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  • #31
    Originally posted by Cort Haus
    First Matrix wasn't too bad, but the second was tedious. Anyone who complains about LOTR sequels being 'too epic' though probably doesn't even realise where the story comes from. I mean yeah, let's end the story a third of the way through.
    I'm not saying they should have stopped after the first one, I just failed to be entertained after the first movie. The others felt like they got bogged down in talking. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't anything like Death Proof though. I think part of it is also that I've always disliked the Fantasy genre.
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    • #32
      "got bogged down in talking" :hehe: I presume you haven't read the book.

      You probably don't like classic Film Noir then, where hard-boiled dialogue in moodily-lit sets IS the action.

      Bogart

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      • #33
        No, I haven't read the book. I read 8 or so chapters of the Hobbit and couln't really stand it. I actually do enjoy noir a lot, but the differences in dialogue between LOTR and noir is vast.
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        Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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        • #34
          The version of Romeo & Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

          They managed to turn a great play into crap, and got praised for it.

          I mean there were scenes in there that were using EXACTLY the same sort of "this-is-so-cheesy-it's-funny-don't-you-see?" tecnique that a series of unbelievably unfunny bubble gum adds in Finland was using at the time.
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          • #35
            Originally posted by nostromo
            Spiderman 2 kicked ass
            Fixed.
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #36
              Re: R & J: Parts of that were good, parts of it were interesting, but by and large yes that was a gooey heap of butt puke.
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              Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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              • #37
                Spiderman was ok. Spidey II was ok. Neither was particularly good.

                And Imran, you're smoking crack about Shawshank. Great movie

                Hmm... overrated. Overrated by whom?

                bpb - suffice it to say that the films did a pretty good job of being true in spirit to the book, and where they didn't it wasn't an issue of taking too long - it was the other way 'round at times. The book is massive.

                -Arrian
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by MightyTiny
                  The version of Romeo & Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

                  They managed to turn a great play into crap, and got praised for it.
                  I never heard the reviews but am surprised if good things were said. I can endure most movies but only lasted through 30 minutes (at most) of this crap.
                  "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                  "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Provost Harrison
                    Battlefield Earth. Even if people say it is sh*t, they are still overrating it
                    Fixed.
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                    • #40
                      All comic book-based movies.
                      THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                      AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                      AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                      DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by LordShiva
                        All comic book-based movies.
                        QFT.

                        Bkeela on the first page was complaining of the crap Hollywood has produced over the past ten years. He then went on to list a slew of comic book movies.

                        I think we've found his problem.
                        "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                        "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                        • #42
                          We are still on the first page
                          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                            We are still on the first page
                            My second.

                            edit - Bkeela's post was #14 (for the nitpicky crowd )
                            "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                            "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Wezil


                              I never heard the reviews but am surprised if good things were said. I can endure most movies but only lasted through 30 minutes (at most) of this crap.
                              Yeah, and I rented it years ago expecting something really good after reading favourable reviews - I WANTED to like the movie. It took all my patience to suffer through it.

                              I mean look at the result at rottentomatoes.com for the movie : http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/will...eo_and_juliet/

                              74% of reviews by movie critics were favourable.

                              What's wrong with people?
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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


                                Fixed.
                                I really wrote that?
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