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| marantzo |
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Joe Vitus wrote: And the humorlessness continues.
The problem with posting something that is meant as a joke, is that it has to be funny or nobody will get it. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:36 am |
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Which is why I keep my jokes to just a couple of words. I'm guaranteed at least a funny, sometimes accompanied by a groan 
Getting back to subject matter, the last movie that used religion as a subject that I laughed through was Dogma, which gets re-watched a good deal. It's snubs at organized religion are pretty dead on. Almost as if Kevin Smith grew up in one. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:12 am |
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jeremy wrote: marantzo wrote: What does approaches to atheism mean? I've alway thought that atheism means that you don't believe there is a god. Have I been deluded all these years?
I'm sure if you search the archives, you'll find a lively debate as to where atheism ends and agnosticism starts. Is atheism a denial of God's existence or the sense that there is nothing to deny, the onus of proof or justification lies elsewhere.
Well, there's Christian Atheism, where you believe there is no God and Jesus is his son. (Would I lie to you?) |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:47 am |
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| Watched The Lake House last night. It was a sweet, pretty, befuddled mess. Definitely worth a viewing if it's on HBO and there's nothing else on the 600 other channels. Was getting a real Rock Hudson vibe from Keanu and Sandra looked odd in the short-hair periods. Must have been the makeup artistry, isn't she too young to do Bo? |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:55 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: Watched The Lake House last night. It was a sweet, pretty, befuddled mess. Definitely worth a viewing if it's on HBO and there's nothing else on the 600 other channels. Was getting a real Rock Hudson vibe from Keanu and Sandra looked odd in the short-hair periods. Must have been the makeup artistry, isn't she too young to do Bo?
Bo who?
It didn't seem messy when I saw it. Maybe seeing it in a theater helped me be more willing to go with the premise and resist asking too many questions which would wreck the foundation of the movie.
Some time travel tales give the natural advantage to the person from the future who would possess helpful knowledge of past events. One of the things I liked about this story is the way it showed how, even though Keanu Reeve's character is two years behind Bullock's, it is he who uses that to his benefit. He can go to a place where he knows she will be and furtively watch her or strike up a casual conversation with her before she knows who he is. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:02 pm |
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Oldboy
Just watched this beautifully told story of revenge and mystery today. It is at times brutal and difficult to watch, but its power is such that I couldn't take my eyes off it.
Note: I recently began renting movies online which required seting up a queue. It was an adjustment from just wandering the aisles at a video store. For queue/rental ideas, I decided to peruse the now archived Blanche Awards thread. Loads of great rental ideas there. It's where I got the idea to rent Oldboy and a handful of other titles from that discussion are now queued up for me as well. If someone is having trouble deciding what to rent, I highly recommend going to that thread for ideas. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:08 pm |
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earl,
OLD BOY is is in my top 20 films ever made. A real stunner. Check out the other films in Chan Park Wook's revenge trilogy (of which OLD BOY is the middle film): SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE (or simply LADY VENGEANCE). |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:09 am |
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earl.... I know what you are saying. I tend to rent more movies online that I most likely wouldn't pick up for rental in the store.
I've been doing Netflix on and off since 1999 and have been quite happy with them. And now they have so many mail centers that I can sometimes turn in and get a new film in 2 days. I mail it off one day, they get it the next, they send the next title that day, I get it the next day.
I know you have Blockbuster, but they seem to be just as fast. The only thing I didn't like about Blockbuster online was their meager selection of indie and unrated titles. Maybe that's changed since I tried them 2 years ago, but for now, I'll stick with Netflix.
And I agree. There were a couple of movies I saw from the Blanche list that I would have passed up. The diverse interest in films out here is great. |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:54 am |
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Ok. I admit it. I was suckered in the the Proclamation of "Alternate Endings" on the X-MEN Three DVD. Although I DID enjoy the movie again, here is the synopsis of the "alternate endings"
MOVIE: Rogue DID get the shot - ALTERNATE: Rogue DID NOT get the shot.
MOVIE: Storm stayed and reopened the school - ALTERNATE: Storm stayead and reopened the school AND BEAST WAS ALSO THERE.
MOVIE: Logan stayed at the School - ALTERNATE: Logan went back to Canada to find his roots.
STUPIDEST DELETED/NOT DELETED SCENE: Magneto DID NOT HAVE A BEARD - ALTERNATE: Magneto DID have a beard.
Ok, I admit it, I'm an idiot! |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:14 pm |
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Marc wrote: earl,
OLD BOY is is in my top 20 films ever made. A real stunner. Check out the other films in Chan Park Wook's revenge trilogy (of which OLD BOY is the middle film): SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE (or simply LADY VENGEANCE).
Thanks for the tip. I recall seeing that Sympathy for Lady Vengeance was playing at a theater near me (the Greenway, in case Joe is reading this) a few months ago, but I didn't see it. Indeed, I wasn't aware of the trilogy connection among those titles until you mentioned the fact. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:38 pm |
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chillywilly wrote: earl.... I know what you are saying. I tend to rent more movies online that I most likely wouldn't pick up for rental in the store.
I've been doing Netflix on and off since 1999 and have been quite happy with them. And now they have so many mail centers that I can sometimes turn in and get a new film in 2 days. I mail it off one day, they get it the next, they send the next title that day, I get it the next day.
I know you have Blockbuster, but they seem to be just as fast. The only thing I didn't like about Blockbuster online was their meager selection of indie and unrated titles. Maybe that's changed since I tried them 2 years ago, but for now, I'll stick with Netflix.
And I agree. There were a couple of movies I saw from the Blanche list that I would have passed up. The diverse interest in films out here is great.
So far Blockbuster Online has been just as fast as you report: My mailings to them and vice versa are all one-day service and they send the next film the same day they get one from me. Until now all but one of the titles on my list have the note "Available Now" next to them. The one that doesn't is The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam and it says "Long Wait." In fact, once they get the DVD I just mailed to them today, that "Long Wait" movie should be next. I don't know if that means they'll just skip that title and move to the next one on the list which says "Available Now," or if I'll just have a long wait before I get anything from them.
When I was scanning the Blanche thread, I paid particular attention to titles that were mentioned more than once. Upcoming movies for me are Junebug; Cache; Head-On; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room; A History of Violence. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:49 pm |
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| Earl--Junebug and A History of Violence are terrific. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:25 am |
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Good to hear that Blockbuster Online is keeping up with Netflix. Those local mail centers really help in the quick turnaround.
And I agree with billy about Junebug and A History of Violence. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:48 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Earl--Junebug and A History of Violence are terrific.
I just watched Junebug again last week. I have known every single character in that film. Nothing any of them say or do surprises me. They are alive and real as can be. It is a marvelous film. |
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| shannon |
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yambu wrote: billyweeds wrote: Earl--Junebug and A History of Violence are terrific.
I just watched Junebug again last week. I have known every single character in that film. Nothing any of them say or do surprises me. They are alive and real as can be. It is a marvelous film.
Wow. I live where Junebug is set and the characters, at least the Southerners, couldn't have been more stereotypical and fake to me. Insultingly so. And this is coming from somebody who feels nothing but contempt for roughly 90% of my region's inhabitants, so for me to feel insulted should tell you how bad I think it is. I mean, there's enough to make fun of here without having to resort to "Mummah, wurs the gawddayum cig'rettes?!?" cliches. |
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