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#61 Dan

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Posted 15 December 2003 - 11:22 PM

The Wedding Banquet
6

Three Kings
6

Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella)
8

Blade Runner
10 thumbup.gif << a must see

The General's Daughter
0 sad.gif

G.I. Jane
8 ohmy.gif blink.gif

Full Metal Jacket
9 << very realistic movie

The Thin Red Line
10 one of my all-time favs.

Baby's Day Out
9

Monkey Trouble
8 laugh.gif

Billy Elliot
8 thumbsup.gif

A Prayer for the Dying (Mickey Rourke wub.gif )
8

The Man in the Iron Mask
9 ohmy.gif tongue.gif (love L. Di Caprio in older-style movies, he's pretty good in those - other than that, he sucks)

The Matrix
-10 sad.gif unsure.gif that movie sucks big time, donno what's the big deal about it..

Bowling for Columbine
7.5 (overrated)

Chocolat
8 thumbsup.gif

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Edited by Dan, 16 December 2003 - 11:00 AM.


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Posted 26 December 2003 - 11:44 PM

Lord of the ring I 7.5/10
Lord of the ring II 7.5/10
Lord of the ring III 7/10

Edited by Fadix, 26 December 2003 - 11:54 PM.


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Posted 27 December 2003 - 12:12 AM

I am envious of all of you.I got no time for movies....

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 01:18 AM

Gladiator 10/10 i loved it lol
A Beautiful Mind 10/10

Russell Crowe is the best!

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 02:44 AM

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Pros: Breathtaking battle scenes with well animated mosters (trolls/mamoths). The ghost army attack! the elf guys single-handedly taking out a mamoth with its crew. Basically everything to do with the major battle

Cons: too long, to the point of being exhausting.....almost 3 1/2 hours and nothing happening untill 90 mins into the movie. Cheesy ending. The fact that the guy playing Gandalf (the Grey wizard) is a homosexual whose boyfriend is a 22 year old playboy.....enough said. laugh.gif

Verdict: would have scored higher if it was an hour shorter! mad.gif

8/10

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 05:19 PM

QUOTE (Accelerated @ Dec 27 2003, 02:44 AM)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Pros: Breathtaking battle scenes with well animated mosters (trolls/mamoths). The ghost army attack! the elf guys single-handedly taking out a mamoth with its crew. Basically everything to do with the major battle

Cons: too long, to the point of being exhausting.....almost 3 1/2 hours and nothing happening untill 90 mins into the movie. Cheesy ending. The fact that the guy playing Gandalf (the Grey wizard) is a homosexual whose boyfriend is a 22 year old playboy.....enough said. laugh.gif

Verdict: would have scored higher if it was an hour shorter! mad.gif

8/10

that movie was so long lol i had to make like 3 bathroom trips

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 11:44 PM

Kate & Leopold 8/10

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Posted 10 January 2004 - 01:43 PM

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

3/10


Let's sum up what sucks about this movie:

1. Tolkien's story was raped completely (Since when does Frodo tell Sam to fk off? I thought their friendship was one of the most powerful symbolic messages in the book?)
And where the hell did the ending go?

2. The acting is total crap. When you have a lot of dramatic scenes, you should try to get actors who can actually play drama. When Elijah Wood is crying it's like he's suffering from Parkison or something.

3. The movie has some nice shots, unfortunately the rest of it makes you forget it immediately.

4. Once again, Arwen fills to much screentime. I understand Peter Jackson wants horny 14 year old boys to come to the cinema, but is goes at the cost of the quality of the movie.

Once again we learn an important lesson: graphics make a good First Person Shooter, good acting makes a good film. The fact that this movie is currently #4 at www.imdb.com makes me worried about the average world intelligence level tongue.gif

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Posted 10 January 2004 - 04:40 PM

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makes me worried about the average world intelligence level


Being able to appreciate the extraordinary graphical detail in some parts of that movie doesnt constitute a lack of intelligence.....

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 12:46 PM

But saying that graphics make a good movie does.
So does voting 10 for RotK.

Read this and you will know what I mean:
http://www.imdb.com/...rd/nest/5181379

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 06:11 PM

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Rating----0
I regret wasting my time, energy and money on such useless, worthless and boring movie… What was the point only director and the producer knows….i would never-ever recommend such movie to anyone….

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Rating---2-3
I personally didn’t like it that much so I probably wouldn’t recommend..

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 06:56 PM

QUOTE (gurgen @ Jan 10 2004, 11:43 AM)
2. The acting is total crap. When you have a lot of dramatic scenes, you should try to get actors who can actually play drama. When Elijah Wood is crying it's like he's suffering from Parkison or something.

Gurgen, I didn't think the acting was bad at all. In the contrary, I thought that the Hobbits' part was very dramatic and convincing.

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 08:44 PM

QUOTE (gurgen @ Jan 11 2004, 12:46 PM)
But saying that graphics make a good movie does.
So does voting 10 for RotK.

Read this and you will know what I mean:
http://www.imdb.com/...rd/nest/5181379

It was a very good general movie. Giving it 3/10 is unjust, you can not expect from the actors to be perfect on everything... the movie was too heavy, and it did very well considering the amount of material there was to watch.

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 10:39 PM

gurgen - I must disagree - LOtRs was a masterful movie. And though I do take issue with some interpretations and choices made vis a vis the original books - overall I think Jackson did a fine job of it.

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 03:58 AM

I don't.
But tastes differ.

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 11:36 AM

Paycheck

Pros: John Woo's style, and it wasn't too overdone this time. A cool concept with a decent story. Imagine a nuveau Total Recall.

Cons: Ben Affleck, and Uma Thurman(as the hottie, but she isn't), John Woo's style biggrin.gif

Overall I was suprised, it was a decent flick, with some "believeable" sci-fi action and concepts in it. It's not going to change the world and I know it won't be a big hit because Affleck is so "popular" now people are going to hate on him. But it's worth a rental maybe. I just went to see it with my girl and her younger sister.

7/10

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 11:47 AM

Anyone seen The Last Samurai yet?

Trying to figure out whether it's worth going to.

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 11:52 AM

Some people say it's good. I have a connection to Japan, so I don't know how realistic it is. So i'm waiting to see it as well. But i've heard good reviews from people, not critics

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 02:54 PM

I saw The Last Samurai, I think it is worth seeing especially if you are interested in Japanese culture

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Posted 12 January 2004 - 03:00 PM

Yeah I speak/read/write if fluently, and was out there for two years teaching English. I really should go see it, have been lazy...




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