Re: Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread
This thread has come to remind be of that Onion article about the guy who writes for Just Shoot Me and refers to it as "JSM" and assumes that everyone watches it.
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Re: Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread
Zarban wrote:
This thread has come to remind be of that Onion article about the guy who writes for Just Shoot Me and refers to it as "JSM" and assumes that everyone watches it.
Um, who's "be" and why are they being reminded? 
Also, I am excited about seeing Hugh Jackman as Wolverine again
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Saniss wrote:
fireproof78 wrote:Um, who's "be" and why are they being reminded?
He has a cold, leave him alone!
Sarcasm-its all I got 
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New Edgar Wright interview at IGN- click
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I remember it took me quite a while to figure out what HIMYM was...
/thought maybe it was Korean anime
/Himym Style!
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Oppa Himym Style!
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Just watched The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), another of the Ealing comedies starring Alec Guinness. I pooped on The Ladykillers here a few weeks ago, but I really liked this one. Guinness is a gold bullion delivery man who finally musters up the courage to rob it. He and his little gang (with Alfie Bass) recast the gold into model Eiffel towers to smuggle it out of the country. The humor and acting are solid thruout; there's a fair bit of car chases and other modest action; and there are a couple of really clever set pieces.
If you've only ever seen Guinness in Star Wars, check out this and/or Bridge on the River Kwai. He had a wonderfully light comic touch and class.
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I watched the first hour of a film called Children of Paradise in my film history class a few days ago. Totally fell in love with it, even though we didn't even get halfway through. It's one of the pitfalls of the course schedule, but some exposure is better than none, I guess.
I loved how smoothly the character relationships were established. When they were all being introduced, I assumed that we would never see them again, and that the film would be about the various people who inhabited the streets of 1820s Paris. I think I was subconsciously being reminded of The Bicycle Thief, which had lots of minor characters pop into the story and then leave, for the purpose of establishing the atmosphere of the city. But instead, the characters all meet each other and form their various relationships, all of which are compelling.
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I watched Mad Max and The Road Warrior yesterday and today and, wow, do they hold up. I'm sure I hadn't seen them in about 25 years, and they just knocked me out with their attention to character and theme while delivering on the cars and crashes. Great, great films.
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Yep. Road Warrior is one of my all time top fave movies.
/may have made a full-on Road Warrior costume sometime in the past
/may still have it
/don't judge
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Road Warrior is great, I got it on blu ray last year and was pleasantly surprised to discover it has a George Miller commentary on it. May need to give it a re-listen soon actually.
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/may have made a full-on Road Warrior costume sometime in the past
/may still have it
/don't judge
Why would we judge awesomeness?
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George also runs the excellent Dr. D facility in Sydney (which, in my fantasy life where I don't have bills to pay, I would intern at, right after animal logic).
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Finally got around to seeing BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD a few days ago. If you haven't seen it, definitely check it out.
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By the way - thank you Dave, for not playing the "It's called MAD MAX II, not 'the Road Warrior' card just there. 
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I was going to call it Mad Max II but I decided against it as I actually prefer The Road Warrior. And on my blu ray, it has both
(I wasn't going to call it that to be a dick, I just have a thing about calling films their original name. I call The Raid: Redemption, just The Raid, for example and although it is called Marvel's Avengers Assemble here, it's plain old The Avengers to me )
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Good point. I would normally call it Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, just like I say Leon: The Professional and also Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
I like to cover all the bases: wickets.
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Multi-cultural are we.
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Multi-cultural, are we?
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The scourge of the land and sea.
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Trey wrote:
Yep. Road Warrior is one of my all time top fave movies.
/may have made a full-on Road Warrior costume sometime in the past
/may still have it
/don't judge
Relax, you're in safe company.
Speaking of Mad Max, what did folks think of Doomsday, the Neil Marshall film about a wild post-apocalyptic Scotland? Marshall claims the third act is inspired by Road Warrior. I enjoyed it, and it didn't have anything at all to do with the beautiful Rhona Mitra, honest.
Anyway... who runs Barter Town?
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
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You know who.
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Doomsday is unfortunately a disappointing mess in my opinion. 3 different potentially cool movies awkwardly smashed together, and with really shitty action over-editing. It borders on Quantum of Solace levels of incomprehensibility at times. Has a really good Escape from Scotland setup, but doesn't really deliver on the potential of that premise.
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redxavier wrote:
Speaking of Mad Max, what did folks think of Doomsday, the Neil Marshall film about a wild post-apocalyptic Scotland?
Isn't really that much different to the way Scotland is now.
And I'm with Bullet, it's a mess of a movie. Has some good ideas, even the ones nicked from other movies, but it tries to be so many things at once. It's far too muddled although I do like the climax using Two Tribes on the soundtrack.
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