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darkshade 
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 Posted: July 30 2007 at 19:45 |
my prediction - Movie makers are gonna make a comeback within the next 5 years, as there will be variety of people who want to make really good movies so that they can be called art again.
btw, i see the same thing happening with music as well, but thats for another forum  |
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Shwang_Shwinga
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:12 |
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I'm happy as long as Kevin Smith and David Fincher keep making movies.
I always thought college humor and those Scary Movie spoofs to be dreadfully moronic and probably the root of why America is getting dumber and less articulate. Solution? Prog for all! We need more of those gritty 90's movies like Fight Club, American History X, Snatch [which was 2000 but we'll let it slide], American Beauty, and The Big Lebowski. Some good recent films are like Crank and Unknown.
As far as overrated, LOTR and Harry Potter are two huge franchises that are a whole lot of nothing to me. Also, Napoleon Dynamite is a boring and uninspired piece of garbage, just more proof that people can become something by doing nothing [cough cough Paris Hilton]....imo.
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1800iareyay
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:17 |
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I think that Harry Potter is just now getting to be good cinema (Starting with Goblet of Fire), but (massive LOTR fan that I am), I'm gonna have to disagree with your stance on the Rings. For me, The Matrix was always overrated. I do believe it's one of teh best action films ever, but it isn't a masterpiece of art and action like so many say. The plot gets downright silly and the sequels are atrocious
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:23 |
 Shwang_Shwinga wrote:
I'm happy as long as Kevin Smith and David Fincher keep making movies.
I always thought college humor and those Scary Movie spoofs to be dreadfully moronic and probably the root of why America is getting dumber and less articulate. Solution? Prog for all! We need more of those gritty 90's movies like Fight Club, American History X, Snatch [which was 2000 but we'll let it slide], American Beauty, and The Big Lebowski. Some good recent films are like Crank and Unknown.
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A fellow Fincher fan!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shwang_Shwinga
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:24 |
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I think the original Matrix is very well done, but I'll meet you halfway with the sequels, they're not anything when put up to the first.
I would like to see some of the films up and coming in the next few months, maybe things are taking a turn. Such as "I Am Legend," I thought perhaps that looked interesting.
Oh, and also, Ocean's Thirteen was astounding, much better than Twelve.
And Progtologist....I have always been quite fond of you, but your cool points have increased by several dozen with that single post.
Edited by Shwang_Shwinga - July 30 2007 at 21:25
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thellama73
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:25 |
Atavachron wrote:
Night of the Hunter is chilling, and beautifully photographed
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Night of the Hunter is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few of them.
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Figglesnout
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:35 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
Shwang_Shwinga wrote:
I'm happy as long as Kevin Smith and David Fincher keep making movies.I always thought college humor and those Scary Movie spoofs to be dreadfully moronic and probably the root of why America is getting dumber and less articulate. Solution? Prog for all! We need more of those gritty 90's movies like Fight Club, American History X, Snatch [which was 2000 but we'll let it slide], American Beauty, and The Big Lebowski. Some good recent films are like Crank and Unknown. |
A fellow Fincher fan!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I like Fincher's films a lot as well.
I think the recent three HP movies have been trash, although the first three were "eh".
Batman Begins is trash to me...horribly directed in my opinion (although I do enjoy Bale as Batman)...
I also hate 300, Apocalypto, and stupid, uninspired and overproduced "epic" movies in this vein (although I thought the three LOTR movies were pretty good--Peter Jackson at least knows how to direct a battle sequence without throwing the camera like a football, hoping to capture inspiration on film).
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1800iareyay
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:44 |
Shwang_Shwinga wrote:
Oh, and also, Ocean's Thirteen was astounding, much better than Twelve. |
Couldn't agree more, plus it's the first really enjoyable performance Pacino has given in a while.
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And Progtologist....I have always been quite fond of you, but your cool points have increased by several dozen with that single post. |
That was unwise son, he has a lightsaber.
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activetopics
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:45 |
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forgot to mention harry potter
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:57 |
I know college humor has been stated but I cannot underscore how much I loathe American Pie 
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Shwang_Shwinga
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 21:59 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
I know college humor has been stated but I cannot underscore how much I loathe American Pie |
QFT worst series ever.
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:02 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
I know college humor has been stated but I cannot underscore how much I loathe American Pie |
Yeah I can't stand that stuff. For example, I found (surprisingly) critically acclaimed movies like the 40 Year Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers annoying, trite, and just not very funny.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:05 |
40 year old Virgin was bleeeeeegh
and nice thread Jon
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:07 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
40 year old Virgin was bleeeeeegh
and nice thread Jon |
I agree. Except you're stealing my word 
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<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:10 |
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college films/humor used to be good, the originals; Animal House, Caddyshack, Revenge of the Nerds, Stripes, Meatballs, all good
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:11 |
Atavachron wrote:
college films/humor used to be good, the originals; Animal House, Caddyshack, Revenge of the Nerds, Stripes, Meatballs, all good
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I am not really into screwball comedies but cut my teeth on those movies growing up.
The newer comedic stuff is just lacking something
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:12 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
college films/humor used to be good, the originals; Animal House, Caddyshack, Revenge of the Nerds, Stripes, Meatballs, all good
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I am not really into screwball comedies but cut my teeth on those movies growing up.
The newer comedic stuff is just lacking something |
I believe the word is "humor"
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BaldFriede
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:13 |
Shwang_Shwinga wrote:
I think the original Matrix is very well done, but I'll meet you halfway with the sequels, they're not anything when put up to the first.
I would like to see some of the films up and coming in the next few months, maybe things are taking a turn. Such as "I Am Legend," I thought perhaps that looked interesting.
Oh, and also, Ocean's Thirteen was astounding, much better than Twelve.
And Progtologist....I have always been quite fond of you, but your cool points have increased by several dozen with that single post.
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"Matrix" is nothing but an effect-laden spectacle; the story is really thin. Rainer Werner Fassbinder made a movie based on the same idea about 30 years earlier ("Welt am Draht") which is a hundred times better. Without all that action, of course.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:14 |
Or "humour". 
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 22:16 |
Geck0 wrote:
Or "humour". |
God love them Brits 
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