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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Sep 12, 2011 - 08:40pm PT
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Today I watched the dreary Henry's Crime with Keanu Reeves . How did this move make north of $100 million?
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ncrockclimber
climber
The Desert Oven
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Sep 12, 2011 - 09:32pm PT
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Just saw 180 south. AWESOME!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Sep 12, 2011 - 09:36pm PT
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Tremors Rules.
Joey, TMWSLibertyV, one of my top 5 of all time. Named a FA after it. Lee M at his best. One of the best lines, "Liberty Valance and his myrmadons."
I Hate P, Check, "Shawn of the Dead." Will do.
"Cowboys and Aliens!!!"
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2011 - 01:06am PT
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shark night, worst movie ive seen this year.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2011 - 01:14am PT
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final destination 5, not too bad.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 15, 2011 - 04:18pm PT
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Dr. Akagi
I saw Dr. Akagi yesterday. A brilliant picture it was, the last scene still standing before me. The ahabic phallic american beast raising in the west, even more scary than the judge of Blood Meridian, raising and bending over the best little doctor you could find and the best little wannabe whore you will ever see in a boat. A deeply touching movie made by Imamura with a lot of humor, making me laugh at myself when I discover that dr. Liver has been right all along about hepatitis, while I and the villagers have been laughing at him. The only problem for the doctor being that it is impossible to fight an epidemic where the germs are dropped by the enemy, possibly in the name of God and Fatherland. A beautiful multifaceted story. The girl and the whale - no Ahab complex there - she loved f*#king a lot more than the killing of the whale.
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Byran
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Merced, CA
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Sep 15, 2011 - 06:07pm PT
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Saw a few more recently.
The Eagle - Came out earlier this year. It's about a Roman dude and a slave who go on a quest to find a lost eagle crest or something. It's alright. It's kind of boring at times, but they got a lot of good on location shots with beautiful scenery and stuff. Good costumes too. Basically it just looks very pretty.
Mad Max - I'd never seen the original before. It's a little different than I was expecting. The middle of the film dragged on a bit, but overall it was alright. A very weird film.
Xmen Origins: Wolverine - This movie sucked. The plot doesn't make any sense, the character development and acting is terrible, and even some of the CGI is really fake looking. Some of the action scenes are alright, but not good enough to make up for an otherwise shitty movie.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Sep 17, 2011 - 12:49am PT
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Just got back from Contagion with Matt Damon at al. Pretty good. Bit scary... make sure you wash your hands boys and girls!
Last night watched a new Australian film called Red Hill. Cool movie. A modern western in many ways. Worthy of a rent.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Sep 17, 2011 - 04:53pm PT
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I decided I must say more about Red Hill.
The film made only $21,000 in the US.
Director Patrick Hughes' first feature. Only shorts before this.
Actor Tommy Lewis says seven words in the whole film but he is a fantastic "bad guy." Almost Eastwoodian!
The town sherrif played by Steve Bisley, a main actor, has done plenty of films but you have heard of not one of them.
The lead actor, Jason Stackhouse IS known in the US, as the the highly-sexed town heartthrob on True Blood.
This is a GREAT movie. The twists are perfect, the acting/dialogue ratio is just right. The cinematography is beautiful, great sound effects (some of the bullets into skin stuff is damn creepy and the gurgling of blood from a spear wound will keep you awake.)
Rent this and tell me what you think.
http://www.redhillmovie.com/
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Sep 17, 2011 - 04:56pm PT
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Whale Rider
If you haven't seen it, check it out.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 17, 2011 - 07:39pm PT
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re: Red Hill
Haha, only 2.6 stars at netflix. ;)
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re: Whale Rider
At least Whale Rider gets 3.4 - 3.8. Which translates to pretty good.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Sep 17, 2011 - 07:45pm PT
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Ok, this isn't exactly a movie (a bit of stand up comedy), but so well worth it, I must post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5fYlFpxmo
...and RIP to Mitch Hedberg, a genius.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Sep 17, 2011 - 07:56pm PT
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High Fructose Corn Spirit... Very interesting... I would love to see what you think. I find Netflix to be less than reliable 75% of the time.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Sep 17, 2011 - 08:49pm PT
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Watched How The West was Won (again)...it is now very narrow without (except if you look real hard) seems. All restored. It works, just keeps moving, nice aerials of the East Side, buffalo stampedes, rafting, train chase. Complete mindless fun.
Followed last night with Carry on Nurse, and Carry on Constable. English mindless fun.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Sep 17, 2011 - 10:07pm PT
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Tonight is a classic among classics... The Apartment.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 18, 2011 - 03:45pm PT
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Ran
"A terrible scroll of Hell is shown depicting the fall of the castle. There are no real sounds as the scroll unfolds like a daytime nightmare. It is a scene of human evildoing, the way of the demonic Ashura, as seen by a Buddha in tears. The music superimposed on these pictures is, like the Buddha's heart, measured in beats of profound anguish, the chanting of a melody full of sorrow that begins like sobbing and rises gradually as it is repeated, like karmic cycles, then finally sounds like the wailing of countless Buddhas."
— Ran Screenplay
"As the title suggests, chaos occurs repeatedly in the film; in many scenes Kurosawa foreshadows it by filming approaching cumulonimbus clouds, which finally break into a raging storm during the castle massacre. Hidetora is an autocrat whose powerful presence keeps the countryside unified and at peace. His abdication frees up other characters, like Jiro and Lady Kaede, to pursue their own agendas, which they do so with absolute ruthlessness.
The ultimate example of chaos is the absence of God. When Hidetora sees Lady Sué, a devout Buddhist and the most religious character in the film, he tells her that "Buddha is gone from this miserable world." Sué, despite her belief in love and forgiveness, eventually has her head cut off. When Kyoami claims that the gods either don't exist or are the cause of human suffering, Tango responds that "[The gods] can't save us from ourselves." Kurosawa has repeated the point, saying that "humanity must face life without relying on God or Buddha." The last shot of the film shows Tsurumaru standing on top of the ruins of his family castle. Unable to see, he stumbles towards the edge until he almost falls over. He drops the scroll of the Buddha his sister had given him and just stands there, "a blind man at the edge of a precipice, bereft of his god, in a darkening world." This may symbolize the modern concept of the death of God, as Kurosawa also claimed that "Man is perfectly alone... [Tsurumaru] represents modern humanity."
"What I was trying to get at in Ran, and this was there from the script stage, was that the gods or God or whoever it is observing human events is feeling sadness about how human beings destroy each other, and powerlessness to affect human beings' behavior."
In addition to its chaotic elements, Ran also contains a strong element of nihilism, which is present from the opening sequence where Hidetora mercilessly hunts down a boar to the last scene with Tsurumaru. Roger Ebert describes "Ran as a 20th century film set in medieval times, in which an old man can arrive at the end of his life having won all his battles, and foolishly think he still has the power to settle things for a new generation. But life hurries ahead without any respect for historical continuity; his children have their own lusts and furies. His will is irrelevant, and they will divide his spoils like dogs tearing at a carcass."
This marked a radical departure from Kurosawa's earlier films, many of which were filled with hope and redemption. Even Kagemusha, though it chronicled the destruction of the samurai class, had ended on a note of regret rather than despair. By contrast, the world of Ran is a Hobbesian world, where life is an endless cycle of suffering and everybody is a villain or a victim, and in many cases both. Heroes like Saburo may do the right thing, but in the end they are doomed as well. Unlike other Kurosawa heroes, like Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai or Watanabe from Ikiru, who die performing great acts, Saburo dies pointlessly."
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Sep 18, 2011 - 03:49pm PT
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West Side Story.
Great music. Great dancing.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2011 - 12:42am PT
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bumpity bump
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Sep 21, 2011 - 12:52am PT
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The lead in Whale Rider was 14 and almost unknown when she was nominated for an Oscar for best actress. The glimpse into another culture is mystifying at times.
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jiff
Ice climber
colorado
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Sep 30, 2011 - 11:39pm PT
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what are you going to see this weekend?
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