Extended or Regular?

and thank god it wasnt howard the duck.

its not perfect but i like this movie.  not sure if i really want to hear this commentary as previous comments don't give me much hope of an unbiased viewing (the pans labyrinth one still irks me)....

we'll see tomorrow at work i guess

This is one of those episodes I really enjoy.  I didn't care for this film going in, but this conversation got me to, if not change my mind, at least shift it slightly from "Do not like" to "It's ok."

Coming from a jersey resident, teague, that accent is pisspoor.

Cellar Door?

You guys all missed a great trepanation joke/Ghostbusters reference, by the way. It was the perfect opportunity. "Hey, that would have worked if you hadn't stopped me" is a great line, and I use it a lot, but you guys were actually talking about drilling holes in heads. That sort of setup comes along once in a lifetime.

I didn't miss the connection, I just don't actually do Ghostbusters references. I figure, if you know Ghostbusters, the reference goes without saying. And if you don't, we can't be friends.

Conversely, if the filmmakers had had the kind of balls you'd need to put trepanation and atheism in a children's movie, GOLDEN COMPASS might have been a success.

There were a bunch of threads on various message boards trying to break down the story and metaphors and stuff when the film came out. One in particular stuck out to me because it was incredibly deranged yet plausible too. I can't find exact post at the moment, so here's the gist of it:

The insane asylum world is the real world. The burlesque parlor world is Sweat Pea's broken psyche's rationalization of the real world. "Dancing" in the burlesque world equates to sex in the real world. Anytime a girl is dancing, she is screwing an orderly in reality. Thus, when Baby Doll is dancing to distract guards, she is actually getting banged by an orderly while the other girls are doing their part in acquiring maps or whatever. The crazy insane fantasy worlds with German zombies and robots are Baby Doll's way of dealing with the rape in the asylum. The entire film is essentially about a bunch of mental patients coping with the sexual abuse from orderlies and doctors by imaging dream scenarios where they're free.

Sucker Punch was mind-numbingly awful. A complete waste of time.

Hack Snyder is just a terrible storyteller.

Iron Sky is being made in Finland, not Norway.