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12-21-2006, 07:22 PM | #1942 | |
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12-22-2006, 05:43 PM | #1943 |
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I just watched The Da Vinci Code, if I didn't already have such a low opinion of the masses, I'd be shocked how a plot like that could inspire such a phenomenon.
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12-22-2006, 06:00 PM | #1944 |
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After I read the book I refused to watch the movie. There is no possible way you could have condensed that book into a screenplay and not loose everything.
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12-22-2006, 07:01 PM | #1945 |
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I think as a rule it's not a good idea to adapt novels that are that incredibly (and undeservedly) popular, because you'll always have people saying they ruined the book no matter how good it is. Not like the Da Vinci Code was a good movie or anything - in that respect the movie perfectly matches the book.
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12-23-2006, 04:40 AM | #1946 |
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In the last couple of days I've seen the Director's Cut versions of the first two Lethal Weapon films.
They're fun, but I'm not quite sure how they managed to do well enough to make four of the things. There seems to be very little plot in the first film, though the dialogue between Riggs and Murtaugh is well written. |
12-23-2006, 05:40 AM | #1947 |
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The first two Lethal Weapons were entertaining, but the last two were painful to watch. The plots were practically nonexistent, it was like paying 20 bucks to watch a bunch of friends get together and goof around.
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12-23-2006, 04:49 PM | #1948 |
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12-25-2006, 07:16 AM | #1949 |
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12-25-2006, 07:48 AM | #1950 |
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Now that didn't age particularly well, did it? Screw world police, interplanetary police FTW!
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12-25-2006, 05:21 PM | #1951 | |
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My B-Horror-movie night!!!
A Bucket of Blood (1959) It was actually pretty good. Funny and short enough. Great, worth to watch in "always on top" window, when surfing in internet and chatting with friends at the same time. 5/10 Want to watch? Click! Toter hing im Netz, Ein (1960) ("Horrors of Spider Island") What the hell was that? Compared to previous, it was complete bulls**t, or should i say A bucket full of crap. It wasn't even funny, ultimately boring, while the plot outline was extremely promising : Quote:
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12-25-2006, 06:22 PM | #1952 | |
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12-26-2006, 05:29 AM | #1953 |
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Good luck for them ...
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12-27-2006, 05:41 AM | #1954 |
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Rocky Balboa
Was better than I expected. More reminicint of the first 2 films than the dreadful 3,4,5 which was a good thing.
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12-27-2006, 06:01 AM | #1955 |
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Paprika
This movie is not so popular in Japan, but it was great ! I had a very good time. http://www.cinempire.com/multimedia/paprika/ |
12-27-2006, 07:53 AM | #1956 | |
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12-27-2006, 12:19 PM | #1957 |
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I think the similarities were there on purpose...Rocky's career ends the way it began: he has a relationship with a local gal; his fight ends up as a loss, but still a spiritual win; he has his remaining family and neighborhood friends to share his life with. And, what I thought was a neat touch, the chair at Adrian's grave was gone...he was no longer living in the past, and moping around.
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12-27-2006, 03:58 PM | #1958 |
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Kamome Shokudo / Kamome Diner / Ruokala Lokki - a new Japanese movie that takes place in Finland. It's about a woman who decided to run a cafe in Finland, and about a few of the people she meets. Not much to it, but it's a cute movie.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - this suffers from too many iconic characters following a textbook script. |
12-27-2006, 04:33 PM | #1959 |
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I liked some of LXG, but I was disappointed by some of the end result, too...
-the CGI Hyde sucked. Badly. -They adapted it to the screen, but left out or changed waaay too much to make it more "teen" friendly. |
12-27-2006, 08:00 PM | #1960 |
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Casino Royale.
Well, I've seen it in french (by accident), which hampered my enjoyment a lot, but still, I'm very disappointed by this movie. I was expecting a refreshing new Bond, with a whole new layer to it. I got that, except that the new layer is a totally predictable story with predictable twists all over, a useless complication of the already wacked Bond timeline, and a horrifingly boby-builded and violent Bond. The only thing that I liked was the epic and surreal chase at the beginning.
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