Cantu trade? Howry signing?
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 3, 2008 3:28 PM PST
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Event Horizon comes to mind, but I'll stick with I, Robot.
75 trombones in the big parade is a reference to the musical, "The Music Man", even though the actual number of trombones is 76. You would think that the cut off point for "big" parades would be lower than 76, so I think 75 would be fine. And in fact, that isn't an arbitrary total for a cut off point; rather they were just saying that that particular parade had 76 trombones.
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Damn the Grant-Censoring Man!
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Look out
jcb is on a rampage!!!
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
At first I thought you were talking about the board game company and I was really confused.
/throws beer bottle at rotorueter
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For god’s sake keep the Gatorade away from jcb. He has a kid on the way!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
So, all that’s left is for Goofus to wrestle him to ground, and in the process, blowing out his knee?
/deer head
Bay City Ball
In before Goofus makes a joke about the word “blowing.”
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 3, 2008 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
does that mean he is the mercurial jcb?
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
Gross.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 3:05 PM PST up reply actions
HAHAHAHA. I just laughed like a psycho at work, thanks!
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yeah, that was a bad first post wasn't it...?
sh!t I was just trying to get something posted before grant killed yet another howry and/or cantu post, and it came out all wrong…whoops, I did it again. okay, I’ll stop now.
seriously, how did I not get more grief for that?
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 3:25 PM PST up reply actions
The Ring 2 was horrible. It wasn’t even that good of a concept, but just a bad movie.
What are we talking about again?
/deer head
Bay City Ball
Be Kind Rewind, though I enjoyed this film more than average person seemed to. Decent movie, but a mind-numbingly good idea.
hopes where made to be crushed by poor direction, worse editing and wooden acting.
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
BUT JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I liked V for Vendetta
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
me too
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by The Gene Hackman on Dec 3, 2008 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t like that the last monologue in V for Vendetta renders the rest of the movie completely useless.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 3:06 PM PST up reply actions
All I remember is that Natalie Portman is hot.
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
+1
Loved (more like adored and wanted to cuddle with) her in Garden State, which has an epic soundtrack, btw.
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
Really, I keet thinking that her character was a 15 year old in that movie. I didn’t think that when I saw it first, and I liked it enough at the time that I bought it, but since then it’s just gotten a little creepy to me.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 11:38 PM PST up reply actions
Idiocracy
I really, really wanted to like it. The concept is great satire: a couple of people in suspended animation who wake up in the year 2505 or whatever and everything in America is crass, commercialized and heavyset. And it was directed by Mike Judge, who directed the god-like Office Space. And it has Maya Rudolph, who was one of my favorite SNL cast members ever. But aside from a few bits and pieces, I just didn’t find it very funny.
My plans for 2009: getting married and attending Tim Lincecum Bobblehead Day.
this x 100000
Ow My Balls was only part of the awesomeness.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
Go away I'm 'bating
loved this movie
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by lyricalkiller on Dec 3, 2008 3:08 PM PST up reply actions
I was with you. Then I found myself laughing at quotes when I’d read them, so I went back and watched the movie again. Great script, meh directing, but a totally quotable movie.
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by Grant Brisbee on Dec 3, 2008 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
The U.N. un-nazied the world… forever.
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Rehabilitiation never fails to crack me up.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
“The concept is great satire: a couple of people in suspended animation who wake up in the year 2505 or whatever and everything in America is crass, commercialized and heavyset.”
Wow, that concept, at least on the surface, sounds very similar to an old science fiction story called “Little Black Bag” by C.M. Kornbluth. I wonder if that was intentional.
Of course, that story also had a nasty dose of classism to it: society got so stupid because poor people had too many children.
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My favorite part of Event Horizon...
was the part where he was holding his eyeballs in his hands and talking about a universe of ultimate evil.
I actually like that movie in a sort of “OMG this is so horrible that I love it” way
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
OPEN THE DOOR MAMA BEAR!
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
You think you can just fuck around with the laws of physics and get away with it!!!
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
Fred Claus
Cute little concept, groin-grabbingly unfunny movie.
I once punched a hole in a light fixture in celebration of a J.T. Snow home run. That is all.
Isn’t that the deal with all Vince Vaughn movies?
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
Nice point.
That’s actually the deal with Vince Vaughn himself, I think.
I once punched a hole in a light fixture in celebration of a J.T. Snow home run. That is all.
Isn’t that so with Owen Wilson too? With the exception of The Life Aquatic, where he actually does a credible job at acting.
it's always noonan somewhere
See Bottle Rocket...
I find it LOL funny…the Wilson brothers’ debut, used to be hard to find but easily available now. If you haven’t seen it, I’m betting you enjoy (other than perhaps the unnecessarily protracted “love story” involving Luke & the maid…that was overdone).
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 4, 2008 8:21 AM PST up reply actions
Criterion Collection just re-released Bottle Rocket on DVD
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by The Gene Hackman on Dec 4, 2008 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
I would suggest any of these movies:
Glory
Man on Fire
American Gangster
John Q
The Great Debaters
Deja Vu
Inside Man
The Manchurian Candidate
Antwone Fisher raining Day
Remember the Titans
The Hurricane
The Siege
Courage Under Fire
Crimson Tide
The Pelican Brief
Malcolm X
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
These are random movies btw, nothing in common
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
I like Glory and Malcolm X, and I love the non-Tarantino parts of Crimson Tide.
Also, you’re a total rascist.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 3, 2008 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
Why racist?
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
haha
Denzel ftmfw.
Will Smith trails behind barely in my list of favorite actors.
Hasheem "The Dream" Thabeet or Brandon Jennings. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.
Six Degrees of Separation (Will Smith) was a very good movie.
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
Boner jam tape to Denzel
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
Racist.
Does anyone know how to get spellcheck for Opera? I’m so used to it on Mozilla that I can’t type without it.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 3, 2008 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
I swear to god I read this as “spellcheck for Oprah” and the racist comment just went in a new direction.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
Yep.
Get Mozilla.
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I see something in common. Denzel!!
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Dec 3, 2008 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
those could all be made into porn's easily
Glory Hole
Semen on Fire
American Gangbang
Johnson Q
The Great Masterbaters (disgusts me, too easy)
Deja Vu
Inside Man
Training Gay
The Harry Cane
The Siege
Courage Under Three Guys
The Bulging Briefs
Malcom XXX
by NeifiChicken on Dec 3, 2008 2:00 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
LOL
Excellent
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
ftw
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
hahahaha
Semen on fire! The possibilities are endless!
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 4, 2008 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
Malcolm X was good.
Also, my wife met Rubin Carter once. Apparently he was kind of a jerk.
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I see the pattern
King Kong ain’t got &%$# on any of these films.
by biff pocoroba on Dec 4, 2008 8:02 AM PST up reply actions
QUICK: change the FanPost title to "OT: Movies we Love"
Or Grant is going to kill it… ;)
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A few favorites...
You’ll notice quite a range here…something for everyone:
Memento (awesome)
Big Lebowski
Bottle Rocket (seriously, check it out)
Harold & Maude
Hair
Deer Hunter
Kill Bill Vol 1 & II
Pulp Fiction
Big Fish
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
A few more...
Soylent Green (before there was WALL-E, there was Soylent Green)
Royal Tennenbaums
North by Northwest
Wedding Crashers
40-Yr Old Virgin
Superbad
Old School
Something About Mary
Office Space….oh my…
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
Rhetorical question
What is it about Charlton Heston running around cities in the 1970’s like a madman totting guns that would be so appropriate later on in his life?
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Memento is the coolest movie ever made
And Christopher Nolan has the Midas touch as far as I’m concerned- “Memento,” “Following” (the b/w 70-minute film he shot before doing Memento), “Insomnia,” “The Prestige,” and both of his Batman films are all among my all-time favorites.
I once punched a hole in a light fixture in celebration of a J.T. Snow home run. That is all.
Look for the Easter egg in the DVD to play the movie in the correct order
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
it’s way less cool of a movie when it’s in the right order.
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It's spelled "M-A-R-C-H-I-N-G-B-A-N-D."
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Following was awesome.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 8:14 PM PST up reply actions
Memento is great. Very cool. But after I bought it, I found it had about zero rewatch value.
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
See also: "The Sixth Sense."
I once punched a hole in a light fixture in celebration of a J.T. Snow home run. That is all.
I really didn’t like the ending to The Prestige. Kind of felt like it was cut out of a soap opera.
it's always noonan somewhere
The secret name for The Prestige is “Plot Holes.”
The other secret name for it is “Scarlett Johanssen Being More Boring Than She Was in Her Last Movie!”
It’s a pretty enjoyable movie, though.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
Other than Big Fish, this is a totally different list
Movies everybody in the world likes except Giants_Junkie. Nothing wrong with having a list like that, but it’s not really the same thing.
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by lyricalkiller on Dec 3, 2008 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
AND it looks like I missed the point.
Nevermind.
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by lyricalkiller on Dec 3, 2008 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
GRANT SMASH!!!
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
Did you even look at who wrote this?
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 4, 2008 8:26 AM PST up reply actions
Wanted…by far
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
Valkyrie will probably be the next big promising film concept gone horribly wrong.
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For a great idea turned into a great movie: The Matrix
Best idea for a movie ever
I see the future, and it is Pablo
I thought the first Matrix film was okay but overrated, the second one was a steaming pile, and I refused to see the third.
Heterodoxy FTW!
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the 3rd....
u saved yourself a great deal of agony. THe third was so bad, I no longer like the first movie
My heterodoxy being that I didn’t think the first one was that good, mind you. I know a lot of people didn’t like the second one and especially the third.
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The first one was really good IMO at the time.
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
Two things about the Matrix:
First, it think that Philip K. Dick dealt with similar subject material (Gnosticism and discovering and breaking out from imprisonment in a constructed reality) in more interesting ways decades before. Second, I tend to be bored by action-oriented movies, so I was inclined against it from the start.
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+1
Philip K Dick. Love his stuff. Outside of Blade Runner though I am not sure I can think of a single film based on his stories that didn’t turn out badly. Of coarse some of his concepts were hard to make functional for an entire short story so not sure why it would be easier to make into a film.
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Here comes Captain Obvious wearing his Atomic Wedgie!
There was a movie version of A Scanner Darkly that came out a few years back, and it was pretty good.
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Fabulous use of posterization
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 3:04 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve seen ASD about three times since I saw it in the theatre, and it gets better every time. It’s just really well done. The crawl in the closing credits of all the friends and loved ones of Dick who suffered from drug abuse is heartbreaking.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 3:15 PM PST up reply actions
Thank You (all) for the tip.
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I liked
minority report and total recall, although not on par with BR. Heck, even paycheck wasn’t that bad.
Screamers was pretty bad, and there are a couple more obscure (direct to video?) ones as well.
You cannot compare them to the lit , though.
Funny that I’ve never seen ASD, even though it’s probably my favorite PKD story.
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The only thing with Phillip K Dick is
the titles of his stories aren’t very good. I mean “We’ll Remember for you, Wholesale!”?
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Eh, I love his crazy, long titles. Like The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
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I’ll take Famous Titties for $400
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
To each his or her own, I say
You say “potato,” I say “whatever.”
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
what's funny
is that when he was writing for pulps, they would sometimes GIVE him the title and make him write something… that gave us “The Zap Gun”
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Best Movie that could have been a Philip K. Dick story:
The Truman Show. Aside from not actually having been written by Dick, it was totally his.
Scott McClain: Great story, no place on the 2009 Giants.
and then they made BOLT
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Do the Matrix movies have any competition in the category of Biggest Quality Gap Between a Film and Its Sequel(s)?
air bud?
Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 3, 2008 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
I think to qualify it was supposed to have been a good concept/idea before they made it into a stinkpot of a film.
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 3:46 PM PST up reply actions
Dog playing basketball > Dog playing football or hockey or soccer or equestrian or whatever the hell else he played.
Scratch that all the sequel concepts sound totally cooler, it must’ve just been poor execution
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 4, 2008 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
A dog playing polo would be pretty cool though.
Think about it: A dog on a horse, wearing a hat! What’s not to love about that idea?
GET ON IT, HOLLYWOOD
GROUGTHINK ALERT
Hey, how about this:
A dog playing polo would be pretty cool though.
Think about it: A dog on a horse, wearing a hat! What’s not to love about that idea?
GET ON IT, HOLLYWOOD
I really liked it the first two times, but now I think the idea is losing its novelty.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 4, 2008 6:40 PM PST up reply actions
A dog playing polo would be pretty cool though.
Think about it: A dog on a horse, wearing a hat! What’s not to love about that idea?
GET ON IT, HOLLYWOOD
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It's ok man.
I pretty much just have that one schtick. Taking something that has been repeated and repeating it again. I assume you people do think it’s funny, right?
Right?
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by Josh from Hollywood on Dec 5, 2008 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, the first was pretty much just a good movie with cool effects. Not a great movie. Not a very good movie. A regular good movie. And then it went insane.
I stopped caring altogether when I realized that Smokey the Jackass Yelling Man from Berkeley got a cameo as a truck driver in one of them.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
Whoops. Meant Stoney the Jackass Yelling Man.
My bad.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 3:59 PM PST up reply actions
So..
oldjacket, you’re a member of the “I Don’t Trust My Water Club” too?
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Higher up!
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Holiday movies?
- Christmas Story
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original, obviously)
- Peanuts Christmas special
Molina's gonna test his arm...
by Victorious Secret on Dec 3, 2008 2:06 PM PST reply actions
bad santa
scroooged
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by The Gene Hackman on Dec 3, 2008 2:10 PM PST up reply actions
*favorites
Molina's gonna test his arm...
by Victorious Secret on Dec 3, 2008 2:10 PM PST up reply actions
Christmas Story is a great one...classic LOL moments.
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 3, 2008 2:11 PM PST up reply actions
And they are selling the leg lamp at rite aid now….sweeeeeeet
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
Tokyo Godfathers.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:39 PM PST up reply actions
Is amazing.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
I saw it last year and deemed it an instant classic.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
the animated movie?
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 8, 2008 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
Yessir.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 8, 2008 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
thanks. see my latest entry here. appreciate the hot tips.
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 8, 2008 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
PEANUTS?
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GREATEST CARTOON/MOVIE THINGY EVER
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five movies you may or may not have seen that i recommend
ronin ( i hate deniro, but love him in this)
irreversible (if you havent seen this movie, it will blow your mind…not for kids)
solaris (remake…the music makes a huge difference)
road to perdition (again, the music is awesome)
ninja scroll (the only anime ive ever enjoyed, and i enjoyed it tons)
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by Headhunter Rollins on Dec 3, 2008 2:07 PM PST reply actions
Midnight in the Garden of Good And Evil.
Not sure if this meets all criteria for our revised approach here within this fanpost (good concept, bad movie…), but that was a very, very good book that was turned into a terrible, awful movie starring otherwise capable talent (K Spacey).
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Oh yeah, that one really pissed me off. You could tell the filmmakers had such contempt for the whole idea of making a superhero movie.
seconded
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Here comes Captain Obvious wearing his Atomic Wedgie!
I would have felt cheated had I paid to see it. On second thought, I feel cheated anyway.
Still in despair.
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by Zetsuboushita on Dec 3, 2008 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
Hancock gets a bad rap. It’s a fun movie. I mean, what did everybody expect?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 5:59 PM PST up reply actions
Ooooo look. It’s Will Smith. He’s acting baaaad.
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If Will Smith dumped his wife for the latest hottie, he’d start getting in Brad Pitt territory.
Then again, he’d have to leach onto George Clooney for a few films. Then again, Ocean’s 14-17 should have an opening!
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by theghostofjasonellison on Dec 6, 2008 1:40 PM PST up reply actions
BEST NEWS EVER
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
oops…how bout NOW
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
HAZZUH!
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
STEVE HOLT!!
The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and the chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby.
Yay!
Still in despair.
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by Zetsuboushita on Dec 3, 2008 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
I was reading last night that Annie Hall was originally going to be a murder mystery. It was all shot like that and everything. it was only changed to the movie it is today in editing. Woody kinda dodged a bullet there.
Annie Who?
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winner
everyone else can stop. seriously.
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by UnleashTheGore on Dec 3, 2008 2:47 PM PST up reply actions
Thank you
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 3, 2008 2:56 PM PST up reply actions
The Clone Wars
The idea of movies about the Clone Wars and origin story for Anakin could have been incredible (though still fatally flawed because it’s hard to root for the inevitable Vader).
However, Lucas wanted to make movies for his kids instead of a bigass space battle movie, so we got boned.
I never cared much about the Star Wars universe/history/etc. — in fact, I rather liked how slapdash and generic (or archetypal, if you prefer) the galactic milieu was in the first couple of movies. So I didn’t really care to have the backstory filled in.
But no one could have expected just how awful the prequels would be. They’re the Barry Zito contract of cinema.
Episodes I and III were really bad. II was so incredibly awful that my head hurt for days after seeing it.
My plans for 2009: getting married and attending Tim Lincecum Bobblehead Day.
The last 30 minutes or so of III is good, to me. Even if the flying lava battle looks dumb.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 3:12 PM PST up reply actions
I was never a huge Star Wars fan (I was more of a Star Trek nerd), but I went to see The Phantom Menace anyway. Midway through the movie, when they’re in the Senate, the soundtrack suddenly cut out in the movie theater, replaced by CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON!
I never got around to seeing the other two new ones.
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other than Empire
the original triology isn’t that much better. All of us that hate I-III love IV, and even VI because of the nostalgia.
I thought the point of II was to be so unbearable, it made the viewer feel if they were a lovesick teenager.
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The real tragedy of Episodes 1-3
Was that there were really good stories to be told. Unfortunately, none of them really were. Instead we got very shallow and/or confusing shadows of those stories.
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this
One of my favorite stories of all time is the large, sweeping, familial saga. How a good person goes bad. Everyone dies in the end. The first three movies should have been amazing based on this criteria. Instead the films sucked unforgivably.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 7:38 PM PST up reply actions
A Testament to how good they could have been
is the final duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan. Even with all of the stupidity and painful moments leading up to it, the end (until Darth Vader saying “Padme. Blah blah blah. Noooooooooooo!”) was still awesome and epic.
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That's all Ewan
He was so ridiculously great to make Lucas’ lines even sound decent.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
I really felt sad when he had to chop Anakin up at the end. I really believed Obi Wan was in deep emotional pain confronting his dear friend and student and then having to dispatch him.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 8:15 PM PST up reply actions
Ewan McGregor kills me in that movie!
“You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! That you would bring balance to the force, not leave it in shambles!… I loved you, Anikin! You were my brother!”
(or something like that, I’m not googling it)
And then Padme lost the will to live even though she had baby twins to live for, which almost killed the whole thing for me. And the robot doctors didn’t know what the fuck life support was. “Let’s all just give up, that’s cool!” That’s my least favorite thing in all of the movies combined.
And the Vader “Nooooooo” wasn’t that bad. It was staged pretty well, had some really cool Frankenstein’s monster stuff going on, and then cheesed upunbearably for, like, 3 seconds.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 8:20 PM PST up reply actions
0:36 in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLEz7rHywoI
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by SoFa King Mike on Dec 3, 2008 8:38 PM PST up reply actions
And then Padme lost the will to live even though she had baby twins to live for, which almost killed the whole thing for me.
Oh goodness me, this is true.
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I really enjoyed watching Obi-Wan and Yoda almost beat Vader and the Emperor. In fact the two evil guys just get away. and then the Jedi decide. Well thats that, let’s pack it in for 20 years while the twins grow up.
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
I was really bothered by Yoda’s “I failed… now I’ll go into hiding,” even though he wasn’t even hurt, regular soldiers can’t touch him, and he was still in fighting distance of Palpatine. It was another moment where you could see Lucas going “Shit… I have to get him to degobah, don’t I? Ok, well I can knock that out with one line of bad exposition.”
There are many of those lines. It would be fun to collect them. Off the top of my head is that one, the one about Padme dying, and then this one:
“Wipe the translator droid’s memory.”
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 9:06 PM PST up reply actions
Episodes 1-3 are really about...
Palpatine’s rise and his cunning manipulation of all sides rather than the whiny brat Anakin. He just proves to be a tool to an end to the eventual Emperor.
Really, if one can sort the love-struck ramblings out of the way, there is a good vein of duplicity and dark intrigue that should have been tapped into a lot further. It further proves why the Star Wars franchise is much better in the hands of the authors of the novels and comic books.
it's always noonan somewhere
My favorite thing about the entire series is that Vader really isn’t a badass at all. In fact, he’s pretty much a complete failure on all fronts. He achieves almost no mastery of the force. He exhibits none of the classic dark side powers. His fighting skills at his peak are on equal ground with an old Obi Wan. The only reason anybody in the universe thinks he’s strong is because he’s one of 5 people in the universe who can even use the force, and one of only 2 who anybody knows about.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 9:09 PM PST up reply actions
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Yes?
jponry?
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I guess midichlorines aren’t really in tune with mechanical parts.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 9:15 PM PST up reply actions
Vader is powerful, but he’s the exact example of a person who has unlimited/untapped potential, but only draws on so much of it because there is always something to take his focus away from it.
There has always been the rumor that there is more to Vader’s story between Episodes 3 and 4…so maybe that will be fleshed out now that there’s little else in that time frame that can be explored.
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Darth Vader signed with the A’s?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 4, 2008 3:36 PM PST up reply actions
i find your lack of faith disturbing
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by The Gene Hackman on Dec 4, 2008 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
My main problem with the whole rise of Palpatine story
is that it requires the Jedi (and others, but mostly the Jedi) to be really stupid. Even if you buy that the emperor is so powerful that he can cloud the vision of every single Jedi despite being in extremely close proximity to them, the story still requires the Jedi to be stupid.
And I hate stories where one side succeeds because the other is stupid. Regardless of whether it’s the good guys or the bad guys.
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That was a narrative balance, since the Jedi couldn’t be made to be omnipotent and know everything that is going on at every moment around them (since that seemed to be more inline with the abilities that Palpatine had). I thought the films did a manageable job of depicting that the Jedi couldn’t sense the Sith straight up, sense that could ultimately lead a Jedi down the path to darkness. Granted that approach makes the viewer take a mental leap to get to that, but it is there.
I think the story with the Jedi is just a foolhardy trust in their beliefs that they could withstand whatever was brought upon them. Then their ultimate downfall would be a scheming, manipulative politician who uses their own thoughts and teachings to turn one pupil against them at a key moment.
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by Giants_Junkie on Dec 4, 2008 8:34 AM PST up reply actions
Some of those things I agree with, some I don't
But even regardless of that, the template for the clones (discovered by a Jedi) was seen by Jedi consorting with the leaders of the seperatists. It doesn’t take a genius to put 2 and 2 together and realize that somebody is engineering the Clone Wars. Does it really take that much more reasoning to figure out who is gaining the most from the Clone Wars?
And to top it all off, Count Dooku told Obi Wan who Darth Sidious was. I can buy them being skeptical. But if you put that together with everything else, they should have been very suspicious of Palpatine.
All of the suspicion they were starting to show in Episode III should have come much sooner.
And, then there’s the dumb decision to use Anakin as the spy on Palpatine. They knew he was friends with Palpatine. They knew he was immature. They knew (or at least, they should have known) that Palpatine was adept at manipulation.
You notice none of that requires them to sense the dark side in Palpatine (which Jedi can do but it is possible to accept that Palpatine was too powerful).
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III
is probably still better than VI, despite all the continuity chicanery.
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ah
I see we have an Ewok sympathizer in our midst.
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I'm with groug.
Ewoks are stupid but it’s still a great movie.
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I'm just curious
Is this a serious post? Because if it is, then, wow, I thought I was a dork.
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Happily N’Ever After was really awful. Disappointingly awful. The concept was awesome: fairy tales that go bad. The prince fails to get the girl. All that. The plot followed a whiny twat who wanted the prince, who was an egotistical buffoon, and failed to see she had a really good guy at her side all along. The entire movie was just that. It was boring and the animation wasn’t even that good.
Although Sigourney Weaver voicing the evil stepmother was fun.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 2:41 PM PST reply actions
W
this movie could have been way more truthful and harsh than it was
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by The Gene Hackman on Dec 3, 2008 2:44 PM PST reply actions
on CB30's point
I thought "I am Legend" could have been way better
It could have been GREAT. one of the most influential sci-fi writers of all time, who took the myth of vampires and explained them with science, then took the “last man on earth” concept and hit at the emotions of it. in the book robert nevin wasn’t a scientist who held the secret to the cure; he was a common guy who was in over his head just trying to survive each day. and the urges and pain he went through made the reader think about how each of them would handle the situation knowing it was just chance that he survived.
i am legend the book is a wonderful example of science fiction.
i am legend the movie was garbage.
they took an amazing premise and kept NOTHING BUT THE NAME OF THE GUY; they changed location, cause, relationships, development, the end and the whole goddamn point of the title. if they simply called it “New and Busted” and had will smith do his thing i would have shrugged leaving the theater and thought it was ok; by drawing any comparisons to the book it upset me a bit too much.
now that i’ve said that i too am happy with the renteria rumors.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
if they simply called it "New and Busted" and had will smith do his thing i would have shrugged leaving the theater and thought it was ok; by drawing any comparisons to the book it upset me a bit too much.
I really liked the movie, and I never understood the animosity toward it. Now I do.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 3, 2008 3:01 PM PST up reply actions
yeah
without giving anything away they ruined one of the best twist-endings i’ve ever read. if anyone’s really interested in the spoilers, i’m sure wikipedia has a nice rundown for you.
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by Smoke on the Water on Dec 3, 2008 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
I actually don’t quite mind that the ending was changed. I don’t think that ending works for a modern work the same way that it works in the context of the original story. And I don’t mean that in a “society is so different!” sort of way. I mean it in a “it’s been copied A LOT and people are used to it now” sort of way. I think there are better disconnects between the original story and the new movie to make a big deal over.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 3, 2008 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
Rumor Has It...
Someone finds that her family was the real-life inspiration for The Graduate. I should say that I haven’t actually seen it, but there were enough sensible bad reviews that it looks like it was a disappointment.
also,
Bend It Like Beckham. Neither the Girl Power nor the Modern Daughter of a Traditional Asian Family premises was particularly novel, but this still could have made for an entertaining film. But huge chunks of it had the feel of a second-rate afterschool TV production.
LIES
THAT MOVIE IS AWESOME
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Hey, believe me, I wanted to like it a lot more than I did. Whale Rider, which came out the same year I think, had a similar general theme but was a lot better (in my opinion).
Also I hate the Music Man. Hate hate hate. The bassoon part is boring and lame and anyone with musical talent would do better to throw the score at the director and storm out. HATE.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 3, 2008 3:13 PM PST reply actions
Another category is movies that have seemingly terrible concepts but actually come out pretty well. Dancer in the Dark fits this for me. Let’s see – a morbidly depressing musical with shaky, unfocused cameras that turns into an angry condemnation of the death penalty – uh….okay. I enjoyed the movie, though.
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