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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Well, have you? I have, I saw Traffic, definately one of the best films I have ever had the good fortune to see. Much better Soderbergh than Erin Brokovich.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

No, I have not....

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Traffic was good.

American Psycho, Wonder Boys, Virgin Suicides and The Replacements are other recent favorites of mine.

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

I saw Saving Silverman with a couple of buddies on Friday. Man that's a funny flick!

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

You actually LIKED American Psycho? Wow........ I work in a movie store, and we got more complaints from that movie alone than any other movie before and since. Huh.

I liked What Lies Beneath..... and also, I still love Gone In 60 Seconds, though it's not NEARLY as cool since MY car got stolen.....

~LOA

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I don't rent videos, as I'm sure you recall from a minor rant about them. Recently I've seen Traffic in the cinema, and Unbreakable before that. I'm going to see Hannibal on Wednesday. On Sky Cinema (satellite) recently I've watched In Dreams, The Siege and. . . lots of other things, many of them shite.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Snatch was a great movie. I recommend it.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

American Psycho was excellent. You ought to read the book by Ellis, of course. It's like Titus. Opinions on such films are polar.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Saw Quills the other day. Not bad save that it turned the Marquis de Sade into an advocate for the first amendment rather than a wacked out, um, wacko.

That AND I could have gone sooooooooo much longer without seeing Geoffrey Rush in full frontal nudity!

Scared for life I am.

Snatch was ok. Better than not, but a bit too cute for it's own good.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

I much enjoyed American Psycho ... mind you, I was quite scared when Christian Bale goes on about all the crap he puts on his face in the beginning of the movie, but except for Dafoe's wasted character, it was a really great flick. Even the style it was shot in is reminiscent of the boring camera-angles and styles which characterized many '80's flicks. Hell, even Ronald Reagan has a cameo (well, sorta).

Did it seem to anyone besides me that Bateman spent just a tad too much time killing people and returning videotapes?

I appreciated it even more after VH1 aired "Behind The Music: The Huey Lewis And The News Story"

Are you 100% sure that Dogma didn't get more complaints? That flick made fun of the platypus. Well, Catholics too, but mostly the platypuses. Honestly, if my grandma ever saw that movie, she'd blow a gasket (or forty).

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

As far as recent movies go, I agree that Traffic was really good.

As for movies I've seen recently, but that aren't new, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I now no longer think only of Edward Scissorhands when someone mentions Johnny Depp. :-)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

A movie getting complaints isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm sure "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is very scary, and as such, a good 'scary movie'. But the swedish moral guardians, in their ignorance, associated all VCR-titles, and even the machine itself, with "T.C.M" and there was puritanian Crusade. Videos are baaad. You have a VCR at home? You will go to hell! It's not as if you can store OTHER things on a tape.

I liked "American Psycho" but the ending left me wanting. Something more should've happened, no just seeing him calming down and getting tired...

Dogma was great, and they did apologize beforehand, so if people take it personally it's because they're so bored that they have to have something to mutually 'hate'.

I liked 'Meet Joe Black'. My christian halfbrother avoided it because he thought Pitt played the devil, but I filled him in.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Is there something in the bible that prohibits Brad Pitt from playing Satan? Does it allow that guy who does "Him" on the PPG to play, er, him?

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Oh yeah, I also saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, that was really good too (and nuts to anyone who didn't like the flying). I'm quite impressed with this year's Oscar Best picture nominees. Not like '97 with that crap movie about the silly boat.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Yeah, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is probably one of the best I've seen for a while. I've seen plenty of other films but I can't remember what they were so they mustn't have been great.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Ah yes, Cringing Leopard, Dozy Frog as my brother calls it. 8)

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Am I the only one who thought that 'Crouching Man in the bush with a monkey in the bush who may or may not also be the man who is hidden' should have been set up the bomb?

It was absolutely nothing new.

Academy: Oh, but it's foreign! And has a female lead! Woohoo! let's nominate it, because we're so artsy.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

I saw Titus a little while ago. Freaky, but I liked it. And Dogma's awesome, too. And I also enjoyed Mission to Mars and The General's Daughter...

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Yeah, i really liked titus, it just took a few weeks of therapy to recover from it.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

LOL...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

To answer the original question: No.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Another two I liked were Red Planet and Memento.

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Crouching Cider, Hidden Flagon -

a harrowing tale of life in hte inner city, as one old alcoholic tries to teach a 15 year old the true value of flagons of cider as opposed to the evils of drinking in pubs, with their crisps and peanuts and music.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Dancer In the Dark Bj�rk was SUBLIME!
Quills (the whole CAST was fantastic)
Shadow of the Vampire John Malkovich = awesome actor
Small Time Crooks Absolutely HILARIOUS!
The Emperor and the Assassin Breath-taking

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Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :

As a "real" Chinese (not ABC, nor CBC), I have to say other then two of the fight scences, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The characters makes no connection to each other, further more, the story line does not flow smoothly.

In all, the books are way more better

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Yeah, I'm not FOX or CBS either, and I didn't like that movie at all.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Well, I am an ABC, but i still enjoyed the movie, but not the horrible mandarin.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

The Long Kiss Goodnight

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I especially like the scene where they run from a grenade-explosion that is chasing them at 15mph.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Since UM has already stolen the joke, I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and ask:

What's an ABC or CBC?

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

The American President, American Psycho, Any Given Sunday, Armageddon, Blazing Saddles, Chicken Run, Clerks (Animated Series), Contact, Courage Under Fire, Dazed and Confused, Fallen, Fight Club, Fish Called Wanda, Glory, Highlander, Highlander: Endgame, Hollow Man, Keeping the Faith, Leon: The Professional, Long Kiss Goodnight, Magnolia, Matrix, Mumford, Office Space, Platoon, Princess Bride, Replacements, Silence of the Lambs, Sleepy Hollow, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, The Thin Red Line, Virgin Suicides

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

American-born or Canadian-born Chinese, Liam.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Well, I just saw Chocolat tonight... WONDERFUL! Simply, Wonderful... Juliette Binoche should get Best Actress - was she nominated!?! Was Judi Dench nominated?? She was fantabulous...

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Yes, we are very proud of Lasse Hallstr�m. And Lena is still nice. I've been meaning to see that flick.

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Here lies a toppled god,
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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

TURNIP!!!

*cough*

TURNIP!

*gagh!*

TURNIP!

TURNIIIIIIIP!

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Stop that right now!!! Now you will never go to heaven, Jeff...

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

ALL YOUR TURNIP ARE BELONG TO NOT ME!

Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Both Judi Dench and Juliette Binoche were nominated IIRC

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Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :

I feel like I should further explain my previous response:

What I said about ABC or CBC, I meant that maybe for CBC or ABC, the cultural characteristics, the sense of chinese heroism, or the methods of romance in ancient China is unfamiliar to them since they weren't expose to that much of Chinese culture.

What I'm trying to say is, this movie didn't represent the ancient spirit of China(hell, half of the cast can't even speak proper Mandarin). For me, this movie is more like Matrix meet Jackie Chan, because it didn't include things that I explained before in the previous paragraph.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

There are Canadian-born Chinese Liams now? Are they the ones involved in this turnip debacle? I will not stand for it if they are.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

The flag that used for the purposed of being the flag that us used as the national flag of the country known as China is red.

So?

SO ARE TURNIPS!

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Actually I recall the Sacred Flag Of Turnips to be of a more light urple hue. Ask Psy. Being the proverbial turnip, he should be well versed in their affairs.

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a turnip.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Yeah, i definately see your point. Most of my ABC friends (and even a couple mainlanders) really liked the movie, my mom however was moderately unimpressed to say the least, though i also dislike Jackie Chan.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

The Long Kiss Goodnight begins, more or less, with Geena Davis being kicked in the head by a deer. This was the high point of the film. Had it been nothing but a continuing sequence of shots wherein Ms. Davis was kicked in the head by deer, elk, and other hoofed mammals I would recommend The Long Kiss Goodnight whole-heartedly. As it was filmed, however, the hoof-to-head quotient of this film is quite low, replaced by far too many scenes in which we are asked to seriously accept the idea of Ms. Davis as a trash-talking assassin. To be fair, this is no less unbelievable than Ms. Davis as a trash-talking (and monkey-wearing) pirate.

Having said all that, of course, your milage may vary.

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

Well, I've found a new .sig...

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

They may take our turnips, but they will never take our potatos!! Hell, I'll give them the turnips.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

What is history?

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

The Long Kiss Goodnight was an excellent tongue-in-cheek flick. I really enjoyed it, and it is just one of many reasons why Samuel L. Jackson is THE MAN.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Am I an ABGIFDEW? American-born German-Irish-French-Dutch-English-Welsh?

And wouldn't a Canadian-born anything already be American-born, as well?

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Had the film been tounge in cheek it would have been a vast improvement, as the dialouge would have been replaced with various mumbling noises.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I feel guilty now for being an EBE. I'm not interesting.

Oh, wait, I'm one-quarter Irish. As they say, whoop-bloody-pee.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Um, Electron? As I understand it, something like 80% of China can't speak Mandarin & actually speaks whatever fun little subdialect lives in the area.

Plus the cast isn't very Chinese. Michelle Yeoh is Thai(? Singapori?) & Chow Yun-Fat is as well. (I think)

Nimsy-poo: "Urple?" Is that one of the new Crayola colors like Bile & Bloody Colon Crimson?

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Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :

Exactly, a film about ancient China, and they can't even get a cast that speak decent Mandarin.

It is like getting New Yorkers to play John Wayne cowboy movies! Most people in the States don't have that "cowboy" accent, but man, it would be screwed up to get people without the accent to play the movie.

Same situation apply here, you either do the movie in Cantonese, or in Mandarin, but don't get Cantonese speaking cast to play Mandarin speaking characters!

And it's not only about the language part that I'm pissed off at, the movie totally twisted the view of ancient Chinese heroism, and Chinese romance.

I guess you really have to read the books to understand what I'm talking about.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Shik: Quite obviousely, Urple, and it's sister colour, Light Urple, are some of the few colours that end in Urple.

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Take it away, Sam.

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Like, way to trash one of my favourite movies, Simon. B(

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I just saw "Once Upon A Time In China" with Jet Li. Not as serious as the tiger-dragon, but it had some good scenes, especially the final fight.

*kungfumovierave* Behold my Boon Rawd Fist!!! You will fall before my dragon-pants kick! NAAAAAAIIIIAAAHHHH!!!

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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Hmm, once upon a time in china was a good movie, but the best Jet Li movie has to be Fist of Legend. Some of the best fight scenes ever

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Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :

yeah man, that one kicked ass, especially when he duke it out with the Japanese "robot" dude.

But man, I still have to say the original "fist of legend" by Bruce Lee is better.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Kosh... potatoes

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Yeah, the Bruce Lee-movies were purer. Jet-Li seems to take after Jackie Chan too much, with the climbing on all surfaces and throwing objects. The ladder-fighting of "OUaTiC" was a bit much.
Didn't Bruce Lee do "Fist of Fury"? I need to see that one, and "Game of Death"...

There wrere four trailers on the "OUaTiC"-tape, with five minutes of every movie. They really show too much in their trailers, like, one portion of every big scene in the whole movie...

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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Rockin' hilarious fight scene? Bruce Lee & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1978's "Game Of Death." There's an homage fight scene to it in "Cowboy Bebop."

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Dude, Bruce died in -72...

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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Actually, he died in 1973. July 20th, to be exact.

Billy Lo portrays Bruce Lee in Game of Death, which was released in 1978, and my roomate just left to go to work (nevermind that he was scheduled at 10am, what a doofus).

Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Chow Yun-Fat is Cantonese (but from Hong Kong, not Caton). I haven't seen Crouching Tiger yet, but several of my friends (only one of whom is Chinese) tell me it's good. As I remember back in Taiwan, if the actors didn't speak "correct" Mandarin, their voices are usually dubbed over by a different actor. I hated that because the voice is usually the idealized type that doesn't always fit the actor, and it sounds VERY dubbed. Actually, along the lines of what Shik was saying, different accents in characters would be more correct because you'd probably hear accents all the time in China.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

I thought Fist of Legend was a remake of Lee's Chinese Connection. Either way I find Jet Li to be "purer" than Jackie Chan, who i think only plays for laughs now. That cartoon on WB pretty much proves it.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Yeah, but Lee still is my fav.
Jeff, I think Billy Lo was the character he played in "Game Of death", they must've shot the scenes before he died. How can they have copied his moves and speed to that extent otherwise?

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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram