eatenbytehworms
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Stolen Water is Sweet
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« Reply #6440 on: July 24, 2010, 04:08:18 PM » |
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This week...
FotR extended (with my little sister, after reading it to her).
Goonies (twice, including the commentary). Interestingly, Sean Astin plays the lead in this while playing the sidekick in LotR. It might be my favorite movie ever.
Despicable Me (at the the urging of my sister). Not as good a cartoon as TS3, but still entertaining.
when i get back from vacation, hopefully I'll get to see that Inception movie everyone's raving about.
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« Reply #6441 on: July 25, 2010, 10:52:35 PM » |
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Despicable Me. Steve Carrell is very talented and there was a good voice cast in general... but I felt like I'd seen a lot of the gags before, so some of it felt a bit tedious. I did like the premise of rooting for a villian against another villian, though.
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« Reply #6442 on: July 25, 2010, 11:11:32 PM » |
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RotK, theatrical cut.
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« Reply #6443 on: July 26, 2010, 06:35:03 AM » |
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Some Like It Hot
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Brenden
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« Reply #6444 on: July 26, 2010, 06:50:30 PM » |
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Despicable Me. Steve Carrell is very talented and there was a good voice cast in general... but I felt like I'd seen a lot of the gags before, so some of it felt a bit tedious. I did like the premise of rooting for a villian against another villian, though.
This was pretty much my reaction. I liked it alright, but it didn't measure up to the other animated films I've seen this year. |
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« Reply #6445 on: July 27, 2010, 09:34:03 PM » |
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The Private Life of Chickens
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« Reply #6446 on: July 29, 2010, 04:44:23 AM » |
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Bus Stop. Ugh, I can't BELIEVE Don Murray got an Oscar nomination for this. I've never seen a more obnoxious performance or a more loathsome character. Oh, but I hated him. And of course he got everything he wanted in the end.  |
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« Reply #6447 on: July 29, 2010, 06:46:35 PM » |
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The Private Life of Pigs
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« Reply #6448 on: July 30, 2010, 04:53:39 AM » |
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The Seven Year Itch
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Vlad!
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« Reply #6449 on: August 01, 2010, 09:44:04 PM » |
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Gake no Ue no Ponyo, first viewing
It's Princess Mononoke meets The Little Mermaid, with kids.
I really enjoyed this movie, actually. It's incredibly imaginative, full of the anthropomorphisms and fantastic creatures that Ghibli is known for. The characters are fun and believable, the colors are vibrant and beautifully hand-painted in this era of computer-rendered animation, and the atmosphere is one of non-stop fun.
Perhaps most importantly, Ponyo is admirably paced throughout, and the ending neatly ties everything up without seeming like it came out of nowhere. I was very glad to see that, since dragging on unnecessarily and ending lamely are problems which plagued Miyazaki's work in the past.
As an added bonus, as a movie targeted to a younger audience Ponyo uses a simpler subset of the Japanese language, and I was able to understand a decent amount even without subtitles. I don't know if there are any other aspiring Japanese speakers on the Phorum, but I appreciated it.
I wholeheartedly recommend this movie to children and adults alike.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
rms
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« Reply #6450 on: August 01, 2010, 09:47:38 PM » |
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I had netflixed Ponyo and almost watched it tonight but watched some X-Files instead. watched Whip It last night.
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« Reply #6451 on: August 01, 2010, 09:51:46 PM » |
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took my kids to see Despicable ME in 3-D tonight, as a final part of our family vacation. excellent decision.
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"When we spend so much time promoting everything we're against that the message of who we are for gets lost, when Christians are putting everyone else down, how is Jesus lifted up in that?." Doug Fields
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« Reply #6452 on: August 02, 2010, 09:32:19 PM » |
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« Reply #6453 on: August 05, 2010, 03:16:28 AM » |
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Just finished the Blonde miniseries.
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« Reply #6454 on: August 07, 2010, 06:45:05 PM » |
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The Private Life of Cows
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« Reply #6455 on: August 09, 2010, 10:13:00 AM » |
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Dinner for Schmucks
What a godawful movie. It's in contention for The Happening as worst movie I've ever paid money for. In fact, it's so terrible it sours my memory of its excellent French predecessor, The Dinner Game.
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« Reply #6456 on: August 09, 2010, 11:08:55 AM » |
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Dinner for Schmucks
What a godawful movie. It's in contention for The Happening as worst movie I've ever paid money for. In fact, it's so terrible it sours my memory of its excellent French predecessor, The Dinner Game.
I saw Dinner for Schmucks this weekend, too, but I thought it was very funny. I'd give it a solid B. |
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« Reply #6457 on: August 09, 2010, 02:25:08 PM » |
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Inception
Loved it!
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« Reply #6458 on: August 09, 2010, 09:45:03 PM » |
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the first four episodes of The Private Life of Plants
I feel like such a nosy person!
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« Reply #6459 on: August 09, 2010, 10:18:14 PM » |
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The 4-hour chic flick, "North & South". I can't resist.  |
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"Mercy's eyes are blue....and when she places them in front of you.....nothing holds a roman candle to....the solemn warmth you feel. There's no measuring of it as nothing else is love." -The Shins
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T-Bone
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« Reply #6460 on: August 11, 2010, 08:45:51 AM » |
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The Ghost Writer
The Book of Eli
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Vlad!
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« Reply #6461 on: August 11, 2010, 09:43:40 AM » |
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The Book of Eli
What'd you think of this one? |
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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T-Bone
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« Reply #6462 on: August 11, 2010, 03:24:35 PM » |
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What'd you think of this one?
It was good, but not great. I liked the theme, Washington and Oldman were enjoyable to watch as always, and the barren apocalyptic landscape was well done in managing to be different from other films of the genre. But I was never really emotionally invested, and I thought the end lacked the punch that it seemingly should have had. Overall, a solid B. |
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Brenden
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« Reply #6463 on: August 11, 2010, 04:58:23 PM » |
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It was good, but not great. I liked the theme, Washington and Oldman were enjoyable to watch as always, and the barren apocalyptic landscape was well done in managing to be different from other films of the genre. But I was never really emotionally invested, and I thought the end lacked the punch that it seemingly should have had. Overall, a solid B.
This was pretty much my reaction. At least it showed the writers were trying to create something more interesting than the average apocalypse movie. |
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Vlad!
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« Reply #6464 on: August 12, 2010, 09:44:10 AM » |
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Yeah, I know what you're saying. I really enjoyed it, but I think a lot of that comes from the really low expectations I had for the movie going into it. It has a lot of meat to chew on, but you're right about the emotional investment. I feel like Washingon's Eli was almost too dehumanized to really generate the level of empathy I think the writers were going for, and Mila Kunis' Solara wasn't developed enough to really matter to me at all. I appreciate the amount of time the film spent developing the setting and atmosphere, but I think if it had dropped some of its more action-y parts and focused on characterization instead it would have worked for me a lot more.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #6466 on: August 13, 2010, 07:17:26 PM » |
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Finished the first season of Burn Notice. That was SO much fun!
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« Reply #6467 on: August 13, 2010, 08:56:31 PM » |
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It was good, but not great. I liked the theme, Washington and Oldman were enjoyable to watch as always, and the barren apocalyptic landscape was well done in managing to be different from other films of the genre. But I was never really emotionally invested, and I thought the end lacked the punch that it seemingly should have had. Overall, a solid B.
I thought the basic premise was interesting enough, but I agree that in any way other than visually the execution fell rather flat. I kind of wish it had been some other classic book, rather than the Bible. Then the idea of killing for the book wouldn't have seemed nearly as much of an idolatrous juxtaposition. |
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« Reply #6468 on: August 15, 2010, 04:44:25 PM » |
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Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.
A great movie to take your kids to, assuming they've been naughty. I think I actually liked some of the commercials before the trailers before the movie more than I liked the movie itself. The blend of actual animals, rotoscoping, animatronics, and CG is unsettling; the plot seems to be straddling seriousness and satire and excels at neither; and the comedy mostly falls flat, depending as it does on sight gags and one-liners.
What surprised me about Cats and Dogs is that it actually could have been good. The movie contains references to everything from Batman to Men in Black, steeped of course in a significant amount of James Bond parody. Even the opening song sequence, a rendition of Get the Party Started done by Shirley Bassey in a very Bond-esque style, had me chuckling even as I was wincing. There were points when it felt as though the movie was trying to be a send up of spy thrillers, buddy cop movies, modern Jackie Chan action/comedies, and superhero movies all rolled into one. While parodying any one of these genres might have been well within this picture's reach, doing all of them at once just caused it to fail at each.
Please do not see this movie, and please do not show it to your kids. They deserve better.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #6469 on: August 19, 2010, 06:18:42 AM » |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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« Reply #6470 on: August 21, 2010, 10:54:51 PM » |
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Pocahontas. Y'know, the Disney version. I had actually never seen this before. There's something unintentionally hilarious about Mel Gibson taking part in a racist musical number.
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« Reply #6471 on: August 22, 2010, 06:49:57 PM » |
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I've been trying to see the academy award winning movies starting from the 40's. I was actually suprised how many I have already seen. This last weekend I saw 'An American in Paris' which I had never seen before, and which I liked very much.
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"There are two ways to have enough, one is to accumulate more and more, the other is to desire less." - G.K. Chesterton
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Vlad!
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« Reply #6472 on: August 23, 2010, 12:58:18 PM » |
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I am David.
This movie could have been really powerful and poignant, were it not for its ambivalent direction and hit-or-miss writing. Some scenes seemed very stilted and artificial, making me wonder if the studio or the producer insisted on a 90-minute runtime, leaving content which would have fleshed the film out on the cutting room floor.
Speaking of film, I don't know if the movie had insufficient budget to afford quality film or if it was shot all-digital, but I suspect the latter because many of the dark scenes were plagued with the sort of visual noise you get when using a low-quality digital light sensor. It wound up being surprisingly distracting.
I think I am David is, ultimately, another bit of proof that it's surprisingly hard to take a powerful, well-written book and turn it into a powerful, well-directed movie.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #6473 on: August 24, 2010, 12:44:19 AM » |
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the rest of The Private Life of Plants
Breakfast Special
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« Reply #6474 on: August 26, 2010, 03:24:49 AM » |
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Cemetery Junction
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« Reply #6475 on: August 28, 2010, 11:04:55 PM » |
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Hot Fuzz, second viewing.
Brilliant; liked it even more this time than I did the last time.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #6476 on: August 28, 2010, 11:27:29 PM » |
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"Un Prophete"
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Enjoy our pub. user/pw: thephorum Follow me on Grooveshark or Spotify. username: iceybloop |
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« Reply #6477 on: September 01, 2010, 05:57:15 PM » |
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Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
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« Reply #6478 on: September 05, 2010, 01:56:29 PM » |
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Chappelle's Show--Season One.
Working on season two, thank you Netflix Instant!
Also...I'M RICH BEYOTCH
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« Reply #6479 on: September 07, 2010, 09:25:10 PM » |
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Troy
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