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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #30 on: September 04, 2009, 10:31:26 AM »
I love Moonstruck. He's the worst part of the movie though.  :D

Nicolas Cage isn't such a good actor but was really good in Leaving Las Vegas.

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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #31 on: September 04, 2009, 10:36:21 AM »
I love Moonstruck. He's the worst part of the movie though.  :D

Nicolas Cage isn't such a good actor but was really good in Leaving Las Vegas.

LOL.. I think he makes it better.. because he's so weird.. but earnest. Espeically th 'I lost my hand' line  :D It tosses it over to the 'unconventional love story' angle for me. I think I must have weird taste in love stories >_<

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« Reply #32 on: September 05, 2009, 04:02:00 PM »
I liked District 9.
I reminded me of alot of the South African problemswhen I was in high school.
Plus it was pretty realistic about how humans would treat aliens  if they came here.
 Its not for everyone,, but I thought it was a good effort.
I keep my standards low.
That way im never disapointed.

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« Reply #33 on: September 05, 2009, 04:25:24 PM »
I liked District 9.
I reminded me of alot of the South African problemswhen I was in high school.
Plus it was pretty realistic about how humans would treat aliens  if they came here.
 Its not for everyone,, but I thought it was a good effort.

Just got that haven't watched it yet. I used to work with a couple of guys who worked out in South Africa in the 70's and 80's. They had some scary story's to tell.  :(

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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #34 on: September 06, 2009, 03:54:25 AM »
You think you have it hard, I'm a M. Night Shyamalan fan (quite seriously) and I have had bricks thrown at me for admitting that..

I'm on your side then. :)

Although not liking rock, that's lame.  :D ;) 8)
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« Reply #35 on: September 06, 2009, 03:40:20 PM »
I saw Next last night. I didn't like it. I must have slept part of it it was so boring. I like Nicolas Cage less and less lately.

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« Reply #36 on: September 06, 2009, 05:34:53 PM »
I saw Next last night. I didn't like it. I must have slept part of it it was so boring. I like Nicolas Cage less and less lately.

^that was a cool movie  :-\
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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #37 on: September 17, 2009, 12:11:24 AM »
As much as I wanted to, I really didn't like 9 (not to be confused with either District 9 or the Fellini remake Nine [November 2009, y'all!])...

[I'll try to keep spoilers to a minimum, but you've been warned. ;D]

The story doesn't really hold together and a lot of stuff didn't add up. The relationship between the little numbered doll people, the evil AI (that becomes self aware and... well, you can prolly guess where this is going...) and the human scientists that created them both wasn't very well thought out. It's apparently the film expansion of a short subject, so maybe that explains some things, but still...

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The voice actors didn't so much become the characters as much as just lend their voices. Does that make sense?

And it isn't for kids, period. It's a lot darker than the apocalypse that befell Earth in WALL?E and there are some rough moments of machines decimating people. There were a few groups of parents in the theatre when we got there, but as soon as
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a parent leaves with their kids. When 9 discovers
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another set gets up to leave. And these last 2 scenes are maybe 5-8 minutes in...

Unless you've got a really mature kid, you might wanna pass on this one...

And it almost seemed like they got Tim Burton and Danny Elfman just to lend their names to the thing. Burton is just exec-producing (he's busy with Alice) and Elfman came up with the 'themes' and someone else composed the score. So they aren't quite as involved as the filmmakers are trying to imply.

The visuals are decent, but even they get a little tedious when the entire world is a smoking crater and everything's wrapped in burlap.

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Not that it's a complete piece of poo or anything, it's just very unsatisfying... :-\

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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #38 on: October 28, 2009, 03:43:12 PM »
i rented Bloom Brothers, Away We Go, Transformers 2,Drag Me to Hell.


Bloom Brothers was okay I really liked Rachel Weisz boots. The movie started out pretty good and middle wasnt bad but towards the end i lost focus and I didn't understand the whole ending. I wonder what happened to Bang Bang and I thought Rachel Weisz  character was coning the blooms.

Away We Go. was another okay movie  that i expected more from , but there were some funny moments.

Transformers felt like it was really really really really long for no reason at all.

Drag me to hell was funny/ gross at the same time.

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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #39 on: October 29, 2009, 04:09:29 AM »
I saw Next last night. I didn't like it. I must have slept part of it it was so boring. I like Nicolas Cage less and less lately.

I liked Next.
You ought to see Deja Vu,,, nice twist at the end,,kinda predictable once you see it,, but all in all a good movie.

I liked Sam Raime till I saw Drag Me To Hell.
I think he has the same problem as Wes Craven, its either good or very bad.

M Night Shyamalin disapointed me sooooo much with Lady in the Water and that fiasco he did recently about the trees getting revenge on humans.
The Sixth Sense wasnt bad, and Signs ROCKED.
I dont know what to think about the other one he did about the people in the comune.
It was so bad I forgot the name of it.
I keep my standards low.
That way im never disapointed.

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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #40 on: October 29, 2009, 06:25:57 AM »
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage.


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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #41 on: October 29, 2009, 06:41:30 AM »
I don't see why are you so surprised!
I have always said that any Terminator after the second one is doomed to be bad....

Sorry!  But apart from the CGI Terminator 2 was crap,it was made into a 15 for the masses for $'s.
  The 1st was a straight to VHS release as they thought it'd flop.
It was also an 18,and the best in my opinion.
  "Nice night for a walk eh?" :D

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« Reply #42 on: October 29, 2009, 08:30:27 AM »
I liked the story in Terminater 4.
There are going to be 2more in that series.
 They could have done 2 and 3 together and made both better in one movie.

A movie that I thought was crap was queen of the Damned.
I wish they didnt wreck the story.
It had elements of The Vampire Lestat ( which were wrong for the most part, Lestat was turned by a vampire in Paris,not Marius).
And alot to do with Maharat and her family was wrong.
Akasha was wrong, so was the concert, and they didnt even go into what was happening with the vamps around the world or the history of Akasha and Enkhil.
 I thought it would be worth watching, but as usual WRONG!!!!!
As for Twilight and its afterbirth Moonlight,, I got to say that the whole series ( books even) are a bunch of Emo tripe.
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Re: A film that you WISH was worth watching but is SO not.
« Reply #43 on: October 29, 2009, 09:15:15 AM »
"Nothing clean right?"

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« Reply #44 on: October 29, 2009, 09:47:03 AM »
Im just tired of the Emo crap.
Its big in the states.
Poorlittle rich kids crying about nothing. Makes me want to go and open their veins for them.
A bunch of wannabee goths that aint got the guts to go all the way.

( oops,, sorry)
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I keep my standards low.
That way im never disapointed.