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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1110 on: February 11, 2010, 05:51:50 AM »



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« Reply #1111 on: February 11, 2010, 06:01:03 AM »




That's actually a sick movie.  Zardoz rocks.
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« Reply #1112 on: February 11, 2010, 08:10:04 AM »

That's actually a sick movie.  Zardoz rocks.

Yeah. They got Beethoven to write the music.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1113 on: February 12, 2010, 12:00:17 AM »

I made it though 1/2 of Zardoz last night. I found it amazingly intriguing. I am still a bit wierded out by Sean Connery's red diaper and killer boots though.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1114 on: February 13, 2010, 03:35:07 AM »





i wonder if connery has a photo of him in that movie hanging on his wall, hahaha!

avatar - crap, stupid environmentalist movie, i hate that shit

the hurt locker - awesome

whip it - chick flick i was forced to watch although ellen page is very easy on the eyes.

district 9 - very funny, loved it when they went in to evict the aliens, laughed my ass off.


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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1115 on: February 13, 2010, 11:04:07 AM »

f00kin' prawns!
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1116 on: February 13, 2010, 11:06:40 AM »

avatar - crap, stupid environmentalist movie, i hate that shit

Hmm, I saw it as a remarkable assertion and triumph of property rights.   :wink:
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« Reply #1117 on: February 13, 2010, 11:10:13 AM »

avatar - crap, stupid environmentalist movie, i hate that shit

Hmm, I saw it as a remarkable assertion and triumph of property rights.   :wink:

Rationalize much?
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« Reply #1118 on: February 13, 2010, 11:14:05 AM »

avatar - crap, stupid environmentalist movie, i hate that shit

Hmm, I saw it as a remarkable assertion and triumph of property rights.   :wink:

Rationalize much?

Hmmm, let's see.  A bunch of people invade a planet in an attempt to take resources from that planet against the will of the planet's occupants.   First they try defrauding the occupants, but when that doesn't work they use outright force to destroy one of their most prized possessions.   Said occupants then proceed to beat the living hell out of the invaders and force them to leave. 

Yep, sounds like property rights to me. 
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« Reply #1119 on: February 13, 2010, 11:53:34 AM »

I agree on the property rights thing.

Still, it was a pretty hackneyed plot, well-worn from many previous incarnations. What sets the movie apart is the use of technology. That in itself isn't enough to make a move great, just interesting. And, I thought entertaining.

Avatar, fun. Best picture, alas, no.
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« Reply #1120 on: February 13, 2010, 12:10:15 PM »

Still, it was a pretty hackneyed plot, well-worn from many previous incarnations. What sets the movie apart is the use of technology. That in itself isn't enough to make a move great, just interesting. And, I thought entertaining.

Avatar, fun. Best picture, alas, no.

I have no opinion on "best picture," except that I don't consider lack of originality to be a problem at all.   West Side Story was Romeo and Juliet, The Lion King was Hamlet, etc. etc.  I actually enjoy seeing reiterations of common myths in different contexts.  

Besides the pure visual aspect and the supernaturally athletic blue people, what I enjoyed about Avatar was the idea of a natural system analogous to both a computer and a human brain at once.  How convenient that animals and trees have USB inputs/neurological synapses!  How did that work, evolutionarily, and what does it mean in terms of individual rights?  What is an individual, anyway, in a context like that?  Because it sure seems like Enwa, or Emwa, or whatever their goddess's name is, would count.  

Not keen on the whole "males choose a female mate, and they are bonded for life" bullshit, though.   Supposedly the Na'vi and his/her dragon are bonded for life, too, but that didn't stop Sully from cheating on his own dragon for a bigger, oranger one.  Apparently monogamy is one-sided in this society.....
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1121 on: February 13, 2010, 12:42:20 PM »

avatar - crap, stupid environmentalist movie, i hate that shit

Hmm, I saw it as a remarkable assertion and triumph of property rights.   :wink:

Rationalize much?

Hmmm, let's see.  A bunch of people invade a planet in an attempt to take resources from that planet against the will of the planet's occupants.   First they try defrauding the occupants, but when that doesn't work they use outright force to destroy one of their most prized possessions.   Said occupants then proceed to beat the living hell out of the invaders and force them to leave. 

Yep, sounds like property rights to me. 

Yet much of the film revolves on the subtext that technology is bad, m'kay? This shit is Ferngully in 3d, meh. I'm tempted to write up one of my weird ass stories in contrast to this (about colonization and empires). :-P
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« Reply #1122 on: February 13, 2010, 02:43:10 PM »

Yet much of the film revolves on the subtext that technology is bad, m'kay?

You mean the technology that enabled a disabled guy to transfer himself to an able-bodied 10 foot tall basketball player and find love with his female equivalent?  Yeah, that was terrible.   :wink:

My friend and I had a talk afterward about what happened to any fat or near-sighted Na'vi, whether they ever got diseases, and how they were missing out on the internet.  But they seemed to be doing all right.   When you've got a USB goddess and a brain that plugs into dragons through your hair, I'm not sure you need Youtube. 
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1123 on: February 13, 2010, 05:48:38 PM »

i just watched pirate radio for the first time and i have to say it could possibly be NUMBER TWO on my ALLTIME favorites list.

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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #1124 on: February 13, 2010, 07:35:30 PM »

Equilibrium was on Syfy today so I watched it.  It was basically a slightly modified 1984 plot and some cool fight scenes.  I thought it was pretty good.
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