Movies

dill_the_devil said:
Manchurian rules, haven't seen Sky Captain yet.
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Manchurian Candidate was damned fucking good! I really liked it, I'd consider owning it, though I imagine once you know what's happened, it loses some allure.

I will say that I figured out about 95% of what had happened about 45 minutes into the movie. I rule. :cool:
 
markgugs said:
Ok, how do I do that?

Also, did you reply to my PM re: Sunday night? I got an email saying you did, but there was no message...
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i sent you a netflix invite to your gmail address.

i also PM'ed you re: Sunday's show. Will be there around 9pm
 
markgugs said:
Cool, I accepted the Netflix thingie, did you get my cellphone # in the PM? 9 PM is perfect for me, just want to make sure you have my cell.
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Shot you an email Mark ...

Saw FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS ... definetelly better than average sports flick (seeing that I am not into sports too much) ... but by no means better than RUDY :loco:

Let me ask you small town Texans something ... does the life of everyone in these small towns revolve so much around sports???
 
lurch70 said:
Saw FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS ... definetelly better than average sports flick (seeing that I am not into sports too much) ... but by no means better than RUDY :loco:
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Yeah, Rudy is good, but I prefer FNL. Rudy centers too much around him being a dumbass and not making the grades. Still, the ending of that movie is so awesome.

FNL just struck me as more genuine, even though both movies are based on true stories.

Let me ask you small town Texans something ... does the life of everyone in these small towns revolve so much around sports???
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I didn't grow up in small-town Texas, but my wife did. She grew up in Huntsville (yes, where they execute everybody) and yes, small towns live and die by high school sports. Even the old geezers with zero ties to the school go to the games.

Small towns usually focus on football (however, Odessa, where FNL was based is hardly small), whereas larger towns, cities and suburbs focus on football and baseball.

It's similar to the way Indiana focuses on high school basketball (see the fantastic movie Hoosiers). Texas is known as a massive future pro football and college hunting ground.
 
that's what I figured.
it was a well made movie. I liked how almost for the first 2/3 of it I could not find one sympathetic character in it. It was almost suffocating the amount of flawed people that were portrayed in it. Even the shot composure was very tight during these 2/3's ... tight closeups, etc. Then it was redeemed for awhile ... then bam ... the non-Hollywood ending. I liked it.

Peter Berg is proving himself to be a great director.
 
My favorite football movies:

1. Rudy
2. FNL (very close between these 2, I've just seen Rudy about 1000x and love it)
3. Any Given Sunday (I think a very underrated movie, I love it!)

As Jeff said, Hoosiers is a superb basketball movie, and Bull Durham, Eight Men Out, The Natural and Field of Dreams all do an amazing job of capturing the wonderful essence of baseball!
 
My favorite characters had to be the father and son that didn't get along. Did you know the dad was played by country music star Tim McGraw! He did a fantastic job I thought, and the ending with those two was heart wrenching.

I also appreciated the way the movie told what happened to each character after high school. The whole movie just felt very genuine.

However, it was based on a true story, so I went to reasearch past Texas football champions. The movie was based in 1988, but Odessa Permian didn't play in the game that year, but Dallas Carter did. But I can see where they would change some stuff up for Hollywood reasons, and perhaps also legal reasons for the school and the real-life people that lived it. BUT, Odessa Permian did win it all the next year as the movie stated.

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/8920/champ80.html
 
markgugs said:
My favorite football movies:

1. Rudy
2. FNL (very close between these 2, I've just seen Rudy about 1000x and love it)
3. Any Given Sunday (I think a very underrated movie, I love it!)
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Any Given Sunday is a fun movie. I love the old school do-or-die mentality vs the new school it's-all-about-money image. Jamie Foxx ruled in the movie and AL Pacino's speech at the end is very moving. However, Lawrence Taylor can't act for shit. I still had a blast with AGS, though.

As Jeff said, Hoosiers is a superb basketball movie, and Bull Durham, Eight Men Out, The Natural and Field of Dreams all do an amazing job of capturing the wonderful essence of baseball!
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Hoosiers was voted by ESPN as the best sports movie ever made. THat movie is SOOOOOOOOO good. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=listranker/bestmoviesresult

THe Natural has to be my favorite sports movie ever. I grew up with that movie and I still have the fucking VHS of it. Field of Dreams is a beautiful film and I've wanted to read the book for years.

EDIT: Friday Night Lights was made after the list was compiled
 
VERA DRAKE ... only Mike Leigh's direction of talkies can totally suck me into these type of films.

and anyone who has not seen NAKED ... seriously needs to do so. One of the Top 5 films of the 90's.
 
Cube Zero

Pretty cool. All three Cube movies are a fun time, but I'm reading for them to wrap it up and tell me whatthefuck these Cubes are for and why, etc. Pretty gory, this one was.
 
J. said:
Cube Zero

Pretty cool. All three Cube movies are a fun time, but I'm reading for them to wrap it up and tell me whatthefuck these Cubes are for and why, etc. Pretty gory, this one was.
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Is that the third follow up? I enjoyed the first one pretty much, think I'll have to check out this one as well


Saw Ruang rak noi nid mahasan/Last Days of the Universe yesterday, a slow movie about a suicidal librarian who by chance teams up with a depressed prostitute and spends some days in her house. Stunning photo and nice visiuals in general was the movie's foremost asset, but also their relation to eachother was quite beautiful.

It is a very slow movie with quite sparse dialogue and no 'action' whatsoever; I was in the mood for something really quiet last night and found it really good, but had I wanted Hollywood action I'd probably been bored to tears ;)
Warmly recommended anyway.
 
spaffe said:
Is that the third follow up? I enjoyed the first one pretty much, think I'll have to check out this one as well
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Yeah, this is the third in the series, which is actually a prequel. It gives away more about how the Cube Project is run and stuff. Good times.
 
J. said:
Cube Zero

Pretty cool. All three Cube movies are a fun time, but I'm reading for them to wrap it up and tell me whatthefuck these Cubes are for and why, etc. Pretty gory, this one was.
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I watched this the other day and commented on it, and no one said anything! Do you guys hate me or something?!
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