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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2008, 05:24:00 pm »
He's not in the military anymore.  He's running sight-seeing cruises through third-world countries, and just happens to get involved with a Christian mission that goes horribly wrong...
 
 Also, he may have found religion, which helps when ripping people's cuts out with your bare hands.
 
 
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 I'm sure you have to retire from the military at around 50years old, isn't Rambo pushing 70 at this point?

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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2008, 05:31:00 pm »
for nkotb:
 
 "Justice League of America" canned for now (same situation for "transformers 2")
 
  sneak peek of the all-new U.S.S. Enterprise
 
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #32 on: January 17, 2008, 05:31:00 pm »
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Originally posted by nkotb:
  He's not in the military anymore.  He's running sight-seeing cruises through third-world countries, and just happens to get involved with a Christian mission that goes horribly wrong...
 
 Also, he may have found religion, which helps when ripping people's cuts out with your bare hands.
 
   
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 I'm sure you have to retire from the military at around 50years old, isn't Rambo pushing 70 at this point?
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Who goes 'sight seeing' in third world countries...and while I'm no the subject, where are the second world countries?
 
 *edit*....for the benefit of GGW and all the other google reference geeks, no need to answer, I already know.

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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #33 on: January 17, 2008, 05:35:00 pm »
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  ...and while I'm no the subject, where are the second world countries?
 
I think "Manchester" qualifies.
 
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #34 on: January 17, 2008, 05:43:00 pm »
You're missing the main point...he rips a dudes throat out with his bare hands.  All of the plot holes in the world couldn't keep me from something so gore-tastic.
 
 
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 Who goes 'sight seeing' in third world countries...

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« Reply #35 on: January 18, 2008, 02:06:00 am »
saw AVP2 tonight... what a disappointment.  no, i wasn't expecting a plot, good dialogue or even decent acting - i just wanted to see aliens kick the lime-green shit out of each other.  but finally - the final big fight - is eff'ing too dark!  you can't see anything other than a few shadows slicing through the darkness with an occasional sound effect!!!  what a waste.
 
 on the upside, i got to chat with thatguy who i bumped into on my way out of the theater.  despite the trash-talk here, he was giving cloverfield a spin.  sorta weird seeing him out of context... like back when you're a kid and you see your teacher in the supermarket    :)
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #36 on: January 18, 2008, 03:40:00 am »
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 on the upside, i got to chat with thatguy who i bumped into on my way out of the theater.  despite the trash-talk here, he was giving cloverfield a spin.  sorta weird seeing him out of context... like back when you're a kid and you see your teacher in the supermarket     :)  
my cover is blown.  i do exist outside of the club.  actually, i just recently figured out how to disengage the collar that i used to have to wear. until then, if i wandered too far away from the central IMP command center, my head would've been blown off.
 
 cloverfield was alright.  i enjoyed myself, but didn't really connect with the characters enough to feel anything at all.  go in prepared to suspend all disbelief.  i mean all of it.  the big monster was one of the easier things you are asked to accept as possible.

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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2008, 10:49:00 am »
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  You're missing the main point...he rips a dudes throat out with his bare hands.  All of the plot holes in the world couldn't keep me from something so gore-tastic.
 
   
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 Who goes 'sight seeing' in third world countries...
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No kidding, it's like going to a porn flick and bitching about the furniture that the 9-way is taking place on.
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« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2008, 12:23:00 pm »
I believe the term is "ORGY" or "ORGIES"
 
 
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 No kidding, it's like going to a porn flick and bitching about the furniture that the 9-way is taking place on.
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« Reply #39 on: January 18, 2008, 01:58:00 pm »
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  ...and while I'm no the subject, where are the second world countries?
 
I think "Manchester" qualifies.
 
 Brian [/b]
After their primary, you're exactly right.
 
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #40 on: January 22, 2008, 03:35:00 am »
No Country for Old Men started strong then fizzled. Such a shame.
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #41 on: January 22, 2008, 08:58:00 am »
I can't believe Micahel Haneke is making a shot-for-shot remake of "Funny Games."  That's SUCH a disturbing movie.  I just watched the trailer for the 2008 version and it may have the strangest tone I've ever seen for a movie.  "Shot-for-shot" means they didn't change anything.  If you saw the original, you know exactly what's going to happen in this version.  Such a disturbing, unfunny film.
 
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« Reply #42 on: January 22, 2008, 02:58:00 pm »
oscar monimations are in... ratatouille got 5, and "Once" got a nod for best original song.  even Transformers got 3 noms (unfortunately, they have yet to create a "hottie of the year" category, otherwise it would have 4)
 
 Best motion picture of the year
 "Atonement"
 "Juno"
 "Michael Clayton"
 "No Country for Old Men"
 "There Will Be Blood"
 
 Performance by an actor in a leading role
 George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
 Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
 Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
 Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
 Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"
 
 Performance by an actor in a supporting role
 Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
 Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
 Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War"
 Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"
 Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"
 
 Performance by an actress in a leading role
 Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
 Julie Christie in "Away from Her"
 Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
 Laura Linney in "The Savages"
 Ellen Page in "Juno"
 
 Performance by an actress in a supporting role
 Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There"
 Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"
 Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"
 Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
 Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"
 
 Achievement in directing
 "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Julian Schnabel
 "Juno", Jason Reitman
 "Michael Clayton", Tony Gilroy
 "No Country for Old Men", Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
 "There Will Be Blood", Paul Thomas Anderson
 
 Best animated feature film of the year
 "Persepolis": Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
 "Ratatouille": Brad Bird
 "Surf's Up": Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
 
 Best foreign language film of the year
 "Beaufort" Israel
 "The Counterfeiters" Austria
 "Katyn" Poland
 "Mongol" Kazakhstan
 "12" Russia
 
 Adapted screenplay
 "Atonement", Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
 "Away from Her", Written by Sarah Polley
 "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
 "No Country for Old Men", Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
 "There Will Be Blood", Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
 
 Original screenplay
 "Juno", Written by Diablo Cody
 "Lars and the Real Girl", Written by Nancy Oliver
 "Michael Clayton", Written by Tony Gilroy
 "Ratatouille", Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
 "The Savages", Written by Tamara Jenkins
 
 Achievement in art direction
 "American Gangster": Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
 "Atonement": Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
 "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
 "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
 "There Will Be Blood": Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
 
 Achievement in cinematography
 "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford": Roger Deakins
 "Atonement": Seamus McGarvey
 "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski
 "No Country for Old Men": Roger Deakins
 "There Will Be Blood": Robert Elswit
 
 Achievement in costume design
 "Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
 "Atonement" Jacqueline Durran
 "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" Alexandra Byrne
 "La Vie en Rose" Marit Allen
 "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Colleen Atwood
 
 Best documentary feature
 "No End in Sight": Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
 "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience": Richard E. Robbins
 "Sicko": Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
 "Taxi to the Dark Side": Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
 "War/Dance": Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
 
 Best documentary short subject
 "Freeheld": Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
 "La Corona (The Crown)": Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
 "Salim Baba": Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
 "Sari's Mother": James Longley
 
 Achievement in film editing
 "The Bourne Ultimatum": Christopher Rouse
 "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling
 "Into the Wild": Jay Cassidy
 "No Country for Old Men" Roderick Jaynes
 "There Will Be Blood": Dylan Tichenor
 
 Achievement in makeup
 "La Vie en Rose" Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
 "Norbit": Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
 "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
 
 Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
 "Atonement" Dario Marianelli
 "The Kite Runner": Alberto Iglesias
 "Michael Clayton" James Newton Howard
 "Ratatouille" Michael Giacchino
 "3:10 to Yuma" Marco Beltrami
 
 Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
 "Falling Slowly" from "Once" Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
 "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted": Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
 "Raise It Up" from "August Rush": Nominees to be determined
 "So Close" from "Enchanted": Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
 "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted": Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
 
 Best animated short film
 "I Met the Walrus": Josh Raskin
 "Madame Tutli-Putli" National Film Board of Canada, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
 "Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
 "My Love (Moya Lyubov)": Alexander Petrov
 "Peter & the Wolf" Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
 
 Best live action short film
 "At Night": Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
 "Il Supplente (The Substitute)" : Andrea Jublin
 "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)": Philippe Pollet-Villard
 "Tanghi Argentini": Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
 "The Tonto Woman": Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
 
 Achievement in sound editing
 "The Bourne Ultimatum": Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
 "No Country for Old Men": Skip Lievsay
 "Ratatouille": Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
 "There Will Be Blood": Matthew Wood
 "Transformers": Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
 
 Achievement in sound mixing
 "The Bourne Ultimatum" Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
 "No Country for Old Men": Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
 "Ratatouille": Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
 "3:10 to Yuma": Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
 "Transformers": Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
 
 Achievement in visual effects
 "The Golden Compass": Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
 "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End": John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
 "Transformers": Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #43 on: January 22, 2008, 04:17:00 pm »
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  I can't believe Micahel Haneke is making a shot-for-shot remake of "Funny Games."  That's SUCH a disturbing movie.  I just watched the trailer for the 2008 version and it may have the strangest tone I've ever seen for a movie.  "Shot-for-shot" means they didn't change anything.  If you saw the original, you know exactly what's going to happen in this version.  Such a disturbing, unfunny film.
 
 Brian
I. CANT. WAIT.
 
 The original was one of the best movies I've ever seen, and this reimaging is going to be pretty damn great. Haneke said he wants to bring it to a wider audience and that the tone of the movie would be relevant today.
 
 Also, Juno was such a disappointment. Could've been great, but Knocked Up was WAY better.
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Re: Juno and other recent flicks
« Reply #44 on: January 22, 2008, 04:30:00 pm »
I liked Cloverfield - good escapist blockbuster.