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I had a very strong interest (as a season ticket holder for one of the teams for 6 years in the 90's..). I was very happy with the outcome.. put it like that!! *grinning still* I sobbed my heart out in fact when Bobby Charlton led them up to get their medals.. The last time Utd won the European cup was the year me and Krad married.. so it seemed kinda fitting they won this year!! |
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(it's Drogba)
I watched the whole Indiana Jones trilogy over the last few days. I'll see the new one tomorrow night. I can't wait! Kamen No Maid Guy is my favourite current anime-comedy. Striv, you would certainly like it. _____________________________ Albert's path is a strange and difficult one. |
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The Dead Girl - Pretty well done movie about the people affected by a dead body that turns up in a field at the beginning of the movie.
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tell us more, sounds interesting. american/foriegn? name actors? blockbuster about to hit cinema? (of course i could look it up, but always more interesting to get information from people i know) |
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Well that is fairly cool. Man U. is somehow tied in with your significant life changes. Let me know when you have a second child and I'll bet my savings on them. I just watched Balls of Fury, which isn't as much of a steaming pile as I expected. It's got a few moments, but not really worth your time overall. Still I didn't hate it, so that's more than I anticipated. ------------------------------------------ Looking to escape reality at every turn. |
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I went and saw Indy.
I gotta admit, I was entertained. It's predictable and has pretty spotty performances mainly from Ford and Allen..... At the beginning of the film I kept thinking 'he really isn't convincing'. Allen was weak all the way through. But you get Blanchett and I gotta say she was worth the money from the second she hits the screen. But somewhere along the way you just forget about all that crap and find yourself just enjoying the bloody flick. The first scene that I found myself really carried away with laughter was the bar fight. After that the flick just flows smoothly. The ending is trademark Spielberg by the way.  Τα παιδεία παίζει. |
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Just got back from seeing "Indiana Jones" and am now having a Budweiser.
I had the pleasure of seeing the movie in a brand new theater that just opened last Sunday. The place is located inside a mall, and used to be an AMC, but switched to Regal and they completely rebuilt it, took over a year. It is an extremely nice place. Kudos to the person who came up with the actual "Skull" prop. It is an absolutely pretty thing to see in the movie. I hope someone makes a replica for it. I would love to have one on my bookshelf. Absolutely neat looking. |
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Unfortunately, I barely know any of the names of the actors/actresses. It had Muriel from Muriel's Wedding. And Giovanni Ribisi, I think? And I'm pretty sure Brittany Murphy actually played the part of the dead girl, looking terrifyingly like Courtney Love in dress and action. Saw it reviewed on Ebert & Rope-a-dope last year and added it from there. I think it is an independent American film? Beyond that, you'll have to surf IMDB. :-/ I guess the most impressive thing was how the story of the dead girl unfolded out from between all of these little semi-related vignette stories that they strung together. |
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wenders got into a lot of trouble with Until the End of the World and it was butchered into its current non-sensical cut. The six hour version takes place in three, two hour acts. Act one explaines what happened before Claire wakes up in Venice (her relationship with Gene the writer and his unfaithfulness to her with the Japanese woman who appears briefly on the videophone). Act two: the global chase for the camera. Act three: Australia and the disease of images. This version makes far more sense and it is only screened on special occasions. There were rumors about a Japanese laser disc release but nothing happened. I think this film has a lot of similarites to PR. It has the clever twist that it was made in 1989 but set in 1999 (I don't think people would know that seeing it today). I wasn't surprised to see it mentioned on these boards. |
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Watched Indy do a lot of cool and a few funny things. It was good but not funny enough, not moving enough, not engaging enough. The big jungle chase was (IMHO) so long that it started being boring. I even looked at my watch, which is never a good sign.
However it is an adequate sequel in the series, weaving well 1957's spirit with the pulp excess, comicbook evil soviets and suitable mayhem, destruction and imaginative landscaping. And how time passes for all, though clearly the Holy Grail still gives unearthly endurance. Cate Blanchett is the best, Ford sometimes seems out of it, but when he has lines or close ups plays them well, the rest just have fun playing wooden stereotypes. I tend to like movies where the cast seems to have a good time making them. Retired |
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First series of LEXX.
No guest stars in the first episode (the pilot). Second one guest stars Tim Curry. Third one stars Rutger Hauer. Awesomeness - two of my absolute fave/legendary B-movie stars. Fired up the third, wondering how they'd complete the trilogy, and couldn't believe it when the opening credits said 'Malcolm McDowell'. Could not be more perfect! ________________________ "you are powerless against that to which you are oblivious" - Splitcoil |
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The new Indiana Jones movie is a worthy addition to the series.
I love it. _____________________________ Albert's path is a strange and difficult one. |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
I give it a Black Jacque "Meh" rating. It is a high-budget Hollywood, primo quality film with primo film quality and star power. This will not disappoint anyone. You will have to see this movie on the big screen to apprciate it. A viewing on your TV will suffer horribly. (Unless you have a home theater of awesome magnitude.) However, I think the movie lacked the critical "Indy-ness" of previous films in the series. ( It is *not* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).) For example, the only time I belly-laughed was the 'reverse blowgun gag'. This was classic Indiana Jones. These gags were few and far between. None of the 'Oh shit' scenes really affected me. It may be I've become jaded, but its likely times have changed and Indy and Marion should fade into the film history like Charlie and Rose. Their time has passed. The paving of the way for the "Young Indiana Jones Yet Again" with LaBeouf was distasteful. Kudos to Blanchett. She made the movie for me. Ford phoned it in. That part is like an old pair of shoes for him, very comfortable and well known. Allen looks like somebodies Mom. Nobody writes about Hurt. He had a small part, but next to Blanchett was the best screen presence. ____________________________________________________ Armageddon was yesterday – today is just a serious problem. |
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I liked the new Indy. Only minor spoilers follow--
Certainly, some of the details don't bear scrutiny. But they never have. The sand-lock thing on the temple? Okay fine, bullshit. But how about all the traps in the first 10 minutes of Raiders? Those ancient dead guys had AWESOME sensor technology. Those kinds of details have never borne much scrutiny in the Indy movies. They're not supposed to. Many people are saying that Ford phoned it in. I don't think so at all. What I saw was Ford doing an awesome job playing the kind of character we don't see much of on the big screen. This isn't Indy one or two steps removed from the last time we saw him. This is Indy after a lifelong action hero career. Several steps down the line from where we last saw him. It was a very good portrayal of Indy the FAG. As in Former Action Guy. Does he seem relaxed and detached, much more so than ever before? Of course he would, given his age and everything he's been through before. Think of his extremely mild admonitions to Mutt, telling him to stop trying to convince everyone he's so tough all the time. Think of how much cooler tempered he is now than in the other movies. That's not the actor being lazy, that's the character having been through more than we can imagine and just not giving enough of a rat's ass to get excited about as much anymore. Does Marian come across like a badass action heroine? No. She comes across as a fairly seasoned old lady. Which is what she is. I think it was well done. It's also much more of an ensemble picture than the others were. We spend a lot more time listening to the villain, and to the secondary heroes. That was the part I didn't like. With more camera time devoted to other characters, you lost those moments between Indy and the camera, where you see his frustration, wonder, or the gears turning in his head. I didn't realize how precious those moments were in the earlier flicks until they took them away in this one. Another downside was the greater emphasis on chase and action sequences, with a resulting lack of space for more traditional Indiana Jones puzzle solving. The puzzles that came along always seemed to be solved too quickly, too directly. But overall, I liked it a lot. - - - - - Maybe when I die I won't die escaping I'll die returning to the fold. |
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Would Indy's hat be considered a fedora, Split?
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Indy's hat is a fedora.
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I missed the Indy facial reactions as well, not enough of them here, though the one at the beginning after the ride with the Russian was good, but not as good as right before the tank went over the cliff in Last Crusade. The only thing I missed about Indy's younger days was his more caustic cynicism which I felt was lightened too much. |
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They are, yes. There's been a little variation in the hat over the series, but they're all very similar fedoras. Generally of a type that was more popular in the '30s-- slightly tall crown with a rude bash and a good, wide brim. - - - - - Maybe when I die I won't die escaping I'll die returning to the fold. |
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Overall, I too liked the new Indy film. It's not awe-inspiring or anything but there were plenty of laughs and plenty of scenes that were just good popcorn-chomping fun. Don't go expecting their shenanigans to make sense or anything, it's a good action romp.
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Watched Failure to Launch which depressed me. As someone who still lives with his parents well past the age where that's supposed to happen it felt like a lot of punchline at my expense. Doesn't help that I don't have teh looks, money or charisma of Matthew McConnaughey's character.
He lives at home by choice, while I can't afford to move out and make a car payment. Sad stuff. ------------------------------------------ Looking to escape reality at every turn. |
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