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filmgal81
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Re:THE DARK KNIGHT DVD giveaway
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Filmgaming
"I'd like to see the red-haired doctor on Grey's Anatomy as Batman - he's got a silent and stormy presence plus the occaisonal rage. Or perhaps he'd work as a Bond character - there is something very Daniel Craig-ish about him. Also, i'd like to make the guy who plays Pete Campbell the Robin to Hamm's Batman. [quote user="Spout-Contests"] We've got DVDs of the The Dark Knight. How do you win one?We all know Christian Bale growls too much and Heath Ledger carried The Dark Knight. For the sequel, let's go ahead and pick a new Batman. Pick someone to play Batman in the next movie and post their name here. Check back here on Friday, 11/12 to see if you've won! [/quote] "
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Twilight
Re:Which of these movie Dracula ...
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Movie Polls
"Although I picked Kinski, I also wanted to give credit where credit is due to Gary Oldman. What a transformation! But Kinski's vampire was really 3 dimensional, especially since most of the other characters in that film were so flat. my favorite scenes are 1) when he is moving the coffins off of the ship with this funny little walk to the church and 2) when he is running through the deserted streets of the town, bounding and leaping with such exaggeration. Too funny! [quote user="Risselada"] I picked this poll for a couple reasons. 1. This conversation in the Horror Movies 101 group turned towards discussing the greatest Draculas. 2. There was recently a vampire poll/tournament put on by Spout in which I think many people were a little disappointed that Twilight fans overwhelmed it. In this poll it won't be the tournament format and since it's just Dracula, the Twilight guy won't be included. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Nosfera ... "
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Australia
Re:Recast ROMEO AND JULIET (1996)
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"I just saw Australia on Friday. Pros: Awesome cinematography - looks like a similar filter used in Peter Jackson's King Kong) Overarching storyline was great Real Aboriginal people cast as the Australian natives. Cons: DIdn't quite buy Hugh Jackman, pretty as he may be, as an old school cattle driver type. There was something too perfact about him- Viggo Mortensen would've been a more logicial choice- i could imagine him alseep under the stars. Also, the scene with him bathing outside is completely gratuitous and solely a beefcake shot( was that water in that bucket or baby oil anyway?) Didn't buy the romantic relationship between Jackman and Kidman- something was off If someone says " Crikie "( sp?) one more time... Dialog was bit cheesy ( like the above term used repeatedly) This film definitely gets better the more your think about it after you've left the theatre and you'll probably benefit from seeing the large screen format( lots of sweeping shots) rather than watching i ... "
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Re:Recast ROMEO AND JULIET (1996)
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"An inspired choice. Well done. [quote user="gsanchet"] Directed by Wong Kar Wai and produced by Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule, this rendition of Romeo and Juliet is set in the middle of New York City's Chinatown. The stately Capulets are a wealthy Chinese-American family that regards themselves as trying to do be upwardly mobile in New York's Chinatown. The Montagues are another wealthy African-American family that are trying to make inroads into Chinatown. THE MONTAGUESLil Bow Wow ... Romeo T.I. ... Benvolio (Romeo's cousin) Anthony Mackie ... Sampson (Montague thug) Keanan Thompson ... Gregory (Montague thug) Kel Mitchell ... Balthasar (Montague thug) Samuel L. Jackson ... Ted Montague (Romeo's dad) Angela Bassett ... Caroline Montague (Romeo's mom) THE CAPULETSTV Carpio ... Juliet Rain ... Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) Parry Shen ... Abra (Capulet thug) Chow Yun Fat ... Fulgencio (Juliet's dad) Brig ... "
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Re:Hate to say it, but..
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Tim Burton
"The thing that I find interesting about Tim Burton is that he has such a pat style - you could pick his films out of a crowd almost anywhere ( like Baz Luhrmann also has a set style). I recently saw Sweeney Todd and though I loved his vision for the film ( it must be difficult to adapt a muscial to the silver acreen), i kept thinking that there was something very early 90s about it. I think I would've liked it alot more if the film came out around the same time as Edward Scissorhands. Actually, i felt that the style of the film said more about Burton and the era he matured in than anything else (it's the same reason we see so many remakes of '80s material now- Transformers, Strawberry Shortcake, The Smurfs float in the Thanksgiving parade- the 80s generation is at an age where they have more of a say in work force and as a result what they remember being popular is making a comeback). My favorite Burton film is still Edward Scissorhands- I tera up at the end almost every time. S ... "
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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Re:Depressing holidays, dysfunc ...
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"I'd like to add Home for the Holidays under the dyfunctional family list. A perfect example of the ties that bind- and potentially strangle- during the holiday season. Plus, it is a movie about Thanksgiving- most are around Christmas. [quote user="SkyPilot"] This week on SpoutBlog, Chris Campbell will build these lists: 10 Best Dysfunctional Families in Movies 10 Most Depressing Holidays in Movies* 10 Most Accessible Foreign Language Films of the Last 10 Years** Does anyone have opinions on these? Here's your chance to influence Chris's picks. *How about Columbus Day in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery? **I had to laugh when Risselada leeroy711 called Amelie the "gateway drug" of foreign films in this Top 5 Overrated Movies discussion. (Sorry about my flub, leeroy!) [/quote] "
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Saw III
Re:This Group Needs a Picture
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Extreme Cinema
"I second ( or third) the red X idea. I think that pretty much sums it up. My second vote would be the surgical utensils from the Saw cover. That's pretty extreme. [quote user="SkyPilot"] [quote user="Risselada"] What about a picture of an energy drink? those are EXTREME!!!!!!!!!!! [/quote] Haha. I like Christi's idea about a red letter X. It's short for extreme, it reminds us of X-rated cinema, and if you can find a red X you get the added benefit of the Scarlet Letter connotation. [/quote] "
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Re:Define 'Extreme'?
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Extreme Cinema
"Good question. Normally, when I think extreme, i think in terms of my comfort level being disturbed. Something that pushes me to the -nth degree would be labeled extreme. Something that is so outrageous, done purely for shock value or for the sake of being labeled 'transgressive' would be called extreme. On the other hand, according to Risselada defintion, Teletubbies(sp?) could be labeled extreme...and I might even throw most pandering child cartoons into that category ....the cherry on top of the "so -giggly cute- it's- annoying-enough- to-make -me- wanna-stab -myself- in- the- neck -with- a- pencil" extreme sundae. But my primary defintiion still stands. [quote user="seely"] After reading through the list started nominating 'extreme' films, I realized it seems we have wildly varied opinions and ideas of what makes a film 'extreme'. For instance, I am not particularly disturbed by physical violence or sex, but the combination of the two makes me physically ill at times. Doe ... "
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The Exorcist
Re:Extreme Films
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Extreme Cinema
"When I think Extreme Films, the first thing to come to mind is totrure porn films like Saw. The original one is brutal- when they threaten to pull that woman's mouth apart from the corners...i shrudder just thinking about it. As the Voice put it in a brillant article on Rosemary's Baby, "Horror movies provide a snapshot of the zeitgeist" and today's horror films "reflect the age of "enhanced" interrogation techniques." Happy Halloween. [quote user="Dr_Gor"] First off I would like to thank our host, Stinger839, for starting this most promising group! The subject matter of Extreme Cinema has a lot of potential for some interesting conversations. I think I will be here regularly talking about many movies that are near and dear to me! So let's start this thing off with a 'bang', shall we? Last night when my partner Phantasma-Gore-ia and I became the first people to join this group we quickly discovered that we were not able to list any films on the existing grou ... "
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Re:The List!
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Heroines in Hollywood
"I think you raise an intresting question, Gor. It seems to me that it comes down to people's general view of women and sexuality...again (doesn't it always?). We have a 21st century cultural understanding that women who sleep with men 'just because' are not degrading themselves even if the motivation could be something other than attraction or love. Sex for money is merely an exhange of power and services but that is chastised more than drunken night bar sex with the guy who bought you an extra gin& tonic. That person is just as much a stranger as any John Doe, and that sexual experience could be construed as just as 'crude' as mutual arrangement of protitution. It appears to me that in general, we want to keep our flowery perceptions of sex when it suits us, but draw a line in the sand that THIS is unacceptable in order to...i dunno, make ourselves feel better somehow? if that is so, it seems a pretty odd place to draw the line, when the flowery stuff people usually ... "
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Kill Bill Vol. 1
Re:The List!
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Heroines in Hollywood
"The two films I'd like to discuss star Winona Ryder in two very different roles: The Age of Innocence and Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Age of Innocence deals with many themes of early 20th century life, but specifically of the suffocation of women at that time. May Welland ( Ryder) is supposed to be an innocent in comparison to her more brazen cousin Mme. Olenska (played by the ever beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer). What we learn, however, is that May knows more than she lets on about the nature of people and even surprises her husband Archer in the end by understanding the stifling he felt during their marriage. Despite her intellect, if she had let her husband in on her ideas might've saved their marriage, she felt tied to the conventions of the time-forced to mold herself ( and her husband) into a couple of that era, never breaking from convention. She so bought into this notion that she did not question convention at all or, as Archer said " there was no need trying to emancipate a ... "
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The Breakfast Club
80s teen flick that described r ...
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"As a kid, what 80s teen movie did you think high school romantic relationships would be most like? For me, it is a toss up between three movies: For Keeps ( happy endings), Dirty Dancing ( fleeting love), and The Breakfast Club ( flirtations) "
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