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« Reply #675 on: June 20, 2011, 11:22:03 PM »

Of course!  I subscribe to the idea that there's only one movie trilogy that can be mentioned in this manner (and it ain't LotR [which had it's good points and Return of the King did deserve that best picture oscar] or Godfather).  That said, there's only one book trilogy worthy of being called "the Trilogy" and it ain't any of the Star Wars (or Godfather).


Oh there is a great bit about that "trilogy", but I fear it would stretch the bounds propriety here. *sigh*

Would it happen to be Kevin Smith's?  If so, LOL just at the memory, but yes, probably not appropriate to this forum.

No. probably not!  There's only one Return and it's not of the King.  It's of the Jedi.

edit - By the way, Book Trilogies are for the weak.  I refer you to Captain Richard Sharpe.  (I know, all of you with class will remind me that by Waterloo he made it to Lieutenant Colonel but my favorite books were back when he was a Captain.)
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« Reply #676 on: June 20, 2011, 11:27:02 PM »

Any good?

Are you really seriously asking?  The answer, in short, is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I have to watch it. Ive made such a fuss already

You did well.  Watch it and keep the Fast Forward button handy.  Acting - poor.  Plot - poorer.  By poor I mean as poor as a widow who spent her last two mites then bought an Escalade taking a loan from the Mafia.  The world being destroyed bits...not bad.  I bet if you are liberal with the FF button you can make it into a 45 minute movie.  A decent 45 minute movie, but 45 minutes nonetheless. 

BTW, if the world does end in 2012, I blame John Cusack. 
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« Reply #677 on: June 20, 2011, 11:30:20 PM »

I've been super bored at home, so movies I have watched recently:

Children of Men
Fight Club
Body of Lies
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
The Young Victoria
2012 (hush now, the special effects made it bearable)
Public Enemies
Idiocracy
The Island (not the Orthodox one, but the one directed by Michael Bay)

I also completed series 2 of Primeval and watched part 1 of a British miniseries called The Outcasts. Spending my time wisely, as you all can see...
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« Reply #678 on: June 21, 2011, 01:20:17 AM »

I've been super bored at home, so movies I have watched recently:

Children of Men
Fight Club
Body of Lies
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
The Young Victoria
2012 (hush now, the special effects made it bearable)
Public Enemies
Idiocracy
The Island (not the Orthodox one, but the one directed by Michael Bay)

I also completed series 2 of Primeval and watched part 1 of a British miniseries called The Outcasts. Spending my time wisely, as you all can see...

Shh!  Don't talk about fight club!
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« Reply #679 on: June 21, 2011, 02:20:13 AM »

Just watched Elizabeth - The Golden Age. Pretty costumes and scenes, but I didn't care about the story at all.
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« Reply #680 on: June 21, 2011, 02:54:56 AM »

Children of Men is a remarkable film.
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« Reply #681 on: June 21, 2011, 11:18:37 AM »

Just watched Elizabeth - The Golden Age. Pretty costumes and scenes, but I didn't care about the story at all.

That's how I felt about Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst. Beautiful for the eyes but grating on the mind.
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« Reply #682 on: June 21, 2011, 11:58:20 AM »

Just watched Elizabeth - The Golden Age. Pretty costumes and scenes, but I didn't care about the story at all.

I agree.  I found the first Elizabeth to have a much better story line. 
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« Reply #683 on: June 22, 2011, 07:24:25 PM »

The last one I watched was X-Men: First Class... Cheesy Liked Wolverine's cameo. Had a differente interpretation for Mystique's appearance issue than probably intended.
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« Reply #684 on: June 22, 2011, 08:04:43 PM »

Greetings in that Divine and Most Precious Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

I just watched No Country For Old Men, which while seemingly not the best choice during Fasting season, actually turned out to be quite edifying.

It seems to me that this film has a good moral, that some of the aspects of our lives like our careers, our major decisions, our ambitions, are not necessarily based upon the material gain or the surface view, rather we often do what we do out of the "thrill of the chase"

In this film the drug and gun runners didn't seem to be doing what they did for the money, rather for the power, for the thrill, for the sheer experience of it, as surely there could be enough money or guns and yet these folks continue on with it.

Anton is a hitman not for the money, not for the drugs, not even for the power or the status, but rather because he seems to get a perverse thrill from it, a sense of determination and accomplishment.  He even makes this point when asking Carson (woody's character), "If the rule you followed lead you to this, what was the point of that rule?" before he killed him..

The Sherriff (Tommy Lee Jones) was not necessarily doing what he did out of a sense of justice or stopping the bad guys, as surely he had arrested and stopped enough to be satisfied, and yet in his attempt at retirement he was too anxious just to enjoy breakfast, rather the thrill of the chase still beckoned him.

Llewellyn Moss was not in it for the money, as several times he had the money and could have walked away, or even just abandoned the money.  The trouble really started for him not with the money, but with having gone back to give water to that dying drug dealer..

All the drama was not a result of the circumstances or the reality of the situations, rather as a result of the characters reactions, interpretations, decisions made afterward.

The conclusion where Anton goes to kill Llewellyn's wife explains it also, when he flips the coin and says, "Its the best I can do" and the wife responds saying," Its not the coin, its you, it was always you."

This is the truth.  We do not chase our dreams, make our livings, search out our ambitions because of the material rewards or the mental satisfaction of the accomplishment, rather like Anton or the Sheriff or the dealers or Llewellyn, we seem to operate more so out of the mechanism of having already been involved, of the thrill of being in the chase, of simply acting out the events to their conclusion.. We do what we do not because of principle or material gain, rather because we seem to have nothing else in life to do but to follow our opportunities be they what they are.

In this film, the opportunities were negative, but the reality was the same.  The Characters did not act because they had too, but because even if subconsciously they wanted to, to be involved with that never ending chase, just as the Sun always sets to rise again a new day.

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« Reply #685 on: June 25, 2011, 12:13:41 AM »

Greetings in that Divine and Most Precious Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

I just watched No Country For Old Men, which while seemingly not the best choice during Fasting season, actually turned out to be quite edifying.

It seems to me that this film has a good moral, that some of the aspects of our lives like our careers, our major decisions, our ambitions, are not necessarily based upon the material gain or the surface view, rather we often do what we do out of the "thrill of the chase"

In this film the drug and gun runners didn't seem to be doing what they did for the money, rather for the power, for the thrill, for the sheer experience of it, as surely there could be enough money or guns and yet these folks continue on with it.

Anton is a hitman not for the money, not for the drugs, not even for the power or the status, but rather because he seems to get a perverse thrill from it, a sense of determination and accomplishment.  He even makes this point when asking Carson (woody's character), "If the rule you followed lead you to this, what was the point of that rule?" before he killed him..

The Sherriff (Tommy Lee Jones) was not necessarily doing what he did out of a sense of justice or stopping the bad guys, as surely he had arrested and stopped enough to be satisfied, and yet in his attempt at retirement he was too anxious just to enjoy breakfast, rather the thrill of the chase still beckoned him.

Llewellyn Moss was not in it for the money, as several times he had the money and could have walked away, or even just abandoned the money.  The trouble really started for him not with the money, but with having gone back to give water to that dying drug dealer..

All the drama was not a result of the circumstances or the reality of the situations, rather as a result of the characters reactions, interpretations, decisions made afterward.

The conclusion where Anton goes to kill Llewellyn's wife explains it also, when he flips the coin and says, "Its the best I can do" and the wife responds saying," Its not the coin, its you, it was always you."

This is the truth.  We do not chase our dreams, make our livings, search out our ambitions because of the material rewards or the mental satisfaction of the accomplishment, rather like Anton or the Sheriff or the dealers or Llewellyn, we seem to operate more so out of the mechanism of having already been involved, of the thrill of being in the chase, of simply acting out the events to their conclusion.. We do what we do not because of principle or material gain, rather because we seem to have nothing else in life to do but to follow our opportunities be they what they are.

In this film, the opportunities were negative, but the reality was the same.  The Characters did not act because they had too, but because even if subconsciously they wanted to, to be involved with that never ending chase, just as the Sun always sets to rise again a new day.

stay blessed,
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« Reply #686 on: June 25, 2011, 01:02:26 AM »

Rewatched The Departed with Spanish subtitles. Definitely not as good the second time around.
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« Reply #687 on: June 25, 2011, 04:23:34 AM »

No movie is as good the 2nd time round. EVEN Pulp Fiction and i love that one
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« Reply #688 on: June 26, 2011, 06:01:20 PM »

No movie is as good the 2nd time round. EVEN Pulp Fiction and i love that one
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I find that Inception and Napoleon Dynamite both improved upon the second viewing (albeit in very different ways).
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« Reply #689 on: June 27, 2011, 12:31:18 AM »

Didn't like the Big Lebowski until about the fifth time I saw it. Now it is one of my faves.

Why did I watch a film I didn't like five times? That is a story unto itself.
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« Reply #690 on: June 30, 2011, 10:19:58 AM »

Didn't like the Big Lebowski until about the fifth time I saw it. Now it is one of my faves.

Why did I watch a film I didn't like five times? That is a story unto itself.
I'd kind of like to hear it. I'm curious as to why it would take that long. That was a good movie.
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« Reply #691 on: June 30, 2011, 10:50:11 AM »

Most personally current released movies seen: The Conspirator: an interpretation of the fate of Mary Surrat in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (good movie, will have to verify with history eventually but will always probably view flick as good) & Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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« Reply #692 on: June 30, 2011, 01:24:41 PM »

I watched 9th Company a few weeks ago.  It is a Russian movie about the Afghan War.  Not bad.  Not bad at all.  I thought it was very reminiscent of Full Metal Jacket.
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« Reply #693 on: June 30, 2011, 01:37:34 PM »

I saw the Objective last weekend. CIA + Afghanistan + Aliens. It was tolerable until the ending, which I felt was so open ended for the sake of being artsy. Dang IFC hipsters.
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« Reply #694 on: July 02, 2011, 10:43:55 AM »

Tree of Life
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« Reply #695 on: July 03, 2011, 01:01:37 AM »

Tree of Life


Really?! Is it finally out ? Please tell us how you liked it. I've been waiting a long time for this one.


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« Reply #696 on: July 03, 2011, 04:13:57 AM »

Tree of Life


Really?! Is it finally out ? Please tell us how you liked it. I've been waiting a long time for this one.


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visually it is beautiful, thought provoking , just a little too cut and paste for me. I loved the simplicity  and color of the 50's, a loving father trying his best and still getting it wrong compared to the angst, emptiness and sterility of the modern life.
The creation/evolution scene was amazing and it made me PERSONALLY believe that there is no way there is not a creator or plan behind our existence, it is not chance (others will differ in their interpretation)  Oh and the acting is very good, you forget it is THE Brad Pitt. Smiley
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« Reply #697 on: July 04, 2011, 01:39:01 AM »

Children of Men is a remarkable film.

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« Reply #698 on: July 04, 2011, 04:42:49 AM »

Black Beauty, such a good film.  Smiley

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« Reply #699 on: July 12, 2011, 10:39:14 PM »

I saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Ennio Morricone made such a good score for that film.
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« Reply #700 on: July 12, 2011, 10:47:26 PM »

Nobody went to the midnight screening of the final Harry Potter??
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« Reply #701 on: July 12, 2011, 11:16:29 PM »

Watched Mao's Last Dancer last night. I really like liked it. A great (and true) story, and I was captivated by the incredible dancing. And I am by no means an afficianado of the ballet.


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« Reply #702 on: July 12, 2011, 11:31:52 PM »

Recent films courtesy of Netflix (BTW, anyone else heard about their plan to jack up the rates? I'm not happy about it!):

127 Hours with James Franco. 
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« Reply #703 on: July 13, 2011, 12:15:12 AM »

Recent films courtesy of Netflix (BTW, anyone else heard about their plan to jack up the rates? I'm not happy about it!):

127 Hours with James Franco. 
Dinner for Schmucks with Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Zach Galifinakis

Did Dinner for Schmucks make you feel like a schmuck for having watched, as it did for me?
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« Reply #704 on: July 13, 2011, 12:58:44 AM »

Nobody went to the midnight screening of the final Harry Potter??

It's OUT?!
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« Reply #705 on: July 13, 2011, 01:16:07 AM »

Nobody went to the midnight screening of the final Harry Potter??

It's OUT?!

The theaters here in Jackson, MS are showing Harry Potter marathons. But of course, no Tree of Life.   Roll Eyes


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« Reply #706 on: July 13, 2011, 01:17:39 AM »

I saw 127 Hours the other night. A remarkable story, but an unremarkable movie.


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« Reply #707 on: July 13, 2011, 10:54:21 AM »

The most recent movie I've watched was an independent film called Diary of a City Priest. It was quite good. It shows a somewhat gritty view of the job of a Catholic priest in a rough inner city area of Philadelphia. David Morse plays the priest Fr. John McNamee and shows his struggles to try and serve everyone. It shows how much is demanded of him. People come to him at night asking for food, shoes, and help with their other problems not to mention all that is demanded by the people of his parish. It was hard for him to even sit down to eat dinner without interruption. It is a great story of self denial and sacrifice and how much this regular priest is responsible for. Honestly, to be a priest must require the patience of a rock, especially with Fr. John in the film.

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« Reply #709 on: July 13, 2011, 01:17:36 PM »

Watched a ton of movies lately. Here's what I can remember:

Black Swan

The Tree of Life

The Queen

Waiting for Superman

Black Death

Battle: Los Angeles
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Horrible Bosses

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« Reply #710 on: July 13, 2011, 04:12:15 PM »

Nobody went to the midnight screening of the final Harry Potter??

I'm looking forward to seeing HP7 - Part 2 on Friday at 10am.  I loved the series, but am not fanatical enough to go to a midnight showing.  For the last 7 the theatre was pretty empty at the 10am showing, and I could enjoy the movie in peace. I guess this proves I'm an old fogey... Grin 
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« Reply #711 on: July 13, 2011, 04:16:19 PM »


The Queen
How did you like it?
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« Reply #712 on: July 13, 2011, 04:58:05 PM »


Battle: Los Angeles[/i] (absolutely horrible)


Agreed. Have you seen Skyline? It's practically the same movie.
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« Reply #713 on: July 13, 2011, 07:32:41 PM »


Great acting, but a little too British in terms of the boorish drama. It's a one-time watch for sure.
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« Reply #714 on: July 13, 2011, 07:58:34 PM »

Black Beauty, such a good film.  Smiley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrdBatcz1c

Good book, too.
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« Reply #715 on: July 14, 2011, 12:12:18 AM »

Watched a ton of movies lately. Here's what I can remember:

Black Swan

The Tree of Life

The Queen

Waiting for Superman

Black Death

Battle: Los Angeles
(absolutely horrible)

Horrible Bosses

Just Go With It




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« Reply #716 on: July 14, 2011, 12:12:20 AM »


Very much so, first book I ever read.
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« Reply #717 on: July 14, 2011, 01:38:14 AM »

Took my sons to see Buck earlier tonight. What a wonderful and inspiring documentary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCMm5uoZtXw


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« Reply #718 on: July 16, 2011, 07:31:04 AM »

Just came back from seeing Mozart's sister, it was ok.

Saw Bridesmaids last week, loved it.

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« Reply #719 on: July 16, 2011, 10:20:24 AM »

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