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Re:Weekly Theme for October 26: ...
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"first one i think of is brando in apocalypse now: "the horror... the horror..." "
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Re:E-@thletes
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"Make big $$$ playing games. "
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E-@thletes
Win big $$$ playing games
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"Jonathon Boal and Artem Agafanov made the documentary E@thletes at a time when competitive team-gaming seemed ready to expand into a new world of professional competition. The film presented, at the time they released it, a cutting-edge view of two teams out on the road, just before both teams joined a new league. By the time I watched the movie, league play was already into its second season and the film had become, for me, a how-it-all-happened tale. By the time I began writing this review, the league was out of business and team gaming had returned to the state it occupied before Boal and Agafanov began their documentary. And now, much later than that, in the midst of an economic slump, I have no idea how electronic gaming, competitive or otherwise, is faring. Holy cow. Will anyone ever see the movie? Will anyone ever read this review? If I fall over in the woods, will anyone ever hear me go?Whatever. Video-game revenue outstripped cinema ticket sales long ago, and then passed D ... "
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Watching the Detectives
Lucy Liu at 41
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"Viewed Watching the Detectives the other night - a light romantic comedy starring Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu. Cillian is 33 but in the movie he's playing a younger guy, or so it seemed to me. He has a baby face, so that works ok. Back in the days of Dobie Gillis, Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver were in their late 20s playing high-school students; Dustin Hoffman was 30 when The Graduate was released. Lucy Liu, on the other hand, is 41. She can pass for younger and she's playing a Murphy contemporary in the movie, and I'd watch her in anything anyway cause I've got a little Lucy Liu jones going, but having said that, it cannot be denied that life is beginning to leave a few signs of road wear on the Liu corpus. The camera is good to her, but, oops, a quick shot of her hands... The hands go first. I read somewhere that the hands go last, but not so. Also a flash or two here and there in the movie - just a flash - of Lucy looking like her mother.A few words on the subject of female star ... "
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"As you say, it's fun reading Gabe's rants from time to time. When I first saw the title of his page, I thought it was just "Worst Movie Ever" and I objected, because Gabe is scheduling the movies he reviews and the essence of "worst movie" is that the folks who use the phrase mean it when they say it, but then keep saying it over and over again for movies that they've just seen. So cold-bloodly scheduling a worst movie in advance wouldn't count. But no, that was just me being picky, as the page is actually titled "Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time." So let the hunt continue! They say that writing a review for a bad movie is a lot easier than writing one for a good movie. Whatever, it's certainly a lot more entertaining to read. "
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Black Christmas
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"Couple of years ago I watched Behind the Mask and mentioned it here. I was listening to a movie podcast called Double Feature the other day and the two movies under discussion were Black Christmas and Behind the Mask. The idea was that Black Christmas was the first true slasher movie (not counting Psycho) and Behind the Mask was the last one, wrapping it all up. An interview with the writer of Behind the Mask was included. Just reminded me how much I liked the movie, which the podcasters claim is gaining cult status. I think I'll check it out again, to see if it holds up. "
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Watchmen
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"After I watch a movie, I read some reviews about it to find out whether I liked it or not. A.O. Scott does a nice job on Watchmen, but he tells me that I didn't like it as much as I thought I did. The gist of his argument seems to be that Zack Snyder brought the 80s graphic novel faithfully to the screen and that this was not a good thing: that the ideas in the book are dated and jejune. Scott's review is so well-written that I felt ashamed about writing one of mine own, this one in fact, and I put it aside unfinished.But wait a minute. Of course the ideas in the book are dated. The ideas in Pride and Prejudice are dated. So what? And of course the ideas are the sort that would appeal to a teen reader. Watchmen was born as a series of comic books. A.O., grow down.But then, I liked "300," so what do I know?A.O. also calls out the primary sex scene in the movie as the worst of the year. Evidently A.O. steers clear of 99% of the DVDs on Blockbuster's shelves. At any rate, what I saw i ... "
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Yeast
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"With reference to my previous posting THE WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN: CITIZEN KANE, let me recognize this recent review of Yeast by a Spout member:"this movie was by far the worst "indie" film i have ever seen in my entire life... and i don't think that that any movie i see in the future will be nearly as bad at this one." "
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Final Destination
SMOOSHED, THEN WHISKED OFFSCREEN
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"Watched some Sarah Connor Chronicles last night. A T1000 killer robot is crossing the street, just a couple of steps behind Sarah with killing on his cyborg mind, when Bang! a bus or truck crashes into him and carries him offscreen, putting him out of commission just long enough for Sarah to escape. The T1000 is presumably unable to keep track of traffic and chase Sarah at the same time, or perhaps in this instance it was programmed to decommission its urban pedestrian subroutines upon reaching kill-zone proximity to its prey.First time that I saw this particular accident/plot device/action sequence - smoosh-and-carry offscreen - as I recall - was in one of the Final Destination movies. Nice! I thought at the time. Something new. Also the second and third and fourth times that I saw this, in whatever the movies that used it, I continued to think, Nice! For example, I remember a romantic comedy in which the husband was a real jerk but crunch, he was removed expediously in the first ... "
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"[quote user="Risselada"] [quote user="joem18b"] as i said previously, i assumed that all neurologists would scoff at the notion of free will. i forgot that the members of this bunch were all conservative republicans. when i asked if, knowledgable as they were about the inner workings of the brain, they believed in free will, as a man (they're all male) they replied, "Sure we believe in free will. Nobody is going to tell us what to do!" [/quote] Hmmm, so what are your assumptions in this matter? What do you think the implications of this is? Are you suggesting that the idea if free will is one held by conservative republicans while those holding differeing or opposite political viewpoints might find the idea of free will an illusion? Or are you suggesting that the question of free will cannot be determined by the study of neurology or the kind of study and reasoning usually implemented by our common study of science and the scientific method (my personal hunch)? Are you saying tha ... "
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"as i said previously, i assumed that all neurologists would scoff at the notion of free will. i forgot that the members of this bunch were all conservative republicans. when i asked if, knowledgable as they were about the inner workings of the brain, they believed in free will, as a man (they're all male) they replied, "Sure we believe in free will. Nobody is going to tell us what to do!" "
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Sleepaway Camp
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"[quote user="mercurial"] [quote user="joem18b"] The great thing about Sleepaway Camp is that there are 5 sequels, probably with more to come. [/quote] I've been trying to watch all the Sleepaway Camp movies but can never seem to find the first one and I hate watching movies out of sequence. [/quote] pirate bay has it, if you don't object to bit torrent "
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