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  •  08-11-2006, 17:50 2180647 in reply to 2163342

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    Yeah no one has seen Snakes On A Plane yet, if I heard correctly the critics screening was cancelled because they wanted the public to make their own minds up. One problem with this, they said that for movies like Batman and Robin and The Avengers, oh dear. Still certain it will be great. Happy [:)]
  •  08-11-2006, 17:53 2180654 in reply to 2163342

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    I've really got a [spoiler]pirate copy[/spoiler] naughty me! I worked in a store (Woolworth's) and they sent a DVD as a preview to put on the T.V's around it, I just borrowed it one night and watched it, then returned it. Only it got me sacked, and it wasn't worth it Sad [:(] Oh well, I got over it and got a new job!
  •  08-12-2006, 15:54 2182715 in reply to 2163342

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    Errm, why would they give a copy of a movie not out yet, and a pirate nonetheless to Woolworths to display on the TV's? Wink [;)] Anyway any other movie related review, news or whatever? Happy [:)]
  •  08-12-2006, 15:59 2182726 in reply to 2163342

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    I recently saw Nacho Libre and thought it was a good film despite bad reviews which promised Fart jokes all the way through but they seemed to have been watching something else also had some good fighting scenes ect
  •  08-12-2006, 16:02 2182738 in reply to 2163342

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    Yeah I liked Nacho Libre, there were a few annoying gart jokes, but the wrestling matches were a stroke of genius!
  •  08-12-2006, 18:12 2183064 in reply to 2163342

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    I saw The Descent it was the BOMB!I couldnt stop barfing of all the blood well not really i love gore one lady gets a broken leg and her bone is sticking out!!!!COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
  •  08-12-2006, 18:47 2183148 in reply to 2163342

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    The first fart joke was funny, i hate them a lot, but the fact that it was when he was sneaking up made it hillarious, the second was unncecessary. Oh, and tomorrow on TMOA's Director's Cut i not only review films, but add my best and worst recent trailers, yay. So look out for that, i also advertise this thread tosee reviews. I'm good to you guys!. And about the Descent, why do people like Gore, it makes me too sick to watch, i like the implied horror, the psycological, never knowing what'll happen, but knowing someone could be there, that sickens me even more, but it's a better movie experience.
    Last three films seen on the big screen:
    Law Abiding Citizen - 5/10
    2012 - 5/10
    A Serious Man - 6/10
  •  08-13-2006, 12:28 2184684 in reply to 2163342

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    Im not sure about Nacho Libre. I may go and see it in a few hours, but Ive loked up a ton of reviews and it doesn't seem to be liked very much. Im not sure id apreciate Pain-type slapstick. Ermm [:ermm:] Then again its go see Jack Black being a fool in "strechy pants" at the cinema or sit here killing polygon orcs and getting back-ahce from the chair...
  •  08-13-2006, 13:15 2184791 in reply to 2163342

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    I watched the Descent on Friday, euggh. Sweet Jesus! While not the sickets film I have ever seen it did have some really, really nasty moments in it! And I leapt out of my skin hundreds of times! Happy [:)]
  •  08-13-2006, 13:19 2184795 in reply to 2163342

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    I don't like shock horror. Shock and gore are to horror what fart jokes and slapstick are to comedy (with the exception of Jackie Chan, the only successful slapstick performer since Chaplin and Keaton).
  •  08-13-2006, 14:13 2184892 in reply to 2163342

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    Some slapstick is great if done ell, others, like in Pirates 2, serves only to destroy a tone and make a new, worse tone. Fart jokes should be banished. Pfft, hee hee, classic comedy? is that what we want our generaion to be remembered for?
    Last three films seen on the big screen:
    Law Abiding Citizen - 5/10
    2012 - 5/10
    A Serious Man - 6/10
  •  08-13-2006, 14:46 2184957 in reply to 2163342

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    Lol, I liked the slapstick in Pirates 2, mainly because I loved the whole movie, even though I am aware loads of people despise the poor movie. But fart jokes must go! The occasional one is bearable, mainly because it makes little kids laugh and occasionally its nice to see a movie appeal to kids. But when it goes in Nacho Libre and they randomly do it, hell you can see where it was inserted! Then the fart jokes are just lame and irritating.
  •  08-13-2006, 14:56 2184988 in reply to 2163342

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    Kegel This is the only example that comes to mind of a fart joke done well. Happy [:)]
  •  08-13-2006, 15:18 2185027 in reply to 2163342

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    Just to let you know, I for some obscure reason, am on a Bond fest! That means that I am watching every single Bond movie in order over the next week! It'll probably kill me, especially when I get the really awful later Roger Moore movies, but it is something I have said I will do for the past five years! Now I have just watched Dr No, so From Russia With Love later on tonight. Happy [:)]
  •  08-13-2006, 15:23 2185042 in reply to 2163342

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    Ok, since i couldn't do my segment for Director's Cut this week and i had some killer reviews, including trailers, i am adding them here: In conjunction with today’s theme of film themes, I have chosen a film that, in the space of 6 months, has changed and intruded into my ideas of film making. The music is synonymous for setting the style, using violins to sometimes make calm sounds, and other times make sharp, stabbing like sounds. I am, of course, speaking about the one and only, Psycho, of course directed in black and white, and amazingly, by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring the late greats Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The story is simple, a woman, who is having an affair, gets a head ache at work, and it’s hot, so she goes home, but not before taking a client’s money, supposedly taking it to the bank. She is then seen later by her boss as she takes the money and runs, realising this Is the only way to help her boyfriend out of debt and them start a new life together. I realise I haven’t mentioned her name yet, or of course her home town of Phoenix, hmm, what relevance could that have? Our heroine ’s name is Marion Crane, spot the connection already? She runs out of town, and, after a good nights sleep and a talk with one of our good natured police enforcers, heads off to buy a new car, in cash! Soon after this, it begins raining heavily, so she pulls up to a motel, knowing little of what awaits. This being a movie known to many, we all know what happens, but we let Norman Bates, stuttering innocent, crazy man of the Bates’ Motel, into the story and develop a relationship. This is awkward, as his mother wants him all alone, and yet he wants to spend time with Marion, a new crush he has. His mother dislikes this new girl, so that night, when Marion has sorted out all her money debts, and puts them in the first toilet ever seen on screen, she has a shower, but not soon after she washes the guilt away and decides to go back, Mother Bates enters. Well, we all know what happens, heck, the scene is even in the Movies game, so, after this happens, we turn to the next two characters, Marion’s sister, Lila, and Marion’s boyfriend of sorts, who, after not being around for a few days, begin to try to find out what happens. That is the story that is told, it’s all based around Norman Bates, is he an innocent man, is he a mad murderer, or is he just a vessel? The film is shot in black and white for artistic purposes, but my pompous English Teacher of two years was arrogant enough to presume that not only was it cos the film was low budget, but that this film was made when Hitchcock wasn’t very famous. I suggest he goes to imdb once in a while, I knew more than he did on our first day of studying it, and yet, I hadn’t seen it before. Ok, I digress and get back to the film, but during this I shall badmouth the silly Irish c**t. No disrespect, but he prides himself on being Irish, without the accent, so he was boring. Sorry, sorry. Well, the black and white serves to show the duality in the characters, sometimes they will be dressed in white, of have light on them, sometimes they’ll be in black, or in shadow. Sometimes they are in between, usually after dumping a car you see this, and it serves to show you the ending, subtly though. This is perfect as an example of what modern filmmakers miss, subtlety. I recently saw Lady in the Water and all the hints were screaming out to me, I hated that, what happened to a hint here and there, but not highlighted, maybe in the background? IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY! ARGH!… Ahem, well, the acting is superb, and it’s hard to find flaws, there are a few bad effects, a man falls down the stairs, a blatant screen, but other than that it’s perfection in cinema. The pace is excellent, the jumps come slowly and unexpectedly, and the music says so much about the film. Not only is this a deserved cinematic Masterpiece, it is also Hitchcock’s ultimate movie, North by Northwest is second, but Psycho wins by a long shot, and seeing all the horrors of nowadays, without seeing them, I can’t stand gore, we should all take a page out of this film and make perfect movies, not any rubbish, not any gore, not any bad horrors with incomprehensible plots, but real, scary, normal people murders films. This gets a full 5 out of 5, and believe me, if it didn’t, I would be seen as the Uwe Boll of critics. Before I go and hand off to those crazy guys back at the studio, I figured, since I see so many trailers around, I’ll separate the best from worst. So, the best I have seen recently, well, there’s the Spiderman 3 teaser. Symbiotes, Green Goblin 2, Sandman and of course the exquisite Gwen Stacy add to the breathtaking series, also Venom, but, as anyone who didn’t get to go to the recent ComicCon knows, we have to wait until they release the real trailer to see him. Also recently out was the Hot Fuzz teaser. This is the second film from writers Simon Pegg, who is also the main star, and Edgar Wright, the director. Starring Pegg and Nick Frost, the second film from the Spaced and Shaun of the Dead team is about a London Policeman sent to Sommerset, a kinda slow county of England, to get away from the fast paced world of London, but of course, spoofing buddy comedies requires lots of action and comedy, and the teaser, only available from certain sites, and at the start of Miami Vice and Nacho Libre in England, shows, this has it all. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny finally saw the light of trailer this week, with Jack Black and Kyle Gass making their first film about the infamous band Tenacious D. The plot has something to do with a guitar pick to make them the best band around, but the trailer looks like it’s a big budget Mighty Boosh, a surreal UK Comedy, and Blues Brothers, with the supposed ending cut sadly after test audiences, the dumbasses, didn’t ‘get it’. Now to the bad ones. Well, the Transformers teaser shows only a shadow of a bot, so, secretive, but as it came out 2 days after the exposition that was the Spidy 3 teaser, this really fell flat. Michael Bay will be added to my list if he ruins this though, think of me as a violent, and not as internet demented Elias from Clerks 2! Ghost Rider. Right, I will state my case. I love this, finally, we get to see Ghost Rider on screen, and who better to play it than Nic Cage, and who better to direct than the man himself, Mark Steven Johnson, the director of Daredevil. But the trailer seems to show bad graphics, a few scares, which make it darker than the PG-13 rating would ever allow, and Eva Mendes, why her? Cos she’s good looking? That’s all I can think. Shame, but I’ll still see the movie. My last trailer, the somewhat misguided trailer for TMNT, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The trailer, all CGI, has the 4 do great stealth movement, but it’s let down at the end when for some reason they decided to only do one problem, with Michelangelo falling into the dumpster and burping. I don’t get why he only fell then, not earlier, when it was more trickier stuff, though the CGI was good. Next week, A Scanner Darkly, hopefully. See you at the pictures!
    Last three films seen on the big screen:
    Law Abiding Citizen - 5/10
    2012 - 5/10
    A Serious Man - 6/10
  •  08-13-2006, 15:25 2185050 in reply to 2163342

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     Quoting: EthanRunt
    The first fart joke was funny, i hate them a lot, but the fact that it was when he was sneaking up made it hillarious, the second was unncecessary. Oh, and tomorrow on TMOA's Director's Cut i not only review films, but add my best and worst recent trailers, yay. So look out for that, i also advertise this thread tosee reviews. I'm good to you guys!. And about the Descent, why do people like Gore, it makes me too sick to watch, i like the implied horror, the psycological, never knowing what'll happen, but knowing someone could be there, that sickens me even more, but it's a better movie experience.
    There was 2 jokes that is all two fart jokes and the rest of it was awesome with some Jack Black humor songs ect if your expecting some award winning film then you should look somewhere else but if you havent got a Film standered as big as your butthole go see it Eating Bugs and Grass using My hand to wipe My....Tears
  •  08-13-2006, 15:31 2185072 in reply to 2163342

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    I'm still anticipating Snakes On A Plane!. I have no idea why I have become so obsessed with this silly little movie, I have got a poster of it, watched the trailers, watched any clips I can find, hell if I find the T-Shirt I might buy it! This better be good now. Happy [:)]
  •  08-13-2006, 15:39 2185096 in reply to 2163342

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    It's gonna be great because it's got Samuel L. Jackson swearing, and snakes.
    Last three films seen on the big screen:
    Law Abiding Citizen - 5/10
    2012 - 5/10
    A Serious Man - 6/10
  •  08-13-2006, 15:47 2185128 in reply to 2163342

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     Quoting: EthanRunt
    It's gonna be great because it's got Samuel L. Jackson swearing, and snakes.
    I guess you like that sort of thing...SNAKES huh?
  •  08-13-2006, 17:14 2185366 in reply to 2163342

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    I just like the thought of Snakes, on a plane! Its so simple its brilliant! And Samuel L Jackson wanting to get those mother******* snakes of his mother******* plane is brilliant!
  •  08-14-2006, 16:54 2187794 in reply to 2163342

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    I just like the idea of Samuel L. Jackson with a gun. The whole plane bit is a bonus, but i fear snakes
    Last three films seen on the big screen:
    Law Abiding Citizen - 5/10
    2012 - 5/10
    A Serious Man - 6/10
  •  08-14-2006, 17:06 2187820 in reply to 2163342

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    i still treasure the moment of seeing Samuel L. Jackson get ripped in two and eaten by a giant macko shark
    Megatron: "I'll rip out your optics!"
    My Spore Creatures!
  •  08-14-2006, 17:17 2187854 in reply to 2163342

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    whoa... wait a minute... I don't recall the movie having been called "Snakes and Sharks on a Plane"
  •  08-14-2006, 17:19 2187859 in reply to 2163342

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    Deep Blue Plane was the working title, it'll be the sequel, when a plane goes down into a sea full of enhanced sharks. Has anyone noticed how much at the start of Pulp Fiction Jackson refers to hamburgers? You can make a whole advert out of it.
    Last three films seen on the big screen:
    Law Abiding Citizen - 5/10
    2012 - 5/10
    A Serious Man - 6/10
  •  08-14-2006, 18:10 2187978 in reply to 2163342

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    Lol, yep. I love Pulp Fiction myself, one of my all time favourites. BTW, now onto Thunderball on my Bond-fest. Christ I never realised how boring Dr No is! From Russia With Love and Goldfinger are brilliant though. Happy [:)]
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