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"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise..."
The same thing happened when our president (and 95 other people) died in a plane crash in 2010. Some people will use any opportunity for shameless self-promotion. We've had our fair share of that for the last 3 years... I'm sorry to see that now it's America's turn.
Re: The Ice Age story... In 1997 I attended a cheap summer screening of Mars Attacks! - a lighthearted sci-fi comedy. There were some kids in the audience. Something went wrong with the print and the cinema manager decided to screen another sci-fi movie. Unfortunately it was Alien 3. That's right - the kids in the audience were subjected to a rape scene and an autopsy of a little girl (not to mention profanity and some pretty scary monsters). I guess it's OK to show a rape scene to kids as long as the rapist wears weird goggles...
I eagerly await Star Trek Into Darkness... and I sincerely hope the distributors won't screw my country this time. Some Star Trek movies weren't screened in Polish theaters at all, others were limited to a few cities.
Strangely enough, this prejudice applies only to Star Trek (other big sci-fi movies almost always get a country-wide theatrical release in Poland).
How about a Coen Bros. movie?
My vote goes for The Big Lebowski.
The 2009 Star Trek was basically a Star Wars movie. And a pretty good one, too, so there's cause for optimism.
That's one of those posters where I want to ask the artist, "have you actually seen the movie?"
I'm pretty sure that the author of this poster did not. He even turned "Kershner" into "Wershner".
I don't know how Russians and Polish people can tell insane movies from normal ones based on their posters.
During the communist era we didn't 
Back then we had our own custom posters for almost all foreign movies. Now we get the generic ones (the 1997 Special Edition theatrical release in Poland had the standard US posters).
There's another gallery here.
These two come from Poland:
http://www.filmweb.pl/Gwiezdne.Wojny/po … er-7376767
http://www.filmweb.pl/Gwiezdne.Wojny/po … er-6940998
Nowadays, only some arthouse cinemas in Poland occasionally commission custom posters.
might I suggest you do Lawrence of Arabia.
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We've had lots of "going native" movies, but Lawrence is the best one I know (especially when compared to something as bland as Avatar).
But what I experienced on those forum boards had meaning, and nowadays when I see people caring only for Facebook, actually saying forum boards are useless now, I wish I could go ten years back.
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It's really sad to see those Facebook-addicted kids nowadays... Someone should explain to them that friend whoring does not make one great.
Oh, wait... 10 years ago there was no Down In Front or TV Tropes 
David Tennant. Without a doubt.
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So far I haven't seen any of the old episodes, so I've got only three Doctors to choose from. Of the three, Tennant has the best balance of quirkiness and seriousness. Besides, I think he got the best scripts ("Blink" and "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" are my favorites).
Season's greetings from snowy Poland.
How about one of the Superman movies? This major superhero has been neglected by DIF so far. It's hard to use such a powerful character correctly, and yet he's popular.
Another classic that definitely deserves a DIF commentary is Blade Runner. It's got seven different versions to choose from...
The real issue is... Prometheus doesn't really know what it is and where it is going. While it's still a moderately entertaining movie that can be enjoyed on some levels, it's a shame to see the wasted potential. Story-wise it was incoherent, the writers simply didn't focus on the job.
It must have been written with LV-426 in mind, since it used all the classic imagery from Alien. Changing the location to LV-223 is probably the most egregious example of sloppy writing in the movie.
Erich von Däniken's theories make an interesting movie premise. Is it really so hard to execute it in an interesting manner? Writers of the Stargate franchise had an uninterrupted run of 14 years and they didn't explore the premise very well (they just preferred to play it safe and focus on the action & humor).
Most of the bad science doesn't really bother me - I guess at this point I've gotten used to it. Remember the supernova that "threatened to destroy the galaxy" in Star Trek (2009)? It was way worse than anything in Prometheus... And we've seen FTL travel and artificial gravity in all other Alien movies (we simply didn't know the exact date). It's just very hard to portray interstellar travel without them.
According to Last Tango In Paris, butter has more than one function.
I wouldn't exactly call Prometheus a clusterfuck... but it had the potential to be much more than it is. IMO it's much better than The Phantom Menace, which was the worst bummer of its decade.
Compared to Alien 3 & 4 and Alien vs Predator movies, Prometheus is not bad at all.
The Avengers is by far my favourite film this year
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The Dark Knight Rises didn't disappoint me, since I already knew nobody could out-Legder Heath Ledger anyway.
I found Men In Black III, American Reunion and The Hunger Games pretty entertaining, but not mind-blowing.
Also, I love Michelle Rodriguez
Oh yeah... I would tap that.
I haven't seen Planet Terror. Yet.
It's much more interesting than Death Proof (and there's a DIF commentary for it).
Chicken Little and Ice Age are pretty decent movies, but I always prefered the Shrek series (as I mentioned before, our Polish dub improves Shrek a lot).
Here's another one: Kill Bill is not that great. It feels like an over-indulgent fan film that has more style than substance, a 4-hour-long homage to old movies. Death Proof is another (more egregious) example of this.
I wonder if she's playing a young carol marcus
She looks more like Elizabeth Dehner (and that would suggest they're doing Gary Mitchell).
6 °C? By Polish standards, that's a very warm winter
Patrick Stewart had some very odd ideas about "Movie Picard" being different from his TV counterpart and insisted on referring to everything as 'Sexy'
That's what happens when a movie is being written by a committee...
Interestingly enough the first draft of Insurrection was a take on Heart of Darkness
But they wanted to retitle it Heart Of Lightness and have a "quirkier, lighter, more fun" story 
There's a document called Fade In: The writing of Star Trek Insurrection to be found on the Internet (it's an unpublished book written by Michael Piller). Check it out if you haven't seen it already, it's interesting.
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