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New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

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I watched Stranger Than Fiction...slow to start but I really loved it by the end. Will Ferrell was pretty great in it.

Into the Wild is next.
 
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Handyman said:
I watched Stranger Than Fiction...slow to start but I really loved it by the end. Will Ferrell was pretty great in it.

Into the Wild is next.
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I loved Stranger Than Fiction. If Will Ferrell did more of those types of those movies, I think the general population would like him more. That dry comedy really works for him.

Coming out later this month, is a movie I'm really interested in: "Red Cliff" directed by John Woo. There's two versions, by the way. The international version is 4+ hours (the one I really want to see), and then the American version is about 2 1/2 hours long.

I've only seen a brief trailer for it, but it looks AWESOME.
 
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SiouxTechie said:
Saw the movie "Nine" the other day. A little bit racy and quite scandalous. It's about an Italian movie director that sleeps around with women while he's married, and it made me quite irate that everyone pretty much shrugged it off because he's a guy. If it was a woman director that was sleeping around while married, everyone would mark her as a whore. :rolleyes:
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You misunderstood. They shrugged it off because he was Italian. The Italians elected a call girl to their Parliament once. They really don't have the whole American "oh noeeeees sex is bad" thing (which, given they're Catholic, is fascinating). Can you imagine the Fundy Freakout if this story was running over here?

Now why they don't seem to have a problem with adultery is anybody's guess, but it features prominently in about half of all Italian films. They haven't been quite right in the head since WW2 (see also: Germany, Japan, etc).
 
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Brenthoven said:
I loved Stranger Than Fiction. If Will Ferrell did more of those types of those movies, I think the general population would like him more. That dry comedy really works for him.
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Yep.
 
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Kepler said:
You misunderstood. They shrugged it off because he was Italian. The Italians elected a call girl to their Parliament once. They really don't have the whole American "oh noeeeees sex is bad" thing (which, given they're Catholic, is fascinating). Can you imagine the Fundy Freakout if this story was running over here?

Now why they don't seem to have a problem with adultery is anybody's guess, but it features prominently in about half of all Italian films. They haven't been quite right in the head since WW2 (see also: Germany, Japan, etc).
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The Japanese I'll give you for being weird, and I'm going to say the German's weirdness have a little more with the Cold War and having the country divided for 50 years. The Italians? Not really all that weird if you ask me.
 
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Into the Wild was good though I think they went a little far with the "non-linear storytelling". I have to say though Chris McCandless was a friggin idiot and while the story is tragic I really am not weeping for him because of some of the decisions he made.
 
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Handyman said:
Into the Wild was good though I think they went a little far with the "non-linear storytelling". I have to say though Chris McCandless was a friggin idiot and while the story is tragic I really am not weeping for him because of some of the decisions he made.
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I agree completely. I enjoyed the movie, but I found myself always thinking 'what the hell are you doing! quit being such a damm moron!'
 
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Haven't posted here in a while. First off, if you haven't seen the Oscar winner for Best Animated Short, LOGORAMA, watch it. Now:

http://www.logorama-themovie.com/

Second, I just got my BluRay with Netflix. We got rid of Netflix over a year ago, and just started up again since the BluRay player arrived. We've watched several streaming movies since it arrived, and I'm blown away by the quality. I never expected it to be so good. Not only that, but I expect that the future will be streaming video. If it's this good now, how good will it get? Surely, if Netflix is making moey as it is, they will be able to expand the availability and be able to charge more fairly easily...

As to BluRay, wow. I always thought DVD and HD channels looked good, but I bought Star Trek on BluRay, and it was amazing how much better it looked. We just got Ghostbusters from Netflix today, and will be watching it tonight, so I'm interested to see how much BluRay improves an '80's movie. The extra $2 a month should be well worth the subscription...
 
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Handyman said:
Into the Wild was good though I think they went a little far with the "non-linear storytelling". I have to say though Chris McCandless was a friggin idiot and while the story is tragic I really am not weeping for him because of some of the decisions he made.
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I thought it was rather boring, and seeing all the stupid things just made me want him to die all the sooner.

And did they have him kill a moose with a bb-gun?
 
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Finally saw Inglorious Basterds the other day.

Very very good.

Only Tarantino though.:cool:
 
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Watched "Mongol."

Very good, I thought, even with the "artistic license" that usually comes with these types of movies. It was a nice balance of telling the story without words and really only having needed dialogue, instead of having someone say something just to say it.

I believe the continuation of the story comes out this year, and I'll be looking forward to it.
 
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Foxton said:
I thought it was rather boring, and seeing all the stupid things just made me want him to die all the sooner.

And did they have him kill a moose with a bb-gun?
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Haha that is funny :)

I love how he brings a high powered rifle but not a compass because he is trying to rough it! I saw a quote from a park preserve guy up near the trail he lived on and it basically said that if Chris had brought a decent map he would have survived. Of course if he had brought a bigger bag of rice or you know, learned how to live in the wilds of Alaska he might have survived too.

And there are bigger d-bags that worship this guy as some sort of cult hero...if I die because I am a moron please dont worship me :D
 
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Haha that is funny :)

I love how he brings a high powered rifle but not a compass because he is trying to rough it! I saw a quote from a park preserve guy up near the trail he lived on and it basically said that if Chris had brought a decent map he would have survived. Of course if he had brought a bigger bag of rice or you know, learned how to live in the wilds of Alaska he might have survived too.

And there are bigger d-bags that worship this guy as some sort of cult hero...if I die because I am a moron please dont worship me :D
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In the movie it looked like he had a .22, which I wouldn't call a "high powered rifle" :p
I'm still not sure how to kill a moose with a .22, maybe shoot it through the eye.
 
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In the movie it looked like he had a .22, which I wouldn't call a "high powered rifle" :p
I'm still not sure how to kill a moose with a .22, maybe shoot it through the eye.
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Well I meant more in comparison to the rest of the crap he brought. I mean the scope alone probably could have bought him enough food not to die like an idiot :p

I think the Moose died from laughter :)
 
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Caught Alice in Wonderland yesterday in 3D/Imax and enjoyed it. It didn't blow me away, but it was visually really cool, and if you like Burtons stuff generally, I can't see why you wouldn't dig it....
 
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Saw The Wolfman last night. Pretty much had the theatre to ourselves, other than this one couple that kept coming in and out of the theatre a few times. Thought it was a pretty standard update on an old classic. I like what they did with the Wolfman look, didn't have him become some freakish 10 foot tall monster just because they could film him like that way. Hopkins was great with what he had to work with, along with Hugo Weaving as well. They could have done more with it I think but looks like they stayed pretty close to the original Wolfman story line.
 
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help....I.CAN'T.STOP.WATCHING.KARATE.KID.2!!!!!!
 
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