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| chillywilly |
 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:10 pm |
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Harry wrote: Chilly,
In your review you seemed to feel you had to apologize for not liking the movie by making some positive comments about the performances, etc. The movie was a dog. Period. You needn't justify your opinion. I would take your word on the worth of a movie more than most of the "movie buffs" who frequent this site because you don't try to impress anyone with your knowledge and expertise.
Well, you got the last part right. I am no expert... i just enjoy watching movies and discussiing them with others.
And for me, I really didn't feel the entire movie was bad. Just didn't seem to be as good as others felt it was. I noted the few positives about it, which were Matt and George's roles and specific scenes that stood out for me. Even movies I don't fully enjoy can have various parts I like.
So if for some reason you read my few words as an apology, that wasn't my intention. And I didn't feel the need to justify myself, which in going back to read my words, I don't think I implied that. I stated how I felt without comparison to others' opinions or raves. |
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| Harry |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:45 pm |
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Chilly,
Don't bullshit a bullshitter. I can read between the lines. If you don't like a movie after the first ten minutes why would you keep watching it? What are you a woman?
"Maybe it will get better, dear."
Yeah, right.
And maybe Marc will get his head out of his ass.
Do you have nothing better to do with your time than watch movies that bore you - just so you'll be able to discuss them, intelligently, with your Third Eye family?
Well, it's your life. |
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| Harry |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:57 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I haven't had a date in almost a year, about 8 months. What are you talking about?
I have to know what I'm talking about?
I didn't realize that was a requirement on this site.
I could have sworn you said you had a date with Cindy or Buffy or some other bimbo who has something to do with a liquor store. Sorry to hear that I misinterpreted your message. Eight months is a long time to get your rocks off by hanging around Sleepy Hollow. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:58 pm |
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| We here at Third Eye can't leave a movie once we have started watching it. It's the prime directive of the Third Eye Forum. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:02 pm |
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Harry wrote: marantzo wrote: I haven't had a date in almost a year, about 8 months. What are you talking about?
I have to know what I'm talking about?
I didn't realize that was a requirement on this site.
I could have sworn you said you had a date with Cindy or Buffy or some other bimbo who has something to do with a liquor store. Sorry to hear that I misinterpreted your message. Eight months is a long time to get your rocks off by hanging around Sleepy Hollow.
It's Sandi and she's a character in my book who was named after a woman that I know who works at the liquor commission. The real Sandi isn't my girlfriend, or a date, she is just a woman who is a friend and who is happily married. To somebody else. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:05 pm |
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Harry wrote: Chilly,
Don't bullshit a bullshitter. I can read between the lines. If you don't like a movie after the first ten minutes why would you keep watching it? What are you a woman?
I never said I hated the movie or thought the whole thing was bad. I said it wasn't what I expected. I much preferred the flow of a movie with a similar theme, The Constant Gardner.
And speaking of apologies, I would appreciate one for the above insult, which is unrelated to the movie discussion, not to mention, completely uncalled for. |
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| Harry |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:59 pm |
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Chilly,
Which insult, calling you a woman or calling you a bullshitter?
Well, I won't quibble, I apologize for both.
But you really should try to lighten up a little.
Or call me some names.
Like M says, it's a condition of membership. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:11 pm |
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Apology accepted, assuming there are no more insults.
I wasn't insulted by the bullshitter comment. It was the overall demeaning tone and level of immaturity that was insulting.
Lighten up a little? Certainly.
Name calling... not my style. Unless you are the person that got elected and is fucking this country for the next 20 years. But somehow, I don't think Bush would be welcome on this forum, let alone know how to post on one.
I'm still a member last time I checked. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:52 pm |
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I just stumbled across this:
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/THEGODFATHER.txt
It claims to be the third draft of the script for The Godfather. It's interesting to see the changes that were made. Almost all of them are improvements.
A lot of the dialogue was expository so you get more of the background story than in the actual film, which is fun (but the dialogue in the film is much better). You get a lot more of Vito's actual thinking, which makes him less of an icon; not a good thing, IMO. The script that made it onscreen is much better.
There's also a lot of structural changes. There's a lot of scenes that are written in flashback that weren't presented that way in the film. I wonder if they changed that before shooting started or after they got in the editing room? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:23 am |
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Orgy of the Dead:
An Ed Wood film from 1965 or so. You can tell from the hairdoes on a couple of women and the tendency of the film to change from black-and-white at odd moments in the early parts. Of course, it also changes from day to night as well. In fact, there are scences that are explicitly set at night that are lit like broad daylight.
Some Spoilers, but does it really matter
A horror writer and his girlfriend are driving by a cemetery where he wants to stop for inspiration. They have an accident, then they wander into the cemetery, where the Emperor (Criswell) and the Black Ghoul (Fawn Silver,a Vampira clone) are auditioning a succession of female ghosts to decide whether they shall go directly to hell without passing go. The ghosts all do similar dances which all go on too long. Usually at some point the camera will switch to the Emperor and Black Ghoul, and when we switch back the ghost is nude except for a g-string, and, in a couple of cases, a veil. At one point, Criswell becomes aware that they are being watched, so summons the Wolfman and the Mummy to capture the writer and girlfriend, tie them to posts, and force them to watch a series of strippers until the writer and girlfriend are sacrificed or dawn arrives. Some of the routines are okay, but some of the ones toward the end are genuinely awful. The one of the woman who murdered her husband on their wedding night is truly terrible. It starts off promising that she will be dancing with her husband's skeleton, and doesn't even do that. about all she does is sing her tits, which looks painful. Almost as bad is a zombie dance where the actress looks like she's stoned and bored. The big revelation in this film is that one minute of an actress dancing around in a g-string is enough. After three minutes, you're looking at your watch.
I kept expecting that at the end, the girlfriend would do the last dance, and keep everyone going till dawn. She did have nice breasts, and probably would have been better than half the other dancers. Alas, the film didn't do that.
In this film, you have five minutes of plot and 92 minutes of film filled with overlong and mostly uninspired dance numbers, and lots of breasts. The actual acting performaces rank from truly bad (Criswell and Silver) to amateur night, some of the dance numbers are okay, but they all have the same pattern. I rather liked the Polynesian snake dance (although the film cut a couple of time to rattlestnakes, and I was wondering what snakes were doing in Hawaii), the Slave dance, the Indian Dance, and especially the Mexican Dance, although all went on too long. The actual camerawork was not as bad as in Plan Nine from Outer Space, the only other Ed Wood film I've seen. However, Plan Nine is a better film despite its reputation. It actually has a story, shows some actual ambition from its director, and you can actually sort of see how it could have been a decent film. (Actually, it was. Night of the Living Dead has a very similar story, to the point where I think Tobe Hooper was inspired by Plan Nine.) Orgy of the Dead is a film by a director and actors who were just going through the motions. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:02 am |
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| How drunk were you when writing that post? Not only numerous spelling errors, but Tobe Hooper most certainly was not involved with Night of the Living Dead (you're thinking of George Romero). Nor does the synopsis you provide sound remotely like Night of the Living Dead (beyond people trapped some place all night; that plot device didn't exactly begin with Ed Wood). |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:05 am |
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| Joe, what have you drunk? Syd was comparing NOTLD to Plan Nine, not the Orgy thing. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:07 am |
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marantzo wrote: Joe, what have you drunk? Syd was comparing NOTLD to Plan Nine, not the Orgy thing.
Marantzo--I agree Joe was confused, but NOTLD has almost nothing in common with Plan 9 either. I too fail to see where Syd is coming from with that comparison. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:13 am |
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| It can lead to so much confusion when two drunks have a conversation. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:03 am |
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Unless the conversation involved past drinking experiences.
Color me just as confused about the comparison. |
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