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activetopics 
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 01:25 |
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Eurotrip, Grandma's Boy, Joe Dirt. I hate college humor, though. Somehow, people find them tolerable...I, personally, find the entire sub-genre repulsive and tasteless.  
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 01:36 |
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let's see... Wayne's World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gone With the Wind, Dr. Zhivago, Rocky Horror
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The Whistler
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 01:41 |
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I never saw what the big deal with The Sting or Close Encounters was. One was a decent gangster comedy, and the other a dull, pretentious, and OVERLONG, piece of unimaginitive scifi.
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:23 |
I didn't know those movies were rated at all.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sucked. That's all I can think of at the moment.
Please post in the right forum.
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:24 |
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Crouching Tiger was spectacular, sorry
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The Whistler
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:25 |
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Yeah, that Hidden Tiger thing sucked. WAY boring; like a three hour soap opera in another language. Give me some classic Shaw Bros. junk any day.
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:29 |
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The Whistler
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:31 |
Hey, look, if you wanna have an intelligent kung fu movie, you need Toshiro Mifune. And even the mighty Toshiro couldn't always do it alone (having Kurosawa around was always helpful). That and Jet Li's Hero, that was pretty good.
Artywfnoid, do you consider yourself a fan of the martial arts genre?
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martinprog77
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:31 |
titanic 
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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:36 |
 The Whistler wrote:
Hey, look, if you wanna have an intelligent kung fu movie, you need Toshiro Mifune. And even the mighty Toshiro couldn't always do it alone (having Kurosawa around was always helpful). That and Jet Li's Hero, that was pretty good.
Artywfnoid, do you consider yourself a fan of the martial arts genre? |
yeah Whist, I teach. But Mifune is the man, it's true, and Jet kicks butt. I even like some Shaw Bros.
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The Whistler
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:39 |
Atavachron wrote:
The Whistler wrote:
Hey, look, if you wanna have an intelligent kung fu movie, you need Toshiro Mifune. And even the mighty Toshiro couldn't always do it alone (having Kurosawa around was always helpful). That and Jet Li's Hero, that was pretty good.
Artywfnoid, do you consider yourself a fan of the martial arts genre? |
yeah Whist, I teach. But Mifune is the man, it's true, and Jet kicks butt. I even like some Shaw Bros.
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Cool! I bought a kendo stick and some books, but all I succeeded in doing was copying some moves from Mortal Kombat Armagedon.
As for films, I like mostly the bad seventies ones, the more ninjas the better. I represent the dark side of the martial arts fan. I'm sorry...
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 03:42 |
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that's OK... we use to have a show called 'Kung FU Theater' on late Saturday nights that would show the worst of the 70s stuff... loved it.
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Kotro
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 05:19 |
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Overated by whom? As long as I can remember that movie was dubbed crap. Unless you are refering to the sh*tload of Oscars it won, we all know that doesn't count. On that note:
LORD OF THE RINGS SUCKED. And I'm a Peter Jackson fan... 
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Rocktopus
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 05:43 |
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Although college humor/movies sucks, its never been overrated. These are really overrated:
Life Is Beautiful (Benigni)
Magnolia (P.T Anderson)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
The Royal Tenebaums (Wes Anderson)
The Double Life of Veronique & Blue (Kieslovski)
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In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
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Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 05:52 |
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Jerry Maguire for one. Dreadful movie. Not a huge Forrest Gump fan either. I thought Shawshank Redemption should've won Best Picture that year. Now THAT'S a movie.
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Time Signature
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 06:24 |
Pirates of the Caribbean II sucked. The effects were good and so was Depp's performance, but the story was unconvincing and Bloom's and Knightley's so-called acting was more wooden than a city of wooden houses.
Matrix II and III were just terrible. Why do they all talk like they're suffering from laryngitis in those movies? Again, the effects were okay, but the way the movies were edited was really ineffective and ended up making them mindnumbingly uninteresting to watch. A shame because the first one was pretty good.
The recent King Kong is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, along with Troy. Those movies are just plain stupid in every sense - well, Jack Black performs pretty well in King Kong but that's about it.
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 06:34 |
Time Signature wrote:
Pirates of the Caribbean II sucked. The effects were good and so was Depp's performance, but the story was unconvincing and Bloom's and Knightley's so-called acting was more wooden than a city of wooden houses.
Matrix II and III were just terrible. Why do they all talk like they're suffering from laryngitis in those movies? Again, the effects were okay, but the way the movies were edited was really ineffective and ended up making them mindnumbingly uninteresting to watch. A shame because the first one was pretty good.
The recent King Kong is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, along with Troy. Those movies are just plain stupid in every sense - well, Jack Black performs pretty well in King Kong but that's about it. |
Agreed. I thought King Kong was pretty bad, too. E
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salmacis
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 06:58 |
I have to be honest, 'Crouching Tiger...', 'Hero' and 'House Of Flying Daggers', although visually impressive, didn't really do it for me as much as I was hoping, I found them to be flashy but with little substance/soul. I haven't watched them in a few years so maybe I've changed my mind. However, Jet Li's 'Fearless' I found to be much more to my liking- it had genuine heart and soul, and probably Jet Li's best performance ever. And it came out to little fanfare in comparison to those other movies I mentioned.
I was into the 'old school' Kung Fu movies more than the newer ones,anyway, but I increasingly find myself bored by most of them (not to mention 95% of them are utterly woeful); I think it's something I grew out of. However, some of them I still enjoy.
I only ever saw the 2nd Pirates Of The Caribbean movie and it's not an experience I want to repeat; bloated, boring and not as funny/entertaining as it thinks it is, imho.
I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than watch those college humour/date movies but as has been said, I don't know that anyone rated them highly anyway.
Edited by salmacis - July 30 2007 at 07:00
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 07:14 |
Harry Potters – what a waste of a few hundred million (despite the gross revenue…)
All spoof movies like Scary Movie
Glorified American war movies
Edited by Australian - July 30 2007 at 07:15
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andu
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 07:18 |
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Matrix was a major disappointment for me. It teaches the lesson of how to do little with a lot of great ideas.
Titanic was indeed sentimental crap but I wouldn't call it overrated... just sold well.
Never had anything special for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. If I want something with Asian feel, I always go for a Miyazaki anime, for example. I do like Ang Lee however, I loved his Brokeback Mountain.
Also I agree on all Rocktopus' mentions.
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