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Offline _Rondo_GE The OutLaw

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2007, 09:33:40 pm »
Ok well now for another round... they'll just keep coming I'm afaraid...

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Not everyones cup of tea but being an ex-New Yorker like myself helps.  In the "tradition" of Martin Scorsese's Mean Street and Deniro's  A Bronx Tale, this is a fine effort by a first time director.  It also generated a fairly amusing one line "put down review" on the net...

"Shia LaBeouf plays a kid who grows up to be Robert Downey, Jr. Isn't that every boy's dream?"

LMFAO!!!

I live for stuff like that.

Anyway Downey does a pretty good job.  He appears to working hard (so far) to erase a bad rep and an equally bad type cast as a seriously disturbed flake or villian.  He's normal in this movie.   

Teen rivalry (small gang style) and some violence.  The usual nudity etc...(duh).  Darn where were these girls when I was growing up?  I might have stayed.

 Seen on Pay per view... recommended for those from New York (epecially guys like me born in Queens) or folks that like this kind of movie.   The urge to "escape from New York" runs deep in me which is one reason why I joined the Navy and took off. 

Rent -  a rarity... a musical.    Follows a year from 1989 to 1990 when the AIDs epidemic began to impact the rather "front line" lifestyles of the artsy types living in what looked like the East Village of NY (or perhaps SOHO).  Interesting performances by all and I got to see a very good performance by an up and coming actress I have been tracking, Rosario Dawson.  Very talented lady she is.




And not bad to look at either.  Sorry folks another "New York" flick and not recommended for those that don't like to watch a few scenes of gays smooching, although the movie appears to center somewhat around a heterosexual relationship.  For what thats worth.

Recommended for those with urbane tastes.  I liked it but then I kinda like watching this actress do her thing.  She played a stripper in this one.  Highly versatile performer.  She also played a single mom in the last movie...as the "girl left behind"by Robert Downey...   well THAT explains it cause there would be NO WAY I would be leaving her behind.     

Rented CD.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2007, 09:45:30 pm »
Meet The Robinsons (Disney).  Saw it with my kid at the theater.  Computer animation.  Looked a lot like the Incredibles.  Good "bring the kid to a movie" flick.  You know...matineee and it STILL managed to gouge me for bucks.  Not bad.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2007, 06:37:34 am »
I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last week.  *Sigh*  Unless you have little kids like I do, you can skip this movie...   ::)   :D
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2007, 11:45:29 pm »
Quote from: Javora on April 23, 2007, 06:37:34 am
I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last week.  *Sigh*  Unless you have little kids like I do, you can skip this movie...   ::)   :D


My 10 year old passed on it.  Thank GOD!  I got a pass on that one.  :)

I don't mind taking kids to the movies.  The better kids movies try to put enough "adult" humor (not dirty just sophistitcated) to prevent you from nodding off. 

Blood Diamond -  starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou.  A movie about the senseless killing in the Sierra Leone Civil War.  Leonardo plays a "Rick" type of character , gun smuggler, etc.  He does a fine job actually.    Djimon Hounsou does another good solid support job...but this movie seems to tell me that he will forever be second fiddle, he seems to have only a few notes even though he plays them well.

This seems to be one of those "Oh the Horror" of it all flicks.   These rebels appear to have maxed out the phrase rebels without a cause; young boys driving around shooting their weapons in the air, smilng, jeering while being lead by older psychopaths.  Most people don't know, or WANT to know, the recent history of Africa and its eternal strife.  Due to that the movie is moved mostly by its plot that centers around one very large gemstone and seems nothing more than a sadistic romp with a little unconvincing love interest thrown in for good measure.   Without Capria and Hounsou putting in some good work this movie would be a good B movie basically.

The National Board of Review ranked this movie as the number 3 movie of 2006 which tells me 2006 was a bad year for movies or that the NBR is full of poop. 

No recommendation.  See it or don't but you won't be missing anything unless you are a Leonardo DiCaprio fan.  I liked the Departed much better.

 

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2007, 09:20:47 pm »
Has anyone seen Hot Fuzz?  That looks like it could be pretty funny.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2007, 11:55:10 pm »
Quote from: S'Raek on April 25, 2007, 09:20:47 pm
Has anyone seen Hot Fuzz?  That looks like it could be pretty funny.

Not yet.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2007, 10:53:08 am »
Sin City- absolutely loved it !!
The Departed- Umm not sure I liked it but worth a look just for Jack Nicholson (this film should be the prequel to the original Batman)
V for Vendetta- Most excellent film I've seen this year.

Am still looking forward to seeing Children of man and the 300.

...And I thought Timothy Dalton was the best Bond since Connery but as stated the scripts killed him.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2007, 02:18:29 pm »
SpiderMan III out this coming weekend.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #28 on: April 30, 2007, 11:14:19 pm »
Here are a few flicks I've seen int he last month.  I don't go to movies that much due to the cost BUT I invested ina  bog screen and a surround sound system so its not missed much.  The only flick I cared to pay oput the $9.00 to see was 300 in the three months.

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300 rocked! There were a few details missing though. In front of the council Theron accused the queen of adultery, which the Spartans had no concept of at the time.

Women, being more independent than in other Greek societies, were able to negotiate with their husbands to bring their lovers into their homes. According to Plutarch in his Life of Lycurgus, men both allowed and encouraged their wives to bear the children of other men, due to the general communal ethos which made it more important to bear many progeny for the good of the city, than to be jealously concerned with one's own family unit. However, some historians argue that this 'wife sharing' was only reserved for elder males who had not yet produced an heir[citation needed]. For this reason, Plutarch claims that the concept of "adultery" was alien to the Spartans, and relates that one ancient Spartan had said that it was as possible "to find a bull with a neck long enough to stand on a mountain top and drink from a river below", as to find an adulterer in Sparta.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #29 on: April 30, 2007, 11:23:04 pm »
I actually thought the sex portions of the movie worsened it.  I found no real plot relavance that any of the sex scenes added.  It would have been just as easy for her to slice him open for his putting her down in the council and show the money without that scene, and no idea why they had the scene in the beginning with her husband if she'd just go out and do it with some scoundrel from the council who she had no idea if he would really support her or not anyways.

Those portions of 300 actually made an otherwise spectacularly awesome movie into just an awesome movie.

They served no real purpose in my eyes...other than to try to put sex and nudity in for no other reason than to have...sex and nudity.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #30 on: May 01, 2007, 03:23:28 pm »
You did not like the girl that was moving around at the Oracle? I thought the sex scenes were great, especially when Leonidas was behind  the queen.  ;D It was already rated R for the violence and bloodshed, and everyone knows sex sells.  ;)
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #31 on: May 02, 2007, 11:14:26 am »
I finaly caught Casino Royale on PPV last night.

Ehh, it was ok. I didn't like Craig at all. Mono tone voice, only emotion was when he was getting beat towards the middle. And when the hell has Bond ever talked about his soul. They just turned him into another MetroSexual IMHO.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #32 on: May 05, 2007, 04:21:06 am »
Quote from: Stephen NCC -73070 on May 02, 2007, 11:14:26 am
I finaly caught Casino Royale on PPV last night.

Ehh, it was ok. I didn't like Craig at all. Mono tone voice, only emotion was when he was getting beat towards the middle. And when the hell has Bond ever talked about his soul. They just turned him into another MetroSexual IMHO.

Stephen

He's violent and good at taking simulated torture.

But that hair.  Looks like he used a bad electric razor with wet hands.  I watched "Layer Cake" the other day, another of his movies and his hair was exactly the same.  The Nappy haired 007.

Hehe "Metrosexual"... an original!  Thats good.   I think thats what the people in "Rent" were.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #33 on: May 05, 2007, 10:51:19 am »
Rent was Ok, but then I'm a huge fan of musicals. From Lloyd Webber to Jerry's girls with Carol Channing. Shoot way back when I was younger, I took part in the Claremore theaters version of Will Rogers at home, and even sang. Albiet it badly.

Hehe, Yeah I figured You of all people would get a kick out of that Metro Sexual line. I was really hoping that the bond in the film would be closer to the novels, It almost started that way, and then he wussed out on us towards the end.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #34 on: May 05, 2007, 11:57:22 am »
The Return:

http://www.thereturnmovie.net/

Filmed in Austin and Granger, TX.

The Hitcher:

http://www.neverpickupstrangers.com/

 ;D

2 good horror flicks although if you watch the Hitcher get the one that includes deleted scenes and other bonus stuff.



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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #35 on: May 05, 2007, 04:56:24 pm »
I thought the original movie The Hitcher was better then the one that just came out.  Not sure why, it just didn't impress me.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #36 on: May 06, 2007, 08:55:37 am »
Quote from: Javora on May 05, 2007, 04:56:24 pm
I thought the original movie The Hitcher was better then the one that just came out.  Not sure why, it just didn't impress me.


yup, I agree- the original was better than the re-release.

The Devils Rejects- currently on cable. You gotta see this (and I thought Rob Zombie's first film was gory)
Jacob's Ladder- also currently on cable. An oldie but you'll notice it hasn't been remade yet. You just can't improve on near perfection.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #37 on: May 06, 2007, 09:45:17 am »
Turistas rocked!

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808762546/info

I'm watching Children of Men also, had to sleep last night mid-way through the movie, but so far it's been pretty cool.

http://www.childrenofmen.net/
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #38 on: May 06, 2007, 10:25:59 am »
Quote from: Electric Eye on May 06, 2007, 09:45:17 am
Turistas rocked!

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808762546/info

I'm watching Children of Men also, had to sleep last night mid-way through the movie, but so far it's been pretty cool.

http://www.childrenofmen.net/

J/K you EE , but You also liked Lords of War with Nicolas Cage, Your a great friend, but I'm not taking any movie Reviews from you. :D :D :D

Stephen
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #39 on: May 06, 2007, 12:46:26 pm »
I thought Lords of War was pretty cool, especially since it was based on a true story.

Peace sells, but who's buying? International arms sales accounts for 75% of our military industrial complex's profits.  ;) I can very well believe that some of our arms dealers have a lot more clout in getting out of legal situations courtesy of our govt. than we are led to believe.
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