movies

[Freed Roger]

i must see this

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I read the book.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

OK all you tough guys, when you're ready for a break from your summer time blow-em-ups and creep-fests, go see Toy Story 3. My wife and I took our 10 year old and were very surprised at how good it was just on a standard movie scale. If you have kids or have been a kid at some time in your life, it will resonate. Very well told story.

[Freed Roger]

OK all you tough guys, when you're ready for a break from your summer time blow-em-ups and creep-fests, go see Toy Story 3. My wife and I took our 10 year old and were very surprised at how good it was just on a standard movie scale. If you have kids or have been a kid at some time in your life, it will resonate. Very well told story.

We liked it too. A fun movie.

[Maclowery]

Just showed Eastern Promises to some of my friends last night. David Cronenburg movie starring a extremely badass Viggo Mortensen. It's very, very violent, and very awesome. It's about the Russian mob in London. If you like a gritty, hard-ass movie, this is a superb one for you. I won't explain any more - the kids I showed it to didn't know a thing but that, and they were all floored.

Oh, one tidbit: It features one of the most brutal fight scenes I've ever seen. If you've seen the movie, don't reveal it, let newcomers be shocked all the more. Har har to those in the know

[Freed Roger]

Just showed Eastern Promises to some of my friends last night. David Cronenburg movie starring a extremely badass Viggo Mortensen. It's very, very violent, and very awesome. It's about the Russian mob in London. If you like a gritty, hard-ass movie, this is a superb one for you. I won't explain any more - the kids I showed it to didn't know a thing but that, and they were all floored.

Oh, one tidbit: It features one of the most brutal fight scenes I've ever seen. If you've seen the movie, don't reveal it, let newcomers be shocked all the more. Har har to those in the know

Good movie. But I didn't need to see

[SHOW]

Viggo naked fight scene. Or Viggo partaking with waif girl/prositute

But you guys probably liked it.

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[Maclowery]

Good movie. But I didn't need to see

[SHOW]

Viggo naked fight scene. Or Viggo partaking with waif girl/prositute

But you guys probably liked it.

/zing

[SHOW]

It was even more entertaining to me, to not tell my friends, as I watched it with a lesbian couple and my buddy who everyone at work is convinced is closeted. So watching all three squirm while trying to watch the fight made it even more fun for me. I conveniently was in the kitchen grabbing beer during most of the naked bloody fight scene

[The Third Man]

Hey omaha, I finally saw Boogie Nights.

That was awesome. Can't believe it took me this long to get around to PTA's other films. It took me about halfway into it to realize that it was basically GoodFellas with porn stars, which, as a Scorsese nut, only made it that much more enjoyable. Not a retread at all, though. Definitely a new favorite.

[heyzeus]

I'm on a mission to see the movies that came out before my time, and that when I tell people I haven't seen them they just look at me funny.

So I just watched Chinatown. I like to read the newspaper reviews of movies from when they came out. The NYTimes film reviewer from the 70s fairly well slammed the movie, saying that Polansky made a warmed-over Big Sleep or Maltese Falcon, except as a period piece. He'd rather just watch a real-deal film noir detective movie than what was essentially a 70s reboot.

And I can see that. I don't know that Chinatown does anything better than The Big Sleep. The plot is a bit more convoluted than it needs to be, the big reveal of the killer was salacious but implausible when you think about it, and we never really understand what happened to Jake in Chinatown or why that's such a big important deal.

But, Jack Nicholson also is awesome as a wisecracking, smartass private detective. And as a water lawyer, I liked the mystery of the nighttime rivers. It was a pretty fun movie to watch and puzzle over.

It gets 7 Taguchimakers out of 10.

[The Third Man]

Chinatown is an 11/10 you monster.

[JL21]

Hey omaha, I finally saw Boogie Nights.

That was awesome. Can't believe it took me this long to get around to PTA's other films. It took me about halfway into it to realize that it was basically GoodFellas with porn stars, which, as a Scorsese nut, only made it that much more enjoyable. Not a retread at all, though. Definitely a new favorite.

The tracking shot in Goodfellas early on would function as the parallel to the tracking shot in the pool early on in Boogie Nights.

PTA is quickly becoming one of my very favorites. Or at least, he's one of my very favorites that's working today.

Oh... and, uh... obligatory:

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