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Post by Jen on Jul 21, 2006 11:59:14 GMT -5
So there's a bunch of stuff coming out today in the theater. There's Monster House, Lady in the Water and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. You can check out how they're doing at www.rottentomatoes.com/I'm kind of curious about all of them actually. Monster House is going to be really gross and rotoscoped, but its still an animated film and I can't resist animated films no matter how bad they are. Then Lady in the Water has me pretty intrigued! Curse you M. Night Shamalamadude and your mysterious trailers!! It's getting pretty subpar reviews, but I want to watch it anyways..... eventually. And finally My Super Ex-Girlfriend looks like fun. *shrugs* I probably won't watch anything in the theater though. Too expensive! So what do you guys think about these? |
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moro
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Post by moro on Jul 21, 2006 17:24:11 GMT -5
Gonna go see Lady in the Water tonight...It sounds really seriously weird, and probably not in a good way, cuz it features M. Night playing himself as the savior of the world, and monsters called Scrunts and Tartutics(??!!)* Should be interesting at the very least, though. (The cinematography is by Christopher Doyle, who did HERO.) So...I can give a full report in a few hours.^_^
*Yeeee-ah, these are almost as bad as George Lucas names, hehehe.
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Okay, I saw it...I didn't find it boring, but the plot was one of the strangest, most arbitrary things I've seen in a theater. (And the photography was kinda dissapointing. And M. Night Shyamalan seems to think he's the Second Coming. But I didn't think it was as horrible as THE VILLAGE.^^)
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Post by zuruzuruku on Jul 21, 2006 20:59:08 GMT -5
Shyamalamalayan just makes me angry anymore. Sixth Sense was cool, but it wasn't an excuse to make movies like Signs or the Village. Lady in the Water just sounds laughable. There's probably a reason they won't show anything in the trailers. I mean... just the enormous pretentiousness of casting himself as the future savior of mankind, plus throwing in a cynical movie critic who gets killed by the "scrunt" as a premature stab at the people who are going to be walking away disappointed, is pretty disgusting. I've heard surprisingly good things about Monster House, though it'll be all ugly and mo-capped. Maybe we can rent it six months from now.  Super Ex-Girlfriend had Uma Thurman throwing a shark into that dude's bedroom, that looked awesome. The rest, uh.... |
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Post by CaptainObvious on Jul 24, 2006 13:25:15 GMT -5
i want to see a movie with a shark been thrown into a bedroom!!!! how about that movie "Who killed the electric car?" i hear awesome stuff about it.
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Post by samacleod on Jul 29, 2006 1:27:18 GMT -5
Didn't like Lady in the water, I thought it was his weakest so far. The story was interesting but didn't feel like it was told in the best way. The director is way pretentious...his part WAS too big in the movie and there were moments where I felt llike he was bragging to be a great storyteller. Most of what he does well seems to be stolen from other directors. I'm still a sucker for his films though, and I keep hoping the next one will be as good as sixth sense...
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moro
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Post by moro on Jul 29, 2006 3:36:24 GMT -5
Saw MIAMI VICE last night. The shaky cam stuff kind of got my nerves, but I thought it was pretty good overall, nice intense action sequences. It also has Gong Li, if you like Gong Li.
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Post by Juice on Jul 30, 2006 12:35:49 GMT -5
I really liked Lady in the Water.
His films, in MY order:
Unbreakable
Sixth Sense
Lady in the Water
Signs
The Villiage
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Post by samacleod on Jul 31, 2006 1:10:40 GMT -5
Sixth Sense
Signs
Unbreakable
da Village
Lady in da Water
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Post by CaptainObvious on Jul 31, 2006 18:20:59 GMT -5
sixth sense
unbreakable...
what else did he make?
...tumbleweed flies by...
CRAPS
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Post by Jen on Jul 31, 2006 22:34:50 GMT -5
So ed...... did you crap, or did the tumbleweed crap? I'm confused.
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moro
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Post by moro on Jul 31, 2006 23:59:48 GMT -5
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Post by CaptainObvious on Aug 3, 2006 0:12:19 GMT -5
That's hilarious moro.
Jen, use your imagination... i really only meant to say he made more crappy movies after unbreakable.
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Post by Heidi on Aug 3, 2006 11:08:03 GMT -5
Haven't seen Lady in the Water. But I LIKE Signs despite everyone's hatred for it.
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