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greenpenguino said:

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:

 

Ziggy Stardust said:

Inglourious Basterds

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10/10 REELS OF FLAMMABLE NITRITE FILM

That one got a huge "meh" from me. I can't remember anything about it, really.

 

You, sir, are dead to me.

I had a thought once that it would be interesting to do fanedits of Tarantino movies that really toned down the violence, because honestly that's the least interesting part of his movies to me.  Not sure if it would work, however, as I haven't thought about it that hard.

Inglorious Ridiculousness?

Wouldn't it need to be Inglourious Rediculousness?

the sea that thinks - 4/4 - a quasi-documentary/philosophical treatise/optical illusion/practical joke film about the screenwriter writing the screenplay for the movie while it's happening (this being a grand metaphor for how the mind creates the "I" that believes it is writing the script of its life). Unavailable in America due to distribution problems, the Dutch director sent me a DVD copy himself after I emailed him, which was quite nice. He said he doesn't fault Americans from downloading the film since it's otherwise impossible to get.

doubleofive said:

 

asterisk8 said:

Comics on the Kindle, 005? I was thinking of trying that but it seemed like it wouldn't look great.

You misunderstood, I went slightly off topic into tablets there. Still digital reading.

 

Well aren't you fancy with yer phones and yer tablets and yer Kindles. ;)

Comics on the Kindle, 005? I was thinking of trying that but it seemed like it wouldn't look great.

EyeShotFirst said:

I read Moby Dick which is long, boring, and unfufilling

I tend to go through phases with my Kindle 3. I'll read a couple books on it and like the convenience (reading while eating lunch is a HUGE plus to me). Then I'll buy a real book that isn't available on the Kindle and the joy of it will drive me away from the Kindle for several months. Then I'll pick up the Kindle again for a specific book, lather rinse repeat.

I do like the Kindle, I don't think I'd ever get rid of it, but it hasn't made me stop buying real books.

georgec said:

 

I hear great things and want to get into this.

I cannot recommend it enough. I flew through the first season today instead of working, that's how good it is. It has the production values of a feature film. The writing, the performances, the direction, cinematography, it's all absolutely flawless. There are very few shows I say are flawless. The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Downton Abbey. That's it.

SilverWook said:

As this is the last chance for Peter Jackson and company to make a Middle Earth movie, no way were they not going to squeeze two films out of it.

But we're only going to get to see one before the end of the world... maybe they'll release both this December when they realize the Mayans were right. ;)

I know. Jackson should've planned it better. Does he not watch Brad Meltzer's Decoded??

Mike O said:

Maybe something will come along that will actually impress me, but I doubt it.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dec 2012, just before the Mayan apocalypse. :)

Started Downton Abbey tonight. I'm two episodes in and HOOKED.

Isn't there a better place for this discussion?

The Help - 2/5 slices of pie. I liked the performances, but I agree with the general criticisms that it simplifies and glosses over the worst aspects of the domestic worker experience during this period in an effort to make the film more "feel good". I want the truth, not a family-friendly version of it.

Hugo 3D - 8/10 balls.

Mike O said:

Lucas sees the 3-D craze winding down and wants to take advantage of it.

The 3D craze is not winding down. Just wait until The Hobbit comes out in IMAX 3D at 48 fps and people feel like they're looking through a giant window into Middle Earth. From where I'm sitting, true 3D movies are just getting started.

Purity Ring - "Belispeak"

Yeah. It's supposedly about the "space jockey" race of aliens, and how they are connected with the origin of humanity.

The way I see it, a prequel is specifically designed to set up the events in the films it's, uh, prequelling. I could be wrong, but this is just a movie set in the same universe, before the events of Alien, but has nothing to do with the Nostromo or xenomorphs.

And yet, it seems like we see the crash of the Derelict, which I thought was as a result of an infestation of xenomorphs, so maybe I don't know what the heck I'm talking about. :/

CP3S said:

georgec said:

I'm not sure if I care to know where/how the aliens originated.

Wait, is that what it is about? I thought Scott said it has nothing to do with the xenomorphs and will not feature them. From what I understood, the only connection it was suppose to have to Alien was exploring the origins of the space jockey

From what I understand, the film is about exploring the origin of the human race on the space jockey's planet. The xenomorphs are not involved.

My two favorites gifts:

The saber also seemed red-orange to me, but I just chalked it up to watching it on a laptop screen, just about the worst when it comes to accurate color.

At this exact moment I am watching something called Virgin Diaries on TLC, which profiles adults who have remained virgins into their 30s. It contains the. most. awkward. kissing. I've. ever. seen. One of the profiles is of a Christian couple who saved themselves till their wedding night. And when I say "saved" I mean that the groom has never even kissed a girl before he kissed his bride at the altar. He seems so confused and scared by how his new wife wants to kiss constantly at their reception. I quote: "Right after we had our first kiss, she started kissing me again and it's just this feeling of like, 'What's going on?! Why is she kissing me?! What– uhh... AHHHH!! This doesn't seem quite normal...'"

They're eerily like this couple from the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall:

Warbler said:

 

They believe you become a human when born, therefore to them the fetus is not human life. 

That is not true at all. I don't know, and have never read about, anyone who believes that a fetus is not human until born. Most pro-choice advocates would agree that a fetus can be considered human when the cerebral cortex begins processing information like sounds and sensations outside the womb, which is around 5 months. That happens to fall in line with the 1992 Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which set the upper limit for legal abortions in the US at 22 weeks, the point at which a fetus is viable outside the womb.

I would not listen to anyone who tries to argue that a 38-week-old fetus is not human. That's just nonsense.

Warbler said:

sean wookie said:

First of all Wayne is a weird guy, and the fetus has nothing to do with abortion.

yeah, sure.

Are you just making an assumption, or do you know for sure?

I met SNL/Police Academy alum Tim Kazurinsky several times.

His office was down the hallway from my aunt and uncle, and when I was about 11, I used to get to visit him once in awhile. He'd tell me jokes, he read a couple of my creative writing assignments and gave me tips, he'd show me his collection of movie posters that hung all over his office and tell me interesting stories about them.

I bumped into David Schwimmer at a Chicago music fest once, said, "Excuse me" and kept walking before I realized who it was.

And I swear I saw Ham from The Sandlot all grown up in Vegas a few years back:

I keep remembering more. I sat a few rows in front of Kurtwood Smith ("Red" Forman) at a performance of Romeo and Juliet at Navy Pier.

One more. When I went to see Mission Impossible III in the theater, there was a very annoying group of teenagers who kept getting up and texting and being obnoxious. At the end, as we're filing out, who is their chaperone, but none other than Harold Ramis.