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[Guest]

It's one of the few movies I've seen that lived up to the hype. Definitely worth watching over again.

I don't really care for George Clooney, but he was perfect in this.

And, Sarah? With your frog fetish you've got goin' on at the moment, you REALLY need to see it.

Frog fetish??? ME?

Oh - check out the latest addition to our menagerie.

His name is Carl. (After Carl Sandburg - remember the poem about the fog entering on little frog feet?)

I don't know who the child is. We'll give him back later today.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/frog_lg.jpg

 

[cloudy]

Frog fetish??? ME?

Oh - check out the latest addition to our menagerie.

His name is Carl. (After Carl Sandburg - remember the poem about the fog entering on little frog feet?)

I don't know who the child is. We'll give him back later today.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/frog_lg.jpg

Oh.....I thought the CHILD was the latest addition.

 

[impressive]

Frog fetish??? ME?

Oh - check out the latest addition to our menagerie.

His name is Carl. (After Carl Sandburg - remember the poem about the fog entering on little frog feet?)

I don't know who the child is. We'll give him back later today.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/frog_lg.jpg

OMG! It's Jabba!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Frog fetish??? ME?

Oh - check out the latest addition to our menagerie.

His name is Carl. (After Carl Sandburg - remember the poem about the fog entering on little frog feet?)

I don't know who the child is. We'll give him back later today.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/frog_lg.jpg

That frog looks like it could kick ass!!!

 

[cloudy]

Sarah - you REALLY need to watch the movie now.

 

[Guest]

Sarah - you REALLY need to watch the movie now.

But I can never tell my sister I saw it, you know?

It'll have to be our little secret.

 

[cloudy]

But I can never tell my sister I saw it, you know?

It'll have to be our little secret.

of course.

I may even watch it again. The music alone is worth it - Emmy Lou Harris.

 

[Guest]

of course.

I may even watch it again. The music alone is worth it - Emmy Lou Harris.

 

[cloudy]

also Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch. The soundtrack is beyond excellent.

 

[Guest]

Crap DVDs :

The Brothers Grimm :: This one was very disappointing.
Heebie Jeebies
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
House of Wax :: I just saw this for Paris Hilton's death scene, honest

I recommend:

Constantine :: * loved
From Hell :: (Johnny Depp chasing the dragon)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Batman Begins :: Christian Bale as Batman - * loved

 

[JamesSD]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Batman Begins :: Christian Bale as Batman - * loved

So I loved Batman Begins, but my girlfriend just liked it. In fact, if she didn't like looking at Christian Bale she probably would have been bored (in fact, she did get bored during the early training scenes, which my roommate and I loved). I think Batman Begins is more of a guy movie, although it's a well done one.

Hitchhiker's Guide was underrated. It suffered that people who aren't familiar with the books didn't always get it, and some of the fans were annoyed it wasn't a page for page representation of the book. I personally liked it a lot.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Agreed, "The Brothers Grimm" was God-awful. Somewhere under there was a decent script, but it's some of the worst directing I have ever seen. It's one of the those movies that helps you really understand all of the elements of the director's art - creating scene continuity, eliciting consistent and effective character portrayals, forming a coherent tone and style for the piece, cogently subordinating the parts to the overall whole - because all of it is done so very, very badly.

I loved "Brazil," but then, that's meant to be disjointed and surreal. "The Brothers Grimm" was a pointless and incoherent mish-mash in which what might have been a really interesting story about the meeting of cyncial reality and actual fairy tale magic is torn to pieces and interspersed with pointless asides, incomprehensible and poorly transitioned to-ing and fro-ing between geographical locations, whipsawing characterization in which emotions and reactions seem to come from nowhere, and a really hard-core dedication to totally pointless French jokes. Once the director has decided that depicting a man picking a spattered gobbet of freshly-shredded kitten off of his face and eating it is a really neat gag, one really must surrender all hope.

The worst of it is that under all of that, there's a really neat story that would have made a great movie. I hope that they paid the writer a staggering sum; I can't imagine what it must feel like to see one's once-promising work turned into that wretched trash.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I love you, Horsey!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I'll reccomend the Legend of Bagger Vance. Not a big will smith fan, but it was a neat little film

 

[BlackShanglan]

I love you, Horsey!

YOU wrote "The Brothers Grimm"?

 

[Stella_Omega]

YOU wrote "The Brothers Grimm"?

sorry, should have had my coffee before I got online...
No, but you put into words exactly what bothered me about that flick.
It's always exhilerating to see a film thatmanages to capture the qualities of the book it was derived from, and saddening to see a film that falls short in that regard.

Oddly there is a movie that is better- more literary, denser, smarter- than its book, and that is "Babe"

 

[rgraham666]

I loved Constantine too. Rachel Weisz. Mmmmm. And the guy who played Satan rocked.

Batman Begins was all right.

Hitchhikers Guide was a disappointment for me. The whole love story was sooo Hollywood. Only decent line was "And we're being led by a man whose brain runs on lemons!"

Brothers Grimm was eh. As Shang said, there was a good movie in there somewhere.

 

[4degrees]

*fight club
*fight club
*fight club
you get the idea.

 

[Stella_Omega]

*fight club
*fight club
*fight club
you get the idea.

it was good- but that good?

I do the same thing, though, get obsessed by one movie and watch it as often as I can untill the people around me hide the DVD

 

[SeaCat]

Alexander, Good movie.

Kingdom of Heaven, Worth renting. (Hell worth owning.)

Madagascar, Hell yeah!

Band of Brothers, Long as hell but worth watching. (Okay so it's not a movie, so sue me.)

Ice Age,

Chicken Run. Fun

Snow Walker, Outstanding.

Enough, part of my collection.

Yep I do tend to watch movies. Tonight is either "The Great Raid" or "The Librarian". I'll let you know how they are.

Cat

 

[4degrees]

it was good- but that good?

I do the same thing, though, get obsessed by one movie and watch it as often as I can untill the people around me hide the DVD

well i do throw in a david lynch flick every now and then, but yes, i think FC was that good. i cannot get enough of shirtless, bloody, sweaty ed norton.

american history x, too.

 

[rgraham666]

Just re-watched what is probably my favourite flick of the last year, Sin City.

The heroes are madmen, murderers and hookers. The villains are much, much worse.

I loved the dialogue, so perfectly noirish. The whole sepia tone of the cinematography with splashes of colour thrown in just set the tone wonderfully.

Great charactes, especially loved Marv. A real monster with a heart of gold.

And the women, rowr. I really liked Rosario Dawson's character. And that little babe with the swords.

Very cool flick. A must see in my book.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Just re-watched what is probably my favourite flick of the last year, Sin City.

The heroes are madmen, murderers and hookers. The villains are much, much worse.

I loved the dialogue, so perfectly noirish. The whole sepia tone of the cinematography with splashes of colour thrown in just set the tone wonderfully.

Great charactes, especially loved Marv. A real monster with a heart of gold.

And the women, rowr. I really liked Rosario Dawson's character. And that little babe with the swords.

Very cool flick. A must see in my book.

Another Robert Rodriguez flick!

 

[rgraham666]

Another Robert Rodriguez flick!

Yep. The man makes good movies.

Another favourite of mine by him is From Dusk Til Dawn.

Great dialog in that one too.

"They were vampires! Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them!"

And that scene with Selma Hayek. (Pauses to adjust anatomy) That says it all.

 

[JamesSD]

Just re-watched what is probably my favourite flick of the last year, Sin City.

The heroes are madmen, murderers and hookers. The villains are much, much worse.

I loved the dialogue, so perfectly noirish. The whole sepia tone of the cinematography with splashes of colour thrown in just set the tone wonderfully.

Great charactes, especially loved Marv. A real monster with a heart of gold.

And the women, rowr. I really liked Rosario Dawson's character. And that little babe with the swords.

Very cool flick. A must see in my book.

Sin City is a very good movie, but it is more style than substance. Very very VERY good style, but on the second watching I realized just how awful a lot of the dialog is. Intentionally bad at times I suppose, but still, I cringed at a few of the lines.

I did love a lot of the characters, and the plot is a lot of fun. So yeah, overall it's an excellent movie.