RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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I liked the French girl. I don't remember what happened to her. I probably blocked it out with visions (and auditions) of her frenchy goodness.Sophie Marceau? Oui oui!
I can say with little shame, that when I first saw her in a Bond movie, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Incredibly beautiful woman.
I guess I cast my vote for the Princess Bride. I have been forced to watch that damnable movie SO-MANY-TIMES by my friends and family that any iota of general appreciation I may have ever had for the movie has long since been squelched.Prepare to die!No, no Whimsy, you have to do it like this....
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You slandered my movie. Prepare to die."
Yes, that is much better.
I was never good at those Spanish accents...
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]That's how I felt about it when I saw the midnight showing in a small theater. I love the movie, but the audience participation gave me a massive migrane and totally killed it for me.Without the audience, you're left watching a crappy camp film. I'm just sayin'.
I agree, but all the audience I need is a group of friends and a bottle of tequila/rum/etc. A theatre shouting at the screen all around me is not my idea of a good time.
Don't you go messing Sophie up for me!
Gangs of New York.
Until the very end of the movie I thought William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis) was the protagonist and that Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) was the antagonist.
I hate that in a lot of cinema seems to enjoy having the protagonist as a cowardly, backstabbing and angry person.
Another load of bile
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Wolverine leading the X-Men....really?? With Storm there?? Give me a break.
At least there were no nipples on the costumes.
Yeah, that one took a few trips around the bowl before slipping into the credits.
Wow. I would assume you don't have a working knowledge of Russel Means or his true beliefs.
No, mostly I think he's a racist in disguise... and from the interviews I've read with him, he's just basically not a very nice person, either. But appreciating and agreeing with his particular views on one movie doesn't automatically force me to agree with all the rest of his views on everything, does it? Or do you also believe that everyone who wants lower taxes should also automatically be against gay marriage? (What I call the "package deal" fallacy.)
Derek, hate to admit this, but I loved "Fear and Loathing." I'd just read the book, and drank an entire bottle of black Montenegran wine while watching the movie. Far out, man. My problem with "Buffalo" is that I don't really like Bill Murray (except in "Caddyshack" and "Man Who Knew Too Little").
This will get me banned from Paizo, and totally ruin my geek cred, but I just have to say this:
I absolutely can't stand Monte Python. Not even the Holy Grail. None of it.
Sorry.
This will get me banned from Paizo, and totally ruin my geek cred, but I just have to say this:
I absolutely can't stand Monte Python. Not even the Holy Grail. None of it.Sorry.
But are you sure you don't have room for just one waffer thin meent?
Derek, hate to admit this, but I loved "Fear and Loathing." I'd just read the book, and drank an entire bottle of black Montenegran wine while watching the movie. Far out, man. My problem with "Buffalo" is that I don't really like Bill Murray (except in "Caddyshack" and "Man Who Knew Too Little").
That line about envisioning his grandmother climbing up his leg with a knife between her teeth... a special kind of genius there, I think.
This will get me banned from Paizo, and totally ruin my geek cred, but I just have to say this:
I absolutely can't stand Monte Python. Not even the Holy Grail. None of it.Sorry.
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This will get me banned from Paizo, and totally ruin my geek cred, but I just have to say this:
I absolutely can't stand Monte Python. Not even the Holy Grail. None of it.Sorry.
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Please rescind any and all gaming club affiliations and membership cards should be burned.
Thank you.
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Corrected it for you.
What does Bart say, in the Simpsons? "DAD! Listen to yourself! You're hangin' with NERDS!"
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This will get me banned from Paizo, and totally ruin my geek cred, but I just have to say this:
I absolutely can't stand Monte Python. Not even the Holy Grail. None of it.Sorry.
I agree with you. If I'm going to watch British sketch comedy I'll watch A Bit of Fry and Laurie, now that was funny.
As for movies I can't make it through, anything with the name Frank Miller attached to it (and I was so looking forward to The Spirit until I saw that). I tried watching the movies based on his stuff, and tried reading his comics. The Dark Knight Returns was awful I feel dirty for touching it.
Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.
Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.
You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
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Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
Honestly I didn't think it was all that bad. My opinion of the originals is that they were just as campy and bad as the remake. In fact, if anything the remake was a little more believable.
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Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.
Honestly I didn't think it was all that bad. My opinion of the originals is that they were just as campy and bad as the remake. In fact, if anything the remake was a little more believable.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
I thought it was reprehensible.
For me, the difference between the original and the latter was the difference between a mountain and a zit. Loved the original, detested the remake.
Marky Mark finally reunited with the funky bunch though, so I guess that was cool. ;)
I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
Although I like all the actors involved, I walked out of Nuns on the Run. It wasn't that terrible, but I wasn't entertained and I felt I had better things to do that night. It wasn't an angry walk out.
I thought it was reprehensible.For me, the difference between the original and the latter was the difference between a mountain and a zit. Loved the original, detested the remake.
Marky Mark finally reunited with the funky bunch though, so I guess that was cool. ;)
Being a Tim Burton afficianado, I loved the feel of it. Thought the acting was good (particularly speaking about those that played the apes such as Charleton Heston and Tim Roth), and all in all enjoyed it. To each their own bad tastes :)
Although I like all the actors involved, I walked out of Nuns on the Run. It wasn't that terrible, but I wasn't entertained and I felt I had better things to do that night. It wasn't an angry walk out.
Remember the guy pissing himself with laughter on the floor of the aisle because he was laughing so hard at Nuns on the Run ?
Was moi...
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I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
I felt like walking out on Sister Act 2, but we were at 35,000 feet at the time so I decided against it.
I felt like walking out on Sister Act 2, but we were at 35,000 feet at the time so I decided against it.
On a similar note...I saw Patch Adams at 35K feet...nothing like a kid seeing a grown man shed a tear(me)...
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I felt like walking out on Sister Act 2, but we were at 35,000 feet at the time so I decided against it.I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
I tried getting away from Titanic like that, it didn't work.
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I tried getting away from Titanic like that, it didn't work.I felt like walking out on Sister Act 2, but we were at 35,000 feet at the time so I decided against it.I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
Clearly I'm odd. I just pull a book out, take off the headphones and put the screen away.
Although I like all the actors involved, I walked out of Nuns on the Run. It wasn't that terrible, but I wasn't entertained and I felt I had better things to do that night. It wasn't an angry walk out.Remember the guy pissing himself with laughter on the floor of the aisle because he was laughing so hard at Nuns on the Run ?
Was moi...
This illustrates the entire 'no right or wrong about it' aspect of film appreciation. We like what we like and loathe what we loathe, and our choices often go against the grain of people who usually think as we do, or fall in line with the aesthetic of people we think we have nothing in common with.
The only thing that ever backs up our point of view is how the majority of people agreed with us, either way, but often I find a movie like Lucky Numbers with John Travolta -- absurd dark comedy -- garnered terrible ratings while it floated my boat enough to want to buy it (though I haven't... so any secret Santa's out there... there ya go).
Session 9 got terrible reviews, but I thought it was a great little film. That's typical of my DVD collection... a bunch of films perhaps only me and two guys in Thailand would want to see.
Session 9 got terrible reviews, but I thought it was a great little film. That's typical of my DVD collection... a bunch of films perhaps only me and two guys in Thailand would want to see.
The one about the guys cleaning asbestos out of the asylum? That story ROCKED...loved it!
Session 9 got terrible reviews, but I thought it was a great little film. That's typical of my DVD collection... a bunch of films perhaps only me and two guys in Thailand would want to see.The one about the guys cleaning asbestos out of the asylum? That story ROCKED...loved it!
That's the one. Good stuff.
I would have to say that Saturday Night Fever would be on my list as well. Growing up in late seventies and early eighties it was a cultural phenomenon. However when I finally saw it, it was the absolute worst thing I had ever seen.
I find the scene and character work in that film so well rendered. I could prattle on about what grabbed me, but if you didn't like it that would be like me shoving pie you didn't care for down your throat, and I'm no pie shover. (First geek who blasts out a 3.14 reference is going to get pie shoved. I warn you.)
That's typical of my DVD collection... a bunch of films perhaps only me and two guys in Thailand would want to see.I thought those movies were illegal in the United States. ;p
What a man does with his coonskin cap and a cup of banana puree is between him and his habberdasher.
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The only thing that ever backs up our point of view is how the majority of people agreed with us, either way, but often I find a movie like Lucky Numbers with John Travolta -- absurd dark comedy -- garnered terrible ratings while it floated my boat enough to want to buy it (though I haven't... so any secret Santa's out there... there ya go).
Send me the link to your webcam. If I like what I see, I might buy it for you.
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Clearly I'm odd. I just pull a book out, take off the headphones and put the screen away.I tried getting away from Titanic like that, it didn't work.I felt like walking out on Sister Act 2, but we were at 35,000 feet at the time so I decided against it.I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
Works now, planes didn't have individual flat panels back then ;)
Send me the link to your webcam. If I like what I see, I might buy it for you.
The only thing that ever backs up our point of view is how the majority of people agreed with us, either way, but often I find a movie like Lucky Numbers with John Travolta -- absurd dark comedy -- garnered terrible ratings while it floated my boat enough to want to buy it (though I haven't... so any secret Santa's out there... there ya go).
::Oils up, does a soundcheck and, staring down, drags a heavy breath... yes, Rone... it's come to this.... this is what you do now... this is who you've become. Now suck it up, b!tch, it's showtime!::
That's the one. Good stuff.Session 9 got terrible reviews, but I thought it was a great little film. That's typical of my DVD collection... a bunch of films perhaps only me and two guys in Thailand would want to see.The one about the guys cleaning asbestos out of the asylum? That story ROCKED...loved it!
I was about to go to bed on a worknight...and did the "Well, I'll just channel surf...because, you know, it's conducive to sleep" routine...found Session 9 on cable...at 1 am...could NOT stop watching that damned movie !!!
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Clearly I'm odd. I just pull a book out, take off the headphones and put the screen away.I tried getting away from Titanic like that, it didn't work.I felt like walking out on Sister Act 2, but we were at 35,000 feet at the time so I decided against it.I've never been able to walk out of a movie I paid for, especially when I believe I cashed in coins to get the tickets that day.Oh and the new Planet of the Apes. I saw it in the theater and walked out and asked if I could have 2 hours of my life back.You stayed to see the entire thing? Masochist.
This was before I started reading heavily. I think I had one book for the trip ... but I think I also kept watching the movie because it was an easy in to hit on the girl next to me, but that's another story for not another time.
Clearly I'm odd. I just pull a book out, take off the headphones and put the screen away.
No, I'm the one that is odd. Reading in a moving vehicle makes me motion sick in a heartbeat...
vomit bag, anyone?
I actually like Titanic. It's the only straight romance I've ever seen on screen that was even remotely interesting to me. But I like androgynous blond men. The entire plot is preposterous and the history is terrible, but I generally treat that as going without saying. It's Hollywood.
I really loathed 300, though. The trailer had all the good scenes, but I could have forgiven that. I couldn't forgive a movie where a bunch of steroid cases scream, flex, and act constipated. It was like Dragonball Z: The Movie. I actually liked DBZ when it was on TV years ago, but only because I accepted that it was a very stupid show about very stupid people with an amazing amount of filler. 300 pretended it was something else.
The Baz Luhrman version of Romeo & Juliet set in southern California was a real piece of crap, but I'm not aware of anybody defending that thing. Didn't the man realize he was adapting a comedy? Oddly, the histrionic acting is fairly period accurate for Shakespeare...but those actors had no sound crew and bad lighting to excuse themselves.
Forgive me my sin against geekdom, but I really don't think Star Wars was that good of a movie. It's just a b-movie with an a-budget, significant because it was one of the very first fantasy films that had any kind of budget at all. Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones are both better films for my money.
I paid good money for it and still watch it sometimes, but I think Two Towers drags a lot in the middle too. There wasn't enough plot to carry all the various fractions of the fellowship. In the commentary, a couple of the actors nearly admit it when they remark that it's been almost an hour since we last saw them. That's more Tolkien's fault than Jackson's, though.
The Matrix was a braindead action film with delusions of grandeur. This was relatively obvious by the time it was finished, but the sequels couldn't even sustain the fig leaf the first movie had.
Well stomping on cult classics, I can't stand the rocky Horror Picture show.
I watched that and then asked "Can I have 2 hours of my life back?"
I love appr. first half of RHPS, but after Sweet Transvestite number I start skipping the scenes or quit the movie altogether...there isn't much to see there.
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Well stomping on cult classics, I can't stand the rocky Horror Picture show.
I watched that and then asked "Can I have 2 hours of my life back?"
I love appr. first half of RHPS, but after Sweet Transvestite number I start skipping the scenes or quit the movie altogether...there isn't much to see there.
I think you guys are forgetting that RHPS was ment to be bad, campy and stupid. The movie is not the point of going to see it. You need to see it at a theater that allows the RHPS fans dress up and throw popcorn and shoot water guns and pound the back of seats and dance in front of the screen. If you can't watch the movie that way don't bother watching at all because the fun of watching the movie isn't the movie it's the fans.
::Oils up, does a soundcheck and, staring down, drags a heavy breath... yes, Rone... it's come to this.... this is what you do now... this is who you've become. Now suck it up, b!tch, it's showtime!::
Send me the link to your webcam. If I like what I see, I might buy it for you.
"It's tres jolie, Coco! Tres jolie!"
"It's tres jolie, Coco! Tres jolie!"::Oils up, does a soundcheck and, staring down, drags a heavy breath... yes, Rone... it's come to this.... this is what you do now... this is who you've become. Now suck it up, b!tch, it's showtime!::
Send me the link to your webcam. If I like what I see, I might buy it for you.
I swear, Nomad... I was looking for that quote last night and couldn't figure out how to spell it. Thank you! It was driving me batty.
Took a little while. I went for imdb for the 'memorable quotes' easy win...no good.
They're remaking Fame too, arent they? Probably getting the HSM people or the Jonas Brothers involved.
As for the original topic, Im pretty much a 'garbage disposal' for movies. I'll watch most anything and find some sort of satisfaction out of it. Even though 'Titanic' neutered Wild Bill Paxton, I still loved the series of scenes that involved the band playing as it sunk and the older couple huddling one last time. Granted, thats a minute and change of gold to sift for through a 45 hour epic, but its there.
I work for the library so people always ask me 'whats good' when looking through our selection. I can never just answer that question, I have to shoot back, "What did you think about...?" while pointing to some newer release mainstream flick. Hate to say it, but you can usually get pretty close to a person's tastes by what they are wearing. Obviously, I dont point to 'Freddy VS Jason' when asking the church pianist what she would like to take home for the weekend. (though I liked a few bits out of that dvd, except FREDDY SHOULDA WON hands down, no namby-pamby everyone wins thing!)
Spice Girls: The Movie had a lot of eye candy and was a fun thing to watch while drinking gin n tonics with some friends.
I loved both TDK and QoS for their darker turns on the franchises. Jeffrey Wright as Felix is awesome, but Id watch him in about anything. Same with Aaron Eckhart (though he's starting to wear on me. But he was genius in 'In the Company of Men'.)
The horror genre is probably easiest to pick on. There've been a bunch that I probably wont see. The Hostels, One Missed Call, The Saws (though I saw 1 and 2), Hills Have Eyes's, etc. But never say never, I guess. Im hearing about 'Bug', so Ill probably watch that one. And I just saw 'Fido', not sure if it is horror or comedy or what, but that is one that I can TOTALLY recommend to anyone reading this forum.
Goofy ass comedies is another genre, I probably wont see everything in. Most of National Lampoons later films I havent seen (though I love 'Loaded Weapon'). Same with 'American Pie 1-6' and anything with Eddie Murphy since 'Bowfinger' (which I LOVED!)
The Merchant Ivory films I havent seen, but Im getting to where I might see them...they did 'Topsy Turvy'. right? As far as classics go, Ive seen a bunch of them and will probably get around to seeing them all...though typing this out reminds me, I wasnt really moved by the ending of 'The Bicycle Thief', like I was supposed to. I may watch that one again someday.
So, in answer to the OP, I guess Id watch just about anything, except all these friggin remakes! Especially of the liquor flows for free and theres some sort of snacky treats.
I dont have time for a shot for shot remake, though I got burned with VanSants Psycho, but I learned from it...watched opening 5 minutes of the remake of 'The Omen' skipped a few chapters and saw they were adding NOTHING! and put that dvd away. So, now Im amending. I wont watch any remakes! Unless its Carpenters' 'The Thing' or maybe this newest Trek. Or if Walken makes a cameo. Ahhhhhhhhhrgggg, I cant say never.
But most remakes suck on ice.
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As for the original topic, Im pretty much a 'garbage disposal' for movies. I'll watch most anything and find some sort of satisfaction out of it. Even though 'Titanic' neutered Wild Bill Paxton, I still loved the series of scenes that involved the band playing as it sunk and the older couple huddling one last time. Granted, thats a minute and change of gold to sift for through a 45 hour epic, but its there.
The only thing I would note is that the new Trek isn't a remake, it's a prequel. I don't think it looks very good, but I wouldn't disqualify it because of a "no remake" rule.