this just came in the mail today from netflix. gonna watch it once i finish feeding my snakes.

aka braindead, yes, brilliant



I thought it was fucking rubbish. Nothing really happens, it's boring.

I agree, I dled it a few years ago and I had to watch it several times because I kept falling asleep through it.

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i love the part where the guy is running around with the lawnmower hacking up zombies.

That was an ACE film, very cool, saw it about 5 months ago, most enjoyable! "Dikkidikkidikki!" hahaha!

AAAHHHHHHG! Don't bloody do that!!!!!

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You love acupuncture to the EYES!

I liked the manic grin on her face as she cut his foot off with that wire. Crazy bitch.

saw apocalypto, don't really agree w/ what PST said about it. It could have been made ofensive to natives but it wasn't. One could not say that the people was un-civilized from the movie, because before the raid on the town, everyone is happy neighbours with kids and dogs, and beloved spouses. There were some pretty brootal parts though

You get to see:

a real human heart, and a headless body roll down a slope
a bunch of headless bodies
a jaguar tearing a mans face off
some other stuff

not as shocking as everyone says it is, except for the testies and the human heart

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I have that and I haven't seen it for some reason.

I just saw Brick yesterday, and boy was it trippy. Very good, and I have to see it again. Apparently it's a lot like Miller's Crossing, which sounds like another amazing movie that I haven't seen. (there are MANY "famous" movies I have not seen)

Oh, and Brick has a great soundtrack, just ask if you want it.

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So what you are saying is.....you're a native?

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exactly!

did you read the post correctly?

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I didn't say it implied that they were uncivilized. I said it implied that the systematic genocide the Spaniards brought was better than self-rule, and that the Mayans deserved it (keep the film's epigraph in mind throughout everything that happens). I also didn't much like the obvious abortion allegory, but I expect dumbass politics to go hand-in-hand with blockbuster films. Though I also expect reasonably good photography and was disappointed by the HD shitfest. I know HD can look miles better than that.

Brick isn't too similar to Miller's Crossing, except that both play with Dashiell Hammett and have dialogue based on his. Both are good, too.

While I was in NYC I saw Inland Empire, which is the new David Lynch film for those who don't know. Crazy. I don't know what else to say about it yet.

Well, I saw SAW 1, long overdue. Got SAW 2 and 3... and two other films waiting for me.

That's right, waiting for ME.

I don't wait for movies anymore, due to ADSL 2+. I click it, in the morning it's done. Then it waits for ME until I have time.

Fucking one step above you fucking cunts (movies).

i just saw "beyond the wall of sleep" which is a film based off of a fucked up short story by HP Lovecraft. the acting sucked but some of the violence was pretty neat. overall, a pretty shitty movie.


HOWEVER, yesterday, i watched "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" again and it was still fuckin hilarious. jack nichalson is such a badass in that movie.

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Haha, you have to wait a whole night? Well, I'm one fucking step above you - I wait around an hour for a movie.

FUCK YOU

Well I can get speeds of 2.5mb/s ... That would mean a gig in about 7 minutes...

Where do you download from, then, el cunto?

It's also my favorite Sabbath tune.

I just saw the Tenacious D movie. It was great, but I was disappointed by the small roles Dio and Meatloaf had. By the way Jack Black had been pimping it up for the past 2 and a half years, it seemed as though they would have figured prominently throughout.

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Ha ha Dio's really short so it would be a small role in the film. Boom boom!!

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I use torrents.

So do I... meh.

Just watched Saw2. Pretty fucking excellent methinks. They made it obvious there was going to be a third one, whereas after the first they weren't decided, and probably thought not... which is why none of the characters from the last one were in this one... except the old guy...and the hot chick... and the corpses .

Anyhow, looking forward to Saw 3 which is waiting for me, as it will now have a hot evil bitch who I would very promply fuck. For me to forget negative things in the world and such (a usual recurrence after I watch horror films...) I will now wank. Goodnight.

Saw III is thoroughly disappointing after 1&2. Let me know what you thought of it though

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Fuck, I still havn't seen it. Most people I've talked to said it was ok, but not quite as good as 1 and 2.

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I haven't seen the 3rd Saw, but I'm wondering how in the fuck Jigsaw can be back. I thought his daughter would take over.

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Yeah, I noticed that when I saw the trailer. Maybe it's just a flashback or something....

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I just watched "The Royal Tenebaums" (Sp?). I dunno what to say. It's hard to follow at first, but it's a pretty good movie. Is it based off of a book or something?

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haha nah, that is explained properly in Saw III, though I wont say much in fear of ruining it.

I didnt think Amanda was his daughter, was she?

I havent seen any films for a while. I watched 13 ghosts the other week, again. Pretty funny. And I saw Borat. which was immense.

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It was Ok.

I dunno, maybe I shouldn't have watched the 3 movies three days in a row, but I dunno.. mixed feelings.

Saw 1 & 2 are better than 3 I believe. Judging by how the movie ended, there will be a fourth, which is probably going to be worse, but I'll be interested to see how they do it, because of what happened at the end *I won't wreck it here*


Dude.. did you even watch the film? Amanda is definantly not his daughter... He just gave here a second chance or whatever. Which is cool, cause she's hot.

There's not enough closure to the film.
* Warning: wrecking a small part in the movie*
Karey dies (in a pwned manner) and there's no cop follow up. In fact, there's no reference at all to the police after that, which I found stupid, after such a big occurence to the police department.


What's also pissing me off is.. What happened to Dr. Gordon?
He said he'd be back to help Adam, and he dragged himself out of the movie, with Jigsaw, and Jigsaw returned but Dr. Gordon did not come back to help Adam even though he promised, leaving his foot behind.
In Saw3 there's a tiny reference to Dr. Gordon, but if I remember correctly (even though this is 1 hour ago ) it was a flashback of Jigsaw's, and they don't show the inside of the room.
Dammit.

None of them are any good.

The Royal Tenenbaums is not an adaptation. I'd also suggest that if you have trouble following a linear movie with a fair amount of clear narration, you might want to start meditating.

Hmm, I'd have to agree with you there. Although I'll watch the fourth, I'm not burning any of them to DVD disc (which I do to better movies).

Also, after semi-coincidental search results, I found an article on 'SAW 2'. (can't be fucked locating it now) which was an interview with the director (forgot his name).

Funny thing is, the director (the one interviewed, there were several I believe) wrote a script for a completely different movie, which he was having trouble finding an agency to produce. Anyhow, through contacts, the other directors of 'SAW' read his script and decided to make the script into SAW 2.

This would seem lazy and hasty, but on the other hand, artistic possibly?

Anyhow this is probably why none of the characters for SAW 1 - 2 matched up (except main), but they did from 2 - 3 (more relevantly) ... If you get me.

Meh.



Anyhow, would anyone please reccomend me some movies with good "brutal" scenes. I'm not talking about B-grade Japanese Horror flicks with ridiculous amounts of shitty gore, I'm talking scenes similar to that of the 'SAW' deaths scenes, and also brutal scenes such as in 'The Hills Have Eyes'... where the antagonists get punished and I can't help but silently say "Fuck yes.. Yes." Haha. It's a craving, which is relieving and tasteful.

Any at all, please.

No no, that is totally fuckin' lazy. I can't believe the amount of people I know who actually like the Saw films.

In regards to your last paragraph, there was a Belgian film I saw on film4 several months ago - I can't remember the name now, but I'll edit it in when I find out.

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Wolf Creek is a film you must see though.

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Wolf Creek? You think so? I thought it was meh.

I liked it. It probably wasn't as good as it could have been, but I still liked it.

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My first impression was, where the fuck was the good part. Pretty much all of it is anticipation, but I guess, that isnt a bad thing when watching a movie.

A lot of sequels in the system are made by buying an unrelated script and doctoring it to fit the franchise. Still more common is the practice of buying up every script that somewhat covers the same ground to avoid being sued for plagiarism of some unproduced script. Once something's become marketable as a franchise they do all sorts of things to protect it.

Saw Rocky Balboa. Not really a good movie, but a good way to close it out.

Is that why the Star Wars prequels were so bad?

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What's wrong with you man!!???? What are these B-grade Japanese movies you speak of?

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Tokyo Psycho - if you haven't seen it, that is B-Grade Jap 'horror'.

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Oh, I just got your post.

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Ahem *looks around sheepishly*...er....I've got that one on DVD *hangs head in shame*

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i heard that oldboy, and sympathy for mr. vengeance were pretty brutal, but there isn't any justice, just really rutal stuff

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Awesome, I'm looking these up.

I'm gonna have to fucking rent them! WHY THE FUCK ARE ALL THE HEALTHY TORRENTS IN FRENCH?? IS ANYONE ELSE NOTICING THIS?????

my roomate got oldboy, korean flick.


really fucked up movie and a movie trying real hard at being fucked up.

the fight scenes are amazing tho, not acrobatic kung-fu, just very brootal, maybe put 3 o's in that word.


some parts are very disturbing and the director went way overboard on shock value, the movie itself has the trademark style of being "edgy" in terms of cinematography,plot,action and so forth. more shock than substance, lets say.


favorite aspect of the movie was looking at Souel, Korea. i like movies that take place in parts of the world ill probably never see firsthand, especially places like china,japan,australia,india, etc.

it sucks that NYC or LA are usually the place most american films take place<or a mocked NYC thats actually toronto>. even that movie "the departed" is mostly shot in new york with just "scene" shots of like the south end, downtown or some shit.

we got like 20 something big cities, each with thier own identity........

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just saw 'black christmas.' that movie was super fuckin stupid. i had some good chuckles though.....for example, in once scene, the killer makes steaks outa his victims back with a cookie cutter and then sticks the pieces of flesh in the oven.

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Crash

a movie designed to trigger knee-jerk reactions towards stereotypical characters predictably arriving at confrontations with one another due to race,culture and position/occupation/authority.

then concludes with highly melodramatic and ultimately wierd, uncomfortable resolutions with some odd twists.

i didnt really like it, and i think the situation in southern california with race relations simply doesnt hold a candle to the immigrant situations that had existed in east coast<especially NYC> cities from the civil war onward.

then again ive never lived in LA or that area so.......

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Hostel= this was above my expectation for horror movies

Grandmas boy= funny as hell

Eurotrip = also really funny


LOTR, legend, labyrinth, other stuff

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I finally thought I'd see "Bringing Up Baby" from start to finish, but my friend called and I missed the last 15 minutes! GAHHH! Then I saw all of "A Christmas Carol" with Leo G. Carroll in it. Cary Grant (bites hand he's sooo gorgeous!) and Kathryn Hepburn (love her in lots of stuff) were in BUB. Hilarious movie. And the Scrooge character was so nasty in ACC. Really good movie. I bet they used real dead geese in it, too.

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Finally saw The Virgin Spring, thanks to IFC's screening the entire 50 Years of Janus Films collection. If you know Bergman at all you probably already know if you'll like it, but an interesting note for all you pagans: the film opens with a prayer offered to Odin and a prayer offered to Jesus, and only the one offered to Odin is answered.

L.A.'s race issues are probably worse than the ones in East Coast cities, at least today. However, L.A.'s race issues are also overexposed because L.A. happens to be the media center of the country and to be located on the West Coast, where racial sensitivity is taught by total segregation (in LA to the point that the city was constructed in such a way that virtually insurmountable obstacles would separate ghettos from rich neighborhoods). So L.A. is both not as bad and exactly as bad as it's made out to be.

You don't need to see Bringing Up Baby unless you subscribe to the Hepburn cult.

Nope.

http://www.revolutiontt.net/

That's probably the fastest torrent site on the net...even my slow ass connection reaches a minimum 200 kbps with 4.6g movies. I think it's invite only now though.

PM me if you want an invite.

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as a child, this is the first movie i remember calling my "favorite".

edit: watching Cube Zero. interesting.

I'm downloading oldboy, at this very moment.

That's the worst of the trilogy IMO.

i dont trust people's opinions on movies, as they bare no resemblance to mine, 95% of the time. but, in this case, you are probably right in saying the other two are better.

i didnt like the ending. i hate when that happens.

Have you seen the first two?

Could you remind me please?

quoting for truth

though I havent seen the second one yet. The original one was ace, and zero was just a bit shit.

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I actually saw the 2nd one first. I think it as good as the 1st.

i havnt seen the first two, but a friend said the first one was really good. id like to see it.

the ending of zero had that guy, who helped the woman escape, be put back in the cube, only now he is retarded...

just seems stupid.

...after they fucked with him somehow, yeah, shit ending.

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hahaha ohh! i remember that one! i LOVED that movie. LOVED. now i must see it again.

i remember a movie i saw a looong time ago..it's an anime called galaxy express 999, with a boy named tetsuro, and i'm fairly positive it's from the late 70's. for years, i have been dying to see this movie again, even though i'm not a big anime geek, so if anyone knows ANYthing about when / where it's coming on / i can get it, please share. i tried to buy it on ebay once, but even though the description on the auction was for the first movie, the guy sent me the sequel called adieu galaxy express or something. so please! if you know anything. i will grow fond of you and give you money or something.

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You don't exactly seem to have an unusual taste in movies, timedragon. From what you've posted in this thread, I think you've got the statistic backwards and are just posturing in that 'I'm a pop culture individualist' kinda way.

First Cube's the only one that's worthwhile, and even it would be served immensely by being remade with better dialogue, acting, and cinematography - the sets should remain stripped down with the concept, and especially the math, untouched. The second and third are both very, very dumb and demonstrate why you can't just arbitrarily change creative teams, especially when a film relies on a lucid and coherent understanding of math. Hypercube and Zero are just reasonably good examples of what happens when something genuinely novel gets run through the machine by hacks.

and when the fuck did i claim to have an unusual taste in movies.

i cant believe youd say such a thing without me having even suggesting the fucking thought. i said i didnt trust people's opinions in movies. NOTHING MORE!!!! so cut your bullshit out.

all youve ever done is twist my words, and make me look shit. not today, not here.

there was some rule of thumbs in that movie that i didnt like.

one being that the LAPD is unconditionally racist and without redemption. sure, they arent KKK all the way as portrayed in the film, but its a cheap way to simplify institutional discrimination and racism.

this is not to say cops arent a source of discrimination, but that falls upon precints...individuals and the policies penned into law for them to serve unconditionally. its just a symptom of taking alot of what they do<basically the protection of property, social control, from which since we havent evolved into a utopian anarchist state, is something that we need...always> for granted. the expectation is that they have to be like high school guidence counsolers/pychotherapists, held to a standard of understanding and the ability to let the dude who just got into a shoot out or a high speed car chase with cry on your fucking shoulder because its so harsh here in america, noone can live up to this shit, not even the hollywood screenwriter who wrote the script.

its like saying everything wrong with the iraq war is due to the soldiers.

another thing is that the personal responsibility and accountability of blacks when it come to thier overwhelming presence in crime statistics is something that white folks cannot question<there was an scene were this occured and the guy who talked about it was portrayed as a shallow,machevellian motherfucker who's entire characterization is to show you how wrong, how callous those kind of people are>, cant bring it up without obviously manifesting a deep rooted racist,cold-blooded dehumanization of not only blacks, but all minorities.



i mean of course, anyone who dares mention it obviously worships adolf hitler. they are beneath contempt.

yeah, sure we have law enforcement policies that targets blacks and minorities, the war on drug is a racket of laundering billions of dollars into wall street, drug dealers and gangs, crimiinal organizations who deal are nothing but pawns for international investment banks, its a forced ecosystem of crime thats great for business all around.

cops dont dictate policy, we elected the scum who created this system, not only do most americans endorse the war on drugs, they fully support every policy that criiminalized the youth, the poor, that preserves preferential treatment of certain people and maintains someone elses privelidged lifestyle<one they didnt earn or acuired illegally....and im not talking about illegal immigrants> with the power of the vote, they continue to every year, every republican and democrat. guys like the director of the movie, the producer and the corporations that finance the industry fully endorse this system and will never change.

people get the government they deserve. lets make a movie to boo-hooing all the shit they take for granted and criticize a society they fully endorse, laws they fully endorse,policy they fully endorse. lets examine the social dynmaic that is the end result of all these things better left unspoken.

and as a resolution have everyone cry "oh the fucking humanity of living in the first world, most technologically advanced democracy the world has ever seen, oh why cant i just be a compisite character of racial and ethnic stereotypes and be left in peace."

a movie that points out flaws in society, tension between ethnicities and races is one thing, but this is a movie of cheapshot and suckerpunches. a movie that plays on old fears, stereotypes and convoluted issues that are safe to question without being overtly hypocritical.

sorry for the rant here, the movie pissed me off. its like hearing someone complain about stuff but not actually address the underlaying causes because they arent serious about changing it.

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If, 95% of the time, your opinion on movies differs from the generic 'people's,' and to such an extent that it 'bears no resemblance' to them, then it would be unusual, yes? If you're going to claim not to have said something at least try to make sure you didn't just say it. I don't have to 'twist' anything you say to make you look like shit; I can just restate what you say in words that aren't clouded by your deluded mind. Even if I didn't say something, anybody could read your posts and get the same thing; my posts just include you in that 'anybody.'

Crash is a pretty shittily manipulative film based almost entirely on heavily loaded, mincy liberal self-congratulatory racist stereotypes that gets away with it by trying to make most story arcs twist away from the expected resolution. We let ourselves be taken in by this cheap trick because it's competently made, well-acted, and discusses 'important' issues and we seem to believe that just assaying some of these topics in itself makes something good, however inept the treatment might be. But all I was trying to say was that L.A. actually does have quite a bit of racial tension, even if this particular film doesn't do a very good job of depicting it.

yeah LA does and its a different situation of what the cities of the eastcoast and midwest experienced before.

i was just venting some shit i felt forced to think about after watching it.

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Hey, man, I'm all for venting against unrewarding manipulation.

You might have better luck with Cronenberg's Crash.

alright, if youre going to get all literal about it...

ever heard of a fuckin overexaggeration??? yeah, its probably not 95% of the time. its probably more like 80%

you want to call it unusual? go a head. but i wont. hows this: my sister is the only person who listens to pop, in this house. now, do i think its unusual? no.


...and why do you want to do that? oh! right, your life really must suck THAT much.

i was making a fuckin point as to how i dont trust peoples opinions on movies because hundreds of people have told me a movie sucks, then i see it, and i like it. i was NOT implying that my taste is unusual. and youre fuckin scum for creating this whole situation. you DID twist my words. what i said was quite humble, then you changed it into this proud statement, and then explained why i shouldnt feel this way that you created.

it depends on whos opinion your taking.

i got a roomate who is a film nazi, hates just about everything beyond jodorowsky,fellini,tarkovsky,kirosawa and various other directors whom ive never heard of before he moved in

i dont even think he likes lynch......

i dont esteem myself as knowing much about film, most folks are real lax about judging movies.

i have a soft spot for terrible movies tho, thats why i want to see "the passion" again

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I watched X-Men III. Pretty good closer to the trilogy. But the two cliffhangers at the end threw me off. Is there going to be more?

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i think they are gonna make movies based on characters

magneto and wolverine, i believe, are in the works

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Dude, your arguments are flawed, and illogical. PST's just going to prove you wrong again.

You mean based around their lives prior to the X-men movies, after, or in between?

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Seriously dude, lay off. This guy doubled my dating.



...doesnt get old.

when are people going to realize its not "my arguments". its PST doing things to get me riled up. and its my fault that it works.

its illogical for me to tell PST that he misinterperets almost everything i say? its easy for you to say shit when you are saying it in favor of the master of bullshit.

Yep.

Just call him a money hoarding Jew.


HEZBOLLAH UNITE! HEZBOLLAH UNITE!

I watched The Pursuit of Happyness and Children of Men today.. Aight.


Both had pretty lame endings.

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i know that the magneto one, at least, sounds pretty kick ass

magneto was a jewish holocaust surviver so i heard its gonna take place during WWII

something like a young magneto vs the nazis.

and it will give a back story on why he became an archmotherfucking badass.

dont know about the wolverine one

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Magneto was a Jew? THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

I think the reason he became evil was because he saw how the nazis discriminated his people for being who they were, and so he feared that humans would show that same discrimination towards mutants. And he was kind of right.

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hopefully the director of x-men 3, ratner, is not involved.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499519/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/

the magneto one i heard from another roomate who is a long time marvel comic fan, the page doesnt really say anything about it

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Well, they're 'your arguments' as you're stating them, and giving evidence. Just because you may not concisely or properly state them, doesn't mean you're not giving evidence. I was referring more to the illogicility of this:



...80% would still be deemed unusual or uncommon. I don't see he is misinterpreting anything you say.

Indeed, in this case I am in favour of 'The Master of Bulshit'. Such a title seems paradoxical, as almost everything he says makes perfect sense, and is not made up (unlike your statistics).

If I was going to go against 'The Master of Bulshit', I would have a good think about what I was saying, and try to approach it from a fundamental, logical viewpoint. You seem to be getting angry, and blurting out arguments and statistics which are easily defeated, and then claiming to have been misinterpreted, as they were defeated. Emotions don't really show up on the net.



Anyway, just downloaded The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. I am expecting it to be both gory and crappy. One really main thing I wondering about the movie; is that whether it ends how the sequel followed up, that is, whether the chick puts the gun in her cunt. Now just gotta find time to watch it.

oh, so it makes "perfect sense" for him to just blurt out "you dont have an unusual taste in movies" when all i said was that i dont rely on peoples opinions concerning movies. its as pointless as saying "hey problematic, you dont have an unusual username".

how is it not clear what happened here.

since you probably still wont understand, i'll make it really clear. my issue with the whole situation is that i never claimed to have an unusual taste, so whats the point of someone stating that i dont. its pointless.

He wasn't referring to a single post, but rather, all you've posted in this thread.

In your post, however, you mentioned that "i dont trust people's opinions on movies, as they bare no resemblance to mine". Opinions form tastes. If you have a good opinion of a movie which others have a bad opinion of (which is relevant to what you're saying happens 95% then 80% of the time) it would mean you have an unusual taste in movies.

oh, i didnt know people were keeping a fucking record of my posts alone from this thread . thats ridiculous.

how thick is your fucking head. I DONT HAVE AN UNUSUAL TASTE IN MOVIES!!! MY POINT WAS THAT I DONT TRUST PEOPLES OPINIONS ON MOVIES. THAT IS IT! do. you. understand. what. that means. there is a difference, whether or not you can comprehend what i am saying. my argument is not illogical, you just dont agree. i think it was low tech who said "depends on who's opinions it is". and guess what, just because YOU are unaware that it is usually my friends, who you dont know, that i am referring to, doesnt mean thats not the case. i shouldnt have to be so fucking specific on here. i dont see a single other person who would have too just so that assholes like you will fuck off. its stupid.

Watched two films:

City Slickers - Pretty enjoyable comedy

Blue Velvet - Mediocre thriller

yeah, its decent. but if you live in this cowboy haven, like me, it makes it kind of undesirable, if you know what i mean, haha.

No one is.


yes. i. understand. that. you. have. a. slightly. irregular. taste. in. movies. thankyou.

Wow. I've never seen anybody call Blue Velvet 'mediocre.' I guess I'd be unhappy with it if I wanted from it what I want from your generic 'thriller,' but it's head and shoulders above that crap.

Got to act a bit today. Not really my thing, but it was fun. Like primal scream therapy.

Look, if you claim that your opinion differs 95% of the time, you're claiming that it's almost always different. Something that is almost never usual is by definition unusual. Read what you've written - not what you had in your head while you wrote something, but what you actually put out here - and make sure you have a handle on it before dealing with my response. You don't have to tell me that your taste in movies isn't unusual; I know that it isn't. I told you that. That's what started this whole thing. What you have to do is quit being a little bitch every time somebody calls you on your bullshit. Every criticism, however small, gets a response from you as though you'd just walked in on a group of teenagers wearing 'I hate timedragon' t-shirts and yelling about how keyboards are gay while they gangraped your every female relative.

I know you don't like being told that the way your represent yourself on the internet - which seems to correspond to how you see yourself - is obviously bravado and bullshit in very recognizable and, frankly, uninteresting patterns, but the best way to deal with that is to quit blaming other people for 'being out to get you' and realize that you're probably overdue for some introspection. Or at the very least an honest effort at a sense of perspective. What you have to get is that I'm not 'after you.' I don't give a shit about you and don't spend any time thinking about you. I just respond to what I see, and what I see is 1000s of posts of self-deluded posturing bullshit.

pirates of the carribean, black pearl.

this one was not as good, its well acted tho, in a very fun way for a light movie. especially the pirate Barbosa.


got really lame with the love stuff.....puppy dogs and ice cream, true WUV at first sight....aaahhhh

hopefully the third one wont contain another mysterious ship, filled with another oddly themed cgi-enhanced crew, THAT MUST be overcome.

i can see where they recycled alot of the story in the second one.

in the end i was entertained, which is important.

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the original or remake? i heard the old one kicked ass and so i put it in my netflix queue. i guess i'll find out either way soon enough.

blue velvet was good...i just can't stand hearing that song for over an hour straight.

Just watched Django. Pretty awesome Western.

Heh, in hindsight, it was a poor movie. Alas, it still entertained me. Do you think Jack is dead?

dude, they are gonna get keith richards, who was the inspiration for jacks role to play his father.

thats what i heard, i think itll will be cool.

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Bahah! I see it now.

I watched the latest scary movie last night, worst one yet.

Well it is really a film for kids

And did I see someone describe Blue Velvet as an average thriller?? tsh tsh

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yeah, it caters to a young crowd, but that doesnt imply such a movie should be lame or even have a simple, easy to understand plot.

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The cool thing about Pirates of the Carribean, and this is very cool by my standards if unoriginal and engineered by scientists in the Disney character lab, is the way our attention is focused on space and the mechanics of the world. Almost every action scene turns on some wooden or metal contraption which the characters ride and which they camera sides with rather than any particular human view. This is pretty cool and only somewhat sullied when you realize that the reason for this approach is that the films are essentially expensive, long commercials for a Disneyland ride. This is also why the mysterious ship with an exotic and excitingly 'oddball' crew has to play such a large part in the films; they're essentially the ride within the commercial for the ride. Since it all has to bow to the world of the ride, the story decisions are limited. But if, like me, you have a hardon for cinematic uses/explorations of space, the films are still worth it. And I think that exposing kids to cinematic architecture might be as worthwhile as exposing them to complicated plotting.

Though it's of course not got a patch on, say, Welles or De Palma.

indeedly, i just saw the second pirates movie the other day for the first time. it was a bit less realistic than the first one, what with the kracken and davy jones & co. i still think it was pretty good. and jack totally didn't die. maybe i like these movies so much because i was like, ..mary read in one of my past lives or something. caitlin pirates

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V for vendetta.....



horrible....horrible

i guess it was a comic that got hijacked as an anti-bush, anti-war on terror kind of movie. a movie with underlaying political undertones that go way overboard to make a point.

the movie tried real hard to be profound but ended up really sermonizing and lame.

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The Dark Crystal is probably the only fantasy movie i like

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I think I'm gonna go see Deja Vu. Tuedays are half price and I need to go somewhere. I'm expecting a Minority Report type thing.

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The Good Shepard was awful. I felt like I was watching random scenes from different movies put together with good actors.

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oh, in that case, thank you for telling me... that which i already know.

watched Krull today. seen it before. still cool.