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He's canadian? Well, there you go....

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Originally posted by ShankS
think the only one in that list, I've seen is attack Of The Clones and In the Mouth of Madness, and thats 11 years ago.

virgin suicides is supposed to be a decent film ...
havent seen it though ... soundtrack by Air.

he probably doesnt have a speaking part .. maybe he's the paperboy again :P

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Originally posted by Vodstok
He's canadian? Well, there you go....

lol, having a dig at old maple leaf are we :p :D ;)

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Originally posted by urgeok
virgin suicides is supposed to be a decent film ...
havent seen it though ... soundtrack by Air.

he probably doesnt have a speaking part .. maybe he's the paperboy again :P

I bet he fucks it up and overacts...

Hey, hate him as much as you want, he is still a better actor than jake lloyd, and more likeable than jar-jar.

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so how the hell did Lucas decide, he was the man for the part :confused:

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so how the hell did Lucas decide, he was the man for the part :confused:

lucas doesnt give a tiny shit about anything other then the special effects. he made that apparent time and time again.

i think Lucas is a complete fucknut personally

I have just seen Ae Fond Kiss (2004) by Kenneth Loache in the cinema 8 /10

Cesar Award winner for Best European Movie.

i just watched revenge if the sith i think lucas lost the star wars affect the original are much better.

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Originally posted by zwoti
a bridge too far

i remember that one !

it was about a guy who had an extremely difficult dental procedure performed on him ..

lots of gore and blood.,

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Originally posted by urgeok

and Christiensen ... he's just a pitiful actor .. that's all there is to that.

Actually, he was surprisingly good in Life as a House and Shattered Glass. Much better than he is in Attack of the Clones; I don't think anyone could pull off some of that dialogue without sounding pitiful.

Below was the last movie I watched.

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Originally posted by jenna26
Actually, he was surprisingly good in Life as a House and Shattered Glass. Much better than he is in Attack of the Clones; I don't think anyone could pull off some of that dialogue without sounding pitiful.

Below was the last movie I watched.

below what ?

:D

until just now i thought you were going to put your 'last seen movie' at the bottom of your post and forgot to do it.

Below was an odd film ... for such a low budget they really tried to strive for authenticity re. the sub and it's operation .. they spent a lot of time on it ..
I guess thats cool but it came off to me like .. we rented this thing now we're going to get every penny's worth out of it.

i guess it was an ok movie ...

Mighty Ducks 2

I dunno why. Maybe cuz its so GREAT.

Watching "Haute Tension" on the computer as I type. I've heard so much about this one and I've had it for quite some time but didn't watch it because its in french. But I figured WTF, it ain't gonna need much dialog anyway and its going to be cut to an "R" rating when its released here in the states.
So far pretty good....fucking brutal.This guy likes to get head.

Nightmare On elm street 3.

Doing some studying on some horror so ill be ready for my horror that i will create.

P.S.it will be the scariest/goriest movie of all time.

Spawn - the animated series.

The first half of the 1st spawn series.

not too bad .. the voices are annoying me a bit.

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Originally posted by urgeok
Spawn - the animated series.

The first half of the 1st spawn series.

not too bad .. the voices are annoying me a bit.

HAd to be better than the movie....

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HAd to be better than the movie....

DAMN YOU VOD AND YOUR INSIPID HATRED FOR MY MOVIE.

http://home.bellsouth.net/coDataImag...3678clown1.jpg

he was the only thing good about the movie ..

what was that line ....

every time a clown farts a demon is born ..

'fart' 'fart'

'Twins !!'

Hey, at least it isnt the "worst movie, EVER". That title goes to Dungeons and Dragons...

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Originally posted by Vodstok
Hey, at least it isnt the "worst movie, EVER". That title goes to Dungeons and Dragons...

The Village was far worse than D & D

I beg to differ. It was bad, real bad, but D&D did not have a single redeaming feature. Not being from M Night Shymalan is its only saving grace.

The village at least had some moments that would have stayed a little spooky had the movie ended differently.

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Originally posted by Vodstok
I beg to differ. It was bad, real bad, but D&D did not have a single redeaming feature. Not being from M Night Shymalan is its only saving grace.

The village at least had some moments that would have stayed a little spooky had the movie ended differently.

at least D & D had real monsters.

i saw D & D and was unmoved (then again i was never into RPGs so i had no expectations)

i saw the Village and was mad as hell.

I think that has a huge impact on whether its just a bad movie or a piece of shit:

expectations.

I love D&D the game, and have for over half my life. The game has so much potential, and their are some very talented writers making novels and such for it, then they hire some no talent retard hack to come in and write AND direct the movie, and he missed EVERYTHING.

Its like they got a copy of what Peter Jackson was doing with Lord of the Rings and said "We arent going to do ANy of this.)

the Dragons sucked.

the only halfway decent monster in the whole thing was the Beholder, and that had 2 seconds in the movie and was dumber than a bag of wet dog shit. For the record, in the game, they are capable of decimating large groups of people with very little effort. They can disintegrate things for fucks sake.....

The dwarf was tall....

The "Wizard".. Well, they couldnt make up their mind if she was an apprentice or a master wizard...

expectations does mean everything .. but i wasnt basing my expectations on the source material .. juts the competence of the director ..

if you didnt know shit about D & D 1/2 of what you saw wouldnt have bothered you ... this movie hit you on a personal level different from most peoples expectations from a movie..

if a test audience went to both movies - being told one is a fantasy and one is a horror .. i'll bet the village will take a huge beating over D & D

Most likely. Many "cool" people consider themselves horror fans, while fantasy movies are pretty much in the realm of nerds.

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Most likely. Many "cool" people consider themselves horror fans, while fantasy movies are pretty much in the realm of nerds.

hell no - just the RPGers :)

i like fantasy films but they are the most neglected..
it's really hard to find one thats well written enough to maintain the dignity of the cast.

Conan is one of the best ...

I always thought the conan movies were a little brainless, but they are fun, which is basically the point for fantasy films.

I miss the old ones like Krull and Dragonslayer. No one seems to have any real passion for them (except for PJ, that is)

Film companies seem more interested in teeny bopper movies, cheap-ass horror flicks (cheap as in poorly written and executed), the occasional oscar-bound drama, and retarded action movies starring colin ferral

Ooops.. i almost forgot, an endless stream of remakes.

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Originally posted by Vodstok
I always thought the conan movies were a little brainless, but they are fun, which is basically the point for fantasy films.

I miss the old ones like Krull and Dragonslayer. No one seems to have any real passion for them (except for PJ, that is)

Film companies seem more interested in teeny bopper movies, cheap-ass horror flicks (cheap as in poorly written and executed), the occasional oscar-bound drama, and retarded action movies starring colin ferral

Ooops.. i almost forgot, an endless stream of remakes.

still, conan had quality actors ... people who could deliver lines in 'pseudo archaic' without sounding like complete morons.

thats the key to fantasy - as they always use that language and the no name ex-TV actors they normally cast in these films aren't skillful enough to make them work.

fantasy films are like the post apocalypse films that way - bad actors, cheap ass locations (outside in a desert or rocky terrain)
nominal effects ..and atrocious dialogue.

the good ones stand out miles above the rest - and if you take a good look at them it's obvious why..
better acting - a good film score - well written - tighter direction.

the problem is that because of the odd one good o ne ... a bunch of shitty low budget copycat productions immediately start up - pumping out their direct to video garbage with

'...better than Road Warrior' ... Sid Kidneys of the Melonville Weekly.... on the back cover to lend some bullshit credibility

Yeah.. I was reading reviews of D&D on rottentomatoes.com and although there were only a couple of them, the good reviews completely blew me away. How can someone have THAT little taste in films?

Aside form fan boys hating it, what about the fact that it was just a bad movie?

here is a post from the imdb forums... its great :)

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I love this movie. I really do. I saw it during its theatrical run and laughed so hard that I literally started crying at one point; so when it ended up on DVD, I had to own it. During the year-and-a-half that it has been in my DVD library, I've discovered an interesting fact: I...can't...stop...watching it.

Now, why do I enjoy this movie so much and publically piss all over the far superior "Star Wars" prequels? Well, for one thing, I don't have any emotional stock in "D&D." It's a terrible movie with two-dimensional characters, bad writing, horrible direction, and so many cliches that if you tried making it into a drinking game you'd surely die of alcohol poisoning. It's never more than it appears to be: a potato chip movie. Sure, it'll rot the brain--but only if you take it seriously (which, I'm afraid, the creative forces behind it did, much to their undoing).

"Star Wars," however, DOES mean something to me...So when I see one of THOSE films and find it's riddled with two-dimensional characters, bad writing, horrible direction and a multitude of cliches, I have to wonder whether or not we even need "Spaceballs" anymore. Anyway, I expect more of Mr. Lucas...but NOT of Courtney Solomon.

Solomon and his screenwriters sought to create a trilogy here to cash in on the "Star Wars" phenomenon, and because the anticipation for the first installment of LOTR was growing, a fantasy setting seemed an obvious choice. However, the allusions to LOTR are slight (probably because it had yet to roll off the block); but it's a near-perfect copy of Episode I with a few OT moments thrown in. Obviously, after the success of "Phantom Menace," it seemed an easy tomb to rob. The only thing that surprises me is how few critics (or fanboys) have mentioned it.

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1)THE OPENING TEXT CRAWL

Anytime a fantasy/sci-fi movie opens with either a text or voice reading that "sets the stage," we're reminded of "Star Wars," which did it perfectly and without the pretentiousness that its imitators embraced. In "D&D," Bruce Payne supplies the narrative. It's "Star Wars" in every way, right down to the way the last sentence trails off ("But the evil mage Profion has other plans....).

2)THE YOUNG QUEEN

Now, I don't understand why I was the only one with a problem with the concept of Queen Amidala. First of all, in a monarchy, you don't ELECT a queen; and secondly, if you do, you vote for the candidate who ISN"T thirteen years old. Seriously, how do you LOSE an election like that...?

"D&D" aped this completely. She's young. She's idealistic. She's wooden. She wears god-awful dresses and gaudy head-pieces. Hell, if you want to get REALLY nit-picky about it, you could say that Solomon cast Thora Birch because of the strategically-placed moles on her face that suggest Amidala's "red dot" thing.

3)THE OLDER, TRUSTED ADVISOR WHO'S GONE BAD

Instead of Palpatine, we're treated to Profion, the worst role Jeremy Irons ever took (and his equally worst performance). Behind the scenes, Profion is plotting to overthrow the queen (referred to as "the empress" so as not to seem too blatant a rip-off), and is sowing seeds of discord within the council (senate) in order to overthrow her rule. His dirty work, however, is saved for his chief lieutenant...

4)THE DARK WARRIOR

Bruce Payne's character, Damodar, is equal parts Darth Vader and Darth Maul. He's a towering, sadistic, black-clad, slow-moving and unbelievably strong armour-clad warrior (Vader) who also happens to be bald-headed and painted with stupid-ass make-up (Maul, who didn't look stupid-ass at all). If this wasn't enough, listen for the thinly disguised echo of "The Imperial March" when he first appears at the magic school.

5)LUKE/HAN

In Ridley, we have a combination of the Luke and Han characters. He's a scoundrel who cares nothing for the "greater good," but in the end, is willing to turn aside from his love of money (he rejects a pile of easily obtainable gold) in favour of saving the kingdom from the evil Profion. Also we learn that he has latent magical abilities, stemming from his father (this was to be expanded upon in the sequels, when Damodar tells Ridley, "No--I am your father!").

6)JAR-JAR REDUX

Marlon Wayans. Good God, could the allusion be any more transparent. Let's see: he's a tall, gangly African-American stereotype spouting catch-phrases, bungling his way in and out of trouble, and generally getting on our *beep* nerves witrh his not-so-fun humour. Hell, he even has a hat that resembles a pair of goofy, Gungan-like ears. The only satisfaction is that he dies painfully.

7)THE SCOUNDREL AND THE GOOD GIRL

Like Leia and Han before them, Ridley and Marina come from two different worlds: he's an opportunistic creep and she's a member of the aristocrisy. At first they bitch at each other to work out the sexual tension; but in the end, fall in love, much to our great surprise.

8)THE MIND RAPE

Remember when Vader interrogated Leia, using the mind probe to extract the necessary information? In this movie, he uses a pair of penises that live in his ears.

9)LET'S SAVE THE GIRL FROM THE IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS!

Hey--it's the only way to steal back the much-sought-after "plans," right? And while we're there, let's have a main character die, allowing for our hero to scream "NOOOOO!" (while Milking A Giant Cow, no less).

10)CITIES IN TREES

At least the elf cities in LOTR looked elegant. The one here looks shockingly similar to the Ewok village.

11)THE SWORDFIGHT

When Ridley and Damodar have their duel, the clash of their blades creates a lightning effect, rendering the bad guy's sabre red and the good guy's sabre blue. Damodar is finally defeated after Ridley does a leap, sucker-slashes his foe in the midsection, who then falls over a steep drop. It all seemed vaguely familiar...

12)RESISTING THE DARK SIDE

Ridley is momentarily seduced by dark magic during the climax; but only by turning aside and embracing the light can he persevere. "No! I won't become...YOU!"

13)BORING POLITICS AND BAD CGI.

Come on: you know it's true.

14)SPLIT-SECOND ESCAPE CHOICES

When reaching a dead-end while pursued by baddies, our heroes take the smelliest possible escape route: through the sewers. To reach this destination, they must dive head-first down a chute where they land in a pool of cr@p (not unlike the Death Star trash compactor, or all of "Attack of the Clones").

15)OTHER BLATANT RIP-OFFS

Need I mention how Ridley keeps grinning and saying, "Trust me?" Or how he goes through the Thieves' Maze, a series of "riddles" straight out of all three "Indiana Jones" movies? Or about the scene where Marina, belly-down on the floor, is grasping for the scroll, which during the fight, is getting kicked around like a certain diamond in "The Temple of Doom?" Or how Ridley is stabbed in the shoulder and can be healed only by the King of the Elves? Or that scene where.....

You get the point. Watch this movie. Watch it RIGHT NOW. It might be a hodgepodge of rehashed ideas, but it's ten times more entertaining than these new "Star Wars" movies.

D&D was a terrible film. I just watched my 2 disc DVD edition of The Manson Family. Modern Exploitation is so cool.

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

3 words to describe this- Cheesy. Campy. Classic.

I loved it, one of the best 50's "b" monster movies Ive seen

Parasite ...

fun little film

King of the ants

The Isle

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Parasite ...

fun little film

hahaha, is that the movie with the acid-spitting things that came from some bacteria on a dead cat?

assult on something, ethan hawke, john legazamo... eh

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assult on something, ethan hawke, john legazamo... eh

Assault on Precinct 13

I jsut watched "The Other Sister" on TBS.... wow.

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Originally posted by urgeok
below what ?

:D

until just now i thought you were going to put your 'last seen movie' at the bottom of your post and forgot to do it.

Below was an odd film ... for such a low budget they really tried to strive for authenticity re. the sub and it's operation .. they spent a lot of time on it ..
I guess thats cool but it came off to me like .. we rented this thing now we're going to get every penny's worth out of it.

i guess it was an ok movie ...

I actually liked it better than I expected to. It isn't bad considering. But I found the cast in general pretty annoying. I found myself kind of not caring if they lived or died. Heh. That happens quite a lot actually, though. But I was entertained. Of course, I am pretty easily entertained....*sighs*

Last movie watched was Men in Black.