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FIRST!!!!!! by Jaffa8	Jun 30th, 2006 09:50:18 AM
BLOOF TO YOU!!!!!
POTC 2 by vwvoyager	Jun 30th, 2006 10:14:02 AM
Pirates better kick ass. Guess that means the 3rd one will suck though.
AARRGH! by tompbeast	Jun 30th, 2006 10:42:35 AM
'Meh', 'Bump' and 'FIRST!' have to be the most anoying words ever!
Hehe, 'unconvenient truth'. by raw_bean	Jun 30th, 2006 11:16:36 AM
When Latauro starts gushing incoherently like Harry, and Harry goes so far off the deep end his review gives you a headache, and the hyperbole-allergic Mori spends most of his review comparing the film to The Empire Strikes Back, then you have to wonder if you might just have a corker on your hands.
There's nothing masculine about giggling. by half vader	Jun 30th, 2006 12:34:00 PM
Or being 'giddy' for that matter. Just look at the other reviewers on this site. Corpulence makes it worse - and I should know.
To get one thing straight... by moviemaniac-7	Jun 30th, 2006 12:41:05 PM
In my honest opinion, Lat, Australia was the better team - but I am a sucker for the underdog and fuck those arrogant Italian assholes! On to the movie-related bitching: I hate it when I just bought a DVD and there is an extended cut anounced. I know that the EE is almost always inferior to the original cut (except LOTR)(example, Dumb and Dumber is weaker in the extended DVD cut) - but I will always have the feeling I missed out on something. Will Peter Jackson follow the footsteps of former God George Lucas?? Only time will tell.
Harry dissed in Natalie Portman comic strip by Orionsangels	Jun 30th, 2006 01:48:19 PM
http://www.natalieportman.com/ gallery/npcomic_2/npcomic21?fu ll=1
Natalie Strip...OUCH!!!! by Deandome	Jun 30th, 2006 02:24:54 PM
Man, that is some serious dissage. 'Specially when Harry has pretty much raved about every flick she's done. Fucking hilarious, though...she doesn't actually control what gets posted there, though...does she?? Looks like more of a forum/board where a fanboy with an axe to grind is taking it to Harry...not Natalie.
Soccer by spindude	Jun 30th, 2006 07:12:41 PM
We did get fucked by that ref. And you heard, I called it soccer.
half vader by Latauro	Jun 30th, 2006 07:18:16 PM
Nothing masculine about giggling? Wait 'til you hear me giggle. It's somewhere between James Earl Jones's snoring and an earthquake.
No it's not controlled by her... by Orionsangels	Jun 30th, 2006 07:55:55 PM
but it is the largest most comprehensive and popular natalie website on the net. when you google 'natalie portman'. it's the first page you get. i'm also a mod on their forum. 'Orionsaint' Natalie doesn't have an official page. if she ever got one she may have to sue natalieportman.com for the name. as for harry. almost everyone has an axe to grind with him. why him?, everyone ask. this huge fat man is manipulating hollywood from his basement?
No superman review? by Leedrick	Jun 30th, 2006 08:16:17 PM
I know there has been no shortage of them on this site, but I am interested in your opinion most of all. If you don't want to write a review, how about just a comment?
For Robe..if you're there..and you dare.. by ChileanSeaBass	Jun 30th, 2006 08:23:31 PM
still mad at you punk, for the last talkback..but check this guy out..Lataro!...he spells the chilean Indian leaders wrong and is from australia..it's LAUTARO..you phoney..and oh yeah..fu robe..
My lack of Superman Review by Latauro	Jun 30th, 2006 08:57:51 PM
I have a policy of sorts where I don't review anything unless I'm invited (and there's more reasoning behind that than just "Waaah! I want free stuff!", but I won't go into it now). I usually get a lot of love from Roadshow, but my Supes invite must have been lost in the mail... oh well. Bottom line is I really dug it at the time, but I can't help but wonder if that was the right way to go. I think being so faithful to the Donner films may have done a little more harm than good -- and I say that as someone who nearly wet themselves when the Donner-style credits came up. So basically I loved it, but with reservations.
ChileanSeaBass by Latauro	Jun 30th, 2006 09:00:05 PM
No, it's Latauro. I don't know anything about Chilean Indian leaders, but we're all really impressed that you have that knowledge at your fingertips and can seamlessly integrate it into posts and, presumably, conversations. Do you go up to guys named Shaun and go "It's SEAN, dickweed!"? No? My name is Latauro. I may even write a rap song about it.
Awww yeah (chuckle) Lat! by half vader	Jun 30th, 2006 09:22:09 PM
(said in best Barry White rumble) That's a sexy image you paint! As for invites, it seems many of the crew's went missing as well, so never mind, apparently you've got company. You nearly wet yourself (ya big girl), but did you giggle?
Merricks intros by thanner	Jun 30th, 2006 09:34:24 PM
Glad to see he spends time thinking up witty intros each week. I would think he was actually being post-modern except the other threads don't start with "Harry took some time out from arming despots, invading countries to justify an ever increasing defence budget & unlearn any geography he picked up in school". But I digress....mmmmm.....vegemite. ..
POTC 1 was lacklustre, and I reckon 2 will be too... by The Wrong Guy	Jun 30th, 2006 10:51:16 PM
Over-rated, bloated, overlong, with Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley giving some of the worst performances and hashing out some of the worst, most trite dialogue of recent times. I couldn't stop cringing during the first movie. Also, the action wasn't very exciting, and the only mildly entertaining thing about the first film was Depp. I think Lat is as wrong here as he is with Joss Whedon and Steven Soderberg.
Lat, you Victorian bastard! by Monkey Butler	Jul 1st, 2006 01:20:08 AM
Soccer has referees, not umpires. And while I'm at it, you score goals in soccer, you don't kick goals.
Ha ha - that Nat Portman stuff is funny as hell by moviemaniac-7	Jul 1st, 2006 02:26:10 AM
Especially that Leia-in-Jedi outfit on the girls around Harry.
'Umpire'? by quantum_ken	Jul 1st, 2006 06:53:17 AM
They're called referees, friend.
Latrino..forgive me for not clarifying.. by ChileanSeaBass	Jul 1st, 2006 07:02:04 AM
Lautaro is the national hero of chile..he's like the William Wallace of Chile,he organized the mapuche tribes and fought the spanish and kept the araucanian/chileans independant..only native americans to do so,,EVER...so next time you are wrestling the last dorito from harry's fat fingers, and you feel like his onslaught is to much to bear..just remember your crack whore mother almost named you after someone who beat all odds, before she took a hit from her pipe and left you at the monkey pen in the brisbane zoo...rap about that..
"Latrino"... roflmao!!! by Latauro	Jul 1st, 2006 08:18:19 AM
I love the way you think what you wrote above is somehow clever. That's great. I'm so glad someone with a similarly-spelt name to me did something impressive. Naturally, that means you should troll around here mouthing off like an idiot and attempt to insult me as much as possible. My mother named me Latauro the same way your mother named you ChileanSeaBass, you fucking moron.
yeah..I guess I wasn't fair big L by ChileanSeaBass	Jul 1st, 2006 08:27:49 AM
I assumed you were a dumb ass who spelled my culture hero's name wrong..my apologies..it's just a bad coincidence...here read this and learn something other then sitting around watching shitty movies all day and sucking industry knobs..http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lautaro
soccer vs football by Windowlicker74	Jul 1st, 2006 03:40:19 PM
I never understood why Americans call football (which, as the rest of the world knows, is played by the foot) soccer and rugby American football. please explain.
Americans don't call rugby 'American football' by Monkey Butler	Jul 1st, 2006 04:35:46 PM
They call gridiron 'American football'. But yeah, no idea where the soccer/football distinction came from. Although it's kinda necessary in a country with four different national football codes.
Aw man, I thought they were talking about PIRATES by zillabeast	Jul 1st, 2006 08:47:12 PM
You know, the one starring Jesse Jane and Carmen Luvana.
Yep yep... by Nexus-6	Jul 2nd, 2006 03:36:47 AM
"Bottom line is that in a double-blind test, I couldn't pick a Gore Verbsinki film, but each and every time I'd compliment the direction." Good call. You could say the same thing of the Ratners(or hell, the Singers) of this world, but Verbinski is one of those great directors... such as your own Peter Weir, who aren't necessarily recognizable "styles", but still make consistantly outstanding films. Moreso with Weir, but anyway, Verbinski is quite versitile.
Peter Weir has no recognizable "style"? by Rasputin77	Jul 2nd, 2006 05:47:39 AM
Really? Maybe you should rewatch his films. Peter Weir's films all tend to be variations on the same theme - an individual in an alien or isolated environment. He might not have a signature technique like Fincher's fancy camera work or Tarantinos dialogue, but his films all tend to have a similar ponderous pacing, which I would class as his "style". I don't know if Verbinski can be pinned down in this way. I'm not trying to say that this makes him a poor director, simply that Latauro makes a good point.
What's in a style? by Latauro	Jul 2nd, 2006 10:18:08 AM
Nexus and Rasputin, you've got me thinking... how do you define someone's style? Take Sodergod for example (hey, I'll wear my biases proudly). You can almost always pick one of his films: choppy editing, long lenses, moving frames, usually with a pretty funky tune behind it... He's not a one-note director by any means, but if you had to quickly define the guy's style, that's how you'd do it. When you talk about a director's style, do you refer to superficialities of their shooting style, or the types of films they make (ie: Von Trier's style is to show an innocent girl corrupted by well-meaning country folk... at least, in the three films of his I've seen), or both? If you include the types of stories they tell, then yes, Weir has a style, but because he doesn't have a signature visual, I suppose, my initial reaction is that he doesn't have an easily-definable style. Anyway, it's all food for thought. I'll certainly continue to ponder it.
Styles by Nexus-6	Jul 2nd, 2006 07:03:43 PM
I meant more along the lines of visual style. In that sense, I couldn't tell you that the director of Mosquito Coast is the same man behind Master and Commander, or Fearless. Visually they share very little in common, but Weir makes consistantly good-to-great films(and Rasputin, you are correct about the themes). -----

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