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Topic: The Lake House |
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 17 Jun 2006 05:57 am Subject: The Lake House |
While The Lake House was plain and simple and would have been just as enjoyable as a TV movie, it was also refreshingly clean and pleasant, void of politics, sleaze, etc. Overall I'd say either see a ... |
Topic: The Break-Up Nude Scene |
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Replies: 4
Views: 11020
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 01 Jun 2006 08:59 am Subject: The Break-Up Nude Scene |
It'd work the opposite with me. |
Topic: Omen 666 News |
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 29 May 2006 10:44 am Subject: Omen 666 News |
It's marketing.
Whatever the number 666 means as presented in the book of Revelation in the Bible I don't think anyone is sure, but I don't think it will be flagrantly tatooed on the Antichrist for ... |
Topic: Da Vinci Code |
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Replies: 9
Views: 15698
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 29 May 2006 10:36 am Subject: Da Vinci Code |
Da Vinci drops to 2nd place this weekend. Okay, so I was off by one when I predicted 3rd. |
Topic: Da Vinci Code |
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 24 May 2006 01:40 am Subject: Da Vinci Code |
Okay, just saw it. Leaving the religious controversy out of it, it was long, the conspiracies were so multi-layered I gave up trying to figure out who was who, who was working for whom, who just doub ... |
Topic: Da Vinci Code |
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Replies: 9
Views: 15698
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 23 May 2006 09:30 am Subject: Da Vinci Code |
I'm not writing it off. I said IF it's a snoozer... |
Topic: Da Vinci Code |
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Replies: 9
Views: 15698
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 22 May 2006 11:03 pm Subject: Da Vinci Code |
I'd say some of it may be religious preferences - As a fundamentalist Christian I plan to pan the heck out of it before even seeing it - but a lot of the RT critical reviews lamented its pace, lack of ... |
Topic: Make Mine Marvel, movies that is. |
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Replies: 7
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 04 May 2006 08:41 pm Subject: Make Mine Marvel, movies that is. |
I look at that list and cringe. An endless barrage of special effects, gratuitously overlong fight sequences, etc., etc. Are there still fresh ideas and images to be incorporated into superhero comi ... |
Topic: The first fiction 9/11 movie trailer is up |
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Replies: 14
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 04 May 2006 08:34 pm Subject: The first fiction 9/11 movie trailer is up |
Hollywood can be quite brave when it wants to be, check Brokeback Mountain or Syriana two very brave pictures.
...Except that both of those films were released by independent wings of Hollywood stu ... |
Topic: King Kong:Most Overrated Movie Of 2005? |
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Replies: 4
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 25 Apr 2006 11:01 pm Subject: King Kong:Most Overrated Movie Of 2005? |
Hmm, I agree it needed trimming, but keeping it under 2 hours would force the cutting of some good character development.
I know a lot of people complained about the fact that there was a lot of ch ... |
Topic: Aeon Flux |
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Replies: 3
Views: 13249
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Forum: Critical Point Posted: 24 Apr 2006 12:43 am Subject: Aeon Flux |
There's a slightly more polite version of that in the 2002 Nicholas Nickleby, as Mrs. Crummles says to her theatrical husband: "There is a great struggle going on between Art and Commerce. And Art is ... |
Topic: Horror Porn and 9/11 |
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 05 Apr 2006 05:32 pm Subject: Horror Porn and 9/11 |
It's disgusting, revolting, and utterly refreshing
Well, I'm braced to get flamed here, but in all honesty, a sentence like that has me worried about society. There is a sick reveling in violence ... |
Topic: Horror Porn and 9/11 |
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 03 Apr 2006 06:07 pm Subject: Horror Porn and 9/11 |
Well, people see what they want to see, often to the point of missing what the film was really about.
It doesn't even have to be Horror Porn. The Terminal was about a man stuck in a terminal and t ... |
Topic: Harrison Ford in Firewall |
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Forum: Critical Point Posted: 29 Mar 2006 09:51 pm Subject: Harrison Ford in Firewall |
I wonder if maybe actors are better off being "discovered" later in life. I think of Ian McKellen, Jim Broadbent, Tommy Lee Jones ...
Yes, they had all worked in films for a long time, but real fa ... |
Topic: Harrison Ford in Firewall |
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Forum: Critical Point Posted: 29 Mar 2006 05:53 pm Subject: Harrison Ford in Firewall |
Sean Kernan states:
"It's been a tough millenium for Harrison Ford."
I agree, and I'd go a little further, with a similar theory: Harrison Ford hasn't had a good movie since his mid-life crisis. ... |
Topic: Monty Python: The Meaning of Life |
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Forum: Critical Point Posted: 28 Mar 2006 05:09 pm Subject: Monty Python: The Meaning of Life |
I don't have a problem with the skit structure. I enjoyed their first movie, And Now For Something Completely Different, almost as much as the Holy Grail, and it has zero connective tissue, compared ... |
Topic: Monty Python: The Meaning of Life |
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Forum: Critical Point Posted: 26 Mar 2006 08:36 pm Subject: Monty Python: The Meaning of Life |
Why, thank you. I do think parts of it are sheer genius and/or hilarity. I love "The Miracle of Birth," "The Crimson Permanent Assurance," and "Find the Fish." A perfect 100% Popcorn there. If you ... |
Topic: Oscar Nominations |
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Replies: 16
Views: 24713
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 06 Mar 2006 11:05 am Subject: Oscar Nominations |
I disagree with the idea that Brokeback Mountain won any sympathy from the academy solely based on its politics.
Oh, come now. Any sympathy? You know there are people who cheer things on simply b ... |
Topic: Oscar Nominations |
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Replies: 16
Views: 24713
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 26 Feb 2006 05:30 pm Subject: Oscar Nominations |
Aye, true. But does that really justify the great visual effects in Sith?
No, I definitely think each film should be taken on its own merit when up for consideration in the Oscars. I was just vent ... |
Topic: Oscar Nominations |
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Replies: 16
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Forum: Hollywood Stop Posted: 24 Feb 2006 11:50 pm Subject: Oscar Nominations |
To paraphrase the thug in the cantina: "I don't like him either!" Ever since Lucas snubbed tens of thousands of Star Wars who signed a petition (I was one) to get him to release the original trilogy ... |
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