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General => Reviews => Topic started by: BornKrazi on March 07, 2007, 06:40:52 PM
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Okay I just watched this movie for the first time on HBO tonight. I have to say I was rather surprised. At first I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not. Yet I noticed I was rather into it, I even got to the point where I slid down onto the floor to get right in front of the tv.
How'd everyone else feel about it?
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I liked it. At first I thought it was just another comic-book movie, but it was actually really good.
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Alan Moore, the writer, absolutely hated it. Or maybe just the idea that someone would take his beloved seminal work and turn it into a movie.
-kv
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I thought it was phenominal <sp?>
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I still haven't seen it. :(
Gabriel
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then get your hoop in gear, sucka!
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It seemed ok from what I watched....
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It's an awesome movie, I just think Alan Moore (as well as many other comic writers) get pissy when they realize that they sell the story to the comics people (be they DC OR Marvel), and that the comics people now own the story, and can do with it whatever they want.
-kv
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Yeah but like any writer, they hold their work dear to their hearts and never want to see it get spun a way they didn't intend...
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Well, that's the problem, I hear, when you take a story to hollywood. Even Frank Miller's first movie didn't do well (they brought him in to write Robocop II), and he described it like this:
"You're a fire hydrant, and there are a lot of dogs."
-kv
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You know some people get off on being pissed on...
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I'm just kind of curious to see what Natalie Portman looks like doing her Briteny Spears impression. ;)
Gabriel
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hahahahaha, she looks better with longer hair, lol that's my opinion
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Which one? Portman or Spears?
Gabriel
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Portman, I really dont care too much for Spears...
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You think you don't like her? I live 30 miles down the road from where the nasty little skank grew up.
Gabriel
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Omg ewww, are you serious? So did you know her personally?
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You know, people throw around the term nasty skank... but let's be honest. Is there any other kind of skank? Since, by definition, skanks are 'skanky?'
-kv
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lol, Im not sure there are plenty other words people use in place of skank..
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Omg ewww, are you serious? So did you know her personally?
Great Ghost no! Yuck! And this is a coming from a guy who would have done illegally erotic things with her at the beginning of her carreer. How the hotties have fallen. :-\
Gabriel
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I have to seriously reassess you capacity for good taste if you thought she was 'hot' at any point :P Icky.
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Oh come on, when she started her career, she was hot! And you know it. it's just that she got all skanky afterwords.
Gabriel
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Actually my ability to figure out what guys think is hot is impaired severely in that I'M NOT A GUY! I always thought she was a joke.
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Oh come on, you can't be telling me you don't recognize beauty when you see it? Briteny aside, haven't you ever been able to look at a nother woman and say, "That's a good-looking woman."?
Gabriel
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Two different animals. What is beauty and what guys consider 'hot' are not necessarily the same thing. Aesthtics and your lust triggers aren't always riding in tandum.
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No, not always.
I will admit that Britney was cute when she first started out, but I wasn't that attracted to her.
I guess that's a matter of personal taste, though.
But then she got sleazy... and dirty... and skanky... and then weird... and then fat... and then crazy... and now bald.
-kv
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No, I dont think she was cute at all. She is just so nasty, eww I cant think to say anything else..
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Physical appearance is always damped by social stigma. Didn't matter is she was "hot" to some, she was a bimbo airhead, that I wanted nothing to do with. And she went downhill from there.
But V for Vendetta is very much a good movie. Vactual veritude comfirms that vigorous violence amid vivid visuals veer very viewtiful. Verbiose verse amid a vexing plot vibe vibrant stories. And always attempt to avoid alliteration. [/pun]
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No, I dont think she was cute at all. She is just so nasty, eww I cant think to say anything else..
....really? :-X
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Physical appearance is always damped by social stigma. Didn't matter is she was "hot" to some, she was a bimbo airhead, that I wanted nothing to do with. And she went downhill from there.
But V for Vendetta is very much a good movie. Vactual veritude comfirms that vigorous violence amid vivid visuals veer very viewtiful. Verbiose verse amid a vexing plot vibe vibrant stories. And always attempt to avoid alliteration. [/pun]
hehe good quote.I loved that line
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That movie just plain ol kicked ass...any other suggestions about movies similar?
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, with Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr.
It was awesome for reasons that I can't even begin to describe.
-kv
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Again another movie I've never heard of, but I'll look into it
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Also Salton Sea, with Val Kilmer. The tweakers show the way NOT to do a run.
-kv
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That movie actually sounds familiar, but I can't put my tongue on it...
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Well, you could run over to IMDB and look it up, but I don't have anything better to do with my time, so I'll tell you about it.
Val Kilmer plays a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time- he and his wife are on vacation, and they're by the Salton Sea (out in the desert in California) and they stop at this greasy little motel, and while they're getting a room, two guys show up and start shooting everyone. They're mob enforcers or whatever, and they kill everyone- including Kilmer's wife, since Kilmer was in the bathroom, and saw the whole thing. When the cops show up, it turns out that the two gunmen are dirty Feds (or dirty cops- I don't remember off the top of my head) and they cover the whole thing up.
Kilmer goes undercover as a junkie, pretending to be a loser on meth, and makes friends with all the people he needs to so as to appear a worthless tweaker. Once a year, he gets his old stuff out of the closet, and puts them on so he can remember that he's not really this guy, but the rest of the time, he's trying to set up something to get these dirty fraggers killed.
It's an awesome movie, and it has one of the most intruiging visuals that I've ever seen- a guy lying on the floor of a burning building, playing a trumpet.
Awesome. But the shadowrun part comes from Bob Hope. Trust me, you'll flinch at least once when you see it, because it does not go well.
-kv
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Sweet I'll definately look for that!
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I am now officially intrigued.
Gabriel
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Actually, most of Val Kilmer's work is SR worthy. I know that his movie The Saint is/was very popular. Although maybe this post belongs in Quality SR Movies. . . Master of disguises that man. . .
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Heh... oops. That's what I get for posting without making sure it's in the right thread.
I thought this was the movie thread.
-kv
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Well it is A movie thread. At least you have that going for you.
Gabriel