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Post by *-Hølic.dk1. on Jun 26, 2008 13:04:12 GMT -6
Transformers (the movie) Live Free and Die hard The Pursuit of Happiness Mortal Kombat (the first original movie) Idiocracy Harold and Kumar 2 (Best movie in awhile) Iron Man Pitch Black Pirates 3 Knocked up Saw II (the only one very clever made) Cry Wolf (the ending is awesome) and Smokin aces
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Post by Echo on Jun 26, 2008 23:11:14 GMT -6
With the exception of Transformers, The Pursuit of Happyness, Iron Man, and Knocked Up, I could only watch those movies once lol. The only cool part in Wolf Creek was "head on a stick" cause I laughed out LOUD! The only reason I would watch Transformers over and over is for Megan FOX. Pirates 3 was WAY worse than the first but WAY better than the 2nd.
COOP! WATCH THIS MOVIE IF YOU HAVEN'T: Into the Wild
My 50 or so faves that I can recall: American History X Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction Kill Bill 1 Kill Bill 2 Reservoir Dogs Schindler's List City of God Memento Fight Club Leon: The Professional(mostly for the ending) The Machinist - Christian Bale cuts down to 120lbs. for this movie Seven/Se7en Taxi Driver Double Endemnity Chinatown Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind A Clockwork Orange Gone Baby Gone American Gangster The Departed Blood Diamond Requiem For a Dream No Country For Old Men - Javier Bardem is awesome The Maltese Falcon L.A. Confidential The Prestige There Will Be Blood - Daniel Day Lewis is awesome Sin City Hotel Rwanda The Big Sleep Touch of Evil Donnie Darko OLDBOY - Top 3 easily Amores Perros Children of Men - best chase scene I've ever seen Snatch - Brad Pitt is awesome The Big Lebowski Trainspotting 12 Monkeys Casino Royale(best Bond movie) Perfume: Story of a Murderer - best movie no one's heard of. Grave of the Fireflies - Shout out to the anime category for making my mom sob her eyes out.
Best movie I've seen in the past 2 days: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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Post by *-Hølic.dk1. on Jun 27, 2008 10:51:47 GMT -6
Tarantino fan i see XD ever see any of the grindhouse movies?
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Post by Echo on Jun 27, 2008 13:16:36 GMT -6
Yeah. Really liked them both.
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Post by W|-|O~DK1~ on Jul 1, 2008 0:25:31 GMT -6
Ive seen Into the Wild. Its a good movie yes, but not something I could watch over and over again..Reminds me to much of my so called friend that screwed me over..( The one that took advantage of my wife when I wasn't there..Grrr) Anyway..That is what he wants to do in roughly 5 years...But w/e.. Shawshank Redemption is a good movie, I have to agree there. Casino Royale was once again another awesome Bond movie, ties with Goldeneye in my book...Gotta give credit though..Taken the story back to when he first became 00 status made a great story line..BUT not enough coold gagdets and things..*Shrug* Gotta love Bond gagdets... Echo you strike me as the type that would like the movie Brick..If you havent seen it, I highly suggest it. It is a movie you can not miss a single second of though, or you will be confused threwout the rest of the movie...Had to watch it 4 different times due to bathroom breaks...>.< My list of movies to watch over and over: Black Hawk Down Tears of the Sun Fast and Furious 2 Fast 2 Furious Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift Grind ( One of my top ten favorties.) Resident Evil Resident Evil Apocolipse( Or however you spell it) Resdient Evil Extention( You get the point..Waiting on 4) Universal Soldier ( 2 and 3 Sucked) Final Fantasy ( The Movie ) Lord of The Rings( All 3 ) 300 ( How could you not? ) Meet The Spartans I am Legend ( Maybe could watch maybe 5 times a month?) Almost Heros Beveraly Hills Ninja Shanghi Noon Shanghi Knights Around the World in 80 Days ( Another 5 times a month movie) That about sums it up for me..I am sure I will think of more later but that my main list...One series of movies I CANNOT stand is the Bourne Moives..They just keep coming out with them. After the second movie it just got boring and not interesting. Just the same thing in a different movie with a different setting.
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Post by Echo on Jul 1, 2008 1:59:03 GMT -6
Well the Bourne series is based off a series of novels so it's not like they keep pulling them out of a hat. The story is already written. I know of 1 or 2 more books that still haven't been adapted.
I've seen "Brick" and yeah I loved it. Forgot about that movie but it's one of my favorites as well. Also add "The Lookout" to the list.
WHO you had me for a second but then you named the worst movie I've never seen. A movie I've made it my personal goal to never watch. It'll be a cold day in hell when I see one continuous minute of "I Am Legend". In my opinion it's Hollywood vomit at it's chunkiest variety. Will Smith can bite down hard on a gun barrel for all I care. My brain bleeds every time I think about that movie. Actually I'm done referring to it as a "movie" or "film". From now on "I Am Legend" is a "cancer" to me. A film "cancer". That about sums up how terrible it is to me.
The "Fast and the Furious" series are almost as bad. I'm sorry you opine the opposite.
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Post by W|-|O~DK1~ on Jul 1, 2008 3:01:44 GMT -6
*Shrug* Different Strokes for Different Folks. Don't get me wrong though, I Am Legend is not the best, but it by far not the worst. I have seen FARRRRR worse movies. Could have used a better story line though. Why there is a "Maybe Could.." in there. Personally I have only seen it once. Something I would not have seen in theators. But every movie, or "cancer" as you call it has its querks. But for example, a movie worse then I Am Legend is Death Before Dishonor. It is horrible
As far as Fast and Furious, I am starting to draw away from it some, don't watch it near as much as I use to. Tokyo Drift would have to be my favorite of the three, partially because I drift some of the backroads around here. Vin Diesel just doesn't suite the roll of a car junkie. 2 Fast 2 Furious was better then the first though. The first could have used a little bit more planning.
Some more movies I forgot to mention are: Black Sheep S.W.A.T. Pearl Harbor( Rare Occasions ) Enemy At The Gates A Knights Tale And for a dollar movie from Wal-Mart, Danger Beneath The Sea, isn't half bad. Tremors ( All 4 ) Titanic
I have got to know something, its burning away at my soul to hear your opinion on the "Harry Potter" series. It is a GOTTA know. lol. ( I am rather enjoying this ranting.)
Lmao. Sorry, couldn't resist throwing Titanic in there. Seen it once when I was 14 and haven't watched it since. One movie I refuse to see.
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Post by Echo on Jul 1, 2008 23:35:55 GMT -6
I have got to know something, its burning away at my soul to hear your opinion on the "Harry Potter" series. It is a GOTTA know. lol. ( I am rather enjoying this ranting.). In my honest opinion I think, much like the author of these books, they are adapting them to film mostly for money. They're trying to be too "all encompassing" with their target demographic. Like, "Let's make a nice movie for the family yet make it just a bit dark so we can loop in the MTV generation with their rebelious yet completely conformist nature. We'll get EVERYONE to spend money on a movie in which no one dies."
That's my biggest gripe. As far as I've heard you can count the number of deaths in this entire series on one hand. That's pretty impressive considering it's set in a world full of magic spells, dragons, "soul eaters" or some nonsense, giant pummeling trolls, and an antagonist that wishes only to murder people. Harry Potter should have died in about the 3rd book but the stingy British miser wench that writes them loves swimming in money.
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Post by Echo on Jul 1, 2008 23:36:13 GMT -6
It's strange how someone daydreams up a series about magic, a plot foundation that is an instant trump card to write any BS you want and have it be "logical", and instantly makes millions while being called a genius. It boggles my mind how critics make an average person look brilliant. They say her book deals with "racism" and "prejudice" because of the use of "muggles" and "mud bloods" as a socioconflict. Give me a break. All that "complex socialogical subtext" is, is a continuing example of teenage angst and alienation. They think she was aware of the intricate comments she was making on society today? Give me a break. But when a book sells that many copies the press need an explanation as to why it's so "genius".
After the press and critics make her famous Rowling has the audacity to publicly scold the media for invasions of privacy. Guess what dimwit, that's what comes with selling millions of copies of a series that repeats itself... fame and fortune aren't just a gift that come with a generation of children who's brains are too small to actually read "Peter Pan" or "Cinderella".
Guess what kids, those were actually books before that bigoted prick Walt Disney made them into cartoons. I'm sure you had no idea since your parents are too busy cramming Dora the Exporer down your throats every weekday to keep you quiet... go play Wii.
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Post by Echo on Jul 1, 2008 23:36:49 GMT -6
I've got a book idea. While every other being on the planet is adapting and evolving to better themselves. They're all becoming more developed and following Darwin's Natural Selection. Our central protagonists, "humans", destroy themselves through their own inventions. The highly intellectual "humans" create things that make life faster and easier everyday. What they didn't foresee however, is that these very same inventions will cause the rest of "humanity" to collapse under the weight of their own idiocy. Life for these "humans" will become so easy that the skills they had developed and implemented thoughout previous generations will slowly dissolve. This will make them completely dependant on the aforementioned inventions, which will fail and "humans" will die. Move over Nostradamus!
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Post by Maverick$DK1$ on Jul 2, 2008 11:40:15 GMT -6
UM...^ A little over board there ECHO. But I hate Harry Potter too. Everyone thinks I'm a freakin whack job and I should be locked in a room and forced to watch Harry Potter till I like it. SCREW YOU HARRY POTTER FANS! And JK ROWLING!
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Post by Echo on Jul 2, 2008 22:48:40 GMT -6
Why do you always type my name capitalized?
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Post by Maverick$DK1$ on Jul 3, 2008 12:10:15 GMT -6
I feel like ECHO. cause I'm MAVERICK. I just find it proper to do names in capital.
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Post by «{¦M¢M䢦}»-DK1- on Jul 4, 2008 1:41:46 GMT -6
Series in which no one dies does get old. It's the same every time cause americans have an obsession with the main character always having a happy ending, probably one of the reasons why I am watching so much anime. Good reads lately are the last 2 star wars series: New Jedi Order, and Legacy of the Force, the authors finally got the balls to kill off some of Lucas's characters, I've always been a fan of the star wars books but these last 2 series are the maturation of the entire expanded universe. Since this is a movie thread movies I can't stop watching:
Serenity Star Wars(ALL) LOTR(ALL) Cowboy Bebop: Knock'n on Heaven's Door 300 Transformers SuperTroopers
Other books that need to be turned into movies: Icarus Hunt Conquerers Saga Honor Harrington series aka Honorverse Halfblood Chronicles In Fury Born (this one a definite, badass sci-fi book, check it out if ya library has it.)
Oh and wats ya take on them remaking Dune? I am assuming you have read it Echo since you seem to be pretty good at choosing movies and literature
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Post by *-Hølic.dk1. on Jul 7, 2008 15:21:09 GMT -6
idk the resident evil series aren't that good anymore it's getting out of hand now lol Underworld was badass Underworld 2 wasn't as good
the only thing i'm looking forward too is Transformers 2 and the season of Heros...If they ever make the new season :-(
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