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I'll reinstall for TF and Portal.
"I can't handle the heat that you are bringing"
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regardless, I liked it
Also, Urian, check out Blood Diamond for a great movie including a photojournalist in a war zone.
I think it was in the Republic
I...I just watched these two movies...just know.
shit man.
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Aronofsky's all like, "Hey, why don't we cast jaw-droppingly beautiful people, frame each shot with surgical precision, and then bathe every scene in glorious golden light?" and I'm all like "YES PLEASE"
Every place selling huge expensive hi-def tvs and such should just have this movie playing continuously. People would stop and stare, transfixed.
Also, Q: What do you do when you find that, through no fault or virtue of your own, you have been born into the richest, most advanced, most luxurious civilization the world has ever known, and are destined for a life of comfort and diversion while most of humanity languishes in poverty and chaos?
A: Be grateful, enjoy the hell out of life, and help out others when you can. In that order.
(It's the only answer I've been able to come up with so far.)
god i love you got served
It was very pretty, but fairly boring and pretentious.
The ending and the music are a gripping combination...
come here and let me kiss you
Last week though, I snagged a copy of Over the Top for $4.99.
Ghalager said this how many years ago on stage? Early eighties or late eighties?
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Who's the bigger idiot now?
Someone sigged that. I didn't actually read the thread.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Fuck that. I had an open mind and stayed all the way through this pile of rat shit.
This is a classic? You seem fuzzy on the definition of the word.
Casablanca is a classic tale of two torn lovers caught in a love triangle in World War II, up against the Nazis, a corrupt city, and each other. It's a story of what true love really means.
Twelve Angry Men is a classic movie about a jury holding a young man's life in their hands. Without explosions, guns or boobs the characters bring a full-blown drama about the American Legal System into stark relief.
Yojimbo is a classic Japanese film showing the twisted and convoluted trials of a post-Samurai sword for hire who's stuck in a small town, having to find a way to a new path.
But The Fountain?
It's the movie of one
If there's a tangible plot in this heap of shit that you get and I don't, then there are only two possibilities:
A) This is a brilliant film that's only made for the most intelligent human beings, the ones who, like, think on a higher plane than the rest of us, man, and I'm just not enlightened enough
or
I'm leaning toward the latter of the two.
Look, I don't insist on much from my cinema. But I do insist that it have the following:
- Believable actors
- A good plot
- A point
Hugh Jackman looks like a gay guy trying to play it straight throughout this film, the plot is bullshit and there's no goddamn point to the thing.
So whine about how I'm being a dick over someone's differing opinion. Go right ahead. It's a free country. But if someone finds this film engrossing, it's my opinion that they're a fuckhead and should be slaughtered and fed to hogs before they breed or vote.
Are you going to come up with retorts that you didn't copy off the fifth-grade bathroom wall?
Which is it?
If you come up with a retort, you didn't copy it off a bathroom wall.
Do you need me to get Elmo the fucking muppet to do a song and dance for you?
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SONG in 3... 2... 1...
J. Grant did not say it was one and the same
Because that is not how he plays this game
He did not insinuate that your reply
Was both "come up with" and alternate-ly
"Copied from a wall" like you seem to think.
It was a binary choice from the very first blink.
He asked if you would come up with a fresh rebut
RATHER than cribbing it from a room for butts
If you cannot see that he asked just that
Then fuck you
Probably not. His grasp of the language sucks. But he might be able to teach you to bow out gracefully after you just got served for incorrectly and pompously trying to make an accusation about my original assertion that your retorts blow.
Care to go on?
Get your mom to read that to you.
Ah. Again, back to grade-school antics.
Fly away, little boy. Fly away back to the cold love of your thesaurus. Look up hateful synonyms whilst whacking off into your dry fist, cursing my name and crying tears that taste of defeat.
There were some big gripes with it, particularly with how parts of it were executed
but overall, I found the overlapping narrative to be pretty cool, and parts of it kind of resonated with me. However, I haven't seen it since opening weekend, so I'd have to go grab it and watch it again to remember the specifics of those scenes.
It's probably my favorite Aronofsky film, as I think Pi and Requiem are really overrated, and suffer from the same faults (scenes that come off as absurdly humorous if you're not completely absorbed into the storyline and characters).