (as I'm sure you will). Four flamewars in one talkback on Christmas? Wow, you're a real piece of work, Series. Stay classy!
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...I like Series7.
Except for his recommending BEHIND THE MASK: RISE OF LESLIE VERNON. Not bad, I just think he oversold it tremendously. -
...is a punishment it might seem racist...what with the Zulu and all.Merry Christmas everyone...
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...cue the orchestra.Everyone take a bow!...
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Its great it really is.
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It's all a grand farce
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Dec 25, 2009 9:27:54 PM CST
I just enjoyed watching series dual with three at once
by zombieheathledger
a little psycho terrorism experiment on Series that gave me much joy, lol.
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Iron Man 2! Tron Legacy! uhhh, some other stuff! YEAH!!
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YOU SHOULD GET THAT CHECKED OUT.
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Suck it haters.
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Sorry about behind the make. Did you see Up In The Air yet?
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Take on all comers bully Series7 for no reason.
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Marathon.
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Took my Mom to see it for Christmas - my second time going, and I liked it just as much. My Mom LOVED it. She laughed, she cried. Spontaneous applause burst out at the end (the same thing happened the first time I saw it). My Mom also said that should couldn't wait to tell the girls at work about it.
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When Joel Moore character end up in the trailer toward the end. Do you see him throw on a mask and grab a gun then run out? Been trying to figure that out, need to see it again.
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Yes he does. I don't remember seeing him after that, but after his Avatar goes down he comes awake gasping in the trailer; the next scene he comes running out with his mask on and a machine gun at the ready.
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Dec 25, 2009 10:03:54 PM CST
I think the more movies one has seen the more one will like...
by soylentmean
Inglourious Basterds. It is a movie made for and by cinephiles. If only the power of film truly had prematurely ended the Third Reich.
I can't remember the last time I watched a movie and one of the characters died and I actually yelled out "No" at the screen. That's some phenomenal shit for a film to be able to illicit such a reaction from me.
Just to clarify, I wasn't upset by a certain historic asshole getting shot to a bloody pulp and then blown up. It was somebody who deserved to be cared about. -
on a daily basis, there's no way you'll like this. You'll probably be scared of it.
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Dec 25, 2009 10:14:19 PM CST
Avatar is getting nothing but love from my non-film friends
by snakecharmer
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Hands down, an amazing film.
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Absolute crap. I like the rest of the list. Solid movies, and it's always hard to find too much fault with how a particular reviewer's taste differs from your own.... But Bronson was just awful. One of those movies you watch in disbelief, thinking "People like this? THIS? Really." It's a try-hard sophomoric piece of junior high tough-guy crap. In all honesty, I literally couldn't believe it. I thought I was watching the wrong film. I had to keep double-checking the box. Accolades? This?
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Should have been called Blonde Jewish Cinema Owner in Hiding. Talked about wasted potential. A great premise wasted. Why bother naming a movie after a group of guys you never see? I hated Star Trek & Basterds.The two most overrated movies of the year. At the top of my list would be The Road, Moon, Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, Up, Watchmen Dir Cut & District 9.
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"If he is such an unsufferable[sic] shit now, imagine when this prick turns adolescent!"...Exactly the way you are AssholeLive, you cretinous cunt. Or should I just say ALINO. STINO: Sphincter Tonguing Is Normal in Oporto. Don't forget, #2 (Riker) is in rut and ready for your holiday rogering.
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I been around here for ten years, and this is still the best flick site. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year dude!
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Um, the WWW has only been around for about ten years.
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getting your ideas from the .gifs at the top of the page? I mean I know what movies they're from, but what's the reasoning behind your choices?
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Dec 25, 2009 11:27:14 PM CST
AND YET HARRY ONLY REVIEWED 3 OF THESE ON HIS SITE
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
what a pathetic waste of time Knowles...where were all of your reviews for 78 of 10 of these films...you are such a fucking a joke.
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Dec 25, 2009 11:30:33 PM CST
Bastards was pretty darn bad. (What I made it through, anyway)
by flip63hole
Don't see why it's getting any sort of mention in the film world. Like the neighborhood bully, maybe if we ignore Tarantino he'll go away (and suck his own dick in private, thanks).
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Dec 25, 2009 11:31:15 PM CST
Seriously Knowles..you see top 10 films but dont review them on
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
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Would have been nice to have seen some inglourious bastards in a movie with that title name...Tatantino's 2nd worst film..but then again..I didnt get a set visit
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And never had a review of it, had to mention it somewhere I guess. Like I've said, can't wait to here the score for Moon in thousands of other trailers in the next few years.
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"I think the more movies one has seen the more one will like Inglourious Basterds. It is a movie made for and by cinephiles."
That's funny...'cause I'm a cinephile and I thought it was FPOS to the max. See my comments above.
"If only the power of film truly had prematurely ended the Third Reich."
Well, it didn't...took a helluva lot of people dying instead. Wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which gets fuller first.
Getting really, really tired of critics and fans of this abortion trying to pull that "if you REALLY love cinema, than you'll get this movie" card. Name dropping is fine and dandy when the rest of the movie is a masterpiece...when it isn't, it's just another horseshit gimmick, like using a David Bowie song from forty years in the future or hiring one of your director buddies to play one of the Basterds. -
hardly a gamechanger from any kind of quantifiable perspective but a pretty good movie with the scope of a billion leagues and the depth of a few meters. Fucking terrible. Someone please argue the point that the director's cut is better I thought it was a jumbled and silly mess (the scene where owl and silk fuck is *so* laughable). Best movie this year, if wasn't around.
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Hooplehead cocksucker.
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10: Ninja Assassin9: "Game Changer" 8: "Who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?"7: the apparent death of lockesbrokenleg upon the release of Avatar. 6: remake, reimagine, reshoot5: Thundersmurfs 4: Dick_In_Ass3: conspiracy's on-going Abrahms saga. 2: D91: BIG LOB!
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You forgot Racist Robots.
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I love how all of the people come on here and are blown away by all the kudos the movie is getting. I guarantee that half of you didn't bother to watch it, you just soared on the wings of your QT hate and mailed in your worthless opinion, and the other half of you have a really shitty opinion of movies and cinema in general. So, in short, I'll take the word of 226 critics who actually watch and review movies for a living, rather than lend much creedence to 30 reviewers (plus all the fucktards on here) who didn't like it.
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nope, I just have a life...unlike Zombiedouche and Foxtronic2003 who spend their hours in their parents basement tapping with their lobster claws and admiring their own genius.
You boofheads actually dream i actually feel ANYTHING responding to such wackjobs as you? Clean your dribblebibs and move on.. -
Here's a little hint of my actual taste...since you have none except for what Rush Limbaugh shits into that hole you call a brain...One of my favorite films of the decade is Nobody Knows..go look it up you drooling fool.
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I actually imagined people with lobster-claw hands living in basements and it made me smile. Thanks.
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not so much to eat...you know..just like...ANY fuckin brains. You half witted egomaniac..you think I'm on YOUR string..that's fuckin hilarious, you are one puffed up POS. Points for unintentional comedy from self delusion...keep it up.
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#1 Sigourney Weaver’s acting came across very scripted. It seemed like her lines were pre-planned and I didn't even know what she was going to say... her delivery was not natural.
#2 The clichés - From the "they killed their home world" Greenpeace diatribe to the Military being bad with a commander that says some face palm typical lines. Ugh- it was insultingly laughable at times.
#3 I found myself knowing what was to come in the movie because Cameron’s set up with things are too intentional. You just know he will not put something in the movie that will not later be used. Example: The big bad red dragon thing (you knew he would tame it), the pallets of explosives (you knew it wasn't going to make it's intended destination and that it was going to blow up the ship), we all guessed that the paralyzed hero would end up in his Avatar body for good. sigh...
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I'm going to call you a diner patron....BECAUSE YOU JUST GOT SERVED, BITCH!!
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they were #11
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Really, I must be dumb because I didn't think the main character would remain in his Avatar body. I thought he would go back to a full human body and visit the Navi who would accept the humans at the end.
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Cameron gave us the clue when Sigourney Weaver's character died during the transplant meditation thing the tribe was doing. Again - Cameron was too intentional. I knew that method would be used again later in the movie for the paraplegic hero. Too bad though - your initial idea would have been better to help the movie in my opinion.
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Dec 26, 2009 1:21:33 AM CST
CRANK 2 IS STILL MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!FACT!!!
by tehcreepythinman
An exploitation classic.
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"So, in short, I'll take the word of 226 critics who actually watch and review movies for a living, rather than lend much creedence to 30 reviewers (plus all the fucktards on here) who didn't like it."
Yeah, it's always a good idea to let other people make your decisions for you. Why think for yourself, or trouble yourself to write out a detailed defense of the film...you have Rotten Tomatoes! -
I had already seen up in the air but that is a fucking shithead move.
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Besides the creature design, there's nothing to like. "Makes you feel like a kid!" What shitty childhood did you have where your fantasy escape land was all depressed monsters arguing with each other? There was nothing in the movie for kids, and for me, I couldn't tell you one scene that stuck with me or anything that really stood out. And yes, it was a book very near and dear to my heart that conjures up memories of beloved now deceased family members and I look forward to reading it to my children... but my nostalgia wasn't enough to make me like the movie. Maybe if everyone stopped turning into a blubbering manchild whenever anyone mentions anything nostalgic, we'll start getting some better adaptations (or maybe even some original ideas!)
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Well if I stopped anyone from seeing that movie then my job is done. Did you like it? Enjoy the cuts RIGHT before anything was about to happen? Did you go right out to Men's Warehouse after the movie and get a suit?
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Dec 26, 2009 2:49:33 AM CST
Where the Wild Things Are is ugly people/ used clothes garbage
by professor_monster
Seriously, Harry has picked some winners on this list but WTWTA has too much signature from Spike Jones, robbing the film of any of the feel good charm that the book projects. Spike is a real stare at your shoes director and is better suited for product that can easily fly under his"dickhouse" production label - he is not the hand I want to hold on a journey through a fairy tale.
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Good call love that film. The trailer did a shit job showing its awesomeness. IF grindhouse had been Crank 2 and Black Dynamite and the same trailers and just been a QT jizez his name on presents then it would've been a huge hit. Well probably not, but it would've become some cult hit. Still either way better then the crap they made.
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Only after Howard stern told me about it. Congress passed a law so stations can crack up the volume to commercials any more. Thank god.
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Yeah I felt Cloudy with a chance of meatballs made me feel more like a kid because afterward all I wanted to do was eat sugar and buy stupid shit. I'm still not sure how I feel about the movie. The whole thing just left me cold. Like the ending I was like....ok I should feel something here, but I don't just that she's a terrible mother and this kid is a little shit.
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Whats the deal with Harry mentioning this and Ebert also giving it a best of end of the year award...yet when it came out no one gave a fuck. I think Ebert even gave it a bad review. Maybe they said she was good but still its just funny.
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I wonder if anyone even liked it? Its funny how far FFC has gone making his own movie. I should go look and see if anyones called Tetro one of the best of the year.
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I guess you can only milk a death so much?
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Youth without Youth was virtually unwatchable...easily his most uneven work..I was hoping the poor response might yield some better work with Tetro..
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yeh I tried, but i was fucking bored...I wanted to take the baseball bat to the Jew Bear myself by the time he came out of his cave..
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I agree especially about Inglourious Basterds. I think it's leaps ahead of anything QT has done since Jackie Brown. (Not that the interim films weren't very good indeed.) What was great was that he had found a maturity, but kept hold of, and even refined, his sense of humour. In fact, the thing I was most suprised that critics didn't mention (here in the UK at least) was that it's so delightfully funny! Really, a masterful film and probably the best of the year in that it was so damn original. In terms of blockbusters, I would just add a mention to Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince. Maybe it's because I'm a Brit, but these films - since Azkaban at least - have been a treat. I would urge anyone to get into these now, because once you've seen this one you will be primed and salivating for the final two movies. I know I am.
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Just to say - I'm really sorry to hear that. I had read that it was a bit boring, so I went in expecting to be bored. Maybe that helped, because I loved every minute of it, truly.
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(much as I despise that phrase... HERE it applies). Good call, TehCreepyThinMan. C2 is as good as the first, and in some ways better. It just throws everything at you haphazardly: Guns, explosions, car chases, comedy, sex, drugs, Tourettes-ridden sidekicks, and Jason Statham as Chev "The Baddest Cat In The Valley" Chelios. How the HELL can you not love it?Each "Crank" movie is the cinematic equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting: just fling every color onto the canvas, let it stick, then stand back and marvel at it. Maybe not "Top Ten Movies" material, but damn entertaining just the same.And PLEASE make a third one.
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FLOCKA!!!
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Dec 26, 2009 6:14:21 AM CST
Series7, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING ABOUT GRINDHOUSE..
by tehcreepythinman
But paring Black Dynamite with Crank 2 isn’t the right idea. BD and Planet Terror would make better companions as they are both played as parodies of exploitation films. Now THAT would have made a fucking killer double bill. The problem is that Crank 2 isn’t a parody of anything. It’s the real deal. A true modern exploitation movie. It’s fucking hilarious but it’s not spoofing anything. Tarantino is such a fucking tool. I was hoping that he’d make something like Back Dynamite but instead he made that boring piece of shit Death Proof. Rodriguez, kind of, understood that although he spent a little too much time winking and nodding not to mention that the digital color distorting and scratches got distracting while missing the point that it was the attitude, the violence, the sleaze and lurid nature of those movies which made them infamous, not the grubbiness of the prints.
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Dec 26, 2009 7:46:15 AM CST
Really didn't like Inglorious Basterds
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
QT lost me as a fan after Kill Bill: Part 2 which i hated (a direct contrast to Part 1 which i LOVED).Death Proof was fucking awful. If you enjoyed it then i'm glad for you but I felt myself dying whilst watching it.Inglorious Basterds was a big pile of meh. Someone here earlier said that you have to be a moviephile to love that film. I've watched a hell of a lot of movies and it still rubbed me up the wrong way.
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Bloody hell. I'm truly surprised to hear it described thus. Didn't you even like the final reel or so when they got to the cinema screening? I keep on thinking about INGLOURIOUS and realising how clever & ingenious it is. But, more importantly, I loved it in the cinema.
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Sorry but that ending didn't sit well with me at all. *SPOILERS! SPOILERS! STOP READING NOW! SPOILERS!* You have Hitler and the top ranking Nazi officers at a movie theatre and there's like two guards? And the most intelligent character in the movie is effortlessly tricked by one of the most mindless?I'm glad you loved it but i'm giving up on QT movies from here on out unless something spectacular happens to make me change my mind.
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having it as BEST MOVIE OF THE FRIGGIN YEAR just makes the rest of the list worthless
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How dumb are they? This is the second time that these cunts tried igniting a bomb in the cabin, surrounded by other passengers. Do they not know of the bathroom facilities? With the door that can be locked?
Because of Richard Reid, I have to take my shoes off before every flight. Because of this Nigerian putz, I'll have to de-trous before every flight. What a bunch of fucking amateurs. -
...have to take a laxative and not eat for twenty four hours before air travel.And if they make us have colonoscopies before boarding or take out the bathrooms and give us colostomy bags instead I blame you.
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And Inglourious was only good in parts. The opening scene; the scene in the bar; the bit where Pitt is posing as an Italian which I found genuinally amusing. I was one of those that hated the ending, not because they killed hitler (I buy Tarantinos "if the basterds did exist this may have happened" arguement) but because it was so fucking overblown. I also didn't like the names of the characters being slapped on the screen Good Bad Ugly style, there's homage and then theres being obvious. My Top 6 would be Star Trek; 500 Days Of Summer; In The Loop; District 9; Up; Moon. Have yet to see Wild Things, The Road, Avatar, Bronson, so they may or may not complete my top 10
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and Bayformers deserved the 7 places more than Jar Trek.But it's all a matter of opinion anyways.Salvation was bad but no where as shitty as T3 RoTM.Drag me to hell gets a nod?!? Jee Harry, what's next Final destination 3D?
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I thank you for your well thoughout reply. You came across very well why you dislike INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, and i respect your opinion, even if i disagree. Yes, it's true that IG is not an historical movie by any stretch of the imagination. It even starts with a "Once upon a time in occupied France" title. I always saw the movie as if it had been made in the 1940s when the war was still going on, like those propaganda movies of old, but with today's gore mixed in. That was my take on it.Aty least i like that you gave a though for your opinion and you posted them intelligently. More then i can say for most of us here, don't you agree? Good job, friend, and thanks.
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I agree with you that Trandgfoemrs 2 is a worst movie then Jar Jar Abrasm's SHIT TREK. It is indeed. and it's not the only one. 2012 is worst too. Hell, just for you, below i'll list the worsts of 2009.
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The list goes from the very worst to the least worst of the 10.1. 20122. Transformers 23. Jar Jar Abrams's SHIT TREK4. Jar Jar Abrams' RETARD TREK5. Jar Jar Abrams' REMAKE OF STAR WARS6. Jar Jar Abrams' DUMB TREK7. Jar Jar Abrams' SKUNK TREK8. Jar Jar Abrams' EMO TREK9. Jar Jar Abrams' DAWSON TREK10. Terminator SalvationAs for G.I. Joe and Wolverine, i don't give a shit to those movies, so much so i even forget they exist.
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Dec 26, 2009 10:38:55 AM CST
Gee, I wonder what AsimovLives will have on his worst list?
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Whatever could be number one? I'll have to think long and hard about this one.
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It wasn't what I was thinking! AsimovLives is the M Night Shamadamadingdong of these talkbacks, with his twist endings!
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Everyone knows Star Trek was one of the best sci fi action adventure movies of the decade even. It was way better than Avatard.
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Dec 26, 2009 10:42:33 AM CST
I obviously wasn't paying attention
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
The clue was actually in the post before the list. Who knew that Asimov hated "Trandgfoemrs 2" more than Star Trek.My hair just turned white.
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Dude, you've got to quit pissing and moaning about Star Trek. It's giving me a headache. You do realize that every single person who has logging onto this site in 2009 is aware of your hate for the film? What more is there to say? You sound like a child having a tantrum. Move on.
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How can you say 2012 is the worst movie of 2009? Its fucking a million times better then Transformers 2 and Year One. Nothing tops the shittyness of those movies.
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He is also a good actor.
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Are probably the worst movies of the decade hands down. I don't think I've ever really HATED a movie since those two.
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Hahaha, I kid of course, those movies sucked my ball hair.but Harry, I was really surprised not to see star Trek on your list, that movie for myself (and a big chunk of other fanboys) is a perfect example of how to reboot a franchise in a way that makes the characters and worlds fun again, plus it has that unique quality of being a sci-fi film that can also make you a little misti-eyed at partsNot saying it was the best this year, but to leave it off of a top 10 just seems wrong to me
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Unless you saw it outside of opening weekend and the trailer played it to death and gave everything away. The movie was a dumb special effects piece, but its the best thing Roland's done since Godzilla.
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Listed from Numer 10 to number 1, this is my list of 2009 movies everyone should see
World's Greatest Dad
Black Dynamite
Observe and Report
Watchmen
Moon
Avatar
Up
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
District 9
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"At least i like that you gave a though for your opinion and you posted them intelligently. More then i can say for most of us here, don't you agree?"
I hope you don't concider yourself someone who posts intellegently my firned. You obviously come under the category of "most of us here" AsimovLives, as your followup up post is this spotty pubesent teenager rant...
"1. 2012
2. Transformers 2
3. Jar Jar Abrams's SHIT TREK
4. Jar Jar Abrams' RETARD TREK
5. Jar Jar Abrams' REMAKE OF STAR WARS
6. Jar Jar Abrams' DUMB TREK
7. Jar Jar Abrams' SKUNK TREK
8. Jar Jar Abrams' EMO TREK
9. Jar Jar Abrams' DAWSON TREK
10. Terminator Salvation"
Hrm, yes, very intellegent indeed.
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Dec 26, 2009 11:12:59 AM CST
It's not intellegent people that don't like Star Trek Asimov
by freebeer
It's snobs
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but nothing good is showing yet.
No Lovely Bones.
No Imaginarium.
No Me and Orson Wells.
I don't really want to see Sherlock Holmes.
fuck I'm bored.
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I'm sure you're right about those two security guards - but given all the crazy stuff that's going on at that point in the film, they kind of pale into insignificance, no? And even so, your point is well made because AUTHENTICITY seemed, to me at least, to be one of the big themes in the movie. One, it goes without saying, that Tarantino has devilish fun with. I mean, there's that whole scene about (SPOILER) speaking with an authentic German accent, but just 3 or so scenes earlier Tarantino has a scene of three Englishmen (including Churchill) played by an American, an Australian and an Irishman. And, coming back to those security guards: I seem to remember that at one point Hitler steps out of the box and asks one of them for a piece of gum.... I can't see that happening that often in reality either.... The point being, Tarantino is doing a load of mischief making here, and one might as well join in the fun.
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Star Trek was awesome, get over it buddy
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and slightly worse than TF2. At least there were a few good scenes in TF2, 2012's dreadfully boring and stupid screenplay(even worse than TF2s somehow) took all the shine away from the exceptional special effects. Those were 2 of the shittiest effects driven "blockbusters" of all time.
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as far as I'm concerned, anyone who liked this movie has zero credibility about film, especially the writing aspect.
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Actually Star Trek sucked. Alot.
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And the script for Return Of Te Jedi was especially poor, but it was still a load of fun. Sat Trek was on a par with Return Of The Jedi, and superior to all the Star Wars prequels (in my opinion, so don't go losing the rag like AsimovLives, I'm entitled to my own tastes)
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They're ot the Top Ten of all time, just this year, and this year was not a terrific year for movies. None of my Top 10 of this year would even scrape into my top 50 of all time (except for Moon possibly)
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fuck it's worse than GIJoe but better than TF2 which aint sayin much.Thanks for the list Asi.I agree with some of jett's picks but I could not watch the rest of Black dynamite or observe and report . maybe when I have more time on my hands, i'll give 'em another peep.so many movies, so little time.
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star trek script is probably the worst in history of film. It fails miserably at every single element of writing; the plot, the theme, the characterizations, the conflict, the settings, the moods, the motivations, the consistency, ad infinitum. The whole movie is an abomination to script writing.
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Putting aside any issue of whether it was true to the series - I thought Star Trek was good harmless fun. A few thrills, a few laughs, that killer opening. A good night out. Where it failed, for me, is that I didn't find myself very interested in the whole WORLD it was set in. Other comparible space operas, from Starship Troopers to Serenity and, yes, the original Star Wars, did acknowledge that if you are setting up a world, politics comes into it. JJ Abrams turned away from that question, but he did so in such an entertaining way I was happy to sit back and enjoy the ride. Will be interested to see what they do next, though. That will be a tough call for them.
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I recall 2008 being a far stronger year for films. Up In The Air being hailed as the best film of 2009 gives you an idea of how weak this year is. The only films I truly LOVED this year were Watchmen, The Fantastic Mr Fox and Public Enemies. I also liked The Informant, Star Trek, Inglourious Basterds and The Girlfriend Experience.
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A lot of people were wiping tears from their eyes before the main title came on. That's some achievement for the first five mins of a summer blockbuster, by any standard.
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Dec 26, 2009 11:52:01 AM CST
FreeBeer, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK HAS NO BAD DIALOGUE!!!FACT!!!
by tehcreepythinman
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Makes me think you haven't seen many films. There is ALWAYS a worse film, always. Did you see Confessions Of A Trickbaby? Mr Woodcock? Highlander 2? Come on man, way worse screenplays have been made into films, don't exaggerate
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"I love you" "I know". Only dialogue worth remembering, and ford made that up on the spot himself
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No, it was worst.
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THose same credibility critics also went gay for Trasnformers 1. Forgive me if i take the words of those "credible" critics less and less seriously. specially now, after they sold their asses cheap for Jar Jar Abrams's RETARD TREK. Frist TRANSFORMERS and now RETARD TREK? Those "credible" critics can kiss my ass.
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The flipside of that coin is that all those who like Jar Jar Abrams's RETARD TREK are retard, while the intelligent don't. How you like them apples now, buddy?
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but I actually agree with Harry, for the most part with this list. "District 9" is, without question, the best picture of the year as far as I'm concerned. "Up" is a bit too high on your list, Harry, and it's certainly not a better film than "Inglorious Basterds" or "Moon" but good show, nonetheless.
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http://tiny.cc/qdOpKIt's every movie in 2009 professionally edited together. I think the guy who did this has got a lot of talent.
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Dec 26, 2009 12:39:15 PM CST
FreeBeer, THEN YOU HAVE NO TASTE AND ARE A MORON!!!FACT!!!
by tehcreepythinman
That you cite critic’s of Star Trek to be snobs reveals as much.
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Great film. Great story. Great characters.
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and I'd certainly place it in the top 20...just not the first 10.
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No surprises on your list but I hate to break it to you, there's only 4 films on your list dude. We all know far too well your hatred of Trek, but it's hard to take it seriously when you list it 7 times.That being said, I vote District 9 as the best of 2009, it sure is at the top of my list.
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Naming World's Greatest Dad as the movie of the year. If you haven't seen it do so.
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If you didn't like the IMAX experience you probably went to a fake one. Check here: http://tinyurl.com/lgzfhb
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but thats not what you should use to call a movie "good" (awards after all are just someone opinions that people take way to seriously..case in point 2008 - Was slumdog millionaie really a better film then the wrestler, or the dark knight? - - no!)Star trek did something that few movies manage to do, it made the audience leave the theatre with a big smile on their face and for most it made them re-intertested in a franchise that was auguably stale to dead at that pointPeople can say Star trek had some problems, but for someone to say it sucks clearly is uneducated and has a chip on their shoulder about something
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we are legion!
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Are you one of those ladyboys?If so, did Eddie Murphy help you establish yourself in Hollywood by any chance?
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Fake IMAX must be stopped!
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The Henry Ford Museum IMAX theater is continuing and will continue to show 3D Zombie Christmas Carol because, in their own words, they are the #2 theater in the country in revenue for that horrible lifeless film. Hopefully they'll take a look at the box office take of Avatar and realize what a mistake they made. No one should be seeing an IMAX film in a domed theater anymore, especially an action movie. As far as I know, the Novi AMC is true IMAX.
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Besides a few very bright spots, this year pretty much blowed overall. I liked District 9 a lot, saw it twice, but it wouldn't be in contention for #1 in an above-average year. Some of the top films of 2009 are also in the running for worst films of 2009, take Avatard for example.
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No, i don't think the avatar was gay. He did fucked the princess of the Na'vi.
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But i didn't name it the worst, did I? There's two which are worst in my list. Should meant something, don't you think?
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I hate it when you go see movies in IMAX, and the picture goes long and skinny, and then it blows up to fill the frame. It really bothered me when I watched Star Trek.
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I think you need to digest the reality that not one single one of your comments would make anyone enjoy Star Trek any less. Try to accept that this is just a toilet wall we all scribble on..nobody is coming here to check what you or I like so they can run out and see it. So many people here suffer from the idea that anyone actually CARES what they think. Like what you like, but dont become so obsessed with it that you cant let go. Now, see I've said i loathed Inglorious Basterds...yet people here continue to like it..I cant be bothered arguing every point..they're free to disagree. Take a deep breath when you see the words Star and Trek together..
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Am I alone in that seniment?
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...was the horrible accident of actually reading any of that delusional braincack that comes out of the vacuum above the neck on Foxtronic2003
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Never saw Up. Haven't seen a PIXAR movie since Incredibles.
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Happy Holidays! I hope you got all you wanted, and I wish you a safe and prosperous New Year.
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Are you in London?
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No, here in the States.
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Well, I had to ask, right? I have to say though - "An American Werewolf In The States" doesn't sound half as good.
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I agree. Your films are SO much better than any of these pieces of shit. Especially the last one you made - it was a complete and utter masterpiece.
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Hurt Locker should be on this list. And for the record, Korean cinema SUCKS. Well maybe I'm not one to talk because I find pretty much all asian cinema hard to enjoy. Maybe it's because I'm getting recommendations from the wrong place. From what I've seen Koren, Japanese, Hong Kong cinema have a really hard time picking a tone and sticking with it.
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Please go away and watch OLDBOY and then come back to us.
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Yeah, wish I was in London. Bet it's amazing this time 'o year!
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Which means it will probably get best picture.
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God, what an ill-advised project. Thanks to Zack Snyder, Watchmen is no longer a timeless, untouchable classic. Now it's just another superhero movie, you know that one that's really long, boring, and confusing, with the giant blue guy and his dick?
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It sucked... but I might have loved it as a teenager.
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From what I've read, the Boxing Day turnout was enormous...double any other film..
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Those weirdos will love it.
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Just had to put some Holiday wishes out there to all my friends in geekland. This was an interesting year. I have a Top 3. Why? 'Cuz the Man wouldn't let me have a whole ten! Actually, I haven't seen enough major movies to comprise a proper Top 10. Here goes: 3. Up- Granted, this is a sentimental favorite. It's the first Pixar film I went to see at the theater AND my first 3D movie. Love movies about grouchy old men (like Grand Torino)and this one was funny and moving. 2. The Hangover- Saw this a couple nights ago and it instantly became one of my favorite comedies of the year. Even better than I Love You, Man, this one had the awesome Zach Galifianakis. I want one of those "One-Man Wolf Pack" T-shirts. 1. Star Trek- Sorry, haters. This one took iconic characters and made them relevent again. A beautiful cast and a rockin' story that made me smile, I'll enjoy this one for years to come, assured that the franchise is in capable hands.
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It made me laugh, it made me cry.
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One needs to be a moron to say such a monstruosity. Geek card revoked for life.
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Why should i give a fuck if you enjoyed Jar Jar Abrams' Shit Trek and your opinion of it doesn't change because of my coments? And do you think my opinion of that exacrable piece of shit is going to change just because you tell me that your opinion of it hasn't change? Really, what the fuck was the point of your post? Waste your time?
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Yes, i do think that Jar Jar Abrams's TEEN EMO TREK did made the iconic characters from TOS relevant for today. It did it indeed. By turning them all into irritating spoiled dumb emo teen brats. So yeah, you got that absolutly right, they did turned the characters relevant for today. Well spoted.
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... who have never seen a really intelligent movie in their whole lifes.
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A touching tale of the human condition and triumph over adversity.*** Autodidact, I'd like to think I'm not the only one who remembers Watchmen. Like it or not, it's out there. The graphic novel is still a classic, and like many classics it now has a film version. Like many, I predicted it wouldn't do Dark Knight business. It didn't have to. Perhaps it's subjective, and to those unfamiliar with the material I'm sure it was just another superhero movie, but I felt Snyder produced a straight adaptation that was intriguing and taughtly constructed.
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Moon was far better then district 9, and Avatar was def. the best film of the year. I dont have to see it 10 times to tell you that...
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While I doubt it will even come close to Titanic's numbers I think the word of mouth on Avatar (people are very excited about it and talking about seeing it again) will hopefully dethrone TF2 as this year's box office champ.
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I was watching Titanic yesterday, and Bill Paxton's friend had a Watchman shirt on in the movie.
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I wouldn't like to be misunderstood. By relevent, I meant it made these hoary time-honored characters meaningful again by showing us why they were special in the first place, taking us back to core of their personalities before they became the capable Starfleet officers we all know and love. I didn't really see any emo connections. No trips were made to the Planet Hot Topic, and Spock didn't wear black nail polish. You probably knew that's what I meant. You sound as though you have a problem with this movie in general, and a problem with Abrams in particular. I don't wish to be called an "apologist" by some anonymous geek, so I'll just say that's why I enjoyed the movie, and ofcourse, nothing I say is going to change your mind.
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was that it was an extremely dull experience. That's a big fuckin fault though. I wanted to like it, but then again, you want to like any movie you devote time and or money to. If you had fun with it, good for you.
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Should be on every top 10 list
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Dec 26, 2009 5:11:25 PM CST
but its "the best thing Roland's done since Godzilla" LMAO.
by orionsangels
I hope you were joking series7.
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And stick it up your ass. Although okay it's not fair for me to say Korean cinema sucks. What I mean to say is, every time I give a Korean movie a try, I find it to be an incoherent mess that just won't pick a fucking tone and stick with it.
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The very existence of that movie pisses me off.
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Asimov has earned significant notoriety from slamming Star Wreck for what it is at every turn. Regarding his coarse cries of "emo"... I guess the endless routine over the last half year has worn down his creativity. No, it's not emo, yet it is a shame how a western in space was devolved into a soap opera.But please don't use me as a weathervane. The most interest, amazement, and fun I ever got out of that property was Galaxy Quest. To me, the show was heavily cerebral and, thus, boring to my (then young) sensibilities. The recent JJ Abrams movie is still that to some extent... yet it has fully embraced the mantle of "Melrose Space."
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save the day or hit on the chicks, or run around shooting guns. Emo kids don't effing do anything.
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you're right about one thing only..it was a waste of time. You are utterly unreachable, in a vacuum wrapped basement all of your own. You will continue to drivel pointlessly about it..good luck with that plan.
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By refusing to sign, Cameron shows how he makes his "decision" regarding the Little People. Remember, he doesn't have to stop using up INSANE amounts of resources to make his movies. YOU do, though, because you're part of the evil Corporate World. You steal Unobtainium! Bottom line: you're Little People. James Cameron is Big People. Just like Al Gore, he wants you to do as he says and not as he does. Plus, his movie is TANKING harder and harder every day. No repeat business. No sell-out audiences. NO lines. Yep. Done.
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Dec 26, 2009 6:07:23 PM CST
...RefutetheHype, I'm starting to thing you're not really...
by flickapoo
...a corpulent African American hot chick...I'm shocked.
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Bored right out of the theater. REFUTED!
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I'm not corpulent. I'm not exactly "hot." I look ok. I'm an average looking BLACK woman. Not gonna hear me say African American except sarcastic.
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...and I meant "corpulent" in the best way.
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With a name like AsimovLives, I would take it this is a hardcore scifi fan who doesn't take kindly to flashy reboots of a classic franchise. Honestly, he sounds like one of many who didn't approve of the production. I haven't done the research, but I figure pretty much every movie has its detractors. And just about every movie, from little personal docs to big budget epics, is "soap opera" to some degree. Galaxy Quest was a well-executed homage to series scifi. I'm one of those people who, even as a child, was fascinated by Trek, maybe because my mom disliked it so. For me, the gathering of these charcters is moving, and not in a trivial, sub-par Melrose Place kind of way. saber12, I'm no expert on emo kids, but if they do anything at all, it's attach grand significance to the events of their lives and write songs about it.
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Damn, this is a good fantasy movie. Why don't Hollywood seem to be able to make these? (Or, i guess i should say 'Why haven't Hollywood been able to make these since the LOTR trilogy?')
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...get the fuck off AICN and pay attention.
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Rubenesque is actually a good way to describe my figure, because I'm FAT. And rubenesque is FAT. But the trouble is when you say you're a fat black woman to somebody on the internet's series of tubes, the picture in the mind of the person you're telling is one of those 500 pound women wearing a thong leaning over a counter top with their back to the camera and shaking themselves like they have an epileptic problem, so I'm reluctant to explain it like that.
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and yes, by the by, you can be a black woman and not think Obama is great.
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Harry thought the effect of Owl Man going "FLORRRRRRRZZZZPH!" as he flew out of the Owl Ship into the prison was THE COOLEST FILM MOMENT OF 2009. Let us all never let Harry forget that he thought that was the coolest moment of 2009.
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...and nobody's gonna kick Serena out of bed for beating them senseless with a racket...
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WATCHMEN™ really could have been something special. Most of the changes made sense, but some parts that remained faithful seemed kinda lazy. Perfect example: why the fuck would you keep the genetically created lynx cat and get rid of the squid?? What a fuckin' dumb decision.
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You have looks AND intelligence. True beauty.
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...two year old. She spotted an African American man in the produce section and started shouting OBAMA!! MOMMY, OBAMA!! OBAMA!!!It was very funny. And 100% humiliating. The guy didn't seem amused.
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I need to watch it again, but why do a more or less faithful adaptation and leave out a significant plot point? When the smoke cleared, I found this to be regrettable.
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If you found WATCHMEN "long, boring and confusing", you need to put your fucking cell phone away and pay attention to what's happening onscreen.
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you're about to hit some hard numbers...the repeat business in my country is CRAZY. Every cinema showing it was completely sold out on boxing day..
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Actually, along with Rorschach's death scene, Snyder actually repaired what was for me, a completely bizarre, baffling plot development by eliminating that ugly tentacled motherfucker.
Seriously...compared to having a known quantity like Dr. Manhattan go berserk (the movie version), how *exactly* does this big-ass squid make everybody stop warrin' and want to make peace? I can sort of grasp the concept loosely (same as a I "get" the whoop-de-shit fanboy exaltation of the Starro reference) like I did twenty years ago when I first read the comic, but what about the general movie-going audience?
I realize that there's this unwritten fanboy edict for a filmmaker to slavishly follow every single plot point from the original (unless your name's Raimi or Nolan..."The Joker just wears paint and green hair dye? Fine with us, Chris!") but the inclusion of that supposedly "essential element" would have lost all but five percent of the audience.
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it might have had a chance.
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Nice reading comprehension, BurnHollywood. You miss my fucking point entirely. I have read Watchmen several times, starting back when the fucking thing came out. I had no problem whatsoever following the movie. I resent the movie because up 'til now Watchmen only existed in comic book form. If you experienced "Watchmen", you experienced it as a 12 part comic book series. Now, thanks to Zack Snyder, most people think think of Watchmen as a boring movie with a giant blue guy who won't put his cock away. AGAIN I am not the one saying it's boring. Many of the people I've talked to about it have said they found it boring and confusing.
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Framing Manhattan doesn't work because Manhattan = USA in the rest of the world's eyes. "Superman is real, and he's an American!"
The worst part of Watchmen for me was, as powerful as Manhattan was, they went ahead and gave him another power of "super-exposition." i.e. he can start a flashback scene at any time by touching your head. Fucking stupid shit.
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Well yes, I am surprised that Trek was not at the top considering all the ranting you did on it and the very little ranting you did on the other two ahead of it. Perhaps you could speak a little about the two you thought to be worse than Trek, that may prove interesting.
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Damn Harry once again panders to his paymasters.... Avengers, Jai Hoooooooooo!
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1) (500) Days of Summer
2) The Hurt Locker
3) Watchmen
4) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
5) Star Trek
6) Food, Inc.
7) District 9
8) The Road (Haven't seen it yet but it's Viggo, so what the hey)
9) Paranormal Activity
10) Capitalism: A Love Story
Honorable Mention: The Proposal (for total nude Reynolds bedroom scene)
Now that's a list, people. All meat, no filler. -
"I seem to remember that at one point Hitler steps out of the box and asks one of them for a piece of gum.... I can't see that happening that often in reality either.... The point being, Tarantino is doing a load of mischief making here, and one might as well join in the fun."
So, what you're saying is...incapable of duplicating his former PULP FICTION* brilliance, Tarantino is now trying sneak onto the Coen Brothers turf, because they're the undisputed masters of cinematic "mischief making", freely intermingling dark comedy with tragedy, violence and drama.
BASTERDS still doesn't work, even on that scale...well, ESPECIALLY on that scale. Comparing BASTERDS to say, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN reveals what a hack QT has degenerated into...you want a postmodern jolt? Try killing off your protagonist with no fanfare three quarters of the way through a movie...much riskier proposition than the "look at clever I am!" posturing of BASTERDS' offing The Fuhrer.
And of all the Jews to have as Hitler's executioner, ELI FUCKING ROTH was your #1 choice?!
*Oh, and Harry? Didn't I ask you politely to quit tossing the word "masterpiece" around like it's just another adjective? Like the word "literally", it has a specific connotation. -
...shameless.
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fantastic. It's a pity the Director's Cut wasn't the version released back in March. It's a far stronger version.
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comedy of 2009. Far funnier than the criminally overrated The Hangover. It's a shame it was released so close to Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
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The fact that you posted your Number 2 worst film seven times on your list and your number 1 only once shows that the thing you loath most isn't this film itself, but the fact that most of the people that went to see it disagree with your assessement that its shit. The very threat that you might be wrong (which you are, given the critics, reputable ones as well as tabloid hacks, and audiences love of the film) is what pisses you off most and thats why you can't stop ranting and raving about it. Saying people that enjoyed it are retards just makes you come across as a complete up your fucking ass fool. I dont give a fuck if you hate Trek, youre entitled to your opinion, but you don't have to be such a fucking asshole about it, condemning anyone (which is most people) that disagree with you. Why don't you keep going on about how bad Salvation was, concidering its your number 1? Because most people didn't like it. This proves the only reason you keep going on about Trek (and probubly still will be in 10yrs time)is because the vast majority disagree with you. Hate to break it to you Asimov, but if you don't see yourself to be the ego maniac you are then youre deluding yourself.
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I actually thought the first half was pretty bad-ass.
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"If you experienced "Watchmen", you experienced it as a 12 part comic book series. Now, thanks to Zack Snyder, most people think think of Watchmen as a boring movie with a giant blue guy who won't put his cock away."
Oh, I see...you're one of those uberfans who didn't want a WATCHMEN movie at all. That's a real shame...I'll try to schedule some time in February to feel bad about your disappointment.
And honestly? "Most people" didn't give a shit what WATCHMEN was anyway, or if Alan Moore was hit by a bus next Friday. Along with not basing my opinions on Rotten Tomatoes, I also try not to get too twisted up over the moviegoing consensus, which apparently thought TRANSFORMERS 2 was the best movie of the year, if you go by ticket sales.
"Framing Manhattan doesn't work because Manhattan = USA in the rest of the world's eyes. 'Superman is real, and he's an American!' "
Didn't quite catch what was truly clever about the Manhattan angle, did you? See, the atomic bomb was *an American invention*, same as Dr. Manhattan, who takes his name from The Manhattan Project.
On top of this, there's also the "Islamic fundamentalists biting us in the ass" metaphorical angle, as well...as shown in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, it was actually American intervention in Afghanistan that created the fertile ground for the twin problems of al Qaeda and the Taliban still haunting the US and the world today...
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01.) The Men Who Share Goats02.) The Men Who Share Goats03.) The Men Who Share Goats04.) The Men Who Share Goats05.) The Men Who Share Goats06.) The Men Who Share Goats07.) The Men Who Share Goats08.) The Men Who Share Goats09.) The Men Who Share Goats10.) Tie: The Men Who Share Goats..........The Goat Whisperer: SubjugationDidn't make his listStar Trek 09 (No Goat Sharing or Subjugation)
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I agree with you on the WATCHMEN Director's Cut. Along with Rorschach's demise, I thought Nite Owl I's death scene was handled much better than in the comic, where it seemed a little pathetic. Watching him map his old arch nemeses' faces onto a group of punks as he went down fighting was poignant and moving.
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think about it, anybody THAT obscenely absorbed in their blind tunnel vision hatred of anything MUST secretly be jonesing to get a bit of JJ sausage in it's mouth..Otherwise like any SANE mature human being you would STFU about it in the ultimate realisation that ignoring something is the only way to defeat it...
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He's getting hit by a bus next Friday.
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Watchmen, Men Who Stare at Goats, Up in the Air, Nine (the Tim Burton one), Terminator Salvation.
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Dec 26, 2009 8:50:16 PM CST
YOU WILL NOTICE NONE OF MY TOP 10 APPEALS TO PEDOPHILES
by bringingsexyback
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You know, then we mightn't have to put up with the likes of AsimovLives (he's 12 right?)
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No not joking, whats good about The Day After tomorrow or 10,000 BC??? Nothing? At least Godzilla was stupid fun. 10,000 BC had its moments.
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saber12 I agree Up In The Air sucked balls.
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I was trying to figure out who the badguy in Sherlock Holmes was, his voice being so familiar, when I finally realized it was Pinbacker from Sunshine.
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"Well, that none of those wound up on my top ten."....what?! That's not a complete thought! Dude, seriously... really, REALLY, seriously. I don't understand how someone who has had a book published, watches movies for a living - a medium that benefits GREATLY from good writing - and then writes REGULARLY for HIS OWN SITE can be such a terrible writer. I won't even bother to point out the 75 other grammatical errors (bad sentence and paragraph structure, missing words, incomplete thoughts, etc.) in this post. And I'm not trying to be a dick about it, Harry. I love your site and I usually dig your posts. I JUST. DON'T. UNDERSTAND. how you can be such a terrible writer. It's a real turn-off and you SHOULD care more about it. Nice list, though. Glad to see Fantastic Mr. Fox, Where The Wild Things Are, Up and District 9 all made the list. Also very pleased to here that Coraline is in your regular rotation. You should try reading the book - it's short, just as freaky as the film (more in some places, less in others) and Neil Gaiman is a great writer. I just added Bronson to the list of things I "must see". Moon is still at the top of said list.
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BurnHollywood, you said:
"Didn't quite catch what was truly clever about the Manhattan angle, did you? See, the atomic bomb was *an American invention*, same as Dr. Manhattan, who takes his name from The Manhattan Project."
What? Dude it was obvious from the first time I read the name Dr. Manhattan in 1992 that he was named after the Manhattan project. I grew up watching World At War on A&E every night at dinner. I saw Fat Man and Little Boy, etc. I know what the Manhattan project is. You must be a real nitwit to think that's "what's really clever about Dr. Manhattan." Jesus christ, you're one of those simpletons who thinks he's a genius because he knows why a character has a certain name.
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...and all IMAX 3D and "regular" 3D showings were sold out for the rest of the weekend. Only the 2D showings had seats open. I bought tickets for next an early showing next Friday. It's the next day my friend has off and my nephew will still be out of school for Christmas break. Totally unimportant and random, but I'm pretty stoked to finally have a ticket in hand.
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Which includes the USA. It's not supposed to unite the planet against the USA. Ozymandias is smart. He would have used a squid! Moron.
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...I'm going to say it again. I loathe Star Trek 09. But my loathing has NOTHING to do with the film, the quality of the film, who made the film, who is in the film, the lens flares in the film, etc. As I have said in these talkbacks at least ten times, it just wasn't necessary. The story has been told, and told well. There is forty years of established Trek history. It makes sense. And it's incredibly entertaining to those of us who have kept up with the books and comics over the years since the various series have ended. I know what happens in EVERY series after the last episode and/or movie. ALL OF IT would have made a better Trek movie than a stupid re-boot. Even if they had to recast the actors. Whats more, Kirk and Spock's origins had already been told (written), and told well. They're some of the best books in the Star Trek universe, and that movie shit all over them. So please, don't assume that everybody's reason for disliking that movie can simply be dismissed with a "well you're wrong because it made a lot of money and most of the people who saw it loved it". Great. That's your opinion. From where I sit it's respected. Just don't pretend that you've got something on every person who hates that movie. Because you don't.
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..is making me laugh. Just read the comic book and relax. The comic book is great. The movie is average. Largely because a great deal of the acting was sub par, imo.
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It's not supposed to be pertinent to the current blowback zeitgeist. And it's a movie with a giant blue dude teleporting around the solar system. I don't think the audience's suspension of disbelief would be shattered by the awesome squid scene. The thing that really gets my goat is here we have Zack Snyder claiming to have given you the movie by recreating the visuals from the panels almost exactly, but he leaves out the money shot of the comics, which is a six page pan across the gory results of the squid's arrival.But no, I guess amorphous blue energy balls and people assuming christ poses is more cinematic.
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Dec 26, 2009 9:54:49 PM CST
Watchmen comic = Tag Heuer. Watchmen movie = sledgehammered Time
by dirk_the_amoeba
Just pitiful. It was Turrble.
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Turrble.
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And she needs a big bone! I'm not called Dirk the Well Hung Amoeba for nothing!
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...I'd hit that no matter WHAT you call it. That's about all I have to say about that.
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She needs Amoeba love!
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...and I'd let her hit me.
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I can only imagine that doing her doggy would be like jamming your cock between to bowling balls pressed together. That ass is rock hard.
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...you can clearly see her corpulents.
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is Summer herself. One, she's obviously a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I know of which I speak. I went to a Jenny Lewis concert in Lawrence, Kansas. Also, she's a huge bitch who only cares about herself. Come on. She led Joey Levitt on, fully knowing that although she stated she didn't want to be tied down, making love regularly with someone often results in feelings. She selfishly wanted to remain friends knowing that his love for her wouldn't allow that. She had to know that when he walked out in the pancake place that if he couldn't be with her, he didn't want to see her period. And then she had the fucking nerve to basically rip his heart out on a park bench at the end of the movie. And we're supposed to believe that it's just a story of two young kids in love? In my version of the movie it was one likable, if dopey, guy and the elusive hipster honey that you don't really know too much about, and kind of exists solely as a stand-in for everyone's ideal post-college crash-and-burn relationship. She is nothing else.
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It sucked ass.
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Is that I haven't seen it, so I can't comment.
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I've got a long ways to go to get to bases belonging and diabeetus stuff.
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Seems all my posts have disappeared. Was it something I said??
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Yes.
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...and all your posts aren't gone either... I checked... because I have nothing better to do... siiiigh
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Still, will be groovy to see what future movies come along using the technology Cameron has pioneered here.
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Now I shall dance like one of the children of the night!
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"Jesus christ, you're one of those simpletons who thinks he's a genius because he knows why a character has a certain name."
No, I'm someone with the ability to maintain focus in the middle of a fucking discussion...more on that in a sec...
"And furthermore, I have no idea what your point is... how does the fact that Manhattan is named after the atomic bomb project make it a better decisision to choose Manhattan over the squid as the big threat to the planet? "
You were trying to make the point that the rest of the world wouldn't buy Doc Manhattan as a threat to America because he was an American, REMEMBER? So I cited two separate occasions where an American activity eventually became a threat to the US itself...the invention of the atomic bomb, and encouraging Islamic Fundamentalists to attack the Soviets.
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She's hot.
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Dec 26, 2009 11:20:35 PM CST
And just in case a particular unnamed user is reading...
by refutethehype
I will say also this: Serena's PUSSY, serena's CUNT, serena's SNATCH. Enjoy, you know who you are.
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I thought where the wild things are was ok, wouldn't rate it so high. Not saying it's a bad film - in fact I could feel the effort Jonze put into it. I just couldn't get over the irritating kid & those unhappy monsters. Precious was a far more intense & fucked up experience.
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you got it. WTWTA was a kid's movie made for adults who want to pretend they get kids problems. They don't. They never will. The best thing adults can do for kids is fuck off and leave kids alone.
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I would imagine they're grinning a big goofy grin.
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Besides the obvious lack of Matt Dillion banging everyone on screen. Was how every on loved it so much. I really wanted to see it, but was busy opening weekend. I wanted to wait like 3-4 weeks to give it time for everyone to shut up about it. But since it was tanking at the box office I had to see it sooner then I wanted. All the reviews were like, the kid chases around his dog at the start of the movie OHHH WOW!!! SO CHILD LIKE!! I was like....I did that this morning? It was just an ok movie. I respect what Jonze did with it, but I think it really does come down to that kid. If you can deal with him fine, but if you find him annoying then you won't like it. I found him annoying.
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Was a pretty damn good comedy. I'd say it more of a comedy then kids movie. If you like the SNL digital shorts, and Bill Hader and Andy Samburg humor you'll like that movie. Its fun and the animation is like a fucking pixie stick orgy on the screen. I enjoyed it more then Up.
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Up was an AVERAGE KID'S MOVIE! Just because the mighty Pixar made it doesn't mean it's an automatic "classic". And D9? WTF people?! It was... weird. Wasn't a total waste of time but I'll never watch it again. Star Trek was great.INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS SUCKED! QT is a one hit wonder IMO. Pulp Fiction is great but... that's about it.
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Inglourious Basterds is fillet mignon. "Hamburger sells more so it must be better." Wrong.
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I like movies. Not two hour preachy shit things you'd see on 60 minutes.
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seemed to turn into EVENT HORIZON in the third act. I was disappointed by that.
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both better than UP by far. ASTRO BOY had real human characters, versus UP where nothing anybody does makes a lick of sense and feels more like an elderly man's soaking with sweat fever dream. There's a pleasant one for you.
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We need someone around to talk about how everything people love on this site isn't as good as other things. Up sucked, Astro Boy ruled. Avatar sucks, Paul Blart was an underrated look at the psyche of the modern neutered male. Right.
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Well that's fucking stupid. The fact that there are other examples of the USA having things blow up in their face doesn't mean having Doctor Manhattan replace the squid was a good idea. Just use the fucking squid.
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My point was that any reasoning given for removing the squid, besides the desire to not have any parellels to 9/11 imagery, is bullshit. But continue to make extremely basic and surface level observations about the movie and geopolitics and feel especially insightful about it if you like.
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Cause he was such a dull character. The Night Owl guy and the face changer guy were the only good ones.
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It's not that. I just say what I do or don't like. I haven't got some kind of secret plan. I enjoyed the hell out of ASTRO BOY because it felt alive. UP felt like walking through Dante's Inferno.
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for one reason. they felt like the audience would not get the squid.
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It also looks like Smith became a big boy and made a Hollywood movie. *wipes away tear* They grow up so fast.
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I understand the compulsion to produce a list, but it's a list that should reflect you and your audience's goals.
So...Don't do the things you and your audience dislike in your list.
I know, it's shocking.
Don't put films that weren't released in the year of the list. Don't put them in order. "These are my ten best movies of the year, in no particular order." Don't list films that haven't seen a wide release.
If you feel that you REALLY have to include some of those films, make another category and put them at the bottom or in another article. It really wouldn't hurt if you upped your article count these days. Seriously, I'm starting to think it's Capone & Merrick's Ain't It Cool News.
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No, I'm not saying that at all. You're saying that I'm saying it.
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—it would take time to set up and would seem like a dramatic twist that strained the credibility of the rest of the story. It works brilliantly in the comic, but wouldn't work on the big screen due to pacing and contextual issues. It would become a pacing liability.About "Precious" — respect Lee Daniels but, the political land mines that film treads over is problematic for me although the performances are pretty solid, if somewhat mannered.
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— is just yummy.
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not premium premium steak
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That movie is more like the worst possible type of Mcdonald hamburger grilled with yesterday's fat by a discontented and malcontented employee who wants to take revenge on the costumers by spitting on it before the packs and sells.
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Wrong. You just don't have the minerals to deal with a movie like Inglorious Basterds.
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No, YOU wouldn't get the "squid" in Watchmen. YOU would had a problem with that. YOU. Don't dare talk for millions of people you don't even know.The Squid would had never been a problem. If it looking like s quid was problematic, then all they needed to do was to make it look even more alien-looking and it would work a treat. But Zack The Hack deson't even have enough imagination for such a simple obvious solution. And he's a filmmaker? How he got to be one, he won the job card it in the cereals?
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You were right about Wolfhound. Amazing movie. If I'd watched it back in 2007, it would have been in my top 10 list for sure.I'll have to start paying more attention to those Twitch columns. Some great stuff coming out of places beyond the USA.
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A guy above says that he 'loves movies' but didn't want to see UP or DISTRICT 9. Someone else calls INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS 'fried turd' (great criticism) - I'm sure he'll be interested to see the film featuring on year-best lists as diverse as CHUD and the SIGHT & SOUND critics' poll. (Someone else called the Tarantino film 'boring' - yeah, right, try watching some Bela Tarr my friend.) Others say, with great authority, that JJ's STAR TREK was flat-out badly written. Despite the fact that audiences and critics went to it and laughed, cried and were thrilled. Yes, my expert, a film that makes people laugh, cry and be excited is 'badly written'. It's all kind of extraordinary. You do all actually LIKE movies, right? Are you viewing a balanced diet? Is there some Truffaut, Bergman, John Ford, Nicolas Ray, Howard Hawks, Powell & Pressburger, Ozu, Renoir etc etc in there alongside the blockbuster fodder? Because, you know, if you really just want to see something good, rather than bitching about films you think are bad, you could always try them?
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Dec 27, 2009 5:03:12 AM CST
Autodidact - Are you talking to yourself up there?
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
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That movie blew me away when I watched it. That movie gets love and loss better than most movies i've seen in my life.It's got great characters, wonderful animation, a well developed script and has more heart than most of the movies i've watched this year.The only reason I gave it a 9 on IMDb is because i don't know if i'll ever see a perfect 10 movie. But UP was close. It was really fucking close.
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Dec 27, 2009 5:09:44 AM CST
'You just don't have the minerals to deal with a movie like Ingl
by quantize
That's absolutely hilarious coming from a Lars Von Trier fan...thanks for putting the stamp of a wanker on Inglorious Basterds...confirms my loathing of its pretentions and fucking diabolically staged action, humor and drama. All misfiring.
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'minerals' (what the fuck, you're a poet now?)...try this one on for size...
TOSSER -
I Think It's Pretty Clear I Went Into It Wanting To love It but what i feared became true.and i felt the same way about eli roth being in the movie as most it's like quentin is in love with this guy or maybe he has a great coke connect.burn hollywood excellent job explaining why it was awful
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...I believe Massawyrm was the one singing WOLFHOUND's praises. Credit where credit's due.I wish it hadn't gone all fancy and LOTR at the end, but that's OK. In fact I really wish LOTR had looked a lot more like WOLFOHOUD...I like the way they mixed the fantastic and supernatural with a much more naturalistic look. It wasn't ON all the time, so the fantasy elements packed more of a punch. It often felt like a much older movie...but with some contemporary effects folded in.Good shit.
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...on the main guy. What a face on that guy.The man looks like he could beat you to death with his face...but he would be sad and soulful about it...Sigh...
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Dec 27, 2009 7:39:10 AM CST
I must have missed the Wyrm's review of Wolfhound
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Yeah, that main guy did a great job. I loved the fact he had a pet bat! I've not seen that done before and it actually came in useful at the end which was cool (the bit where it slams a rock into an attacker's face was awesome).I also loved the fact that you never saw the face of the guy who killed his parents. Nice touch that.
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Dec 27, 2009 7:40:13 AM CST
Watched JJ's Star Trek again last night. I like it even more!
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Here's why: It is fast paced and entertaining. The cast is perfect, the story is is weak, the logic holes make you howl, but despite the weakness of the script, the overall effect - like a certain movie with furry blue critters now showing, just works.
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...a guilty pleasure. I would put it proudly on the shelf right next to CONAN THE BARBARIAN.
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It's a ballanced out dietry of movies that makes you easily aware that Jar Jar Abrams' RETARD TREK is the piece of shit that it is. It's only people who are slaves of the blockbuster mentality that cannot understand why such a shitty movie is the piece of shit it truly is. and the history of cinema is filled to the grills with movies which where over-loved and over-hyped by audiences and critics alike and which turned out to be less then it was first though out to be. Every year at least one bad movie falls into the good graces of critics and audiences alike. Every year this happens. Jar Jar Abrams' SHIT TREK was the lucky one this year. It has nothing to do with beign good, it has to do with zeigteist and shit like that. There!Jar Jar Abrams's RETARD TREK will alwayus be a retard dumb stupid bad movie. Many liked it, so fucking what? Happens every year. It's not even original in that, the fucking movie.This is also the year where, so far, the most sucessful at the box office was also one of the worst movie ever made in this decade, Tranformers 2. Yeah, let's use the public popularity of that movie to justify calling it good, hem?
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Wolfhound sounds intriguing. I'm really loving the way russian cinema has been revitalized lately, and that they are now churning fantasy and SF movies to rival Hollywood in their scope and spectacle. Good job, russians.Frankly, some of the mroe intriguing movies made this decade has come from outside Hollywood. South Korea has been responsible for quite many of them.
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Dec 27, 2009 8:30:47 AM CST
We should only watch movies no one wants to see
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
And then we would be assured by Asimovs logic that it will be a 'good' movie. But if we all watched movies no one wanted to see then that means we would all be watching the same movie that everyone is seeing, which means it would be a very shit movie according to Asimov.
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Dec 27, 2009 8:48:34 AM CST
I actually quite like you AsimovLives
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
When you're not ranting over and over again about THAT MOVIE, i've seen you have some pretty good discussions on these TBs. You also have a pretty good knowledge of movies outside the standard Hollywood fare which is good, and i've noticed that you're particularly knowledgable when it comes to Korean movies (and i love Korean movies). I even find it quite endearing that even though your grasp on the English language is a bit slippery, you still try to throw out phrases such as "you just don't have the minerals". Hee hee.I just wish you'd talk about things other than THAT MOVIE for once. You're much more interesting when that happens. Hopefully we'll see less of that in 2010, maybe?
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And remembered why I liked Paul Bettany. He's fucking awesome in that movie.
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...is that the plot seemed a bit cryptic and borderline incomprehensible at times...maybe because I was too busy staring at the beautiful pictures on my screen to give the subtitles 110% of my attention.Strangely, I didn't mind at all...it made the movie seem like a real artifact from a far away place. Russian mythology and folklore feel a little strange and archaic too...a fantasy movie shouldn't feel completely comfortable and familiar.
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Dec 27, 2009 9:07:05 AM CST
...Paul Bettany...what's going on with that Charled Darwin...
by flickapoo
...movie with Bettany and Jennifer Connelly?...has anyone seen it?
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...sounds good. Looking forward to it.It sounds as though it leaves you like Hugh Jackman at the end of THE FOUNTAIN...screaming on the ground with herbs and flowers growing out of your mouth...
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...because the movie has a different point than the book, demanding a different ending. Why demonize Dr. Manhattan in the movie? Because he is the one actual hero in the movie, the one person with actual abilities. Oh, also, the smartest guy in the world is the villain, and the only guy with actual principles is murdered. Snyder's Watchmen is a story about the potential of humanity and what happens when people are damned as evil.
In contrast, the book is a regurgitation of nihilism with an ending that says people will accept anything because they're stupid. It tears down humanity and heroes, saying we're all flawed and despicable. While the book while the book succeeds in storytelling and comic art, and it is very good in those respects, it fails even more so in philosophic thought.
Also, I generally didn't enjoy Inglorious Basterds. The dialogue heavy scenes, such as the opening and the bar scene, dragged and were too long. The movie should have stuck to it's strengths: Jews led by an American kicking the shit out of Nazis and eventually killing Hitler. I don't care if it would be historically inaccurate. Fantasizing about a moral monster being brought to justice is a worthwhile element that can work.
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look as stupid and unoriginal as everything he has done. Its a shame that losers like him make movies that make a ton of cash because it just encourage him to continue making garbage.
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...I hung out with the author of Snyder's animated owl movie THE GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE last year and saw a bunch of early concept art. Good stuff. Dark.Pardon the name drop...I won't do it again because that's it. I'm all dropped out.
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Dec 27, 2009 10:24:57 AM CST
After looking at the list of movies that came out this year....
by chakraborty
...I've realized, this was a pretty shit year for movies. I can barely scrounge up ten movies to make a list.
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It more than made up for the lackluster year. Decade, even.
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Dec 27, 2009 10:33:27 AM CST
I FORGOT TO INCLUDE LESBIAN HOMEWORK SESSION IN MY LIST
by bringingsexyback
I should go in #7, and The Road moved to honorable mentions.
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"Don't dare talk for millions of people you don't even know."
and then he says....
"It's only people who are slaves of the blockbuster mentality that cannot understand why such a shitty movie is the piece of shit it truly is."
AsimovLives, you are being, as usual, an idiotic hypocrite. And Tarantino liked it. Speilberg liked it. Millions upon millions, including people far more intelligent than you liked it. And why all this hate for only your Number 2 worst movie? Wheres the hate for Salvation? As I said before, all this hate is because people agree with you on Salvation, but horror of horrors, they don't agree with you on Trek. And the fact that you can say Avatar is a good movie and Trek is for retards is mindboggling
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I'm just say let it fucking go and go get yourself a fucking girlfrien
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—Maybe it's a gross exaggeration, but seriously, there wouldn't be enough time to bring in the island of scientists and artists, have The Comedian discover their secret project, then the destruction of the island and eventually the squid alien. That would be about 15 mins. or more of screen time. It would just kill the pacing.Mind you, I love long movies like "Once Upon a Time in America" and "Novencento" but, remember that both of those films were butchered by the studio before their domestic release. It's just not feasible for the audience to sit through it. Hell, the director's cut of the movie (which is much, much better than the theatrical) wasn't even in wide release. Adding the squid would make the film even longer. And wouldn't improve the audiences comprehension of Ozymandias ' motives.
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It fails? Really? How's that, considering everything you say is true. Did you know Mother Theresa is a fraud who would rake the bodies of victims with sores because the Bible said to do it, even though it caused agony to the lepers she supposedly was there to help and left healed wounds seeping and angry and bloodied? She is called a great humanitarian and a saint for essentially torturing her victims because the Bible said to do it. People WILL believe anything because they are stupid.
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Dec 27, 2009 11:01:54 AM CST
Last Thing I'll Every Say To Asimov, Cos He's Just Not Worth It
by freebeer
"This is also the year where, so far, the most sucessful at the box office was also one of the worst movie ever made in this decade, Tranformers 2. Yeah, let's use the public popularity of that movie to justify calling it good, hem?"
Sigh, I've explained this before but since you only seem to see white noise when people offer a differing opinion to your own I will say it again. Star Trek is not just popular in the Star Trek sense. Yes, many people went to see Transformers, but mst people that did see it thought it was a pile of shit. Many people went to see Star Trek, and most came out having enjoyed it. Ther eis an obvious difference there. Also, Star Trek benifited from people going back for repeat viewings because they enjoyed it so much. Theres no point arguing anymore AsimovLives, you are wrong, I know you might not be able to live with that but you are, the evidence is there. People loved it. Critics loved it (and before you say it, very reputable critics loved it, as well as the tabloid hacks.) Filmakers loved it, Tarantino and Speilberg loved it (I know Speilberg also said he loved Trans2, but thats only because his names attached as producer.) your wrong, take a deep breath and such it up -
Should be "in the Trans2 sense" of course
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Who. Gives. A. Shit.
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My sister's kids loved TF2. And are black. Saw no racism. People look for the boogeyman more as adults than kids.
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How stupid is that?! Zack Snyder saved Watchmen, if you ask me.
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Maybe an intervention is in order.
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I mean seriously, c'mon! To constantly harp on the negative without balance; without an understanding of the generosity of humanity along with it's venal, selfish, cruelty is a one dimensional philosophical outlook at best. And it's immature. It's the reverse of Pollyannaish optimism. It lacks just as much insight into the human spirt as a failed existentialist poet.Bruno Dumont want's his worldview back…
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yeah. the original monster was a genetically engineered creature designed to represent humanity's deepest fears and to send a psychic wave to kill psychics. Ozymandias did it to make America and Russia back off from nuclear war by becoming aware of a threat from another dimension or planet. That way, everyone would work together to fight this new threat. Except we all know the truth. If the US had been attacked by a supersquid or Dr. Manhattan, the Soviet would have obviously seen this as a perfect opportunity to strike and launched a massive attack against the US as they were shocked and unprepared. Likewise, China and the Middle East would have issued no assistance and blamed the West for somehow bringing it upon itself. I can see the Chinese government now. saying something like "independent research shows no evidence of outside dimensional or interstellar threat. We believe the United States is doing this to misdirect the public at the expense of their own people and the Chinese government will not stand for it." Then they'd go back to making poison cat food and toys for children containing rohypnol "accidentally."
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I think it shows sincere insight. Generosity of humanity? Where? Just this year in the united states, the toys for tots program, of all things, nearly shut down from lack of donations. Salvation Army is currently being investigated beuase the CEO was doing weird books. People. Are. Stealing. From. Mental. Retardation. Organizations. Think about that for a minute. Did you read the article about the US soldier who stole near a million dollars to buy flat panel tv and exercise equipment, indirectly causing thousands of Iraqi civilians to starve to death? You think somebody flipping a coin into a Christmas bucket is going to make up for that? No. When the chips are down, human beings are the worst, and can ALWAYS be counted on to do the most horrible thing you can think of.
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Is that her name?I enjoy her posts.And i'd like a cup of coffee and a sandwich please.
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I would call his view too positive, believe it or not. He actually tries to give his audience hope of the possibility of change. I, on the other hand, recognize we're spiraling into the shit on a level not dissimilar to TEE ROAD very shortly (maybe 15 years? Maybe less). I actuallly don't expect to make it too far into the second half of old age because I think there will be, very shortly, massive race riots where the wealthy white upper class will hire militias to kill everyone who's slightly brown or black. That's my view of the future. THE LIFE OF JESUS, from Bruno, suggests the kids have a hope of change, of taking control of themselves. Not me. I think the only hope they have is not missing the bowl when they take a pee, and that's not even an always kind of thing.
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— but there is a lot of conditioning going on re-using images of the "zip coon" and the "minstrel" in the constant attempt to appeal to the broadest market possible. Unfortunately a lot of Black filmmakers also cater to a wide audience and utilize those same images, either because they don't have the technique to pull off an effective social critique or they're cynical and will condescend to the audience for a fast buck. Of course that doesn't explain why Michael Bay has scenes with buffoonery in almost all of his movies…
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Picture a muddy landscape of decayed houses, burnt and ruined and in squalor. Two people beat at themselves with weapons fighting over a jar of grape jelly. Screaming and beating his chest, each man pumels the other, until one wins and grabs the grape jelly and then throws it at a statue of the Madonna and then leaps to his death off a cliff. There you go, my idea for a movie about the future.
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they were just robots. they had no race.
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children are being shot to death in the inner city schools, rapes are going on in classrooms. Seeing these crisis points, school boards across the country take a stand! http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1948865,00.html?cnn=yes
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...AKA Aicn's-Debbie-Downer! Now, should we beging a discussion on film this year, or should we continue with classroom rape? hmmm?
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I would rather talk about feline AIDS. It's the number one killer of domestic cats. MOWWWWW MOWWWWW!
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Michael Bay has a history (even commented on in a hilarious essay by Seanbaby) about his recurring motif of Black characters (outside of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence vehicles) acting, well, baffoonish. It's not 'racism' but, it is a pretty extensive catalogue of racial caricatures. And it's offensive as hell. TF2 was yet another example of the moronic decision-making involved.
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AVATAR NUMBER 1 AT THE BOX OFFICE...AGAIN!!! bwahahaha It dropped...are you ready...3% from it's opening weekend. 3. Percent. Okay Refute, it's your turn to spin this; let me hear it
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—I know full well what goes on as my cousin is a teacher in East New York, Brooklyn. I used to live in Harlesden and then moved to Brooklyn during the later end of the crack wars™ so I've seen my fair share of misery. I've also seen and received the extreme opposite. The pendulum of human experience runs from kindness to hatred and violence. But, it's way too simplistic to look at the negative without the balance of the positive. Mother Theresa may have had her issues, but she also inspired others to do extraordinary things.
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I feel about TF2 the way Asi feels about New Trek. I'm just not as vocal about it.
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..."a colleague of mine is obsessed with a certain fetching young actress. While the condition has been escalating, my colleague seems otherwise cheerful (perhaps excessively so) and reasonably well adjusted.Recently, however, my colleague made a list of the best movies of 09...ranking G.I.JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA at number four.The obsession seemed harmless enough, but combined with these further indications of dementia and/or mental illness...I'm beginning to have serious concerns for my colleague...and perhaps even the well being of the fetching young actress.I feel too close to the situation to intervene with complete objectivity. Any clinical advice or diagnosis would be highly appreciated".Signed,Dr. PooFlicker
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And I was a bit pist off to be honest. She had some weird accent, certainly not an Irish one, almost Spanish
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It's one of the most irritating films of the year in my book. I mean "The Core" is a better movie — and that's a film where beer and spirits must flow a-plenty in order to enjoy without gastrointestinal problems.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE SQUEAKWEL made nearly as much as AVATAR and cost infinitely less resources to make. Isn't it more "green" and therefore better to spend less on your environmental message?
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when I lived there nobody gave me a thing in the way of human kindness. Do you know we didn't get traditional birthdays at my house bcause my mom was working too hard studying and training and stuff/ We didn't care though. An ecvening of Dr. Mario was a treat.
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Dec 27, 2009 12:13:07 PM CST
JUDGE JUDY IS THE TOUGHEST JEW EVER
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
You know it to be true. When Skynet happens and the nuclear missiles drop over the Earth, the only thing to survive will be Judge Judy and cockroaches.
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That's a whole lotta money it's gotta make back....
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Your colleague seeems to be led by his dick more than his brain. It's a perfectly normal, healthy condition. In fact I'm inclined to think that his taste is exquisite and everyone should take a page from his book (as long as they ask permission first). Be assured, your colleague is at the height of his professional powers.
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Look at the money that pile of shit made...just look at it. Why did it make so much? Because the typical product of state run schooling wouldn't know quality if it fucked them in the ass..that is why. They have been intellectually and emotionally retarded to the point that noises and movement are all that is required to entertain them for 2 hours.Bad script, bad acting, cliched scenes, cluttered effects...doesn't matter. Just shove some T and A, giant robots and explosions in front of their faces and watch the drool run out of their unthinking maws.TF2 shows that the world is run by geniuses that have turned humanity into easily led, fleeced, and entertained retards.
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I'm too lazy to look it up.
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may be on to something…
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But with a name like Theresa she should have an Irish accent
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...to make ANY money at the box office; people weren't going to fall for Cameron's "cat-people"; NOW, according to you, sure it's making money, but it's only recouping what was spent to make the movie...jeez, there's non silver lining with you people. You can really warp anything to fit your argument: that AVATAR would be a failure, even when there's proof to the contrary RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!!!
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with but a cold stare and a stern talking to.
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15-16yr old Dakota Fanning in a hard R movie (nudity,sexual situations,language) about a group of girls notorious for drinking, drugging and fucking like the teen aged porn queens with guitars....I'm SO fucking there....and so are you perverts.
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Now what?!??!
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It's already made near enough the 300 mark
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Dec 27, 2009 12:31:18 PM CST
TF2 geez give it a fuckin break already
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
It was popcorn entertainment that did not try to be anything but that. I fuckin swear some of you antelopes act like this generation invented movies and mindless - but entertaining movies at that. Fuck. Get over yourselves.
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—um, what does living in the inner city have to do with your mum not celebrating your birthday in a traditional way? I mean my friend lost a parent to gun violence around their birthday—that is an inner city problem. But, what goes on in your family is private.
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Avatar was popcorn entertainment done right...silly script and cliched premise...but at least it had one and looked spectacular I will admit.TF2 wasn't delicious fresh popcorn at all...it was the stale Milk Duds the bums pick out of the theater dumpster at the end of the night.
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But it aint mine. I enjoyed TF2 for what it was, a big explosion filled 2 hr escapism with giant fucking robots that beat the shit out of one another. If you didn't enjoy that, who gives a fuck, but stop whining about it already.
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Trying to stop whining but, the film is traumatizing. Seriously, it's so distasteful that…wait…I'm doing it again aren't I?
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...argument even carries ANY weight on this board. Seriously, in this forum? Surrounded by the pantheon of geeks and "film experts" here? The millions-of-Americans-can't-be-wrong argument is tired, stale, and intellectually bankrupt. Shame, SHAME to anyone actually putting this tripe forth as an actual talking point. The stomach churns, seriously. And Christian, our sandwiches today include ham salad on rye and turkey panini with roasted tomatoes and provolone. And, as always, the coffee is fresh.
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I understand about not liking a movie, what bugs the beetle shit out of me are the people who fucking constantly whine and bitch and moan about it.
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...give them a head shot and....PRESTO?
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...that would be redundant.
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You're beautiful. Just needed to say that. Fresh coffee makes the world go round.
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Because it was shit
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response to the 'haters' that bring up box office as if it's their own personal béte noir.
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Coffee left sitting on the burner for longer than 10 minutes is burnt coffee. MOST coffee people drink from a diner, restaurant, or coffee joint- unless it's super busy- is old, burnt, and stale. If it's stored in one of those insulated dispensers, you're better off.
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Dec 27, 2009 1:17:48 PM CST
Some of you motarded dumbasses act like you get a piece of BO
by liberal_warrior
'Oh, it made so much money I'm so happy, now my geekness love has been validated by the non-geek world' I don't know what is more pathetic, those who need to hate the popular just to feel like they are different or superior, or those who are so insecure that they need others to validate their own likes or dislikes.
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Dec 27, 2009 1:23:15 PM CST
Liberal_Warrior - That was fuckin devastating
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
That's all I have to say
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Perhaps 'hating' is their raison d'être.
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Harry is wearing a hairnet and licking a pink bowling ball, in the animation at the top of the page?
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...That the movie the like is doing well at the box office. After all, I would have been much happier if Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Serenity did well at the box office, then the planned sequels would have gotten the green light
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I don't like to make best-of lists just because my appreciation of films vary by mood. But I will say that the movies that came out this year were pretty good. What will I watch again and again? Coraline, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Watchmen, Let the Right One In, Star Trek, Moon. There are more that I enjoy, and even more that I haven't seen yet, but my "best of the year" has to consist of what I personally enjoy, not what necessarily were the best-made movies of the year.
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The Big Lebowski, I believe.
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...it's not the Big Lebowski HIMSELF. I believe it was the John Tuturo (or however you spell it) character. I really disliked that movie, though. So I'm just going from memory.
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Because I REALLY thought you were more intelligent than that. Hollywood runs on financials. The amount of money a movie makes allows actors to get paid more; writers, directors to continue getting projects greenlit... lighted... whatever; and technicians to continue working. Beyond that, the amount of money Avatar is making shows, without a doubt, that MORE than just GEEKS are paying to see it. That makes it a success, whether anybody likes it or not. It doesn't make it GOOD, and I would never argue that it does. But a success, yep, it clearly is.
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...also has Malcolm McDowell in it. Fine flick that one. Has there been a movie with Malcolm McDowell and Terrence Stamp in it together yet? Somebody needs to be sure that happens before the croak.
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James Cameron said STRAIGHT UP on Charlie Rose that the movie cost $230 million to make. At this rate it's going to be profitable on it's domestic gross alone. Add in the foreign box office and it already is.
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It's already gone past $200 million domestically, totalling more than $600 million worldwide. All I can say to this is one little phrase:
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...without naming any names. First of all, there are only a handful, maybe 6 or 7, of the completely ridiculous talkbackers. Ya know, the ones who go on and on and on and on (you get the picture) about whatever it is they think to be "the truth". All the while using as many curse words and insults as possible, because SURELY that will make you agree with them eventually. Then there's another handful of people who sometimes get go a bit overboard, but most of the time they do actually have a point if you can get through the angry hyperbole. The other 95% or so are actually pretty cool.
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I would imagine. I certainly enjoyed watching it. I just resent its very existence.
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Hehe, I assume you posted that for my little talkback about Avatar's B.O numbers. I admit, I went a bit overboard, but I assure you, I'm normally not that kind of talkbacker. Thing is that there were so many haters here at AICN who kept claiming that Avatar was gonna bomb or flop, it just feels great to see the B.O results shut their mouths for good, and I just had to bring those news up to do so.
To remain on topic, I just finished watching Inglourious Basterds today. I really don't get the hate for that one eihter. Sure, it's not Tarantino's best, but certainly not his worst either, and I thought it was well worth watching. I'd put it in my top 10 list too, but there's still quite a lot of films from this year that I have some catching up to do with. -
I agree with your point about the EXTREME haters slobbin' the Cam's nob. But only the extreme few who kept posting over and over and over and over (you get the picture) about how the movie was going to be "THE BIGGEST FAILURE OF ALL TIME!" Most people were somewhere in the middle, and they should remain free of the cock smokin' (unless that's their thing, of course). I was more referring to a large section of this talkback in which a handful of tb'ers go back and forth trying to boast and insult their way to proving which one of them has the smallest dick... I mean brain... I mean point... yeah. It was that section that caused several OTHER tb'ers to comment on that "we need better" here amongst us. I just can't completely agree with that for the reasons I stated above. Most of us are pretty intelligent, kind, thoughtful movie loving geeks. But the loud, screaming few usually drown out the quiet, rational mass.However, maaaaan. I just CAN'T love Inglorious Basterds. We've gotten into this in SO MANY talkbacks now that I know I'm not alone in that feeling either. I think it's better than the Kill Bills and Grindhouse, but doesn't come close to approaching Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction. I really just DON'T LIKE Jackie Brown at all... but I DO kind of like Inglorious Basterds. It's weird. I've watched it four times now and I just can't make up my mind about it. I do agree with the very interesting comment posted above that if QT had portrayed Jews in that manner that all hell (heh) would have broken loose.
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i feel like a dope now! but that's a great fact to know.
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i worship the man, so i've always been curious about his coffee... but i don't feel like plunking the cash down if it's not considerably better than your average storebought brand.
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Dec 27, 2009 3:08:44 PM CST
"James Cameron said STRAIGHT UP on Charlie Rose that the movie c
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
I'm not an anti-Avatard (i haven't even seen the movie) but i do know for a fact that Cameron's estimate didn't include marketing costs and other fees. It's estimated somewhere around the $500 million mark.
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(Made me laugh to actually type your user name) EVERY movie has costs beyond those involving the actual production. The production costs, according to Cameron, were $230 million. The film has already grossed almost twice that much and it's box office hasn't even BEGUN to decline. Success? It is. And I'm not a pro-Avatard worshiper, either. Haven't seen it myself, but have an IMAX 3D ticket to do so on Friday (wonder how that figures into the box office total?). I just think it's fun to point these things out for the extreme anti-Avatards. None of it has any real affect on my life. But the 49er's are playing the Lions and there's no basketball until 4 PM PST, so I really have nothing else to do. Might go back to reading the Cerebus Letters book I got for Chismahanakwanzikka, though.
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Heh. And I are math good.
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—and the budgets listed in the trades are 'estimates.' Why would studios publish the actual negative cost? I mean would you publish your own salary? Or would you tell people to 'mind their business'?
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—it's strong as hell. Good though, just not my favourite.
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backwards talking midget. He keeps 'em in a warehouse at a constant temperature of 68 degrees fahrenheit.
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According to Box Office Mojo, "Avatar" is in less theatres than "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." About 837 less. And, the 2 week box office estimate is at $615 million dollars. That's close to "The Dark Knight" numbers.
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—anybody consider "The Road" one of the best films of the year?
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where the wild this are was allright, but mr fox was miles better, i love that movie those two should switch positions
1.fantastic mr fox
2.watchmen
3.trick r treat
4.district 9
5.sherlock holmes
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7.moon
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"I really just DON'T LIKE Jackie Brown at all". Really? Looking at your QT break down has me scratching my head. I understand when people say they didn't like Grindhouse or that Kill Bill 2 was disappointing but you have me stumped. I'm not taking a shot at you at all. I just feel like to say that IB is better than Kill Bill and Grindhouse is to say that you like a quieter talkier QT but that is Jakie Brown and you dont like that one. This just illustrates how fickle personal opinion can be. Your a conundrum wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a mystery. Good for you.
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I like your style too, friend. You seem to be an original, which is more then can be said about most people in here, if you know what i mean. Besides, you seem to be a fellow true believer of Our Lord Bale. Which is a plus. And yeah, there will be less bashing of Shit Trek in 2010, since even now the enthusiasm for that piece of crap seems to have died out quite a bit, despiste the more pressing protestations from the loonies. Beside,s next year there will be some movies which are catchign my attention and enthusiasm, the biggest of them being, of course, Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION.As for "you haven't got the minerals", i actually took it from a movie, and i'm suprise most haven't got it yet. It's a paraphrasing (not an exact quote) from a line of dialogue from SNATCH.
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Watchmen would had found time to show the island with the scientists if it had saved on all that useless show off slow motion bullshit that is on the movie everytime one of the heroes so much makes a move to lift his arm to scratch his armpit. Cut off the stupid slow motion of the movie and you could put a hell of a lot more story in that movie.
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where the little man undoes himself with his own big mouth. Nice job!
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BringingSexyBack, i hope you have noticed it too, but there was a part of the movie that made me laugh like helel, and it was when the heroes go from the Gize Pyramids and reach the Egypcian-Jordanian border in mere minutes, then they have a short car ride and reach Petra, and then they go back to the pyramids, all in a short time car ride. That alone is pretty retarded, considering that there's some really pretty big distances between the two monuments. Again, like in Bad boys 2, Bay seems to think that everything outside USA is just a short car distance away.But the stupidiest thing is not that movie. No, the stupidiest thing is the very Egypt-Jordania border. In Bay's movie, people can go, by land, directly from Egypt to jordania without having to cross Israel first. MICHAEL BAY REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL.
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You are wasting precious oxygen.
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I'll have a cheeseburger with fries, and a diet coke. Thanks buddy.
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Only dropped 3% in its second week, 3 fucking percent!!! That is a rare thing. So haters hoping for its failure can sit and scream their heads off, that is NOT the sign of a movie that is going to fail. Had there been a 30-50% drop off you might have a case, but not with a 3% drop off. It almost made the same money it made opening weekend, again, a rare accomplishment.
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Transformers 2 was not meant to be a documentary. Honestly, do you think every movie has to be realistic? It was a comic book.
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Ah, okay. I've not seen Snatch in some time but i think i recognise it now. Snatch is one of only three movies that i like Vinnie Jones in. The others being Lock Stock and The Midnight Meat Train. Tis a good movie though and Brad Pitt is excellent.Alas, my devotion to the Christian Bale fan club has waned slightly since watching the awful Terminator Salvation. I wish he could go back to making great movies like The Machinist but, alas, i think those days are behind him.I'm glad we will see less of the Star Trek-ranting AsimovLives in 2010. No doubt something else will come along to anger you but at least it will be a new topic. :)I'm also looking forward to Inception. In Nolan we trust!
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You have to forgive me. I've been over at CHUD a lot recently where the Anti-Avatard feeling is strong. Your post makes sense.
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Dec 27, 2009 5:47:13 PM CST
CBTML is currently watching Zombieland
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
And enjoying it a lot.
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can we hate that? I await your permission.
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First lets fix #1 Foxtronic2003.
You slobbering neocon moron..you'd be lucky to get ME to hire YOU..I work in the media you slack jawed cunthead.
Now for AssholeBreathes...oh good lord I laughed aloud..the douche who wastes endless hours blithering about a film he hates (surely the sign of 13yr old mind)
is telling ME not to waste oxygen.
Now, mummy is gonna call you both up for your din din's from the basement shortly, so dont let me get in the way of either your dribbling refutations of either known science or taste.
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One thing is to be realistic. Another is to be COMPLETLY STUPID. How would you like to see a movie where a character would drive from Canada to Mexico in just 5 minutes and the movie made Canada have a border with Mexico? How would that strike you? Wiould you be that non-chalant? Oh, it's just a movie, so what if it doesn't have the USA between Canada and Mexico, right? You got the point now?
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Ye man of little faith! So you were disapointed by Bale's performance in a movie directed by MCG? Well, what would you expect? It's McG, for Bale's sake! That guy can suck the fun of anything when he's not making a Charlie's Angels movie. He even made the nicest apocalypse ever put onscren for his Terminator Salvation movie.And really, it's through adversity that your faith is tested. Consider Terminator Salvation your walk in the valley of the shadoes of death. If you come acrosso it with your faith in Bale still going strong, then you have the faith to move mountains. Belief in Bale and you will be rewarded. Praise Bale!IN NOLAN WE TRUST... indeed! Indeed!!!
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Did the camera have to be moving NON stop?
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At a press screening, yet Avatar is a fox movie. And remembering back to Wolverine Harry said that Fox doesn't let him into press screenings? Anyone else catch that?
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Seriously, were you in a tragic car accident? Head trauma, amirite? Keep up the recovery, in another 10 years the brain is an amazing organ, it will reconnect all of your shredded neuron connectors, one day you might be able to wipe your own ass again.
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Because Michael Bay is a fucking retard.
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Stop wasting good oxygen!
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kthx
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Inception looks like the only movie to look forward to so far.
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I can think of a DOZEN things I saw in various movies that never makes any sense. Why the fuck does The Comedian in Watchmen kill Kennedy, and he's still a hero? Why the fuck does that Blue guy live on Mars in Watchmen, cause he hates humanity? Oh boo hoo.
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in both the book and the movie The Comedian is never seen as a hero. He's a government operative that's at odds with the superheroes and dismisses their methods as ineffective. The "Blue guy" doesn't live on Mars, he leaves Earth to be completely isolated from humanity, which he no longer relates to. There are no humans on Mars.Maybe you might read the book a little closer?
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It's been awhile, so I don't remember. I do have that motion comic thing I've never watched.
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I'm a guy who loved the graphic novel. And I thought the movie was pretty well-done. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's really just the ending that made it feel disappointing, but I digress. I think the reason why the movie wasn't successful enough was because it tried to cram too much into a time-span that was a little less than 3 hours, and this would obviously leave out some key character moments from the book which lack of would leave some audiences who didn't read it a bit confused. To do a near-perfect adaptation of the novel, they'd need at least 6 hours. I think it would've worked perfectly if they did 3 separate 2-hour movies being release around 2 months after the other, but alas, that might've been too much of a financial risk, and WB just decided to go with just one film adaptation for the whole thing, which is a shame because I would've LOVED to have seen the movie extended into a 6 hour-long story. Even though the film we got in the end wasn't 100% faithful, the way it was directed and the actors chosen for the roles were just perfect. Had they developed the whole story, it'd be like a geekgasm for those who loved the comic. My suggestion? Read the novel. Believe me, it's a VERY good read, and I guarantee you, if you don't love it, you'll at least enjoy it.
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The two heroes in the book are Ozy and the Comedian. Ozy because he is smart enough to realize that humanity sucks and social engineer a solution; the Comedian because he understands the sick joke humanity is, hence his name.
The book fails philosophically because it only serves to reinforce the negative behavior it observes. "People are nihilistic because there are no values, so we are going to continue to tell them there are no values." People act immorally when they are told there are no morals or they can't understand morals; which is exactly what you tell them when you social engineer a "solution" for them. "You can't do it yourself, so I'm going to do it for you." -
...in the sense that Ozy and the Comedian are the best representatives of the book's philosophical point in the book. The book technically has no "heroes" because its point is that heroes are impossible because humanity sucks.
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Alan Moore even admits this (at least he did to me) and i know for a fact that Zach Snyder made the movie with this is mind, he stated "Rorschach is the heart and soul of the film, he's the face of the very humanity the rest of the Watchmen have chosen to ignore"
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can we all just forget it ever existed. please. just shut the fuck up about it already.
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But it was pretty overhyped. I did enjoy some of the action sequences, but a lot of it was too brooding.
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That might add up to, at most, 90 seconds to 2 minutes of screen time. I still think that it would take about 15 minutes to set up The Comedian uncovering the plot then add the payoff of the murders of the scientists and artists on the island and 'squid'.t. It would kill the pace of an already 3 hour movie to a standstill. It's an unnecessary digression and doesn't add anything to the characters in the film;
it's a passive and indirect action that doesn't add to Veidt as a character but only advances 'plot' — it's a digression from a character based story, not his motives. He's not directly involved in their assassinations like he is with the other scientists in Karnak.Also, if The Comedian killed President Kennedy, why couldn't he kill the scientists and Veidt's clone all in one go? He's an assassin, right? One that can kill the most powerful government figure on Earth, but he can't make an island of scientists and artists disappear? Another thing, how would the screenwriters set up a 'resultant psychic shockwave that kills half of New York' and make it believable? We're supposed to believe that psychic phenomena exist in this world? Then how come none of the heroes have heightened telekinetic powers or have psychic insights? It's just stretches credibility to the breaking point.
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WATCHMEN is NOT in ANY way about making super heroes look cool. It's about making them look bad. It's about making them look like they have stubble and beer guts and small penises. It's about making sure they have bad breath and stink of alcohol and have ugly S&M buttsex and piss on themselves and get old. It's NOT about fight scenes. It's about vomit and dogs with their heads chopped in and people's heads exploding and raped women and burned soldiers. It's about ugliness and nastiness of the human condition. The second he does a slow motion fight scene he loses the very point of WATCHMEN, which is to indict the viewer for loving super heroes. Ever ask Alan Moore what he thinks of super heroes? He can't stand them. Think it was a love letter to super heroes? No, it's a piece of hate mail and a Dear John letter rolled into one. The people who made WATCHMEN would be happy if there were never a super hero comic again after theirs, and theirs is a giant middle finger up the bum for all of the people who enjoy reading comics. Alan Moore has even said as much, going on record to express his hatred of any one who enjoys a super hero comic book.
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I'm sure people will stop discussing Watchmen, if you'd just get off your tuckus and closed the U.S.A.'s Federal Reserve. Get the credit cards out —
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is that the method of SIN CITY would have been a better use for WATCHMEN, putting the people in comic book panels and using text and audio-only and other forms to get all the messages across, making it a visual representation of the comic, with all its ugliness and evil on display. He should have done that and the movie would have bombed even harder but at least it would have been true to its source, with spittle and vomit and diarrhea.
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I would concur with "Moon". "Up" was strange. The whole weird-ass part about the talking dogs and rare bird really lost me. "Avatar" deserves its spot for sfx only. God knows the story was painfully trite. I would include in my list the excellent "Taken", "The Hangover", "Zombieland" and "Star Trek". Bring on 2010!!
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You completely failed to read and comprehend what I wrote. But go ahead and come up with some kind of "come back", it doesn't matter - I'm moving on. Sorry you wasted your time.
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The other thing I found more jarring in TF2 was the CONSTANT dialog. Like for the first hour and half the SECOND someone fished talking it CUT RIGHT to someone else talking, it was non stop for SO long. Its pretty crazy that a movie like TF2 was even made.
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I'm sorry, but that is a pretty shitty complaint. Have you ever seen an episode of Law and Order?
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superheroes. Along with Dave Gibbons back in 1987 at Forbidden Planet in London. But, I digress. The point of the Watchmen movie was to deconstruct superhero movies, not comic books. It's too easy to look at what Snyder did and say "Oh he's just going for cool shots…" Sorry. Wrong. I just watched it again and it's so painfully obvious that his film is about deconstructing 'superhero movies' (and what they've influenced) in the early half of the 21st Century.Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's were responding to the comic book milieu of the 80's, where the Comics Code was a real threat to what types of stories could be told. They were reaching for more relevant stories for a readership that were getting superior forms of entertainment from outside the comic book industry. Also, books like "Love and Rockets" and "Maus" were telling stories in ways that other artforms weren't. Moore had looked at work like "The Adventures of Luther Arkwright" by Bryan Talbot and Michael Moorcock's work and with Gibbons continued to explore the stylistic and thematic possibilities utilized by those artists and transferred that to the superhero genre.As for his hatred of superheroes, I'm unconvinced — it seems much more likely that he hates 'fandom' with all it's reductive and slavish devotion to obsolete traditions and minutiae. He continued to write superheroes until a few years ago with his work for Wildstorm.For God's sake Gibbons worked on the fucking movie and did confer with Snyder on a lot of the visuals and themes (because Gibbons is a very good writer, in addition to his spectacular artistic talents, on his own).
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You're right, you're not even a conservative, you're just a straight out fucked in the head WACKO you repeats all the most extremest lunatic climate. denialist, culture wars horseshit.
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I enjoyed Watchmen more than Avatard.
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do you retarded mongoloids think you could retaliate without copying exactly what I've said and saying it back to me? It's not fucking hard, if your child-like brain is incapable of producing an original thought use a thesaurus. K? Thx
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What about Daybreakers and Legion and Youth in Revolt? Ya know shit that is coming out next month. Personally Cera has a big question mark and bullseye on his back with Youth in Revolt. Daybreakers looks kinda cool but Undead was only Ok and I forget who said it rivals The Thing (Massa I think??)but I gotta say..Yuh Right. Legion looks like the right kind of wrong to me. The lighting and pallet have me sucked in already and Dennis Quaid has a permanent pass from me just for Innerspace. What say you nerd herd?
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Your not making sense…
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— I'm serious…
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there is no left and right, there is the rich and the poor. The establishment has hijacked both parties and is now using them to divide us. It's the most basic strategy of war. Even you quantize should be able to comprehend this, thay actually admit to the "war on the middle class" on your cherished news for the dumb and lazy - CNN.
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Fall Of The Republic
http://tinyurl.com/ylrqz4j
Zeitgeist
http://tinyurl.com/yjvvtod
9/11, The Road to Tyranny
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America: Freedom to Fascism
http://tinyurl.com/ykp7cjx
ENDGAME: Blue Print for Global Enslavement
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The Money Masters - How Int. Bankers Gained Control of America
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Global Warming or Global Governance
http://tinyurl.com/yl4bspq
Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming
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Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire
www.sott.net
Tortured in far-off Countries: Obama Resuming G. W. Bush's "Extraordinary Renditions"
www.globalresearch.ca
The Obama Deception
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LBJ On JFK Assassination: ‘It’s All A Conspiracy’
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I like where this is going. I'm thinking western. Bale was great in 3:10 to Yuma and Quaid...what was his last western..Wyatt Earp? Yup..I smell that cooking.
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Bale fought AGAINST dragons in Reign Of Fire and Quaid fought FOR dragons in Dragonheart.Ergo, their movie together should be dragon related. Perhaps robot dragons just to keep it fresh.
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Christian Bale and Dennis Quaid.
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during the gold rush...and.....
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a cocksucker.
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I just think QT missed the mark with Jackie Brown. It's simply uninteresting to me. If I wanted to see that movie I could go and find 100 better examples. All of which I'm sure QT watched while he was working at the video store. Secondly, it started the string of him emulating and ATTEMPTING to update other genres (Jackie Brown, the Kill Bills and Grindhouse). Whereas Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction both felt wholly original to me. Inglorious Basterds reaches for that bar, but it's lacking in a way I can't quite put my finger on. Hope that makes a little more sense.
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He's a good filmmaker, but his movies aren't really for me.
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Can the guy DO another voice? Because really, that quiet, slightly stuttering, kinda girly whimper he seems to use in every part just ain't doin' it for me anymore. I don't have anything against him (unlike someone like Shia LaDouche, who I wish would get pummeled by an entire unexpected and heretofor unknown and very large asteroid shower, which miraculously doesn't burn up and only lands where he is at that particular moment) and I've actually enjoyed most of his films. But DAMN his voice is just really, REALLY starting to get on my nerves. It also makes it very difficult to re-watch his films.
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you're a completely flakey moron Foxtronic, you read shit on the interwebs and don't look past the masthead to see whose funding the lies. You're an idiot of epic proportions...total wacko. Every single one of those links is horseshit, go start digging for a brain.
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I get that. Foxy is more fun than Jackie. I liked Robert Forster more than anything else in the movie. I hear you about QT "ATTEMPTING to update other genres". I certainly don't think his movies are flawless masterpieces but I always appreciate is effort despite the faults.
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Yeah you haven't. The NON stop dialog is fucking jarring and annoying. If not for Year One, TF2 easily takes worst movie of the year.
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between psuedo liberal and conservative conspiracies..proves you're an even handed fuckwit with a conservative leaning..The global warming stuff you quote is hilarious unfounding and embarassing. Just the fact you read that shit is the hallmark of a first class idiot looking for reds under beds.
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I've been having meetings at WB and watchmen is there gig push for best picture at the oscers. Now i'm not 100 percent involved with the best picture push (i'm actually only there to work on a Britney Murphy oscer tribute or sorts) but i've heard rumblings that Watchmen may get not only a nom, but also the award for best picture
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They slap a wig (or just a stupid looking haircut) and a Smashing Pumpkins shirt on him and he looks like a fuckin idiot. BTW.. I'm not familiar with Scott Pilgrim but...Why Smashing Pumpkins? It's not like they are relevant anymore. Is it set at a certain time? If it wasn't for Wright I would be RUNNING the other way.
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You know, I've ignored the SHIT out of you but I can't any more. You are one of the smallest human beings I have ever encountered in reality or online. You positively disgust me. Have fun spending your life doing what you're doing.
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It's worthwhile.
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Thanks for the Big Lebowski answer.
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Shyaaaauuuuut uuuuuuuaaaap!!! You didn't even spell Oscar correctly. lol
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I've seen plenty of shitty movies this year, but TF 2 is far more watchable than most of the movies that came out this summer. How does Harry Potter have 4 or so movies, but they're forgotten by winter?
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...by THESE talkbacks. And I did find it to be a great, lighthearted and very fun read (only read the first four so far). However, as I thought from just checking out some images online prior to reading the books, Cera is a TERRIBLE choice for the part.
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when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag!
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...by the people who love the Harry Potter movies. However, regardless of all the other points people have argued about TF2, if you remove the altogether distracting, unrealistically long and unnecessary "transformations" (zzshhhhh, click, clack, zzzshhh - repeat 700 times each time a robot of any size does so), along with the constant comPLETELy unbelievable and hard to follow action scenes (man I'm really looking forward to filmmakers returning to less than 10 edits a second styles), there really isn't much movie left. "It's your destiny Sam Witwicky"
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—what did you think of the action scenes in "Avatar"?
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Fuck everything about you.
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I have heard a lot of good things about the books but is the Smashing Pumpkins shirt appropriate, or is it like wearing a Zepplin shirt nowadays? Not that I put the 2 bands anywhere near each other but just in a nostalgic sense.
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Frack from BSG is a pathetic and childish way to slip in fake F-bombs. Fantastic Mr. Fox does not play childish games. They tell you it is a vulgar word, and it is pretty clear which it is. Allows kids to know that a bad word is more appropriate for the situation, and the viewer can decide for themselves to accept either the substitution or "cuss" as the actual dialogue. "Frack" is no less nerdier than Klingon, and petty.
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you're boring. Just do what Asimov suggests. It's for the best.
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Watched the Philly game, ran some errands, caught up on this thread, thnx for the response. Also noticed the King Kong animation is back, wonder why?
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don't you guys just hate when you write a script and then the man goes and changes that..we can totally relate on issues like that right guys?
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called you to "punch it up" in the end you ruined it cause you are a studio puppet.
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Dec 27, 2009 10:00:05 PM CST
I love the way avatar fans wave the Box office figures about
by slappy jones
because we all know a piece of shit has never made money before
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and i fucking love the book but the movie was painful. every single person miscast. even haley. fuck him too. awful awful film.
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The current animation is in tribute to the Texas Longhorns college football team, if memory serves. Harry slaps it up there when they win big games. They must have been in a bowl game this weekend. I think it's the longhorns anyway, because Kong is doing the "hook 'em horns". And the building is somewhere in Texas, too... I think. Why do I remember that stuff? Must be something better to fill me poor melon with. Haven't seen Avatar yet. I have a ticket for this UPCOMING Friday. It's been constantly sold out at my local IMAX 3D and that's the way I want to see it first.
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Yes, of course lots of shit has made obscene amounts of money. But by doing so, regardless of critical praise, said shit has been financially successful. That's my point about Avatar making money. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't comment on the quality of the film itself (although everything I've read tells me I'm correct to keep walking the middle line, because if I do so I'll probably enjoy it quite a bit). However, all the people that predicted doom and gloom failure for this movie were straight up wrong! It is, and is going to continue to be, a FINANCIAL success. Like, you do realize there were people saying things like, "it's going to be a total flop", "nobody will go see it", "I don't know ANYBODY who is planning to see this movie", "I don't even know anybody who's heard of it" and "it will be out of the theater in two weeks"? Right? And they weren't said once, they were said over and over and over and over (you get the picture). So you'll have to excuse some of us rubbing their noses in it a bit.
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It's obvious right now he's a troll. I mean, I can't stand a lot of Asimov's, BSB's or Messiah's posts but at least they're human beings with independent thoughts I disagree with. Jett is just making shit up now that his story has more holes in it than swiss cheese.
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"Oscer" Come! On!
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Somehow I think you're going to be disappointed. First of all, is it really R? I'd be surprised seeing as how they might want to get all those teenage girls in. Second of all, due to her being two years under legal I doubt they will put in scenes of Dakota being spit roasted. For now your jailbait fetish will have to remain with google image searches of Amanda Wenk and Saaya Irie.
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And he died?!?! No, I jest. You mean he was banned or somethin'? I haven't see tehthincreepyman, or whatever his name was, in a few days either.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out he was Jett. Same frequent spelling and grammar errors and everything. He didn't get banned, his posts are still up, I think. And it does seem strange he went from posting on every topic every day to literally dropping off the face of the internet planet.
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he's always getting banned and making new IDs. He's been the above name, CharlesThomasMathews, CharThoMat-something, TehCreepyThinMan, etc. He used to rant about Harry and how this site sucks but he kept coming back. Might have indirectly helped Harry lose Paramount as a sponsor, too, apparently.
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just wanna make sure we're all on the same internet hate bandwagon. Are we hating avatar yet or is that hate due for a couple of months down the road...are the prequels ok to like now, who makes these desicions, the angriest virgin on the internet? Is he elected?
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..haven't seen or heard from him since Avatar came out. I think it drove him over the edge. and yes he was 12...or the mental equivalent.
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I have no interest in it on a jail bait level. That's kind of creepy actually - thanks for bringing it up. I thought the clip of Cherry Bomb was kind of interesting, though. At least it's them singing. However, can anyone explain why the Lita Ford part is so small in the film?
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...and totally fell in love. Ahhh, how cute!
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That's what happens when you're eating soup and typing at the same time.
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..ripping me six new assholes or something. But MAN! tehcreepythinman was just WAY too angry. Like, major heart attack, shoot a bunch of people in a McDonalds angry. Nothing on this site, nor any opinion from a bunch or anonymous words on a screen, should make you THAT angry.
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i wasn't expecting much but i quite enjoyed the final product
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man that guy was dim. I'll feel a little bad if Harry posts an obit like he did one time with that one guy from the Coaxial or something, but still. Not a bright man. Made a point of bashing typical fanboy idols like Bruce Campbell, Pixar, and Mad Men (!) only to defend Transformers II constantly.
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..i miss his unapologetic retardation. you always knew he would say the opposite of what a normal human would say. I come to bury lockes not to praise him..
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Your time here is limited. Know this.
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About the Inception Poster TB, if you were wondering, or even care. A group of TBers, who have come to be known as the Pedalbackers (started as a whim in an old Nolan Tb where he back pedaled on a statement he made) who sought to set a record for most posts in a single TB, previously thought to be held by the Baleback (the one about Bale ranting about the lights). It reached over 10,000, can't recall the exact amount, till AICN shut it down. They have been hopping from TB to TB and now reside in the Inception Poster thread. If you would like to know more, return there and ask Subtitles_Off. If not, no harm no foul.
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I agree with him on his opinion of Transformers and Don Murphy, but he took it way too far. I felt a little bad has apparently some dudes from another board hacked his email and discovered he was a 30-year-old fast food employee, thus reaffirming that sometimes stereotypes do come true. However, he was so rabidly anti-American (meaning it seemed to come from a hateful place versus critical place), and all-around psychotic that I don't miss him too much. ZombieHeathLedger loved him, though. "Loved" him.
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while I'm not eating soup, I am making pizza. That sounds like a sexual metaphor. Wait, they both do.
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why do some people feel the need to tell another member to shut up? i've never understood that
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No, that definitely explains why that thread would have so many posts. Because, really, it IS just a poster. I've seen mention of the Pedalbackers before, too. But I had nary a clue as to the meaning. Thanks for the explanation.
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While I think, as most rational men do, that women do not magically become sexually desirable suddenly on their 18th birthday, I cannot for the life of me imagine dating (or even "hooking up" as the kids say) with someone so young. I'm 27 and I feel older than shit already. The world belongs to the Lady Gagas and the Twilights. Me, my Matchbox Twenties and Matrixes are going to sulk in the corner alone.
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...brain cell. Move along, move along.
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Like how to make friends or please a woman.
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the best part is playing it full out. As for lockes and CarlThorMark I LOVE the lunatics on here. This place would be Vanilla city without em.
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Oh yeh sure, I'm gonna do exactly what the two biggest dropkicks in every thread suggest...
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b-day. They just had nothing left to offer at that point.
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I'm a bit older than you and I've got a five year each way limit. I once dated a woman (she could still go to a bar) twelve years my younger because we were set up by a mutual friend who thought we had a lot in common. It turns out, we did. But then, whenever I had to hang out with ANY of her friends it was PURE TORTURE! They were completely clueless to the ways of the world, acted like total morons and literally annoyed me to anger. Needless to say, the woman and I only lasted about six months and the five year rule quickly went into affect. I need to relate to at least SOME of the same things as the people I'm spending ANY of my personal free time with. Some guys CLEARLY don't have this problem. Me, no cat is worth the weirdness.
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lockes wasn't banned; his posts are still visible. Nah, I've got a feeling that ol' lockey-poo couldn't take the heat so he changed his screenname (which is something he's done it before). So, with that in mind......have you seen saber12? I'm pretty sure that's him.
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everyone's favorite trolls and the such. The most memorable psychos since I've been here? moviemack ( I always wondered what he thought of The Dark Knight), JDanielP (I used to love reading his daydreams about talking with studio executives who would discover him via a talkback), DannyGloversDickBlood (I know he was semi-popular, but dude was a troll, too. I respect him for building his own site, though. Man has to have a hobby), those dudes who would only post in the Script Girl talkbacks defending her who suddenly disappeared when she did, and lastly the recently departed lockes and CTM. We still got ZombieHeath, Messiah, and Jett. Lucky us.
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Other than a billion dollar fortune, of course. O_o Not that that matters... (whistles)
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EXPERIENCED, even. And I think you could be right.
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It even beat Sherlock Holmes? Not bad...
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BIG LOB!
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Longer than me. I heard rumors he was skywalkerfamily, who I vaguely remember. Unless 97-09 refers to mental ability. In which case, I agree. I'll always remember the way he would comment on every talkback, mostly going "who?" or "never heard of it". Way to contribute, sport.
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formerly known as SkywalkerFamily, lover of Star Wars, Lost, and Transformers. Hater of Joss Whedon. He really bugged the shit out of me (amongst others) but I wish him no ill will. Hopefully it's just a problem with his computer or something. Love him or hate him, he's still as much a part of AICN as everyone else.
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you can change your name but not your mental handicap unless he is back on his meds. Honestly, I think lockes is a spoiled rich kid who is vacationing with his wealthy parents in some obscure part of the world and they won't allow him near the internet.
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when my buddy would humorously (and probably a little sincerely) drool over them in their teen idol days they looked like clean, girl next door types. Then they became some weird pseudo-hipsters with buggy-alien sunglasses, XXL dresses and giant purses. Also weird to think that they have basically no career now. What do they do that still makes them money? Hollywood really does chew you up and spit you out if you're a young woman. Watch your back, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and iCarly. Stay off the pills and powder, or end up like Britney and Lohan.
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Someone else brought that up in another TB. I said it was possible, his name being (light)saber12, but not probable, his posts would eventually betray him to be locke, no?
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I used to think 2000, but now I think 2001 is probably more accurate. But this year, and really the last few months, is the most I've ever had time to post and then FOLLOW what I posted through this long (and usually very enjoyable) talkbacks. I used to just be a post and run kinda talkbacker because I had several other regular haunts on teh internets. But now, they're either gone or I no longer frequent them, so I've been here quite a bit. I have to say, some of y'all are some patient souls. I've been driven away from here before because of the unwarranted vitriol spewed by certain other talkbackers. I don't think I could have taken it on a regular basis for over a decade. I probably would have cut out a long time ago.
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new year. my new name MacReady453
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he's really not taking advantage of being one. He should be boning everything that moves. People are whores for money. Hence, My Sweet 16 on MTV. The birthday boys/girls could order self-immolation and people would do it.
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How much bullshit is it to have such a small sack that you'd change your user name? Stand by what you have to say or get the fuck out. *uhum* Anyway, I guess you'd have to change it if you were banned.
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No offense intended! Heh.
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He had another name that he used to go by before that one but it received the Ban Hammer and I've long since forgotten it.
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I think it's really easy to let a few rotten apples spoil the bunch. There's harmless, lovable dolts like Media Messiah and JDanielP, then there's hateful, weird, mean people like AsimovLives and ZombieHeathLedger. I guess you just have to luck in and find a good talkback and post while the iron is hot.
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You compared TF 2 to Law and Order...... you know nothing.
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its the internet. who cares if you say something stupid once in awhile. I saw G.I. Joe twice in the theater. There ya go. fucking stupid right?
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you wouldn't be leading me to some sort of Chris Hanson situation, would you? We need a new reference, that show's off the air now. We'll always have ConeBone69.
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I totally agree. Since I've been posting regularly lately I'll often only hang around when a certain "crowd" is taking part. The others only hang around as long as there's something for them to hate, or they're getting responses from people trying to reason with them (and what a waist that is). I just leave 'em alone for an hour, or a day, and then come back.
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Eventually his posts will betray him and I think their frequency, banality, and/or subject matter will be the key.(Of course, there are those of us who tend to get under his skin and could probably draw his fire, if you know what I'm sayin'.)
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Big ass heads and eyeballs with little twiggy bodies. Just totally freaks me out.
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well, people on Law and Order do behave like robots sometimes.
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this is for sure, i'm no one who has ever come before
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Dec 27, 2009 11:16:06 PM CST
I would think out of defiance lockes wouldn't change his name...
by thejokesonus
if he got tired of being willfully stupid, he could always just educate himself or start posting normal if it was indeed an act. I remember him saying Citizen Kane was boring in defense of Transformers II. And I believe he meant every word.
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The reason Lita is not featured more in this is that she reportedly wanted nothing to do with the making of this and dislikes most of the people making this thing something fierce. Seeing as how her career consists of reliving 1989 and raising a couple o brats...the bleach must have finally seeped into her 50-ish skull.
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it was only a matter of time.
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OKIE DOKIE! Keep telling your mom one day you'll move out of the basement!
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All the women I'd ever post are legal...in Missouri, Japan, and most of Europe.
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What happened to that guy? He used to rag on Batman Begins as much as AsimovLives rags on Star Trek. He would rag on it before the movie, during the success of the release, after the movie came out, and got banned before The Dark Knight rumors started heating up. I sometimes wonder if he just went to another movie site and is talking about how Two Face would never have done this or the Joker wasn't captured to his liking.
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do not fear the camel toe.
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Missouri just a boner away. And in case you're wondering, yes, Kansas is just as exciting as Smallville.
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Con - Thanks, I kinda figured that might be the issue. Seeing her in a couple of doc and metal retrospectives kind of leads you in that direction. Mac... umm... did you PAY to see it twice? Heh.
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Oh yes, I remember moviemack. He was basically the Eeyore of AICN. Considered himself the ultimate Batman fan (maybe second only to JarJar 4 Prez/Jeff Albertson et al).I think he got banned and came back under another name right before TDK came out. Once the film opened to great acclaim, he disappeared. Shame...he was one of the more entertaining old-school trolls.
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was for the Willy Wonka posters, where people argued over whether Veruca Salt was being sexualized. This one's more fun and light-hearted... plus the chicks all have boobs!
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Good guitarist, and I jacked to her frequently as a teen...but now a sad, kinda barfly-ish broad attached to the 80s like a tick
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Chopper is on IFC now, followed by Henry in about 10 minutes. Trips me the hell out how different Bana looks all bigged up like that. And I think I might have to watch Henry - haven't seen it in years.
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I draw the line at Boobs no Boobs. Seeing as how Dakota wears 4" fuck me heels, micro minis and no bra on the red carpet...I feel she has given the "OK" to us having sexually deviant feelings towards her...
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ozzy kills on that song with her!
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or even 25. When did "Kiss Me Deadly" come out? I saw her on a doc on MTV once and she basically said she wasn't ready to have kids or settle down and still wanted to rock. This was in the mid-90s I suppose. Do you think she sometimes goes through memorabilia while the kids are in school, tears dropping on old vinyl records? Wow, that was dark.
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... her being interviewed NOT that long ago; she was not understanding why she wasn't still popular and why people weren't "rocking" anymore. It actually made me cringe inside a little. Never expected her to become a stereotype or caricature.
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Dec 27, 2009 11:29:06 PM CST
conspiracy, you're officially in the cool talkbacker category...
by thejokesonus
any guy that can man up and admit to getting tight-pantsed while seeing high school cheerleaders at Forever 21 is an honest fucking joe.
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Dakota and Kristen Stewart are troopers folks...if the script says swear like a sailor, simulate sex drugs and rock and roll while wearing hyper sleazy lingerie...they'll do it... for arts sake.
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...I'm not condoning gettin' creepy with underage girls in any way. Totally against it, actually. But Dakota was like, MENTALLY 25 when she was 10. Every actor and director who has ever worked with her has said she's nothing like any OTHER child actor they've worked with. She's definitely on that Jody Foster tip.
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Dec 27, 2009 11:30:59 PM CST
"conspiracy, you're officially in the cool talkbacker category..
by macready452
he made my top 10^
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although according to Encyclopedia Dramatica interest in her has really dropped off since the mid-00s.
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That might have been the Decline of Western Civilization: The Metal Years. The one I saw was NOT that long ago. Only a couple years. It was sad.
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And yes...I get "dragged" along with her. God I hate that store...so hard to walk.
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now off to watch the Disney Channel. Kidding, kidding!
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Because I won't lie, I did a Yahoo image search when she was mentioned earlier in this talkback. Are all those pics when she was a minor? If so, fuh-reakin' yikes!
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doing some gig in Oklahoma. the woman has COVERED herself in tattoos...I'm talking full sleeves. And ya..she was talking about "Rockin" again. Fuck it was cliched...and sad.
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he talked about how he was so old they no longer saw him as a sexual being, and then something about how he didn't care. Then he said he was kidding... that of course he wanted to bang them. That's why the founding fathers made a law against it.
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I'd tell you to go to Wikipedia, but apparently any article attempt gets squashed in a hurry.
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Well, isn't the Runaways based on one of their books? If so, the content of the movie should be pretty easy to discover. Totally agree, Jodie did not go the way of the hottie. But her brain is still gigantous, she's very loyal to her friends and she doesn't take anybodies bullshit. That's all I'm sayin' about Dakota. I'm expecting her to end up the same way. Look at all the people she's already worked with. She has no reason to take anybodies bullshit. And unless she has some sudden unforseen brain damage, she ain't gonna suddenly get stupider... I hope.
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I'ma go check out that Encyclopedia and watch Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Lateski.
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and drift away to nothingness....
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For the tears that result in watching Henry, of course.
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I'm going to go find out what a Pacifico is and then just shoot up like always.
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can you believe I get paid to bullshit on here?
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I don't miss lockes. I hated that whole trend of everyone calling thremselves "celebrity's something" or "character's something" after DannyGloversDickBlood, which always made me think of a big penis leaking blood, as opposed to being the blood in the penis, IE his dick is peeing a mixture of pee nad blood all over the place. See, that's not pretty. Anyway, I do miss a number of posters who are long gone. Mostly, though, I feel like it's a shame that so many of them get scared off by people being big jerks. It's a forum, foreflock'ssake.
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thats good shit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9MkfP3Mj0
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Hard for me to be too critical when I haven't seen movies 10,9,6,5 or 2, but am sure I will see some of them soon.
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My top 5 are as follows :
1. Avatar
2. District 9
3. Hurt Locker
4. Inglorious Basterds
5. Up
Just missing out are Departures (Okuribito) and Moon
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Dec 28, 2009 6:18:15 AM CST
When do the Hollywood studios open up again?
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
I...need......new.....movie news....to.....talk....about.
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... both the documentaries Decline Of The Western Civilization.
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Sorry, but UP was one of the biggest let-downs of the year for me. Obvious planet-sized plot holes, an opening story that makes people depressed and cry. A bad guy that wasn't necessary, and side plots that are simply forgotten about. Lazy filmaking from Pixar? Who'd a thunk it? WTWTA was deceptive marketed as a kids flick but was not-really-a-for-kids movie. Plus Spike Jonez gives us that "look how smart I am" and "gee I'm so clever" attitude of film making. UGH, enough of that shit already. Where the hell is Star Trek Harry? It's easily one of the best of the year. I still find myself re-watching it at least once a week.
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Dec 28, 2009 8:28:49 AM CST
burnhollywood, I agree with some of your points about IG...
by lanemyersclassic
I kinda liked IG, but no way was it in my top 5 of the year mostly because of your last point about Landa's "deal" at the end - absolutely ridiculous. And the 3 stooges Italian bit at the premier was just stupid. These guys would've been summarily shot. I loved the scenes at the farmhouse and the bar - tremendous work and I could've watched those go on for 20 more minutes!
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Fuck me it was great. I picked it up in the sales for under five quid. YOU FUCKIN CANNNNT!
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Dec 28, 2009 8:51:10 AM CST
ZOOEY WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT SONIA IN THE NINJA GAIDEN MOVIE
by bringingsexyback
She's got the sexiness down cold, naturally. And her breasts might might not be huge physically, but they're damned enormous in spirit. The only danger is that she would upstage Ryu in battling the demons and ninjas but the edit room will be able to take care of that.
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He was good people then, still is good people now. He enjoys annoying the fuck out of people, but ultimately he's harmless and infuses this place with a cheerful personality.
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Dec 28, 2009 9:07:52 AM CST
HARRY'S LIST MISSING HURT LOCKER AND (500) DAYS OF SUMMER
by bringingsexyback
Criminal. I don't know how some half-assed Korean version of Guy Ritchie-styled Sherlock Holmes can be perceived to be better than those two instant classics, no matter what your taste. Goofy, to say the least.
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http://www.alltrailers.net/the-runaways.html
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I...uh.....what?
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Dec 28, 2009 9:32:01 AM CST
BSB IS TO ZOEY D AS PENNSYDEUX IS TO KRISTENB
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Sounds like the start of a gangsta rap song doesn't it?
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Dec 28, 2009 9:33:56 AM CST
SKYWALKERFAMILY TURNED TO THE DARK SIDE
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
And became LOCKESBROKENLEG.Perhaps his Deathstar got blown up which is why he doesn't post here any more.
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I wonder how the real Charles Bronson feels about the fact that Britain's most notorious prisoner named himself after him? Proud maybe?
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I caught Lockes giving him his midiclhlorians one night. Had to close the door real fast.
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You are SO CUTE!!! Omg, I can't stand it. Avatar is the reinvention of cinema. LO-fucking-L.
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If you saw Annie Hall and liked it, you'll like this. Also if you enjoyed playing the penis game in high school, you'll like it as well.
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While I don't have the patience to make a top 10 list of my own, how are the two connected? I'll leave it to all of you to run things:
1. After paying for both, 2 and a half hours later, I get the feeling I want my money back too.
2. The visuals on both are great, but once you get to the meat of the damn thing, you realize it's an experience you've had before, and done better.
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You'll hit replay the moment the credits are over.
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Where JGL had a dream where he just beat the shit out of Zooey, it would be worth owning.
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...so fucking difficult I return it in shame for my money back?
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Dec 28, 2009 10:20:05 AM CST
...if I try watching it as a stress reducer while on deadline...
by flickapoo
...will it make me want to cry and or kill myself?
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Did you finish the game? The key is to upgrade Scythe and Lunar Staff to level 3. And to use YouTube walkthroughs for help. The hardest thing ever was the subway metal serpent. Fuck that thing was hard.
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We should all be so fortunate.
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20. THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
19. THE ROAD
18. WATCHMEN
17. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
16. THE INFORMANT!
15. PUBLIC ENEMIES
14. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
13. THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX
12. DUPLICITY
11. THE DAMNED UNITED
10. UP
9. STAR TREK
8. DRAG ME TO HELL
7. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER
6. DISTRICT 9
5. CORALINE
4. THE HURT LOCKER
3. A SERIOUS MAN
2. MOON
1. IN THE LOOP
Most Disappointing: Where the Wild Things Are, Terminator: Salvation
Worth a Rental: An Education, Avatar, Cold Souls, Eden (2006), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The International, Paranormal Activity, Sherlock Holmes, Taken, Up in the Air, Zombieland
Don't Bother: 2012, The Box, The Brothers Bloom, Extract, A Girl Cut in Two (2006), The Hangover, Jennifer's Body, State of Play, The Tiger's Tail (2006), Whip It, World's Greatest Dad
That's my 2009 story and I'm sticking to it. Full review and explanations at http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/006445.html
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In real life, the bitches trample your heart and leave you to stew.
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Worth a Rental: An Education, Avatar, Cold Souls, Eden (2006), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The International, Paranormal Activity, Sherlock Holmes, Taken, Up in the Air, Zombieland
Don't Bother: 2012, The Box, The Brothers Bloom, Extract, A Girl Cut in Two (2006), The Hangover, Jennifer's Body, State of Play, The Tiger's Tail (2006), Whip It, World's Greatest Dad
That's my 2009 story and I'm sticking to it. Full reviews at http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/006445.html -
Worth a Rental: An Education, Avatar, Cold Souls, Eden (2006), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The International, Paranormal Activity, Sherlock Holmes, Taken, Up in the Air, Zombieland
Don't Bother: 2012, The Box, The Brothers Bloom, Extract, A Girl Cut in Two (2006), The Hangover, Jennifer's Body, State of Play, The Tiger's Tail (2006), Whip It, World's Greatest Dad
That's my 2009 story and I'm sticking to it. Full reviews at http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/006445.html -
2010: The year we make contact...and the year AICN gets an edit button? nah, it'll never happen.
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...of vatar I think I've heard yet... and the #1 reason I haven't bent over backwards to see it. I KNOW what that greasy-hamburger of a flick is going to feel like in my brain 2 hours after it's over. I'm not running to the theater. Someone on here once suggested that the quality of wine one smuggles into the theater to enhance one's viewing pleasure should be inversely proportional to the quality of the movie. I'm thinking Avatar will be a vintage-Champagne kind of flick. Something really hard to find and ultra-rare.
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How's Worlds Greatest Dad a don't bother? You got a review on your site?
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Because women are smarter about revenge than men :)
Think about it... Landa is just one man. He's good at what he does, but if he is killed, he will just be replaced. Even more important, if you kill him, you'll blow your cover, if you will. The theater plot is then that much more impossible to pull off. So it becomes a choice: kill one man, or destroy the whole machine. -
No wonder your list sucks, you haven't seen the two best movies of the year, Crank: High Voltage and Black Dynamite.
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Yeah, it's here -- http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/006329.html
The upshot is: Robin Williams is very good and the movie is intermittently funny. But WGD is a one-joke movie. And that joke was made in HEATHERS: "I love my dead gay son!"
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And heard good things about both. (CRANK 2 and BLACK DYNAMITE, that is.)
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Fucking brilliant action flick. Better than the first one. Truly delicious cheese.
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Well I think WGD sustain's all the way through, just off of Robin's performence alone. I haven't seen Heathers in some time, but I DVR'ed it the other day I shall check out your comparisons.
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That movie si f-u-n-n-y.Malcolm Tucker for the win!""If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up cause that cunt's a cunt."
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I think you start hallucinating the whole theater is blue and begin making out with all of your fellow patrons.
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I remember when it was coming out and all critics were calling it the end of comedies and satires. Did that shit even make it to DVD? Also sucks that Fox Searchlight didn't pick it up this year. I'm glad Whip It got shot down by critics and movie goeres other wise that movie would be crammed down my throat right now. Hopefully since Slumdog won Fox Searchlight its fucking Oscar they'll lay off the Oscar hyping of their movies for a while.
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and she probably didn't even know she was doing it. That's how selfish and self-absorbed she was. She probably just married some 37-year-old trust fund hipster "artist/writer" from Williamsburg. I mean, she was a freaking receptionist. That's all you really know about her. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is the stock character of the 00s, replacing Nerdy Asian Who Likes To Party or Magical Negro.
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And it took place in LA, not NY. Doh!
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...you're about to lose it.I was talking about the first one. I picked it up a few years ago while on this long, slow grinding deadline. I knew it was supposed to be hard but I figured I could play it for a half hour at a time to unwind.Terrible idea.I consider myself an old school gamer, from the days of pumping in quarters and figuring shit out manual free, so I scorned any and all internet help. Another mistake.I could figure out bosses and patterns, but beaten down a little more every time...until I was limping around with one health bar, a broken sword, an eyeball hanging down on my cheek, and no help in sight.I keep thinking about that fucking game though...I feel in increasing urge to go crawling back...It's probably a case for the good Doctors Geek
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Terminator. Hands down. Man, FUCK YOU McG and that shitty as movie you put out. F U C K YOU!
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...that was fucking UNPLEASANT. I'm starting to think you have to watch out for raw eggs...
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and I know it took place in LA. I said he was from Williamsburg, not that they were in Williamsburg. There's an invention called a plane, and you can... well, wikipedia that shit. And it should have been set in New York. LA is not one of the most beautiful cities in the world, or even in the top 20.
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Anyone seen this? It's hilarious! I think it's meant to be set in the USA, except it's a German production with German accents!"I am vrom California, ja?"
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Actually, my wife was the one who chose this game and we've been sharing controller duty because, yeah, there were many times we were ready to give up. You are far from alone - every comment we've seen on the Net is from a disgruntled player. We help each other with strategy and keeping an eye out on health cuz that goes fast. But the YouTube vids are lifesavers - especially the ones by Mahalo. The game is just gorgeous so it's worth doing. Give it another try!
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You mean you ate an out-of-date cat AND mouse in one night?FlickaPoo you zombie bastard. Keep away from me and my pets!
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and Live of the Thousand Gods ... they come in handy for the big boss battle at the end. We're not really needing them but it's good to have them as insurance.
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...and if I tackle the first one I can put off having to pick up a 360 for a few more months. I intentionally run behind on games and game systems...much cheaper that way. We mostly played XBox...and there are a bunch of ps2 games still out there too...
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Dec 28, 2009 11:32:23 AM CST
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU STOCK UP ON FASHION TIPS
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Oh wait.That's "Ninja Gay Man".
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...a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy...
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There's a lot we don't know about Summer and that's the point. She's exquisite pain that nearly every guy has fallen for at some point in his life. She shows how a woman can be beautiful and kind, yet cruel at the same time, and still you cannot hate her because your experience with her was made out of love. And as painful as that love is - because it's not returned - it still is one of those experiences that enriched your life forever. I do happen to think that there was something more to that park scene at the end. Something Summer said before they touched that bridged their relationship from alienation to reconciliation. But it's fine if I never get to hear what she said, because you know she said it to Tom and that's enough.
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...the cat and I didn't even notice...
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Dec 28, 2009 11:39:25 AM CST
ALL POST TITLES MUST HEREFORTH BE IN CAPITALS
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Under AICN Law Zooey BSB 1138.Anyone who breaks this law will be subject to a meeting with Vern.
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We picked up a MS factory refurbed 360 (full 1 year warranty) from Gamestop ... $199 with 20GB HD, 2 wireless controllers. Same price as getting the brand new ripoff Arcade version with no HD and only 1 controller. Looked brand new when we took it out of the box. No probs with it at all. I think Amazon has the same deal sometimes. But if you go to Gamestop make sure you ask for it. I don't think they advertise in-house as they try to move their own used systems. Make sure you get the one from MS directly.
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...you're just jealous because we play video games with our hot-chick life partners...and then go have ninja sex with them...Sometimes I have to go find more life packs just to finish the ninja sex...Living the dream.
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Vern would like to see you at 14:20 tomorrow. He will NOT be signing any copies of Seagalogy you bring with you.
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You have sex with your missus so secretly that she doesn't even know you were there?That sounds wrong to me but fairplay to you, Mr F.
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http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Pro-Refurbished/dp/B00309S9YW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1262022383&sr=8-2
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Much like a tennis ball.See how fast i think up this funny lines? It's all due to the sugar overload i'm experiencing at the moment. Too much chocolate icecream.
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...merry Christmas to me!Game consoles start to slip down the priority list as time goes on. The new furnace is really exciting though...
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That'll teach me to type whilst watching a bunch of Germans pretending to be Americans whilst escaping a zombie outbreak.
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...that would only be if she isn't a ninja too...but she is.Ninja on ninja sex is a different matter entirely...
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Can't wait to get to the Lesbian scenes...
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Dec 28, 2009 12:00:37 PM CST
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT, FLICKAPOO
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
You both have sex without realising the other is there?Sounds like the standard sexual relationship for a husband and wife to me!
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The secret to beating most of NG2's Bosses is charging your bow/arrow shots. it worked like a charm against the metal serpent and was easiser with the final boss (that big ugly bastard that spits blood at you while laying the smackdown.)One of the best action VGs in awhile. Oh, I highly recommend Ninja Blade (exclusively for the Xbox 360.) the action never lets up and ya gotta love the cheeky dialogue.You can get that used for cheap on Amazon. I'll never buy from Gamestop again as they overcharge for used games. ($5.00 off?So what, with NYC's sales tax,you'll be paying full price.)Walmart might still have the 360 bundle for $250.00 which is a great deal in itself:2 free games (CoDMW2)and a Yearly subscription of XBL.I would have jumped on it, but I already own two XB360 Consoles as it is.
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...the game often has you sneaking through buildings, apartment complexes etc... I could never figure out why the apartments were so sterile. I loved snooping around...they should have had you stumbling into all kinds of kinky shit.Giant missed opportunity.
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...frozen...glaring at each other...trying to get the emotional advantage on the other...then one of us flinches we and rush together and it's over in a split second...Everyone bleeds...
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Dec 28, 2009 12:06:27 PM CST
I used to play a lot JET SET WILLY, and....
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
...always thought it was sad that Willy's fat wife wouldn't let him go to bed unless he cleaned up their house.It put me off marriage for life.
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..Some dude named Jake McLaughlin was rumored to have landed the Cap America role on a comic book movie site--oddly the rumor was taken down almost immediately. (Thought I'd post this since there's been zero news)
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Dec 28, 2009 12:07:42 PM CST
STALKEYE - THE BLOOD SPITTING IS WHERE WE'RE AT NOW
by bringingsexyback
Just have to find an hour or so to sit down and get through this final chapter because there're no save points between the last 3 bosses - fucking ass. And thanks for the Ninja Blade rec. I'm feeling some regret that we're almost done with this now but wanting more ninja action. Looks like you just gave me the perfect remedy!
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I'm going to have to go through my back catalogue of asian movies to see if i can find any examples of ninja sex. There must be some somewhere.
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...this place is fucking bad enough.
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That film looks ace.
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Because if you haven't, you're becoming one of "those people". Just sayin'. Your argument against Cameron's dialogue was one thing. Your argument that a film making gobs of money doesn't make it good is absolutely correct. However, when person after person who has ACTUALLY SEEN IT expresses their love, or at least enjoyment, of it, but you still have a snide, sarcastic, hateful comment for each of them, well... you'd better have seen it. Otherwise, you ARE one of "those people". Maybe you haven't noticed that the rest of them have left already.
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Dec 28, 2009 12:17:41 PM CST
THE ONEMIS-STEP CAMERON MADE WITH "AVATAR" IS...
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
...he didn't put "Do You Want To Date My Avatar?" as the end-of-movie theme music.Epic fail there Cameron.
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Just proves that different movie tastes are valued to me. I dont pat attention to critics for this reason. This was one of the most boringest films that was pointless to make that I ever seen. No i'm not an idiot or stupid or a drone or did'nt understand it. It just wasn't a good movie to me.
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Dec 28, 2009 12:25:46 PM CST
...so how about that pic of JFK on the naked love boat?...
by flickapoo
...that would make a great limited edition poster...wrinkles and all...
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Was serviceably cheesy. It was not fucking distracting in the least. The way some folks were talking, I went in expecting some "Hold me like you did by the lake in Naboo" shit. But all I got was some sassy, action flick-worthy lines, and I was absolutely fine with it.
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...in case you haven't noticed, my name is ScaryWaitress. Not Fluffy White Bunnies. I have a snide and sarcastic comment for everyone, PERIOD. However, NONE of my comments are "hateful" towards lovers of the film, and I don't see where you're getting that I'm attacking everyone who's expressing their love for Avatar... I'm not. I haven't torn a single person down for liking it since the first TB where you and I had it out. I simply maintain that the "It's making tons of money so it must be good" argument is devoid of intelligent thought. IT IS. No matter what the movie is, that is not a salient argument as to the quality of ANYTHING. The only person I have responded to SPECIFICALLY re: Avatar itself in the past week is someone who saw it, and didn't love it. I think you're inferring a bit more vitriol in my posts than is there, and certainly more than I intend. But then, you and I have a history in this area.
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Lovely, except that if you read the article, whild JFK is livin' it up on the NudeyBoat there with all that World-Class T&A, Jackie is being rushed to the hospital for an emergency c-section. Her child is stillborn, too. That mas may have been a good president, but he was AN ASSHOLE.
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Not AWFUL, AWE-FUL. That was what I thought, anyway. Weirdly, though, I have NO urge to see it again.
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Geezus…
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Dec 28, 2009 12:57:23 PM CST
...sure, JFK was a prick. That doesn't take all the fun...
by flickapoo
...out of that Naked Loveboat pic. It takes some fun out, but not all.Do you see one woman that doesn't look like she stepped directly out of a Frank Frazetta painting on that boat?I don't.
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A-fucking-men.
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surrounded by World-Class T&A. I am NOT disparaging the ladies, but he was a cocksucker.
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Dec 28, 2009 1:06:01 PM CST
...Scary, my brain airbrushes JFK right out of the picture...
by flickapoo
...anyway.No pricks required.
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My thing with that movie, its just that there didn't seem like much to talk about after the movie. Yeah I saw it, it was awesome. That was about it. Fun movie, its just solid in every aspect. The sort of movie you KNOW has tons of holes and problems but just works as a whole. And you know anyone going on and on about it sucking is just being a bitch. Plus the whole movie wraps up nicely, its not like EWWW What are they going to do next.
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A-fucking-men²
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...you responded to someone not too far up this very talkback. Stop being an Atatroll and I'll stop calling you on it. Oh, and btw, your mo ain't workin' for ya. It just makes you come off as contradictory and unintelligent. Please, carry on to your hears content. But I personally found you much more enjoyable and interesting when a group of us were actually having an intelligent debate.
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Whatever. Both of you. However, any hullabaloo that any marital transgression may cause any politician in the future gets a shrug of the shoulders from me... actually, it did before, really. WHO THE HELL CARES? But this particular transgression is truly cold-hearted.
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...drops you in instead...
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But, mi have to big up Frazetta…
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..have ever made a truly cold-hearted transgression. LO-fucking-L. Now I'm off to read a book. This site is making my synapses hurt this morning.
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Dec 28, 2009 1:17:54 PM CST
HAVE YOU EVER DANCED WITH THE DEVIL IN THE PALE MOONLIGHT?
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Because i never have.
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Dec 28, 2009 1:20:36 PM CST
inglorious basterds:1 of the worst and overated of 2009. horribl
by the_one_man_gang
what a long and boring piece of shit it was. i thought it was going to be a flick about the "inglorious basterds"- but no... they were in it for about 5 minutes total! brad pitt had about 5 lines... all horrible lines. christopher walts was good... prob the only decent thing about it.
all of the inglorious basterds characters were horrible- and the actors playing them were laughable. roth's south boston basterd? what was cool about him? tarantino used over the top violence as a cover for shit ass directing and script.
i can go on... but its not worth the effort. just a worthless movie.
and district 9 as number 1? give me a break... c'mon...
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...talking Frazetta chicks.
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OK, now you're making this personal... but if you're going to call someone out, but you're not going to quote and be specific, then your argument is empty and tired. I don't know why I give you any credibility at this point, really. You take the name of a female character, and get all snippy when I- silly me- "mistake" you for a fellow female. You consistently take my words out of context, and read what you want into them. I think we should just permanently agree to disagree here. I'm not interested in getting into pissing contests with you in every TB over fucking Avatar. Where Cameron is ooncerned, you're dead to me.
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I was talking innocent adulterous romps in the hay- or in this case, on a yacht, which I would normally support 1000% if the rompers looked like that- with a cold-hearted, nasty, fuck-you to his pregnant wife. NOT the same thing at all.
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Can we talk about Dave Sim and Cerebus? If a Cerebus movie is ever made should it use the same motion capture tech that "Avatar" used? Should it be in 3-D?
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Anybody?
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...stop loving that picture.It's about the women...not Jackie...THESE women. They are god's creatures and they deserve love, respect, and a little human decency...And I'm going to give it to them...
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Just like that but with Arnold instead of JFK.
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From Playboy. Go figure.
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Dec 28, 2009 1:36:58 PM CST
I assume we've all stopped in at the Robin Hood in 3D tb...
by scarywaitress
Don't you get it, blakindigo? EVERYONE is going 3-D now, whether it makes sense to or not. Avatar made PERFECT sense, Cameron wanted you to BE in his world. Nottingham Forest does not require this, IMO. Cerebus should never be made in any kind of motion format, IMO. That work is perfect just the way it is, and WAY too large to put into a 1.5 hour movie. I mean, really, even taking a single storyline would be problematic. Forget it. Please let's leave some things sacred.
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—The women he paints are so immediately appealing and full figured; I love his proportions and the women in his paintings have the proper amount mass for their frames. Just the complete opposite of the super skinny aesthetic that is contemporary 'heroin chic'. Or the 'almost pixie-boy' image. Looking at his work is like an ode to voluptuous, full bodied, earthy women. His paintings are captivating.
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Just looks boring. I think its the overuse of the Blandchett.
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I am a huge Cerebus fan, nice to run into more around here like you and Jaka and Mostholy and Fred. I always imagined Cerebus' voice as a higher pitched an almost nasally. I hear Tobey Maguire or something similar.
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—just don't touch the books. You'd never be able to explain 'The Roach' anyway…
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For your enjoyment... http://frankfrazetta.org/images/frank_frazetta_themoonmaid.jpg
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Never read it, wouldn't mind reading it though.
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Huh!? I am half way into the game... WHERE ARE THESE SO-CALLED Lesbian scenes?
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Dec 28, 2009 1:48:32 PM CST
And I know this is Boris Vallejo, but this is my personal fave..
by scarywaitress
For your enjoyment, the quintessential lily-white ass. http://www.virtualcomicartcon.com/0370.jpg
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And we are talking about a sword wielding, 3 ft tall talking aardvark, he might need a more manly sounding voice though. So, Bale would not be a bad choice as long as he did not do his Batman voice! We would not want a Howard the Duck redux (although I secretly like that flick).
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Dec 28, 2009 1:51:37 PM CST
Oh come ON, no one wants to see a LIVE-ACTION Cerebus? Surely?
by scarywaitress
THAT is ludicrous.
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Dec 28, 2009 1:55:19 PM CST
The Roach just kills me! Super secret sacred wars baby!
by toadkillerdog
I started collecting in 1980. One of the funniest things I remember is when the roach beats up some Scottish sounding dude at the Duchesses house, and the dude said 'he bruised his knuckles perty bad on mah kidneys!'
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I guess is a TV show now? http://www.cerebustv.com/
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...real women. If every teenage male was fed a steady diet of Frazetta they would realize there are far more hot chicks in the world than they thought there were...And maybe we would have fewer Brittany Murphy tragedies.
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...to adapt Calvin & Hobbes to the big screen. Watterson flatly refused, on the grounds that everyone has their own voice for Calvin, and he didn't want to mess with that. The same consideration should keep Cerebus from ever being made a film or series. NO ONE'S voice works. Not even Keith David.
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Can you imagine the wonders of this? When will he do a 3D movie?"SO REALISTIC, YOUR WINDOWS WILL SHATTER."
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Dec 28, 2009 2:03:28 PM CST
Actually, Flicka, if you want to airbrush me into that pic
by scarywaitress
...you're going to need this... http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/07/02/1246550927-frazetta_cornered.jpg
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I mean, what's the difference between a 10 foot tall Blue Alien and a 3 foot tall barbarous Aardvark? It's all a twisted carnival show.Boris Vallejo's work is beautiful, but the raw unfettered sexuality and danger in Frazetta's paintings just mesmerizes me. The paleness of the characters are usually contrasted against a darker, mysterious background or a much darker figure giving it a… frission. Both artists applied similar techniques when they painted beautiful women of colour also.
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/inception/
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... but that one ass is a masterwork. You just want to bite it.
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...Frazetta worked from imagination without a specific model and you can tell...while incredibly realistic, the figures are fluid and bent...ever so slightly distorted in all the right places.Vallejo worked from photographs and it shows. While often fetching, his figures are stiff and posed...they lack all the raw energy and sexuality that blakindigo was on about...
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Christian Bale in 3-D? It's FUCKING DISTRACTING!
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You've earned your tip with that one.
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Did anyone else enjoy Invictus?
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http://www.d4rkw00d.net/gallery/vallejo/boris_vallejo_395.jpg
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At AIBN to get their Invictus review out. Even though its already relugated to 1 showing a day. Twilight 2:Die Harder still gets 2.
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But, what if say, a big budgeted Studio picture decided to make a Frazetta painting move? Say, "Death Dealer" using the mocap/3-D techniques pioneered by "Avatar". With full figured, beautiful wome, and savage warriors straight out of the painting—would that be offensive or exciting? Clearly emulating the nudity, bold sexuality and violence of the paintings…Oh yeah, and a bloody fine script.
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I gave you a shout out in Burt Gummers Rec Room over @ Moonwolves, pertaining to the Holiday Season. Sorry about the Giants man. I see you've found some more Cerebus love here. Cheers.
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I just don't know what to make of this film. finally caught it on dvd and WTF? Was Zooey's character the most unlikable bitch ever put on cinema or was it me. I wanted to throttle her threw the screen when she showed up at HIS fucking spot and either a.) condescendingly sympathizes with him, or b.) plays mind games with him but showing affection for him again. Either way, fuck her. That said am I supposed to then exclude the quirky romance the entire film was based on and just hate her and hope he bangs Minka Kelly? Jesus this movie made me feel hollow.
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Sorry Harry, District 9 is good work for a new filmmaker at a small budget, but it's simply a rip-off of ideas we've already seen in sci-fi. Take Kenny Johnson's "V" and meld it with his TV version of "Alien Nation", and add a touch of "The Fly" and you've got District 9.
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It comes out January 10. I know this because it scewed up my xmas gift plans for a lot of people.
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WOW D9 takes from other things. I guess you only can enjoy things that are purely original? I don't think the fact that it has similar ideas from different movies make it just a some lame rip-off. Its not like T4 which stole whole fucking scenes from movies (including T3).
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Cool thanks. Read your The Road review. Similar to mine. Glad to see not everyone bought into the DEEPNESS of that movie.
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Just got back from it not 20 minutes ago. It was...ok. But I really wish Clint didn't try to oversell the message in every single scene. Screw the rugby -- I felt bludgeoned by its heavy-handedness.For example, he can't just show the white/Afrikaner players having a good time with the black/Capetown youth. He then caps it with a sign saying "ONE TEAM/ONE NATION" and plays some godawful song with a line like "we are color-blind." Ok, Clint, we get it.
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I won't deny that Clint was a bit heavy-handed in his message, but i personally didn't feel bludgeoned by it.As someone who knows very little about either rugby or Nelson Mandella, i came away thinking what a great man Mandella is. Freeman was simply great in the role and i intend to do some research into the man.Yeah, it wasn't the best movie i've seen this year and it wasn't the best sports movie i've ever seen, but i found it very uplifting and enjoyable.
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I was laughing so much in some of it that i missed some of the lines. It was probably my favorite comedy of the year.The scene where Malcolm Tucker walks into the room and meets with a White House advisor who looks about fifteen years old... genius! I don't think anyone can swear as well as the guy who plays him.I'm currently working my way through the tv series (THE THICK OF IT). Not quite as good but still brilliant.
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thanks for making me feel like shit and reminding me of all the horrible women I ever dated.
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Looks ok, but at the same time it just seems like a giant The Onion/Daily Show/Colbert Report jiz fest. I get bored with just making fun of politics. Its just sad to me now.
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Yeah, that scene is classic. "His briefing notes were written in alphabetti spaghetti! When I left, I nearly tripped up over his fucking umbilical cord...Yeah, apparently, your fucking master race of highly-gifted toddlers can't quite get the job done between breast feeds and playing with their Power Rangers. So, an actual grown-up has been asked to fucking bail you out!"
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I hear that. The thing about In the Loop is, the humor's only so much about politics. It's as much about the choice Scottish swearing and really ridiculous situations, like, say, Tom Hollander of the Pirates movies thinking about wanking it to shark week on the Discovery Channel.
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...I'm not at all sold on 3D mocap etc...etc...but I would give your movie the benefit of the fucking doubt...
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Just saw Wild Things this weekend. It would have been good, except that it was missing a FUCKING PLOT. Sorry. I love Spike, I just think this film shouldn't have been made. "Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should do it." Bronson, on the other hand, was GENIUS. I'll buy that on DVD the day it comes out. Excellent performance.
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Thanks for the shout out over there. I replied to yours the same day, but I will say it again - Merry Christmas and have a happy new year my friend.
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I remember as a child having these arguments with buddies of mine. The way it shook down then was that Boris did the best nekkid (or near nekkid) wimins, and Frazetta did the most powerful sword and sorcery figures. I think Frazetta gets the overall edge though, because as beautifully rendered and as technically amazing as Boris was, Frank had raw power that jumped out at you.
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No, if I only enjoyed things that were 100% original, I'd be disappointed a lot. I wasn't trying to say that District 9 wasn't entertaining (it was), I was just saying that it's far too familar to work we've seen before to be deserving of the #1 slot.
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You have to aim for that big fucker's eye make sure you use your ninja magic sparingly cause cause there's another "surprise" waiting for ya.It was over a year since i last played NG2, as of now, there are plenty of good XB games to be had for cheap. Check out Dead Space,Prototype,DMC4,Army of TWO,RE5,Mass Effect and Wolverine origins (yes, way better than the movie) and no collection would be complete without Batman Arkham Asylum.Great stuff.
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Dec 28, 2009 6:19:13 PM CST
Only one other artist had the kind of power of Frazetta: Neal Ad
by toadkillerdog
Neal, at his height, became the greatest penciller of all time. Although Neal had a 'cleaner' and more detailed style than Frank's, the raw power still jumped off the page.
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Of course I could have just used his first name, because the is Neal, then there is everyone else.
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Thanks to XBL, arcades are all but exstinct.It's fun to challenge some guy/girl straight from your living room be it a fragfest in CoDMW2 or head on in Tekken 6 or street fighter 4. This shit can be a helluva drug.My Wife taunts some of my opponents via headset, while i dish out some damage.You should hear some of the shit these kids say in return..muahahah!
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...I'd have to go Frazetta all the way in every category. Vallejo posed elaborate photographs and worked directly from them...so there's a stiffness to everything...that and he has a more 80's aesthetic, so his women are more jazzercised.Frazetta is somehow both more realistic and less at the same time...the women are thick and fleshy, but not quite human...and his sense of action is far superior.Man, like you...I haven't had this argument since I was a kid...
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...like I said, I work from home...I know I wouldn't be able to control myself...must nip certain addictions in the bud.Respect for the trash talking wife.
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The Cast:
Cerebus: Short. Violent. Self-centered. Egotistical, money grubbing, insensitive, power hungry Hermaphrodite. - Peter Dinklage. Slam dunk. Astoria: Beautiful but cold, self centered and calculating, with a surprising weakness for the 'bad boy's and women - Katie Holmes
Lord Julius: Smart. Funny. Wisecracking.Unpredictable. Big painted on mustache. - Robert Downey, Jr.
Cirin: The cow that walks like a woman. - Kathy Bates. Slam dunk.
Elrod: Stupid. Tall. Stupid.Albino and stupid. Talks like Foghorn Leghorn - Will Ferrell.
Dirty Fleagle McGrew - Stupid. Mercenary. Cowardly. Unlucky. Stinks at card playing - Luke Wilson.
And his baby brother:Dirty Drew McGrew - Stupid. Mercenary. Cowardly. Stinks at card playing. Lady killer, who has bagged some impressive high class poon including Astoria. - Owen Wilson
The Roach: aka Moonroach, Wolveroach, Secret Sacred Wars Roach etc. - Really big (because he had weights seen into his bodysuit and boots) and was forced to carry statues up and down flights of steps for months. Also: He is Really stupid - Dwayne Johnson.
The Elf: Short, cute, flighty, loves wickets and whiskey. - Hayden Pantierre.
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The Cast
Cerebus: Short. Violent. Self-centered. Egotistical, money grubbing, insensitive, power hungry Hermaphrodite. - Peter Dinklage. Slam dunk.
Astoria: Beautiful but cold, self centered and calculating, with a surprising weakness for the 'bad boy's and women - Katie Holmes
Lord Julius: Smart. Funny. Wisecracking.Unpredictable. Big painted on mustache. - Robert Downey, Jr.
Cirin: The cow that walks like a woman. - Kathy Bates. Slam dunk.
Elrod: Stupid. Tall. Stupid.Albino and stupid. Talks like Foghorn Leghorn - Will Ferrell.
Dirty Fleagle McGrew - Stupid. Mercenary. Cowardly. Unlucky. Stinks at card playing - Luke Wilson.
And his baby brother:Dirty Drew McGrew - Stupid. Mercenary. Cowardly. Stinks at card playing. Lady killer, who has bagged some impressive high class poon including Astoria. - Owen Wilson
The Roach: aka Moonroach, Wolveroach, Secret Sacred Wars Roach etc. - Really big (because he had weights seen into his bodysuit and boots) and was forced to carry statues up and down flights of steps for months. Also: He is Really stupid - Dwayne Johnson.
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That argument takes me back. But I am not going to slam Boris, because dude can draw. I spent hours looking at his beautifully rendered images as a child in the late seventies and early eighties. People can say he took inspiration from photographs, but he still had to put them on paper - and he did not do any tracing! Frank had and has his detractors as well, his non fully detailed style could leave you feeling like it was a half finished work at times. But without a doubt, when Frank was at his best, the images were just amazing to behold, and his lack of detail actually made the work perfectly suited for the fantasy realm. There was never a better fantasy artist than Frazetta. But I enjoyed Vallejo's work, and I will not denigrate the man because he followed Frazetta.
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Do us all a favor and go away. You are a laughing stock.
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Astoria is cold: Check. Astoria is beautiful: Check. Astoria is self centered: See her portrayal in: Thank you for Smoking. Check.
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Hillcoat merely replicated the events of the book and didn't pull off any emotional impact in the process.
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...for straight up filthy hotness.
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That's a good lineup and thanks. We have Dragon Age up, then Assassin's Creed 1 & 2. I have HAWX for when she's not home ... but seriously I'm gonna pick up Ninja Blade. Sounds like fun. And Judge Briggs .... enjoy ... I think you have to play as a woman to get these scenes ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4_JVZRwKw
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Katie Holmes is too girlishly amoral. NOT CORRECT. Find someone more mature. Physically, the PERFECT human to play her is Enya... but I doubt she can act.
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Enya has a truly remarkable resemblance to Astoria. Good call on that. However, she looks and is, too old, and she may not have any acting chops. But still, a truly remarkable resemblance.
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How'd you guess?!?!?!
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Dec 28, 2009 8:49:02 PM CST
Toadkillerdog. That is a truly great Cerebus Cast
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred unequivocally loves all of them (almost) hee hee. Yes, the Katie Holmes pick did not exactly leap into Freds' brain as the top choice, but Fred went to imdb, and saw some pics of her. Living with Tom seems to have removed some of that girlishness. She may turn out to be a very good pick. She still may not be my top choice, but these are your picks afterall.
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Good luck with that one...
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Without the green paint! Hee hee
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Rachel Nichols is hot, but she's not... you know... RIPE enough. Jaka needs to be so ripe you want to sink your teeth into her, like a living Frank Frazetta painting. Actually, ideally, she'd be taller than Christina, but I'd LOVE to see that tasty wench in more things, and she is PLENTY feisty. Exhibit A: Saffron in Firefly.
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...if you know what I mean...with a little D for good measure.I'm in.
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Where have you been? Ok, if you are reading this head over to : http://moonwolves.wordpress.com/burt-gummers-rec-room/. That is were the mighty CoC have been congregating for the past few months. I am not a frequent contributor, but I show up every few weeks or so. Xi was looking for you. Great call on Rachel Nichols. I had a complete brain fart on Jaka. I need to drink more! Scarywaitress - Jaka was never a jump off the page 'wow' type of girl. She was beautiful, but she did not possesses that umphh that Christina does. I would cast Christina as Red Sonja, or maybe Joanne.
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That is where her assets can best be used.
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Jaka was a whole lotta woman. Rachel is fucking PETITE. Now you're just being insulting. I'm out. Have fun, boys.
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or better yet, Christina. Heavenly is not an apt description.
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Dec 28, 2009 10:59:14 PM CST
Harry, you already said that Whre the Wilds Things Are is the be
by bat725
And this was after your review of District 9.
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Now that my Jints are out of it, I am pulling for the Saints first and your Chargers second! Good luck!
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fuck you bitch. is that supposed to be a comment on her own selfishness? fuck you bitch.
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I didn't find Fantastic Mr. Fox to live up to all the hype and reviews. I hated the stop motion, and I didn't find the voice acting to be all that great. It was better than Darjeeling Limited, but it doesn't even begin to touch Rushmore or Tenenbaums. Did I miss the memo that explains why this movie is good?
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Top 10 or 20 would be good, doesnt need to be 100.
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Couldn't decide what kind of film it wanted to be, a gritty, realistic sci fi movie in line with Battlestar, or a balls out, over the top action flick. Anyone that criticises Star Trek for having plot holes and lauds praise upon D9 is being a hypocryte. The fact that the lead character transforms into another creature merely by injesting an alien fluid is hard to buy, as hard to buy if not more so that Red Matter. The fact that the alien leaves the planet, deserting his fellow prawns who will surely suffer terribly for his actions is a bit selfish. It was awesome regardless, the alien weaponry was the best I've seen in any movie, very Ratchet & Clank. And people that fancy it a thinking mans sci fi movie just because it deals with human issues in a very unsubtle manor don't know what a truely thought provoking science fiction movie is. (See Moon for a recent example of a film of this kind)
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I always thought D9 got more credit than it should've based on the fact that it beat you over the head with the apartheid allegory. It's like you get extra brownie points as a director if something blatantly contains real world issues.
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It's like they just copy and pasted aliens over images of refugees on National Geographic. It isn't a methophor for whats going on in the world today, it IS whats going on in the world today, but with aliens. If your going to be that blatent about it why make it a sci fi movie at all? Why not just make a straight film about the apartheid?
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Dec 29, 2009 12:30:45 AM CST
It's Not "Thought Provoking" If Everything Is So Damn Obvious
by freebeer
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I've not seen D9 but I do want to echo and agree with your comments above. An allegory is only powerful if you work it out for yourself, not if it is rammed down your throat. One of the great things about STARSHIP TROOPERS is that Verhoeven never lays his cards on the table. Which means that it has a wonderful tension & energy. And also means, brilliantly, that some people (I certainly chatted with a few in 1997) really did think it was a dumb action movie and that any political commentary was accidental.
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Gotta put Sherlock Holmes in the top 2!
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Very well said
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...DISTRICT 9 is great precisely because of all the different things it does well...and manages to put them together into something you haven't quite seen before.Of course there are more subtle or deeper SF movies out there...but do they catch you by surprise? Do they have great gut wrenching action?And the similarity to apartheid isn't what gave the movie depth...the similarity to apartheid is just the setup. The barely likable hero gave DISTRICT 9 subtlety...and the fact that the human's weren't all good or bad, and the aliens weren't noble or admirable...
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Star Trek obviously, but D9 and Moon were mind blowingly good.
It was the blockbusters that let down this year. X Men. Terminator. Transformers.
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Most overrated movie of the year, hands down.
Fun, yes. Masterpiece? No way in hell.
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I could stand Where the Wild Things Are, it was a complete bore. Not only does it not belong on this list, it definitely shouldn't be higher than The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the superior "adult-kids-film" from this year.
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We have seen it all before, its like agreatest hits of 20th century science fiction films, though the action is gut wrenching.
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Dec 29, 2009 3:04:11 PM CST
I watched only some few films this year, unfortunately...
by marksman230591
Hell, I could make a top films list of 2009 easily with what I've seen this year, and it's the following:
7. Taken
6. Inglorious Basterds
5. Watchmen
4. Hurt Locker
3. District 9
2. Star Trek
1. Avatar
And I also watched X-men Origins: Wolverine and... *cringe* New Moon. But they aren't in the list because their existence shouldn't be acknowledged, except only to explain this point.
I agree, though, that I thought IB was a bit overrated. I didn't think it was bad, in fact, I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it's nowhere near Tarantino's best.
And while I thought D9 was a great movie, it didn't really emotionally connect to me as much as Avatar did, and didn't find it as fun as Star Trek (which I don't get why people hate, really. I thought it was FUN as hell, and had great performances all around by everyone, at least for their respective characters. And no, I was neither a Star Trek fan nor a hater before watching it).
Hurt Locker, don't get me wrong, is a hell of a modern war movie. Very realistic and had edge-of-your-seat moments, but I have to say, it was also a bit overrated. Some moments just dragged on, and it really didn't feel like it had a real plot. It felt almost like some people just decided to film the everyday goings of these soldiers, like a documentary.
I've still yet to watch films like Sherlock Holmes, Up, Up in the Air, In the Loop, (500) Days of Summer, Moon, and some other ones. But so far, none have beaten Avatar for me, and I didn't love it just for the visuals, it's almost like something that I can only compare only to a meal: you get all these great ingredients and you mix them up together and cook it so well, that if it were missing one of the ingredients, it just wouldn't taste as good, and I enjoy every bite while I'm eating it, and after it's finished, all I could think about was ordering a second plate. -
You're dead-on about Starship Troopers. It's an excellent work of satire. I try to tell this to people and they give me some look like I'm fucking deranged or something. Same with Robocop. It's like too many people are uncomfortable acknowledging a good action flick can also be smart.
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Harry, the first two lines of your WTWTA summation may be the gayest things every committed to print.
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1. Avatar (sure in 3D)
2. District 9
3. Watchmen
4. Up
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Terminator Salvation
8. Law Abiding Citizen
9. Star Trek
10. 2012
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Dec 29, 2009 11:44:42 PM CST
Worst Movies Films Here http://tinyurl.com/cpb87z
by dancreepythinmantwo
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Dec 29, 2009 11:44:43 PM CST
Worst Movies Films Here http://tinyurl.com/cpb87z
by dancreepythinmantwo
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Saw District 9 (disappointing) and Inglorious Basterds in the past few days. Here's my updated top 10 for 2009 (sorry for the bad posts):
1. Watchmen 2. (500) Days of Summer 3. Avatar 4. Coraline 5. Hurt Locker 6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7. Star Trek 8. Inglorious Basterds 9. Up 10. Adventureland -
1. Star Trek
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. District 9
5. The Hangover
Aside from that, I enjoyed Moon and GI Joe, everything else was a disappointment.
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Even though I haven't seen most of these movies on your list yet Harry, I have to agree District 9 is just extraordinarily original, in both story and effects. Can't stop watching it on dvd.
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1.} Inglorious Basterds "="2.)
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1.) Inglorious Basterds 2.) Avatar 3.) The Brothers Bloom 4.) Star Trek 5.) The Hurt Locker 6.) Up in the Air 7.) The Hangover 8.) Taken 9.) Coraline 10.) Zombieland
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I really, really enjoyed it, and have been enjoying seeing it again. I do think it goes for the voilence a bit too much, but there we are. I'm happy to see it on a few 'best of' lists here. But it does seem one where the critics and fans part ways: all the critics here in the UK have had a go at Snyder, saying that in different hands it would have been better. But woudl it, really? Much as I thought the 300 was idiotic, I think he really made some great choices in Watchmen.
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Dec 30, 2009 9:55:22 AM CST
Anyone who puts Watchmen on their list as a best movie is a Mota
by liberal_warrior
Or, Zack Synders Tongue Cleaner
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Go fuck yourself, Liberal_Warrior
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Lots of re-watching value. It'll have a cult following that will grow more fervent as years progress, and it's going to be one of those movies that are "reconsidered" by future critics.
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Fucking ham handed symbolism, terribly acted, cliched characters, story a complete fucking Dances With Wolves rip-off. God, I hated everything about that movie. Oh, and the special effects looked fucking cartoony.
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Visually, yes, but it's story was by far it's weakest point. It's a bunch of cliches thrown together we've seen before along with some 80's cheesy one-liners. It doesn't belong in a top 10 list. Great effects aren't enough to save it's very weak story.
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Visually, yes, but it's story was by far it's weakest point. It's a bunch of cliches thrown together we've seen before along with some 80's cheesy one-liners. It doesn't belong in a top 10 list. Great effects aren't enough to save it's very weak story.
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Dec 30, 2009 6:10:52 PM CST
I'm just glad you didn't put "Shutter Island" in your top 10 for
by bigtuna
I use to hate when you did that every year. I guess you've reacted to the criticism.
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Fucking better story, too.
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Harry. We know you like to name drop as you're best buds with Q and Pete. But come on. DISTRICT 9 best film of the year? Come on. I'm one of the biggest Jackson fans out there. Just this weekend, I defended D9 and Dead Alive as being one of the very best horror films ever. To this day, i'm the only guy I know who likes The Frighteners. I'm the only person period who's ever seen Feebles or Bad Taste. But dude, I can't even say District 9's even close to being best film of the year. And I really like the film. And don't even get
me started on Basterds. I wouldn't put that in the top 20. Coraline was/is better than Up. Come on. Star Trek (and I'm no Trekkie) was probably the best film I saw all year. Holmes was a close second. And what about Zombieland?!?!? You can't beat Bill Murray zombie. Watchmen's certainly up there. District 9? Inglorious Basterd? Really? I'll give you Wild Things. But that's probably coincidence as Jones was probably video guy at your wedding. Come on dude. This top 10 is too easy. -
...just watch
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Go fuck a diseased dog you motarded piece of twice fukked zebra shit!
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NO JOKE! He has chest pains!!!
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He is in Hawaii. So is Obama. COINCIDENCE??????? WAKE UP SHEEPLEE!!!1!!!11 BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dec 30, 2009 11:42:41 PM CST
o.k. I drank 5 shots of espresso to stay awake
by winona_ryders_pussy_juice
and watched Avatar again. I missed the 2nd half my first viewing because I fell asleep. The last 20 minutes is O.K., if they cut it down to a 30 minute short film it would be semi-decent. As it is now it's totally forgettable. Anyone can spend 500 million on some flashy cartoon smurfs and giant dragonflies attached to a Kevin Costner story. ANYONE. Eli Roth could have directed it, actually then it would probably be a lot better.
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The guy with the long ass SN is complaining about Avatar being long? And these are the SAME people that sit through Dark Knight?
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and you circus monkeys know it
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Hadn't heard of it until you recommended it here, and just finished watching it. AMAZING! One of my favorites of the year, and I owe it to you.
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are you implying that Avatar was better than Dark Knight? Go to the back of the bus!
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I thought it was bullshit. Am I supposed to feel sorry for people who lose their jobs and then get 3 MONTHS PAY!?? That's Hollywood's idea of tragic job loss? This movie is not nearly as deep as it thinks it is. The acting was good, but the movie is trite bullshit. Oh, and I saw the "twist" coming a mile away, and Clooney should've seen it coming too. I thought his character was supposed to be intelligent. Guess not.
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I haven't seen Up in the Air yet, but I think I've already guessed the "twist." Is it that (POTENTIAL SPOILER) he gets laid off himself?
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Dec 31, 2009 1:51:22 PM CST
Rene Belloq talking Doll Best Actor Predictions
by rene_belloq_12inch_figure
Cristoph Waltz - Of Course Tom Hardy - Bronson Robin Williams - World's Greatest Dad Hugh Dancy - Adam Sam Rockwell - Moon George Clooney - Up in the Air
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That doesn't happen, although I myself was expecting that to. It's not as big or crucial a twist that everyone has implied, but it's pretty obvious. I've seen it done several times before.
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look how special you are!
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just saw it and the 3d was the best ive seenbut the story really wasnt as cool and original as everyone said and it was way to long it would possibly get a spot in my top twenty but even thats a stretch now I think Mary an Max and Black Dynamite are to awesome movies that arent receiving enough attention
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Jan 01, 2010 10:57:42 AM CST
Harry - Know where to get that Inglorious Basterds poster?
by hazardousjack
I MUST have it and the only one I have found is 11x17...
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Hell. No. She's too "soft". MUCH too soft. Selma Blair in full on bitch mode would be a good choice. But really, Jessica Biel with the Astoria haircut and costuming, in my mind, is pretty spot on. Whether or not she could act the part or not, well, that's an entirely different argument. Apologies for the nonsequipost, not back to my book...
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...Cerebus could not be a live action PERSON as Cerebus is not a, ya know, PERSON! He's an Aardvark. Cast away to your hearts content, but for the earth-pig born you can only be going for "the voice", for which I would nominate Brad Pitt in crazy voice mode. Which is to say, Brad Pitt doing a George C Scott impersonation (mostly because it would make me laugh). Jaka... Jaka would have to be an unknown. And really, Jaka is not THAT beautiful. She's got a "body", as many "dancers" do, but really, her attraction is that she's a bundle (of the writers) ideas, concepts and emotions used as story points. She's, maybe, the only thing that Cerebus ever REALLY loved besides himself, money and power; but she's not, ya know, "the best looking woman ever". Using a "known" actress, I think, would take too much focus off of Cerebus (who would be an effect people, not an actor!).
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Back to my book.
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everyone is entitled to their own opinion. but if you're saying you go to the movies to see something like up in the air, over say, avatar 3D...i'm no longer listening to your opinions. most movie critics are proving to be disconnected from movie fans. and as for top 10's...i wish i could make one every year. if they gave out every movie for free at the end of the year, there would be less than 10 i would take for 07, 08, and 09 respectively. but really, 10 is almost one a month, does it seem like one movie you love comes out every month? though i do love movies, and see all the ones i want to, in hopes of amazingness, and avatar finally satisfied that to an amazing extent. "having said that", i have seen most movies i want to see this year, except for foreign movies or independants im sure i will find out about later. but even of those not many. and of the movies i missed the only one that seems to have real potential is the fantastic mr. fox. and before i get started, the worst movie of the year? the fourth kind. i love milla but didnt expect this to be great... at the beginning she says 'hi im milla jovovich and all the footage in this movie is real' and going home after the movie to check that on the net, it became apparent it wasn't. also the footage itself was obviously fake. the movie wasn't that great and in retrospect i was pissed off. fuck the fourth kind. ok so the only movies from this year i would take if they were giving them out would be.....5.District 9 - this movie started out as extremely fun and engaging for me. i enjoyed quarantine and cloverfield quite a bit, i like the way it looks like something you would see on youtube. the first part where you know something happens to wikkus, and a scene like the graffiti of the aliens overpowering humans, it seemed like much crazyness and action was in store. and then the inhumane way they treat wikkus inhumanely is sad but realistic. however about halfway through i began to wonder if this would be all the movie was about, and questioned more what was going on, instead of getting furthur lost in it. i saw it again and agreed, despite an awesome beginning and cool stuff throughout and at the end, (alien weapons!) it felt kind of lackluster and empty, like it could have been better. i would still watch it again for the cool stuff. 4. Star Trek - i felt this was a solid sci fi-adventure movie, fun to watch, not too boring or mishandled. id even watch it again. the weakest part is the story, which is small scale, simplistic, and somewhat contrived. im hoping for the sequel we get a cool new memorable villan. 3. Drag Me to Hell - i dont usually like horror movies, but this one was very cool. from the opening scene, you completely understand the movie and what it's about. yet it keeps you guessing and its still tense. lots of good visual imagery, especially dark themed. i like how it plays on how hell, gypsies, curses, corpses, have a lot of connections and representations in our minds but not a lot of imagery to really support it, which is what this movie does. i loved the ending. 2.Public Enemies - i thought this was depps best role and why he got sexiest man this year. it is a professional and well done story about a classic antihero character. it feels real, showing exciting moments of his life, but then slowing it down. its never over the top. the man, christian 'what dont u fucking understand' bale is solid as always. billy crudup, i think his name is, does a great job showing what a freak j edgar hoover was. marion cotillard is so hot and depp shows everyone how to treat a lady. theres nothing wrong with this movie. if the same 20 people who decided up in the air was a good movie and everyone followed, had instead said public enemies was a great movie, most of you would be saying that as well. 1.avatar, duh. i've never enjoyed a movie more. the 3D was a big part of that. i had expectations but never thought i would like it all so much. i could go on and on about what i like so much about it, but i wont. its just awesome. i defend its artistic integrity next though. it's funny, saying you like 'the hurt locker' more than 'avatar' is a good way of saying you like james cameron's ex wife as a filmaker, more than james cameron. like i said, everyone gets an opinion. at the end of the decade, i have decided on the 3 most important movies of our time. 1.star wars, 2. avatar, 3. the matrix. also, if you are a fan of movies and star wars, but dont like phantom menace, you have GOT to watch this review. its at once funnier and more genius than every other movie review combined.
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why didn't i like up? i saw it in 3d at theatres. and sure, it had a short montage that almost made me sniffle. then it became a 90 min movie about an old man in a balloon house with a dumb kid and some talking dogs in the jungle. in other words, a kids movie. inglorious basterds? i still remember the trailers showing mostly the basterds, and the line 'you havent seen war till youve seen it through the eyes of quentin tarantino'.....ah, the movie that could have been. as is, its about as good as jackie brown, which itself is about as good as a movie thats 95 percent adults talking can be. however, talking bores me. fuck whoever put those basterds trailers out there.
transformers 2? actually i dont think i need to explain myself on that one. the hangover? decent i guess. i for one think tv is better than movie this year, tv had the office, parks and rec, 30 rock, survivor, lost, curb your enthusiasm, its always sunny, and a few others. good stuff. -
How can you put INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on your list? Didn't it distract you each and every time Tarantino used that cheap plot trick "Would you mind telling me what you've heard about me?" It's a cheap substitute for actual storytelling. And I'm sorry, the non-linear storytelling was a great trick in Res. Dogs. and he perfected it in Pulp Fiction. But carrying it over into two films in Kill Bill was a bit much, and now it's just old. In fact, it's almost like the overuse of "Bullet Time" shots that followed The Matrix in every movie that came after. It's almost a joke now. I can understand it appealing on a personal level to people, but Best of 2009? Come on, look at it objectively and get back to me.
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not really a movie that needs defending. but i wanted to make a point. people try to bring it down, saying its a hollow simplistic story thats been done tons before and offers nothing new. well, heres what i say. avatar gives the viewer an opportunity to ponder an important issue, without forcing them to. as a philosopher and futurist, what i find to be of the most grave concerns facing our species is technology. i have read that due to advances in fields such as computing, neurology, nanomachines, and others, that in a few decades we may be able to start uploading our consciousness into places other than our body. if this becomes possible it is a very serious matter how people should use it. i feel this question of how to use such technology is extremely important and relevant, because if the world doesn't end soon, we will most likely get there. and avatar presents this concept in a subtle and highly entertaining way, that is still easy to understand for even children and idiots. what other movies this year had such pertinent questioning, not to mention presenting it in such an entertaining and accessible way. james cameron is the man. i actually think he was polite with that autographer, he should've smacked him the guy was such a bitch. if james had done nothing he would've looked like a bitch for taking that shit. james cameron owns, he fucking owns.
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TL:DR. It's called a tag. Look it up, stoner.
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...without the spaces of course.
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The Square: Not worth watching. Very dry, and 30 minutes too long. The ONLY thing good about it is the last 3 minutes when the girl gets her brains splattered all over the wall. Just fast-forward to that. You are welcome.
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You ever get tired of all these "artsy films" that only these film buffs on the net get to see and then they poist 'em on their top lists and we have no idea what they're talking about? I do. So, if you'd like to see a list of the common man who really likes film, go here: http://matteddie.eblogus.com/
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Thanks for the recommendation Harry!...I just watched it, Tom Hardy is amazing!! He'll make a wicked Mad Max in Fury Road. The film reminded of the films I grew up on in the UK, very reminiscent of "Scum" and "McVicar"
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Important information to keep in mind before taking his opinion seriously.
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So, I finally saw it on Blu-Ray - was very sorry not to see in cinema but it just wasn't possible. It was amazingly enjoyable, and kick-ass etc, and - incredibly - I didn't feel I had been to spoiled. But I did have a few questions (SPOILER!!!): 1. The fact that the alien energy also made the lead transform: was this just a co-incidence? If so, it seems a bit of a big co-incidence to hang a big plot point on. 2. I didn't understand the time frame. Main action seemed to happen in a matter of days, yet at one point some people are reading a trashy mag relating what seemed to have happened just 6 hours earlier? 3. Why take all the trouble to set it up as a documentary, when the moment things get interesting there is NO WAY a doc crew could be there. Post-Bourne, there's no need for an excuse to film genre doc-style. 4. Why is the lead alien such a nice guy? I mean, we pretty much establish that all races & classes - black, white, poor, rich - are bastards in this film, so why should we buy that this alien, who has been fucked over for 20 years, suddenly says 'I'm not leaving without you'. It felt to me like positive racial projection, or something. OK, only minor quibbles - it's a great, big, fun noisy rollercoaster. But don't go telling me that it's got the rigour of a ROBOCOP, THE FLY or indeed STARSHIP TROOPERS.
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Foreign Film: White Ribbon; Animated Film: Coraline (Pixar's won enough); Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldana (Just pay close attention to her performance); Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Nough Said); Actress: Sandra Bullock; Actor: George Clooney (It's about time); Director: James Cameron; Picture: Avatar
Hurt Locker (There have been better war movies, Patton, Platoon, Apocalypse Now to name a few), Basterds (To violent and melodramatic), The other films really not Oscar worthy, Push is being Pushed cause of subject matter, Blindside is just another feel good flick, District 9 is just entertaining, Up in the Air is a Clooney showcase. Don't forget the Obama factor, The President is a trekker. -
did harry and peter jackson have a falling out?
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After that raving review of yours Harry, I would've banked on The Lovely Bones not only being in your top ten, but in the top 2 or 3. But left off of the list entirely? My theory is that Peter Jackson eventually realized that giving Harry all these inside scoops, friendly correspondence, trips to the set, and what not had little to no effect on his movies box office numbers and decided to cut Harry loose.
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What is wrong with reviewers? I mean, really? They have access to films most of us haven't seen, and then they taunt us with reviews and lists of films that will not be available to us mere mortals for months to come. So let's take a look at a real Top Ten, that is, movies most of us had an opportunity to see the first time around. 10. Zombieland-fun, informative, and what's better on a Friday night than Zombies and Woody Harrelson? 9. Taken-predictable, intense and just a lot of fun 8. The Taking of Pelham 123-Travolta and Denzel, good story, great performances 7. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-It's Harry, people. 6. Avatar-not great but it belongs here 5. Up-Best Pixar movie ever 4. The Blind Side-Ok, it's not "really" true but it tells a great story 3. Tie-Star Trek and Paranormal Activity-one is slow, one is fast, both are just good 2. Inglorious Basterds-Best use of Brad Pitt ever 1. Where the Wild Things Are-Childhood dreams, zen, karma, and more layers than a Taco Bell Burrito. Of course all of these are just my opinion. Everyone, from the moderator of a entertainment site to a poster on that site has the right to like what they like. Just because they have the job and you don't doesn't make your opinion any less valid. People like what they like. Everyone should post their own Top Ten.
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I forgot one. Silly me. Tie for 1st-District 9-the future of gritty realistic Science Fiction.
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the most overrated movie of 2009. And Harry, your tastes suck. Way to give Tarantino a nice blow job. Not a top ten film, not a bad film but top ten give me a break. I also love how you throw in one random film, try and make it look like you are still a true film geek. You're a sellout, and you prove that with every article you post. Aintitcool? No, it's not is the answer.
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...contrary to what others here may think. Bought it for my daughter to watch, she was out after 5 minutes but my wife and I kept watching and never looked away. Avatar 3D deserves Top 10 because it is one of the most visually stunning films ever made.
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Don't hold your breath waiting. Let your hopes die.Happy 2010
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