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« Reply #120 on: October 13, 2003, 11:10:11 PM » |
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Anyway, back on topic:
Finally done with midterms, so I headed over to Blockbuster after school in search of some movie relaxation materials.
I picked up "Holes," which I loved!
The traielrs for this looked bad to me, and I thought it was just another of Disney's "should have stayed on the Disney channel pieces of junk."
But then my older sister recommended it to me, and she would never go for something like that.
And then, I heard someone else compare it to the sacred The Goonies, so I had been dying to rent this.
I was not disappointed! I loved how the action went back and forth in time and all the stories wove together.
I loved the character of Kissing Kate and could watch a whole movie about her. I'm jealous; midterms are raging right now for me. I've been wanting to see Holes as well. I was something of a Louis Sachar fan (Sachar wrote the book that the movie is based off), so that was a plus. The plot sounded kind of stupid, but enough people say it's great that I want to give it a shot sometime. |
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« Reply #121 on: October 13, 2003, 11:15:31 PM » |
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I thought I'd hate Holes but I ended up loving it. But, since my favorite movie is Father of the Bride, I suppose I don't have much credibility as a film critic...
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« Reply #122 on: October 13, 2003, 11:41:53 PM » |
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I can't find your Shawshank Redemption review, Vlad. Where is it?
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« Reply #124 on: October 14, 2003, 08:53:49 AM » |
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yep, i've seen waiting for guffman many a time. it's my favorite of all the mockumentaries by that crew. actually, i'd already seen best in show, a mighty wind, and about a boy. i've been rewatching lots of movies this month for some reason...besides the french ones, the only ones on that list i hadn't seen before are the lizzie mcguire movie and rivers and tides.
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« Reply #125 on: October 14, 2003, 08:58:24 AM » |
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Thanks, Schil; Josh keeps doing that to me. Maybe it's his subtle way of removing reviews he thinks are crappy without me knowing  |
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« Reply #126 on: October 16, 2003, 06:32:21 PM » |
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I saw "Blast From the Past" with Brendan Fraser last night. It wasn't too bad. It was funny, which makes it good in my book.
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« Reply #127 on: October 18, 2003, 01:52:47 AM » |
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just finished watching Immortal Beloved (required for music class). even though Beethoven's life is fictionalized and dramatized for the movie, I think the film effectively gives the viewer an idea of the tempestuousness and tragedy in his life, whoever the real Immortal Beloved was.
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« Reply #128 on: October 18, 2003, 08:50:55 AM » |
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Hmmm... about a month ago I went through and deleted all the old reviews that I thought were crappy (mostly my own), but I could have sworn I left Shawshank on there. I certainly intended to. Apologies, Vlad! I'll add that one back, because I'm pretty sure it wasn't crappy...
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« Reply #129 on: October 18, 2003, 10:55:11 AM » |
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Hmmm... about a month ago I went through and deleted all the old reviews that I thought were crappy (mostly my own), but I could have sworn I left Shawshank on there. I certainly intended to. Apologies, Vlad! I'll add that one back, because I'm pretty sure it wasn't crappy... I certainly don't mind if you delete my reviews, but it would be good if you tell me, so I can make another stab at it, hopefully producing a better one ^_^ |
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« Reply #130 on: October 18, 2003, 01:36:48 PM » |
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I think I've delted two or three of your reviews, Vlad!, but the only one I remember is A Beautiful Mind. =)
And to all of you pholks waiting to see Holes: Yes, yes, yes. It's a wonderful film. I hope to own the DVD eventually, as soon as I get some...you know... money.
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« Reply #131 on: October 18, 2003, 03:07:05 PM » |
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Hey, it's not my fault that I liked it  I wanted to see Holes when it was at the dollar theater, but I never found the time. Alas. |
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« Reply #132 on: October 18, 2003, 04:15:25 PM » |
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Hey, it's not my fault that I liked it No, but it is your fault that you spent two or three paragraphs talking about the conditions under which you saw the film and, like, two setences about the movie itself. |
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« Reply #133 on: October 18, 2003, 07:19:09 PM » |
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I'm wondering... why does everyone seem to like Holes so much? I didn't really like it at all. Seemed like too much of a Disney Channel made-for-TV movie.
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« Reply #134 on: October 18, 2003, 07:57:53 PM » |
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No, but it is your fault that you spent two or three paragraphs talking about the conditions under which you saw the film and, like, two setences about the movie itself. I was trying to explain why, even though I normally don't like overly sentimental movies, this one hit me right  Anyway, steering the topic away from my less-than-informative review, I still haven't seen any new movies...alas.  |
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« Reply #135 on: October 18, 2003, 08:35:55 PM » |
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I'm wondering... why does everyone seem to like Holes so much? I didn't really like it at all. Seemed like too much of a Disney Channel made-for-TV movie. Great story. Great script. Great performances. A whimsical spirit that reminds me of The Princess Bride. Fun nods to other movies. What's not to like? |
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« Reply #136 on: October 18, 2003, 08:38:59 PM » |
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I liked Holes. Strange though and the soundtrack was wasn't all that great...
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« Reply #137 on: October 18, 2003, 10:06:38 PM » |
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i thought holes was cute...good for a family flick but not great.
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« Reply #138 on: October 19, 2003, 01:53:53 PM » |
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Great story. Great script. Great performances. A whimsical spirit that reminds me of The Princess Bride. Fun nods to other movies. What's not to like? Great story? I guess that would be another opinion thing. I thought the story was stupid, myself. Stupid and corny. |
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« Reply #139 on: October 19, 2003, 02:23:07 PM » |
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I can only know about the story from what I've been told. I watched that movie in the dollar theater, and the sound wasn't loud/high quality enough for me to hear more than three lines of dialogue in the whole movie. I had no idea what was going on. The part with the fortune teller and the pig was especially confusing when you were just going by visuals.  I want to rent this movie and watch it on our nice, great sounding home theater system. |
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« Reply #140 on: October 19, 2003, 03:31:58 PM » |
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Hmm...the local dollar theater in Knoxville is still pretty decent quality, you just don't get to see films until 3 months after they're released |
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« Reply #141 on: October 19, 2003, 05:51:37 PM » |
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Same as at ours, but the quality isn't that great.
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« Reply #142 on: October 19, 2003, 05:53:01 PM » |
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Great story? I guess that would be another opinion thing. I thought the story was stupid, myself. Stupid and corny. What was stupid and corny about it? I never got that impression, myself; it's whimsical and it doesn't take itself too seriously, but that's as it should be. It is, after all, a family film... |
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« Reply #143 on: October 19, 2003, 06:23:42 PM » |
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I saw Renaissance Man last night. Very good, but alot of language.
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« Reply #144 on: October 19, 2003, 06:57:30 PM » |
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A lot of language? You mean they talked a lot?
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« Reply #145 on: October 19, 2003, 07:21:45 PM » |
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Lol. Alot of cussing.
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« Reply #146 on: October 19, 2003, 08:09:07 PM » |
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I had borrowed Pulp Fiction since I have heard so much about how great it is. watched it last night. don't get what the point of it is. a lot of ugly hairstyles and ugly language and ugly violence and bizarre, dark humor. I suppose that to really understand what is going on, a person has to watch it more than once, but I don't care enough about it to do so.
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I had borrowed Pulp Fiction since I have heard so much about how great it is. watched it last night. don't get what the point of it is. a lot of ugly hairstyles and ugly language and ugly violence and bizarre, dark humor. I suppose that to really understand what is going on, a person has to watch it more than once, but I don't care enough about it to do so. http://www.moviescripts.de/pf_essay.htmlI like this particular essay on Pulp Fiction quite a bit. I knew it was loosely about redemption, but this gave my thoughts a little more form. |
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« Reply #148 on: October 20, 2003, 11:24:33 PM » |
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« Reply #149 on: October 23, 2003, 01:46:38 PM » |
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« Reply #150 on: October 23, 2003, 02:16:41 PM » |
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usually I like to read stuff like that about the imagery in movies but that essay seems to be too much of a stretch for me. Mia's overdose as an analogy to Christ's death and resurrection? okay... the article was interesting though. I don't know about the specifics, but I do know that he got the basic concept of the movie down perfectly, particularly the redemption of Jules vs. the continuing downward spiral of Vincent. |
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« Reply #152 on: October 23, 2003, 03:00:07 PM » |
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« Reply #153 on: October 23, 2003, 03:05:28 PM » |
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I just watched 28 Days Later... It's a good one.. the infected are down-right freaky. Especially that guy on a leash. I keep seeing him in my basement.. at least in my mind, I do.
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« Reply #154 on: October 23, 2003, 05:56:26 PM » |
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« Reply #155 on: October 24, 2003, 07:36:29 PM » |
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i just watched "sliding doors" with good ol' chris-martin-stealing-gwyneth-paltrow. (i don't hate her, i promise...)
anyway, the movie was intriguing, but the whole time i kept thinking of how great it had the potential to be. if it were only tweaked in a few places, it would be a great movie.
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« Reply #156 on: October 25, 2003, 12:10:14 AM » |
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« Reply #157 on: October 25, 2003, 03:14:42 PM » |
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« Reply #158 on: October 25, 2003, 06:59:37 PM » |
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« Reply #159 on: October 25, 2003, 09:18:16 PM » |
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Saw Top Secret for the second time last night. Swell movie, and I'm not at all ashamed to admit that I've seen it twice. =)
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