You know those Moebius stories, or the Meta-Baron saga that were really cool as long as you didn't ask too many questions. Don't try to make the world actually hang together. Just enjoy the over-the-top melodrama of the thing.

Pitch Black was better, but that's because Riddick was just a character in it.

I think Riddick's future will depend a lot on success of Babylon A.D.

Chronicles was good, but the better prison movie in the middle made the overall storyline a bit disjointed. In any event, I'm all for more Riddick flix and bring back Toombs!

They gotta bring Alex back though. Otherwise any sequels will be a bust...

I've been dubious ever since Peter Jackson made that april fools crack about making Son of Kong and mentioned using the money that was put aside for Riddick 2 and 3, which was now up for grabs. I think the project has been sinking since then.

Let me predict some: Aqualon - the water planet! Desertia - the sand planet! The Barbanoids - a race of savage warriors who inhabit Desertia's only part that has forests... and is called Woodelia!

But, for some reason, I have a feeling that instead it will be set on the small, dull and dusty planet of Lowbudgia, in Vin's adapted hometown of Nocareera.

"Talking to AMC, French import Mathieu Kassovitz ripped apart his own movie. "I'm very unhappy with the film," he admits. However, he's not taking any of the blame. He says, "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience." The result was a film which he categorizes as "pure violence and stupidity." Kassovitz wanted to say something substantive with the film, but instead he ended up with a movie that plays "like a bad episode of 24."

As for Riddick, I loved Pitch Black and thought Chronicles was watchable, and would be quite happy to see more, but I think a scale-down might be a good thing-as long as it's a scale-down that is known from the script level.

One of the few times I honestly felt ripped off after leaving the theatres. NO MORE!!!

Everything with Riddick and the bounty hunters and Kyra and Crematoria worked fine. And while toning Riddick down was silly, they didnt make much of his percieved conversion at the end of Pitch Black. I don't mean a religious conversion, I mean man rejoining the humn race. They could have built that sacrifice made for him on the planet a searing iron burning it's way through his heart, and still kept a hard edged bad ass. As it was, we got Riddick the comic book. Most of you might have been happy with that, but the pieces were there for a superior film to Pitch Black, but we got an inferior one. Still, Im up for a sequel.

Awful. The rest is bad ass.

And my guess is that Riddick will take the body of Kyra to the underverse, in hopes of reviving her.

I actually watched it sober and have to say they could explore the story further as Riddick struggles with burden of leadership.

I would check that out.

It also was fun to watch Riddick struggle with the fact that he actually started to give a shit about the others and needed to help them.

The movie was a huge departure from Pitch Black and that, along with the PG-13 rating, probably killed it at the theater as the base audience felt like they were no longer in the same universe.

Personally, I don't want to see any Necromongers in the new film. Let's have Riddick dissolve their following, pronounce the Lord Marshall a liar, and then head out himself, perhaps with a crew to find the Underverse. Most importantly, it should involve Riddick having a fresh adventure that is more sci-fi based.

Yes, Riddick as a leader of a kingdom would be contrary to his character from Pitch Black, but I would like to see him have to make the decision.

You know a part of his selfish side woould like the pampering and power, but his true 'animal' side (Like when he pulled a Crocidile Dundee on that prison poodle) would be a very strong thing to keep bottled up.

But those that know me also know that I would like some creatures as the villians in the next.

Maybe an evolution of the creatures from Pitch Black as they leave the other planet to look for darkness.

Also have one of them larger, a superboss of the rest that is smarter.

So, I expected to see a changed Riddick, not a pansy, but a man who knows he is different and is dangerous in a new way, to a diff group of people.

But COR's problem is they only sort of reflected this change, and didn't make it much of a grappling point. Also, I thought there would be more struggle against the change in Riddick, and the false rebirth the Necros are trying to sell. Instead, it all seemed muddled, thematically speaking, and Riddick came off as less of a hard edged character and more of a comic book-esque hero. I didn't hate that, but felt that the meandering is what hurt the film.

Also, the script wasnt half as good as the original.

Yes, I absolutely believe in God, and I absolutely hate the f---er."

Another article on Comingsoon.net written on March 11, 2005 reports that Vin Diesel states that Chronicles 2 was to deal with The Underverse, while Chronicles 3 was to conclude the series with a return to Furya.

An article dated November 10, 2007 on countingdown.com, further indicates that a sequel may be in works - "We're talking about it". David Twohy indicates however that it "probably won't be a Universal movie and probably will be an independent movie" seeing a much smaller budget.

After Pitch Black you saw that despite having the role of leader, he was basically alone again (which was confirmed in Riddick as he had lost touch with his passengers).

And yes, I'm harping on the creature bit, but what I liked about Pitch Black was despite him being human, deep down he was an animal just like the dark dwellers.

That primal instict so close to the surface would seem to me a sort of tragic route for requiring a solo future, not one as a leader entrenched in society.

I think someone above mentioned what if the Underverse is populated by monsters similar to those on the planet in PB.

Sort of like a queen xenomorph, but even smarter.

If Twohy reveals the Underverse to be a sham, a dangerous vile place, that turns out won't aid Kyra or reveal anything to Riddick, it would force Riddick to look elsewhere, to go beyond the mythology and back to reality. Getting beyond the mythologically reasoning for things, and back to a sci-fi based story. The power the Necros and the Furyan's posess originate from the Underverse, but ina different way then they expected.

Yes, I'm a sucker for the creature feature, but in Riddick it seemd to me that he WAS the monster.

It was role reversal, as the Church of Uppity tried to figure him out as they feared his power, just like the survivors did as they crashed the dark planet in Pitch Black.

It gets a second chance this weekend though.

Good to hear you're enjoying Feeder. Silent Cry is their newest album that came out last month. It's some of their best work.

Has anyone see the DC of COR? I heard it references Riddick's wife on Furya or something?

—A fellow Furyan, Shirah (Kristin Lehman—all her scenes were cut from the TC), hints at Riddick’s fate while he is in Cryo-sleep (8m52s-9m50s);

—The Purifier’s (Linus Roache) speech to the Helion Prime public (extended - 32m);

—The first confrontation between Riddick and the Lord Marshal (extended – 36m);

—Shirah appears to Riddick again during his interrogation (40m40s);

—At Home with the Vaakos—Lord and Lady Vaako (Karl Urban and Thandie Newton) get a little rougher with each other than in the TC (48m25s);

—One of Toombs’ team (Christina Cox) finds herself attracted to an unconscious Riddick (50m16s-51m26s);

—Riddick, Kyra and ‘The Guv’ (Yorick Van Wageningen) in slam on Crematoria (1h05m14s-1h06m14s)

—An uncut fight scene between the slam guards and the Mercs (1h15m00s);

—Another quick scene between Christina Cox and Vin Diesel (1h17m40s);

—An extension of the scene between Riddick and Vaako on the surface of Crematoria (including another appearance by Shirah) (1h34m40s);

—At Home with the Vaakos II—more ambitious discussions about bringing about the Lord Marshal’s downfall (1h41m21s);

He gives the look of desperation and rage as she passes away.

He now knows he has a son being held in the underverse.

This was the male Furyan the Necros were after.

They travel to the underverse at the end of the universe and battle creatures and the sort of leader of the region of the underverse they are in.

Make the leader not human, but a sort of humaniod creature that can disquise himself.

Maybe Billy Zane from Demon Knight.

Make the kid very small, so he doesn't try to fight creatures with an underverse slingshot or try to hug Riddick, who makes the WTF face to the camera.

Make it a true infant with a legacy that Riddick HAS to protect and maybe even sacrifice himself for in the end.

Riddick is better in a savage and wild envrionment against wild and rugged opponents, be it monsters or bounty hunters. He just didnt seem to fit into the political/religious epic Dune stuff of COR. I think seeing him in a wild, rugged sci-fi landscape, battling alien life and what not is what people are advocating. Not that Riddick 3 be a "monster movie".

Also, it makes perfect sense for Riddick to try and bring Kyra back, if we think this is Conan-esque. One of the arcs attempted to be put into the Conan films was Conan's desire to resurrect Valeria.

I was trying to be funny in an underverse-underhanded way.

In all seriousness I think Riddick + some sort of creatures = my interest and $$$.

What is worth keeping:

Necros-too expensive and they have already had a run as villains, and most people didn't like them.

Elementals-if we cant get Judy back, should we bother with a replacement? If no Necros, then elementals? Nah.

Kyra-well, she did fit in well with making Riddick bad-ass-gave him something to fight for, and helped develop romantic energy as well as a strong female lead. She also is a very strong representative of the Conan aspect. If you want to tie Riddick 3 in without bringing back Necros or referencing the PB planet, you have but one link left: Kyra.

That's all Im saying. Kyra is the most interesting thread of the Necro storyline left hanging, and if they pretend she never existed, or just died and move on, I think it would be the wrong move.

As is, I don't think Twohy is going with the Necro storyline, but he might attempt the Underverse. As such he could bring along Kyra, giving Riddick a reason to find the Underverse, and Twohy gets to keep his Furyan story, refs to the Necros, and give us a Conan-esque story that might not feel like COR.

I enjoyed the hell out of The Pacifier by the way. Great family movie....Vin was hilarious in that.

So..you either want one of three things:

go back to a smaller, isolated storyline with hard-scifi and maybe creatures.

continue on with this story but jettison the epic one man stands alone and seeks his kingdom story, and then dear lord, I don't know what you have.

continue on with the feeling of a Conan-esque story of a warrior loner fighting his way across the universe.

Look at what adding a kid has done the past to movies like The Mummy Returns and The Phantom Menace.

It worked in Willow because it was an infant that was helpless and was the prophecy and not a comedic tool flicking buggers into enemies eyes to make them fall off a horse.

I don't think anyone wants to watch Riddick changing a daiper while fighting off bounty hunters.

Oh lord, I can see him flinging the little cloth shitbomb in an attackers face while holding the kid up to use as a piss cannon.

You can't have a kid anymore as the fans will balk at the concept.

That is the plot of Conan the Barbarian.

And make that little fucker go overboard like Son of the Mask.

Call it the Rascal of Riddick!

Yea, that's alot of characters but the fantastic bits and the proximity of the plot to the original film, as well as specific shots-last shot is almost identical, is what makes it seem that way. Many reviewers said the same thing at the time.

I feel so dirty now.

Affleck and Bruce screaming, "I LOVE YOU!!!" at one another. Comedy gold. I wish there was a flashback to Affleck and Bruce laying in a park together and Ben is playing with animal crackers on Bruce's tummy, and Bruce giggles when the tiger gets too close to his pierced belly button, and his giggle sounds like the Downey bear.....that would have been sexy.

Frodo is intended for that sacrifice, is spared it, but is still sort of ushered away because of the journey he undertook.

30 Days of Night.

Vader.

The Iron Freakin Giant. Also Vin.

Roll credits.

When the cops show up he just turns back the cuteness and nobody knows what happened.

Sort of like the Devil's Gift, but with a Downey Bear with a gaping maw and razorblade claws.

Also, scour youtube for the Tales from the Darkside ep, Ursa Minor.

Loved that little fella.

If we are out drinking and one of us goes to do something stupid I always say "you will break."

Of course we laugh and do it anyway.

I think this last time was blowing up a propane tank with a 270 rifle.

We are bad about doing shit like that.

And that tank went up hard. You could feel the heat wave.

I'm talkin' bout Snuggles

THEN WE CAN DIG IT!

The 6th Day

Bring It On

Cast Away

The Cell

The Emperor's New Groove

Frequency

Gladiator

Hollow Man

Lost Souls

Love & Basketball

Titan A.E.

Vertical Limit

You best check yo' self before you wreck yo' self, dude. Don't need your wife explaining to your daughter in a few years that she don't have a daddy because he blasted one propane tank too many.

3000 Miles to Graceland

Ali

Artificial Intelligence: A.I.

Crazy/Beautiful

Exit Wounds

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Freddy Got Fingered

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Heartbreakers

I Am Sam

In the Bedroom

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Josie and the Pussycats

Jurassic Park III

Kiss of the Dragon

A Knight's Tale

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Mexican

Monsters, Inc.

Moulin Rouge!

The Mummy Returns

The Royal Tenenbaums

Thir13en Ghosts

A.I.

Ali

Amelie

American Astronaut

Atlantis

Atanarjuat:Fast Runner

Bandits

A Beautiful Mind

Blow

Bridget Jones's Diary

The Bunker

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Cat's Meow

Charlotte Gray

Devil's Backbone

Dogtown and Z-Boys

Donnie Darko

Enemy at the Gates

Enigma

All this propane and Snuggle talk has got me confused

Oh well....feel free to list yours!

Captain Corelli's Mandolin? Ouch. That burns like a good case of Chlamydia. One of the few films with Cage I just can't watch....

Ghost World

Godzilla: All Out Monsters Attack

Gosford Park

Harry Potter

Heartbreakers

Hearts in Atlantis

In the Bedroom

Iron Monkey

Joy Ride

Jurassic Park 3

Kate and Leopold

Kingdom Come

K-Pax

Lagaan

Last Castle

Legally Blonde

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship

Majestic

Metropolis (animated)

Millenium Actress

Monsoon Wedding

Monster's Inc.

Moulin Rouge!

Mulholland Drive

Man Who Wasn't There

No Man's Land

Nowhere in Africa

Ocean's Eleven

The Others

The Pledge

Princess Diaries

Royal Tenenbaums

Scotland PA

Serendipity

Shrek

Spy Game

Spy Kids

Tailor of Panama

Vidocq

Series 7

Session Nine

Memento

Happy Accidents

Thirteen Conversations about one thing

Did you read the write up about The Spirit? That movie looks like its gonna stink worse than Dan Akroyd's asshole

Enemy at the Gates is one of those movies that I put on a pedestal. Can't explain why I go gonzo insane for it......*thinks*........headsh ots, Hoskins, Pearlman, Harris, Law and Weisz's sweet dumper, OK, I guess I can see why.

Gosford park on the other hand, everyone knows what list I put that on, right?

DGDB, I got your e-mail and responded.

Kungfu, good question. Let me see if I can remember. I think it's mostly titles that will be foreign (pun intended) to you: Open City, Musa, Shinobi, Sinking of Japan, Protege, I'm A Cyborg, The Restless, and per your request Sukiyaki Western Django, which unless you have a DVD player with DIVX capability, you'll have to watch on a computer.

What TB is Kloipy hiding out in?

Jonah, since I know you have DIVX capability, I also threw in Going By The Book, The Guard Post, The Show Must Go On, Empress and Her Warriors, Three Kingdoms, Red Cliff and The Chaser.

I burned through 200 DVDs between both kits. That's more DVDs than I've burned for myself in 3 years.

My computer said "No mas!" last night.

I think the founding four got a little upset about us taking over the TB's while waving the flag of the CoC. Thats why I don't bring it up anymore....thats more a pillow, abom, jarv, kloipy thang......we're something different.

Keith David.

Jarv and Pillow are great sports because they contribute just as much as we do to these TBs, but I can only talk about the TB topic so long even if it's religion and politics.

And I'm going to lay off the burning until Thanksgiving. Then you all will get your Christmas batches.

Series, since you have DIVX capability as well, I did send you Red Cliff and Western Django, right?

Was Behind Enemy Lines 2 any good?

Best thing (or worst) was when we started making bombs.

I mixed up a solution of chemicals (I really don't think I should say what, but it is sort of well known) and placed the compound in three five gallon buckets.

I then got the fuses from model rockets (They have two wires that merge into a ignition-type material). This way we could run the wires to them and not have to light a fuse (bad idea!).

So we ran the wires together in a series circuit hybrid and jumped with a battery.

Nothing happened at first and all of a sudden the ground felt like it dropped a few inches!

We got back home and one of my friends neighbors said he heard it thundering back east of his house.

We laughed and laughed.

It wouldn't play on the dvd player (old RCA) but it played just fine on the computer.

That is just as well, as I have a nice set of headphones (the kind that cover your ears completely) and I can watch and not wake up teeny.

Thanks a bunch! Geez tonight cannot come soon enough.

I'm going to have to start a meth habit to see all of these this weekend.

Will watch The Host and Choclate tonight.

See what happens when you have a creature feature with great characters?

There really is no telling how many times I will watch it this weekend.

Also my beer is right next to me on the desk and I have a big leather chair.

I haven't tried the PS2 yet, or the other dvd player though.

But if it is PC only then I will not complain one bit.

But damn man! You're gonna blow up a neighborhood!!

Will check out Machine Girl tomorrow night and maybe another.

Bastards!

Got a family to think off, so really don't do that stuff anymore.

But we did the tin foil trick and put the balloons in a big garbage bag. The we would put a few small rocks in the bottom to give it weight and toss it on a camp fire.

We also put dry ice in a plastic bottle with water (boom!) and wrapped up a shitload of sparklers in a wad of electrical and duct tape (Very Big Boom!!).

Ahhh precious memories, how they linger.

My favorite was the opening scenes of the creature.

Only Tony Jaa could have made it better.

Geez, imagine if they spent like Hollywood on movies.

You better believe we would get that giant kung-fu robot movie then.

Chitty, it seems we both liked to experiment with field expediant munitions as kids.

Joon-ho Bong is currently writing Host 2 and directing a movie called Mother which is another crime thriller about a serial killer.

In between the features we showed short films- Kakurenbo, Voices of a Distant Star, Jasper Morello, Call of Cthulhu, Cat Soup and Negadon.

I think all the pieces together made each more entertaining than on it's own. But, we started at like 8:00 a.m. and finished at like 11:00 p.m. and I think some people were turned off after the first one. Save for the geeks of course, who were there for every movie.

I've got to check out these Riddick films, I guess. I haven't ever seen a Vin Diesel movie, as far as I know. Reading all this stuff about them got me interested. Pitch Black is the first one, right?

Keep in mind, it's the first of two parts so we have to wait until next spring to see what is shaping up to be the grandest battle sequence every put to film. Might even surpass the Battle of Pelenor Fields.

Jonah will be the one guy here to have a dissenting "it was a'ight but not the second coming" opinion I project but everyone else will go cuckoo bananas for it.

I'll send it out to everyone as soon as they are done the current batches. With luck I'll have the actual DVD release by then so DIVX won't be an issue for some.

Jonah, so far the Koreans own 2008 theatrically, but Hong Kong really is nipping on their heels. I'd say the Koreans are the top dog but 2007 still leaves a foul taste in my mouth. We just need the Japanese and Thai to catch up and we can give Hollywood the finger.

I have to go soon so I really only have time to discuss one movie. I'll start with Mr. Socrates. First of all, that "teacher" was a great actor in my opinion. when he went all crazy for a second it was so shocking. The protagonist was really cool too. The first person I have ever seen who made a double chin seem badass. Also, i loved how often he beat up that long hair guy with the "viagra." Every fucking time was hilarious. And the guy that gets caught and has to pretend to get beat up so that he can get put back in jail. Do you know who that guy was or what else he is in? He was fucking hilarious. A great comic actor. Especially when he is looking for "blood."

Well mine wanted to get rid of hers, so me and my cousins gathered the best ones.

We sliced around the neck very carefully and pulled out some stuffing. Then placed inside a cheap ziplock bag (they are thinner) with Karo syrup, red food coloring and canned dog food (got that from the Jaws Log if I remember correctly).

Then get the gun powder for a muzzle loader and grind the powder up real fine (burns faster).

Pack it in a pipe or really anything sturdy and BAM! bloody stuffed animal corpse.

We also did the head with the blood and dog food mix and shot it with a 12 gauge against a white sheet on the side of the shed.

That way you could see the splatter better.

Are you surprised I enjoyed horror flicks?

Mavra, now that I know DIVX discs won't be an issue for you, you'll get the motherload in the next shipment.

So sayeth THE DONOR!!

August 27th, 2008

Then fill that chamber with more gunpowder.

Now tape nails or whatever sharp objects around the plastic tube.

Then tape a heavy ball bearing to the flat end with the firing cap and attach a kite string like ribbon to the other end for balance.

Throw in the air and it will land on the ball bearing, which pops the firing cap and ignites the powder.

See? A half-ass Daisy Cutter that works.

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Hello Mavra Chang!

I understand.

I want to discuss the movies more but I really don't want to spoil them for anybody who hasn't seen them. Who has seen what?

Also doesn't it cost like two bucks per gallon?

What the word? Thunderbird! What's the price? Twice as nice!

Sort of like comparing a xenomorph with the alien from My Favortite Martian.

Ha, I got myself chuckling.

I'll be back later. I've promised to try to fix my neighbor's computer problems today. Ciao!

(3) sunshine, fails so bad in the 3rd act it erases a possible great sci-fi film into pure shit. failing to make the list (4) war of the worlds? come on. its ok, but its not better than CoR. (5) SW3??? Noooooooooooooo. Don't even get me started on the silly dialogue in this thing. Wish I had been on something during my viewing of SW3, it might have been an ok comedy then.

Oh crap I have made a remark against a Star Wars movie!

Rage, Lucas lovers, Rage!

I agree with the above....the Dune-like politics didn't fit his character...proverbial shoving of a circle through a square hole. Get him back to the raw and edgy with any antagonist being INhuman...not simply gothic-y humans and Colm Fiore (yes, horribly miscast) with that silly vampire-blur speed thing. Plus, the fight at the end of CoR was pure shite...I don't believe Diesel has any specific training or did any training (I read about some mutt version of martial arts but it looks like brawler shit to me) but that one simply and quick fight in PB was about a million times kewler. Even the line "Did NOT know who it was fukin with" works. Roots will bring Riddick home...not political intrigue and a hundred new side characters (and even tho Alexia is a superhottie, I still didn't see her as a badass....much...anyway.

"NOOOOoooooo oooo!!!!!!!!"

End of discussion, no?

And the scenes where the tripods attack the ferry and when they rise up out of the ground trump anything visually I saw in CoR.

(Goes back to corner, curling into a ball, murmuring crappy movie ideas to himself once again, and nodding occasionally)

I saw the creatures and had to check it out.

Very good scene, sort of the so-called money shot of that movie.

That crazy bomb device that slam into the floor that incinerates everyone standing around it....

But guess what?

The ending contradicts the mood he was building the while time, wrapped in a neat little package on the porch.

Sort of gave me mixed feelings.

I liked that visual. Simple and effective.

Unless Twohy brings something more compelling to the next film, which I hope will be a low-budget ($70-85 million) production. That way, Twohy will have to work for every effect and dramatic moment to work, instead of assuming that every huge budget effect "Chronicles" presented WILL work. Lean and mean is always better than bloated and overhyped.

I wish Vin well.

Like "The Force." Spiritual mythology = good......scientific midiclorians explanation = shit.

And after thinking about it...I think the underverse is the most interesting thing this franchise has to move forward with. If I wanted to see bio engineered soldiers I would watch Universal Soldier or Soldier-- starring Kurt "Fuck me 'till it hurts" Russell.

Maybe smaller budget with more intimate feel for a few characters to wrap up the trilogy.

Came in small, went big budget, and now leaves with small budget.

I don't have a problem with that.

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Dragonheart

Star Wars: A New Hope (technically Ben didn't die, but...)

Constantine (he tried to, anyway)

Armageddon

Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Space Cowboys

Arlington Road

Saving Private Ryan

Children of Men

Troy

The Notebook

The Guardian

Cold Mountain

Braveheart

The Cowboys (or any number of John Wayne movies>

The Poseidon Adventure

Backdraft

ALL the Terminator movies

just to list a few off the top of my head. yeah - this HAS been overdone.

But I do not mean Pitch Black small, but really not a whole lot bigger and certainly smaller than CoR.

As opposed to "Chronicles," which I was bored by after ten minutes due to the story's plodding enormity. The tame, unscary bad guy, half-baked ship and costume designs, lack of explanation for anything, and overblown plot left me furrowing my brow. You maybe don't need explanations for why characters are the way they are, Danny, which is fine, but I do. Think of John Connor in the original Terminator without a backstory. How compelling would that have been? Riddick feels like that to me.

I know you see things differently, Danny Dickblood, but in a created fantasy universe (since Riddick is now pretty damn far from science fiction), the best storytellers provide character-specific reasons for things to happen instead of just winging it. Riddick now feels like he's winging it, which I'm not a fan of. I want more.

I hope Twohy provides it.

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I am unable to be on in the day anymore. But I still post from time to time. The only person I really ever had a problem with on here was Glovedone

Looks like it was filmed documentary style.

Anyone seen it?

That said, I thought COR was too ambitious too soon. Pitch Black 2 needed to be a small step forward, needed to cement Riddick as a proper hard case and maybe, on the fringe of the story, just give a hint of the Necromongers and of things to come. Then with 3 - blast the Universe open. It's too big a jump from a tight little claustrophobic movie to a full blown space opera.

I didn't mind COR, I liked the 'Dune' thing they had going on and I thought Linus Roache's character was the most interesting - they should've done more with him. Though the hell hounds weren't convincing, it was a smart effect when one of them sticks its head through that waterfall.

Having set up all this stuff in COR I can't see Twohy backtracking to a prequel, but who knows. Wouldn't like the series to go DTV.

My vcr is pretty good. I bought it myself. The dvd player was a gift, though, from someone who bought several for different people because they were a good bargain. Mine is the only one of the group still running, so I'm betting it's time is limited. Never hurts to do some advance comparison shopping.

Tell ChocolateReign it's ok if he passes along my email address to you, if you want to chat sometime.

It's not very good. Very cheap looking and Diesel's hardly in it.

Speaking of which, where the hell is my Director's Cut of Kill Bill with the full color House of Blue Leaves sequence and the totally unedited scenes?

dude the 'Duke University' thing is HILARIOUS! and if he is in the 'mental health counselling business' than I feel so sorry for the poor saps going to him, people probably killing themselves left and right

Pitch Black felt like a geat science fiction short story done with style but not overblown and happy with what it was.

It may not have been up there with The Thing or Predator but it was good stuff and a nice surprise.

Personally I'd prefer 4 or 5 small(ish) (relatively of course) smart movies like Pitch Black to a bloated needless enfranchisement.

P.S. going to watch Red Cliff soon.

"I can honestly say that part of God's plan for my life was for me to ignore the advice of my managers and make a movie that was universally panned by the critics. Yes, God wanted me to star in a film about two brainless slackers who spend their days watching television, making out with their girlfriends, and drinking large quantities of various substances… The film was brainless and pointless and hilarious and God wanted me to make it. I didn't think like that at the time. Making Bio-Dome played right into my usual, let's have a good time attitude. God had other plans, I just didn't know it at the time."

When I say God wanted me to make this movie, I do not mean to imply that He approved of everything in the film. The film contains stuff that does not reflect the life I now live. I haven't even allowed my children to see it.

I know some people think the movie kept my career from really taking off the way it could have after The Usual Suspects. People who think that don't realize that without Bio-Dome I could not have the career I have today, and I'm not talking about movies.

The critics may have hated Bio-Dome, but kids loved it. They loved it when we first made it and they still love it today. Everywhere I go I have some kid in his late teens or early twenties come up to me and tell me that this is their favorite movie. Most have never seen The Usual Suspects, or 8 Seconds or Fled, or One Tough Cop or any of my other sixty movies, with the possible exception of The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas. But they've seen Bio-Dome over and over again. That's why God wanted me to make the film.

I didn't know it ten years ago when I agreed to become Doyle Johnson, but God had already called me both to know Him personally and to impact the youth culture in America with the Good News of Jesus Christ. I didn't know it because I didn't know Jesus at the time. One of the reasons kids will listen to me today is because they recognize me from the movies. But not just any movie. One movie: Bio-Dome."

You can no longer believe the lies this man is feeding us. STARSHIP TROOPERS 3 is one of the best god damn movies in years. It was seriously awesome to most awesomeness of awesomes. If you have not seen it consider yourself banned until you do. I don't know why or how this movie didn't get bigger then it was, but it was fucking amazing. Its just so fucking bat shit crazy. Everything is ridiculous for ridiculous sake, like they were trying to appease some unnamed god with its over the topness.

Any movie with the line "Dix saved my ass every day." has to be classic.

Or he could be some new guy. Braffed had a similar style but Salad cuts much much deeper.

Series...always double bag it, you don' know where that bitch been!

PEACE!!

I've tried to stay away from AICN because of the banning fiasco. It was particularly ironic that on the day many of us were banned, Harry and Mori gave out long diatribes about free speech and embargos and not kowtowing to corporate bullying - hypocritical shitbags.

I've been out partying a lot and need to catch up on what's going on. So what's going on?

I don't know if you caught my post to you on that infamous SG TB I welcomed you to the banned wagon. It's a place I know very well.

Between parties did you get a chance to work on Mall Ninjas vs The Zombie Hoard?

Still love the way none of the Mods have had the balls to say which one banned me and why. Bunch of cowardly douche nozzles (as the young people say).

Anyways, I liked Chronicles of Riddick, but mainly for the production design, it was a great looking movie and no mistaking.

My guilty pleasure this week was watching Tales From The Crypt: Demon Night on cable again. If you've never seen it, then bear these facts in mind -

The protagonist looks like Gordon Ramsey from Kitchen Nightmares.

Mrs. Will Smith is in it as a sassy, tough, ghetto chick (quelle surprise).

Billy Zane actually puts in a great performance as Satan, despite having drawn on eyebrows.

But my favourite bit of the movie is when Gordon Ramsey says to Mrs. Will Smith 'When did you get out of prison?' - He says this to her because she's still wearing her prison denims. Fuck me, she's been working in a hotel for several weeks and is still wearing her jail clothes. I know minimum wage is shit, but there is a thing called Wal-mart.

I need Jarv to get back from his Holiday. That gave me somebody to talk to while all you lazy folks are in your beds over there.

I thought that CoR, was uneven but sort of fun. I liked the over the top set designs and of course riddick was cool and it had some good action pieces but it was uneven.

However it must be stated for the record, Alexis Davalos is one tasty looking bisquit that I wouldn't mind buttering up.

I don't think I've seen Demon Night, or if I did, I'll have to check it out again because it ain't ringin any bells.

Gordon Ramsey you say? I always want to crack that smug bastard one, right in the chops, every time I see a comercial for Hell's Kitchen.

Xiphos, how's it going? I'm glad you were here for Pondscum's visit. You guys take care and I'll catch up with you sometime soon. Cya!

Started off slow for maybe the first third or so, but damn, it got pretty damn funny.

Anytime you end up with a midget tied up on acid = high quality entertainment.

Series...spea king of quality, that was a great recommendation for ST3. I'm sold. Added to my queue. I will now wait for enlightenment to arrive. Perhaps I will fast in the meantime.

I'll also take this opportunity to thank Mavra, Chocolate Reign and Media Messiah for keeping in touch and to Xiphos, johnnyjlawless, FMB and D.Vader for continually contesting the bannings. (and for coninually giving JackNanceRevenge a hard time). Cripes! Even WhinyNegativeBitch was being supportive at one point - how weird is that?

As for AracadianDS, Nice Gaius and Lord John Whorfin - words cannot describe the loathing, contempt and disgust I feel for you.

Other then that, the TV show Andromeda was on telly this morning and I've noticed that just about everyone on it looks like an ex-porn star.

Several people here recommended the book "The Walking Dead" to me. My copy arrived yesterday and I just finished the first chapter. I'm already certain that I'll be ordering the rest of the series (and have a fellow zombie-fan coworker waiting to borrow this one when I'm done). Thanks for telling me about it. Later!

So, we are up to 2002. The good? the bad? the great?

I recall really enjoying that year of film , but I was in college having a great time, and later that year I met the woman who would be my wife, so it might have colored my vision a bit. Above all else, I remember 2002 being a HUGE year for re-releases.

I saw E.T., Amadeus, Cinema Paradiso, Metropolis and Lawrence of Arabia all in re-releases that year.

As for the year itself, does it hold up? I don't know. Lets check it out.

Two Towers

Bourne Identity

I don't remember trashing ST3. In fact, I proudly remember saying last week that I was probably the only one of us regulars who had taken the time to watch it.

It is by no means a great movie but it was so outrageous I had a good time. And even though the production budget is way down from the first movie, a lot of the wit from Verhoeven's is present here.

I'm not a fan of DTV movies, but ironically I have watched 3 in the past two weeks which is 2 more than I've watched my entire life. Between ST3, Pathfinder and Pistol Whipped, ST3 is the clear winner. Pathfinder wasn't bad and although Vern and DGDB told me otherwise, I watched most of Pistol Whipped at x2 speed.

I need to go find my post because this is bugging me now. I'm certain I said ST3 was mostly entertaining and certainly worth a rental.

Stephen Baldwin is a douche. He and Kirk Cameron need to combine forces and formed the Washed Out Ministries. The Church of Chang will steamroll them.

Death at a Funeral was hilarious and not only was Peter Dinklage awesome, but so was Alan Tudyk.

Pondscum and Xiphos? Wow, this TB is really heating up. Sweet!

And I'm pretty sure Hawaiian did not slander ST3 either.

Hi Fred long time no see!

Ghost Ship: ridiculous, but not so terrible really. That kill in the opening was worth it.

Below: Ok, I thought I'd like this more, but it was atmospheric and the idea of a ghost who likes playing Glen Miller to scare people amuses me. Loved the setting of the sub for a ghost story. In fact, now more than before I want to see Therewolf's vamp sub movie. Overall I enjoyed this, and it was Twohy's movie he did right before Riddick.

Dragonfly: remember this Costner mopey weepy ghost flick? It was pretty silly, but it actually had a great ending. That, I didnt expect, since I had given up on the movie long before the ending arrived.

Mothman Prophecies: the better version of "the older ladies man actor loses wife and sees strange crap" story. Richard Gere here, instead of Costner, and the director was Mark Pellington. It's a cool creepy flick that still holds up. Will Patton is good too. Where did he go these days?

The Ring: saw this on halloween, and had a great time. It's fun. It aint the original, but it had naomi watts and brian cox, and a horse getting run over by a ferryboat.

Wendigo- just felt creepy in it's chilly setting and understated story. Loved seeing Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle as a haunted little kid.

Frailty- awesome. Loved this one. What a great idea, and what an excellent direction of said idea.

Equilibrium - Matrix Batman Ninja Priest goes over to George Orwell's house and does a big poo on Brave New World.

Road to Perdition - Tom Hanks grows a mustache and shoots people in the face in this heart warming depression era comedy.

Bubba Ho-Tep - Elvis vs. The Mummy, nuff said.

Spider Man - web slinging emo fags have a bit of cry and touch each others' hairless bonkers.

28 Days Later - enjoyed the first half and then it went shit.

The Ring - Gore Verbinski did a pretty good job of translating this Nipponese horror classic. However, the notion of people watching a film on VHS was pretty laughable.

Phone Booth - great low budget 10 minute indy film idea blown out to a feature length film. Good stuff nonetheless.

I'll post more when I can think of them.

Loved the design and voicework and writing for Long John Silver.

Also, didnt see Hero until late 2003, and it wasnt released here until 2004, but technically it's a 2002 movie. Bubba Hotep wasnt released here til 2003, same for 28 Days Later.

I sort of enjoyed Phone Booth, felt Road to Perdition was uneven with great performances, and liked everything else you listed there.

Recall going to see Equilibrium with only a Moriarty review to let me know what it was, and walking in completely blind without as much as a preview. It was odd not even knowing what the film would look like.

Minority Report, Blade 2, Catch Me If You Can, Road To Perdition, We Were Soldiers, The Mothman Prophecies, K19, The Count of Monte Cristo, Gangs of New York, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Treasure Planet, Undercover Brother, Chicago, Reign of Fire, Phone Booth and Spider Man all entertained the bejeezus out of me. And then the indie stuff like Auto Focus, Super Troopers, Adaptation, Bubba Ho-Tep, About Schmidt and 24 Hour Party People was spot on.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - the Gong Show dude meets up with Clooney and kills loads of commies.

We Were Soldiers - kind of like Hamburger Hill but good and starring everyone's favourite alcoholic racist.

SW: Attack of the Clones - just kidding, what a pile of CGI shit.

8 Mile - wanted to hate this movie cuz of Slim Wigger. But it was suprisingly not bad.

Showtime - TJ Hooker rules!

Walk to Remember-yes, go ahead and slam me. It wasn't genius but I liked it. I somehow expected Mandy Moore to go in a diff direction than she did, but she showed potential here.

Four Feathers- the original is an excellent film, and this doesn't measure up, but I honestly liked this one a decent bit. This was where I really started to notice Ledger, and Honsou was great as always in it.

Eight Legged Freaks- I can't help it. Im a sucker for creature features.

Stuart Little 2: It was cute! It was!

Tuck Everlasting-It was a bit cheesy, but having actually met Hurt while he was here filming it, and this being the first movie I saw with my wife, it gets something of a free pass. And it had Ben Kingsley as a villain! In a yellow suit! with a yellow hat! It could only have gotten better if he had a monkey named "Furious George" that would chase the children.

I watched ST3 stone cold, but I recommend HIGHLY (I can't stress this point enough) that you have a couple drinks before you put it in and a constant drink in your hand throughout. Guaranteed good time.

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8 Legged Freaks - spiders are freaky fuckers. The jumping ones killing off the kids on their dirt bikes was particularly groovy.

Still had VHS outlets in 2002? Where do you live Jonah, South Ossetia? Just kidding, I suppose it was plausible but VHS had really been killed off by then especially as people could watch DVDs on the Playstation.

Attack of the Clones-y'know, I liked this. I did. This was like a 200 million episode of Flash Gordon. For better or worse, if this technology was available in 77 I think this is what Lucas would have done with Star Wars. Overlook the stilted dialogue, and this has a cool, pulpy feel.

Sum of All Fears-It was ok I guess. It was odd watching my hometown of Baltimore obliterated by a nuclear weapon so soon after 9-11. The rest was forgettable.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cinnabon Saw it with a girl. Sue me. It wasnt that bad.

Undercover Brother-wow, that was funnier than it should have been. NPH ripping out someone's spine.

Insomnia-good remake. Creepy Williams. Creepy Alaska. Pacino sure looks tired.

Windtalkers-No John. Bad John. Hopefully Red Cliff makes up for this and MI2 and Paycheck.

Bourne Identity-no one expected this to be good. And no one expected to be involving and exciting. But it was, on both counts.

Minority Report-maybe I have no taste, but this is one of my fave Spielberg movies. Loved pretty much everything about this, and saw it a couple times in the theater. Second or third best movie of the year.

Men in Black 2: meh. best part, clan of aliens living in a locker.

8 Legged Freaks-I had fun, that was all.

Stuart Little 2-same as above.

K-19-oh so slow, but not bad.

Reign of Fire-dragons, it had draaagoons!! Can't dislike that.

Spy Kids 2-wow, they vomitted this up quick, and it showed. Uggh.

Signs-yea, I love this movie. The invasion stuff is silly, the first I saw it I thought when all the actors point and stare at Shymalan that it just became some sort of meta-film where all the characters saw the director and recognized the source of their anguish, and Gibson would end the alien invasion by killing shymalan. oh well, I liked what they gave us.

Big Fat Greek Wedding-I laughed.

XXX-nope, didnt like it.Though the inclusion of Ramstein helped briefly.

Road to Perdition-overrated. Law was great though.

Windtalkers (one of my all time cinematic letdowns), Collateral Damage, The Time Machine, Attack of the Clones, Men in Black 2, ST: Nemesis (idiots broke the cycle) and Die Another Day.

SW: Butt Attack of the Clowns - George rapes my wallet again.

ST: Nemesis - ugh!

Resident Evil - Paul WS Anderson.

Austin Powers Goldmember - pounding those horses' bones into fine dust.

Van Wilder - why?

Windtalkers - I didn't go Woo.

Undercover Brother - not a black comedy.

MIB 2 - just when you finish wiping, another turd emerges from this asshole.

XXX - ADD spunk heaven.

Mr. Deeds - oh look, Adam Sandler's playing the same fucking character again. How cute.

I Spy - with my little eye something beginning with shit.

The Tuxedo - too old to fight, too crap to act, Whackie Chan is turd-tabulous in this trainwreck.

Boat Trip - again why?

Pluto Nash - Eddie Murphy...in space!

Ballistics: Ecks vs Sever - can't even remember it, it was so bad.

Rabbit Proof Fence-I love this movie. See it.

Intacto-luck vampires. And Mx Von Sydow. A very good thriller.

Spirited Away-it wasn't overlooked at the time, but I meet alot of people that didnt see this. This was my fave of 2002, right in front of Two Towers.

Adaptation-just great.

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Forgot how much I love the brother that went to college.

Although my favorite character may be the homeless guy that helps in the end.

I mean he lets a guy crash on his mat, then busts him over the head with a bottle, then calmy helps builds molotav cocktails in a car and even more calmly pours gas on a creature and just stands there watching.

Man that guy was amazing!

Might change, but right now my schedule will be Guard Post, Red Cliff and Shinobi. And I'm gonna rent starship troopers 3 to round it out.

So fucking amazing.

Also when he dropped the cocktail and the camera show the broken bottle burning and all of the sudden the arrow comes down and pokes the flaming wad.

So fucking amazing.

I have never seen a series of shots and angles that could make running around the underbelly of a bridge so cool.

Also the initial creature attack early in the film was among the best I've seen in a long, long, time.

I know I'm rambling, but I will watch that film at least four more times before the weekend is over.

I expected more Fred with his boss away today.

I don't know what was hotter, the grass or my dad's temperature.

We never fucked with those things again.

To think I saw that film, Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth in a 3 day period. The first and third at the theater, and The Host fresh from Ebay.

Jonah....Steve is probably the coolest religious person on the planet, what do you mean?!!

And Pillow-- Death At a Funeral was fucking awesome. I didn't find any of it slow....it had an incredible build. The main guy is great...and I love the shit on the finger sequence.

PTU was good, at least I thought so.

That opening is impressive though. You gotta love that they threw the creature at us right out of the starting gate.

Love too how they don't know what it is, and someone suggests an "amazonian river dolphin"

Can you imagine back in my hallucnagenic days and me watching those three back-to-back-to-back?

I would be sitting beside Carl Childers in the nervous hospital breaking out into blubbering coniptions every 30 minutes.

The Filipino family that lives across the street from me are born agains. Every Christmas they put a put out a huge "JESUS" sign on their front lawn, along with a life-sized nativity scene and other assorted Christmas crap. They have 4 girls, all under the age of 8 and I just noticed the wife is preggers again. I guess they'll keep trying until they have a boy. They annoy the phuck out of me.

Name some films with amazing original scores that are far better than the film itself.

In Host, when they have that slapstick breakdown at the mass memorial, and as the fighting brothers are being pulled apart, the younger bro leaps up and kicks the other. I always wondered. Was that in the script, or did the actor do that last minute? I think not, since someone could have been hurt(this isnt thailand after all) but it feels like it is, and it gets a huge laugh as a result.

In the day and age of everyone trying to find the new "wicked cool" way to place a camera and get the trendy new angle, you have several simple wide shots that add to the scope.

The wide shot in the lab, when he tells the guy to pour the chems in the sink.

The wide shots of the creature in the first attacks (both in the parking lot and the lady on the train looking down).

Granted there were some great angles and positions, but those wide shots balanced and spread them out.

Titties!

So I'm cool with all the in yo' face Christmas decorations. Its my favorite time of year...

The father is chastising them for making fun of their brother.

The stuff he is saying and the way the other actors look say to me there was some fun outtakes from that scene.

I caught an infomercial on it and good gosh that looks like some hardcore shit.

I find all that WWII footage both grotesque and jaw dropping at the same time.

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But the born agains bug me. They are usually the ones trying to convert others (our neighbor has made attempts at both my wife and myself a few times) and chances are you were born right the first time. You just liked the bottle and lines of coke.

So long as the religious types realize that being gay is NOT a choice and they let the woman decide what she can do with her body even if they find it reprehensible, then I have zero issues with religion. We'll get along just fine. My wife believes in reincarnation which to me is the zaniest belief of all but we're soul mates so I can let just about anything slide.

It also reminds me of a favorite movie line. Guess the film:

"The Statue of Liberty serves as a symbol...for naked women everywhere. BOCCE BALLS!!!

That's what the next morning is like after a night of Everclear.

You'll start calling friends to make sure it was strangers you were throwing up and not freinds.

Good stuff though!

Equinas loves you for your acceptance...

But I did get a kick out of the line, "12/23 NEVER FORGET"

What's the 12/23 quote?

And thank Flying Spaghetti Monster for Channel Four as they gave us our first good doc for WWI called The First World War - The Complete Series.

About Schmidt

Adaptation

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Big Trouble

Blade II

Blue Crush

The Bourne Identity

Catch Me if You Can

Collateral Damage

Die Another Day

Eight Legged Freaks

Frailty

Ghost Ship

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Minority Report

One Hour Photo

Orange County

Panic Room

Phone Booth

Punch-Drunk Love

Rollerball

Signs

Spider-man

Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Stuart Little 2

The Transporter

The Tuxedo

Undercover Brother

Black Hawk Down, Bourne Identity, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Catch Me if You Can, Reign of Fire, Road to Perdition, Sum of All Fears, Transporter, Collateral Damage, Count of Monte Cristo. I realize that I ain't seen shit from '02.

Sum of all Fears?! Fuck me....is that like my Rollerball nomination of so bad its fucking hilarious?

As it turns out, it wasn't nearly as bad as the critics would have you to believe. It had a few laugh out loud moments which is a few more than Fool's Gold had.

21 Grams American Splendor

Big Fish

Bon Voyage

Bruce Almighty

Calendar Girls

Code 46

The Company

The Cooler

The Core

Elephant

Elf

Finding Nemo

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

Holes

House of Sand and Fog

The Hulk

I Am David

I Capture the Castle

I'm Not Scared

Identity

Intolerable Cruelty

Les Invasions barbares

The Italian Job

Japanese Story

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Kitchen Stories

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

The Last Samurai

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lost in Translation

Love Actually

Luther

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Matchstick Men

The Matrix Reloaded

A Mighty Wind

Mystic River

Natural City

Oldboy

Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior

Open Range

Osama

Peter Pan

Bubba Hotep

In America

Pieces of April

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

The Reckoning

Runaway Jury

The Rundown

School of Rock

Schultze Gets the Blues

Seabiscuit

Secondhand Lions

Shanghai Knights

Shattered Glass

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

The Station Agent

The Statement

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Sylvia

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Tokyo Godfathers

Touching the Void

Les Triplettes de Belleville

Veronica Guerin

Whale Rider

Willard

Wonderful Days

X2: X-Men United

Zatoichi

Zhou Yu's Train

Winged Migration

So what movie from 2002 did we all agree on?

And you gotta understand that I'm new to the DTV thing. Maybe I just need to warm up to this low budget schlock.

You saw a little of that chracter in BTDKYD. Have I mentioned I loved that film?

The shootout at the end has a few neat moments. With a bottle of rum and a friend it might have been loads better.

For best flick I have to go with Above the Law.

For the record, I don't have a problem with anyone on this site. I'm like Fred in that regard.

The Last Samurai

Master and Commander

X2

Runaway Jury

aaahhh, the joys of parenthood.

Bubba Ho-Tep Daredevil

Darkness Falls

Dreamcatcher

Final Destination 2

Freddy vs. Jason

Hollywood Homicide

House of the Dead

Hulk

Identity

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

The Last Samurai

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Lost in Translation

Malibu's Most Wanted

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Seabiscuit

Tears of the Sun

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Willard

Wrong Turn

1999-The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2,Magnolia

2000- Crouching Tiger, Color of Paradise, O Brother Where Art Thou?

2001- LOTR, A.I., Donnie Darko

2002-Spirited Away, Minority Report, Two Towers

2003-ROTK, Master and Commander,In America

Return of the King

Love Actually

28 Days later

Bend it Like Beckham

Underworld

Master and Commander

Greedy Fred

2) Return of the King

3) Love Actually

Malibu's Most Wanted is one of those movies I will always stop and watch if I come across it on TV. Always a good time to watch Malibu Most Wanted. That and Houses of the Dead.

Yeah technically it sucks but it is entertaining as all hell. Plus it had Lois Lane from Smallville whipping out her sweater meat. If House of the dead had midgets in it it might have been a perfect movie shit movie.

Hugs and kisses matalo!

Lost In Translation

Master and Commander

oddly enough I have done a marathon of these 3 films back to back which was a terrible, terrible idea. It made me hate all 3 of them for about a week.

Love the little phone jerk by PSH in the beginning.

So I'll just go the safe route and say Gigli, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Just Married.

Kill Bill Vol.1 is a great time. I think it's the perfect line between the high end stuff and the schlock. I dont really like Tarantino, but I think these movies represent the kind of thing he tries for every time. And that soundtrack was K-I-L-L-E-R.

ROTK, X2, Oldboy, T3, Love Actually, *gulps* Kill Bill, Last Samurai, Master and Commander, School of Rock and Seabiscuit.

Matrix Reloaded and Ong Bak get honorable mentions.

It really was the year of the quality blockbuster.

Hero with Jet Li. Man this movie rocked. I saw it in 2003, even though it was released here in 2004.

Man Without a Past. Now this is a great foreign film. Anyone here actually see it? It is ABSOLUTLEY worth seeking out.

North Fork. An odd film that really works. It seems too stylized or too precious initially, but it all works together in the end.

What a great year for cinema.

And with that I'm going to bed later folks.

Hero was a great film.

Scott Speedman is indeed horrible. I liked it solely for Bill Nighy and you know who in the tight leather.

At least I know I have you in my corner for LXG, DGDB.