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JayKeeley said:
Hellboy was one of the better comic book adaptations I've seen, worth seeing IMO. Plus it has Guillermo del Toro directing, so everything is beautifully done. Bubba Ho_tep has Bruce Campbell playing a geriatric Elvis fighting a mummy in a nursing home, need I say more?
JayKeeley said:
Agreed.
JayKeeley said:No man, afraid not. August/September for me is completely touch and go. If I fly over at all, it might be around winter. And if Bush wins, it might be a one way trip.
Hehe, fair enough, but you're gonna be missing a superb weekend
I can't wait, is gonna rock! I'm staying in London this time as well, so I can see all of the late shows! ROCK. Anywho, maybe see you in the winter.NAD said:Russell is a movie watching machine.
I wish!
This is the first real week off I had since last October, so I had some catching up to do.. Luckily I have most of August off, so by the end I hope to be a lean, mean, movie watching machine 
Well, kinda, I still have quite a few movies to catch up on, so all I need is the time 
Tranquillian
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you're joking right? Exit Wounds gets a 6 and Eternal Sunshine a 6.5? How does that work. One is a shitty Steven Segal movie, the other is the best movie of the last year, even better than Return of the King. Did you mean 9.5?
NAD
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I want to see that Eternal Sunshine movie still. Steven Segal is in my Top 10 list of people to throw rocks at if ever within range.
JayKeeley
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That's the main attraction for me. Shit, I even liked Mimic.Russell said:
Totally, but make sure you get Amman in the mix because he would love to see all that. Just PM him or something.Hehe, fair enough, but you're gonna be missing a superb weekend
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No movie is better than ROTK. I was in a bad mood when I saw Eternal... so maybe it's worth 7.5, and Exit wounds is more of a 5 than a 6. What makes Eternal... so damn great?jimbobhickville said:
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jimbobhickville said:
Eternal Sunshine was a great movie indeed
And considering how much I usually dislike Jim Carey's performances that's saying something!JayKeeley said:
Good call, I shall do! I'll email him tho I think, if he still uses his RC addy?
We watched The Natural tonight. THe fiance had never seen it, so she wanted to see what all the hoopla was about. She liked it, though that's no surprise since it's the best baseball movie ever made, and one of the finest sports movies in existence.
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Baseball people get bat-sized boners at that movie. I'm not a baseball person but it's still pretty kickass.
I watched the TV version of Total Recall tonight, "get yourself to Mars," haha.
I watched the TV version of Total Recall tonight, "get yourself to Mars," haha.
Because it's true to the game, and because the "hero" chooses loyalty, honor, and "the game" over everyone's favorite thing in life, money. That last game is just pure classic art, especially the homerun. And Robert Redford always kicks ass.NAD said:
That's not to say I don't like the goofy baseball movies. I mean, it's hard not to like Major League. "Are you saying Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?"
Field of Dreams is another awesome baseball movie, as is the underrated For Love of the Game, both with Costner.
Best basketball movie - Hoosiers
Best football movie - this is a tough one, but I'm leaning toward Any Given Sunday. A lot of people didn't like it, but I'm a sucker for that old school mentality vs the commercialism of sports. The Program is worth a mention though.
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Any Given Sunday KICKS FUCKING ASS. I don't know how Oliver Stone can pull off those wacky handheld camera angles and not make me want to punch him, but he does. Lawrence Taylor rules.
Damn, it's good to see someone else liking that movie. I'm not a fan of Jamie Foxx (though that may change when his Ray Charles movie comes out), but his character was awesome. I love the transformation from cocky, brash, money-greedy superstar of the new school to finally realizing that it's about your team, not what kind of car you drive.
Al Pacino is simply inspiring in that movie. His locker-room speech before that last game was brilliantly written.
Al Pacino is simply inspiring in that movie. His locker-room speech before that last game was brilliantly written.
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I just watched Boiling Point for the first time (the Japanese one, not the one with Wesley Snipes 
). Definitely not Takeshi Kitano's best, but an interesting early stage in his evolution
). Definitely not Takeshi Kitano's best, but an interesting early stage in his evolution
JayKeeley
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I went to see the latest Harry Potter this afternoon. Saw it at an IMAX. Definitely the best of the three.
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Couldn't disagree more, the latest Harry Potter was my least favorite movie.
Although it was the first time I read the book before seeing the movie, and it also is my favorite book in the series, so that could be why. It still rules though.
Although it was the first time I read the book before seeing the movie, and it also is my favorite book in the series, so that could be why. It still rules though.
JayKeeley
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I've never read a Harry Potter book so I don't know how to compare. The film, however, was dark, it had an edge to it. The ringwraith like creatures were great, the time travelling piece was cool, the twisted tree was a mean bastard, and the griffin bird would make a cool pet. Even at the end when he appears like a giant stag in the woods by the lake, it all reminded me of an Agalloch song, heh.
They underused Gary Oldman I thought, surely one of the greatest (and yet underrated) actors of our time.
They underused Gary Oldman I thought, surely one of the greatest (and yet underrated) actors of our time.
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Gary Oldman is one of the best, no doubt. That seems to be the consensus, if you read the book the movie wasn't terribly impressive, but if you didn't then it's your favorite. One thing is they left quite a bit out for the movie, but this book was the first really involved one, not just kidstuff like the first two. One thing I found brilliant in the movie was showing the change of seasons, the Whomping Willow rules.
