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GTaudiophile

GTaudiophile

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purbeast0 said:
enemy of the state - 10/10

got it on bluray for like $5 from gohastings a while ago and i hadn't seen the movie in full in ages, just bits and pieces all the time on tv. i really REALLY like the movie and it was cool seeing it in my HT. it's funny too with the whole nsa thing in it and what has gone on the past few months/years. gene hackman is awesome in it and will smith really does a great job. it was funny too seeing skylar from breaking bad as the wife of john voight, i did not remember that at all from before.
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The entire movie in hindsight is now just brilliant foreshadowing.
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

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Oct 9, 2002
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GTaudiophile said:
The entire movie in hindsight is now just brilliant foreshadowing.
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I guess I need to watch it again. I really hated it the first time I saw it (mostly because of Jerry Bruckheimer's influence). I seem to recall it had Seth Green or something.

I really can't stand "hearing" text appear on the screen. "Deet deet dee deet deeeee deet de dedede deet" ...or sometimes it sounds like a dot matrix printer.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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Ichinisan said:
I guess I need to watch it again. I really hated it the first time I saw it (mostly because of Jerry Bruckheimer's influence). I seem to recall it had Seth Green or something.

I really can't stand "hearing" text appear on the screen. "Deet deet dee deet deeeee deet de dedede deet" ...or sometimes it sounds like a dot matrix printer.
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why would you watch it again if it's full of things you hate?
 
John Connor

John Connor

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Nov 30, 2012
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purbeast0 said:
enemy of the state - 10/10

got it on bluray for like $5 from gohastings a while ago and i hadn't seen the movie in full in ages, just bits and pieces all the time on tv. i really REALLY like the movie and it was cool seeing it in my HT. it's funny too with the whole nsa thing in it and what has gone on the past few months/years. gene hackman is awesome in it and will smith really does a great job. it was funny too seeing skylar from breaking bad as the wife of john voight, i did not remember that at all from before.
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Seen it in the theater when it came out. Bad ass movie and it's like they predicted what was going to happen post 9/11. When Edward Lyle (the former NSA guy) looks up info on Thomas Brian Reynolds (the enemy working at the NSA) his birthday is shown on the computer screen as 9/11.
 
John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
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Just got done watching Salem's Lot. 10/10

It was a TNT mini series that aired in 2004. I remember when it came out I watched it all the time on TNT. I only have two favorite vampire movies: Interview With the Vampire and Salem's Lot. Salem's Lot was Steven King's second published novel.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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John Connor said:
Seen it in the theater when it came out. Bad ass movie and it's like they predicted what was going to happen post 9/11. When Edward Lyle (the former NSA guy) looks up info on Thomas Brian Reynolds (the enemy working at the NSA) his birthday is shown on the computer screen as 9/11.
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HAH it's funny you say that, because i totally noticed that his birthday was 9/11 too. think it was 9/11/40.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
53,591
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John Connor said:
Just got done watching Salem's Lot. 10/10

It was a TNT mini series that aired in 2004. I remember when it came out I watched it all the time on TNT. I only have two favorite vampire movies: Interview With the Vampire and Salem's Lot. Salem's Lot was Steven King's second published novel.
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i was very confused when you said this was a tnt mini series. this is the salem's lot that i remember watching as a kid.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079844/
 
Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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purbeast0 said:
why would you watch it again if it's full of things you hate?
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Because people are saying it's highly relevant to recent revelations about the NSA...and saying how much they love the movie. I'll give it another chance.

Anyway, I never saw "The Seige" until years after 9/11 and I was blown away by the stuff they talked about that most Americans were ignorant of before 9/11.

This could be a similar experience.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
53,591
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Ichinisan said:
Because people are saying it's highly relevant to recent revelations about the NSA...and saying how much they love the movie. I'll give it another chance.

Anyway, I never saw "The Seige" until years after 9/11 and I was blown away by the stuff they talked about that most Americans were ignorant of before 9/11.

This could be a similar experience.
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ah yeah gotcha. it's an awesome movie for sure.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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Perknose said:
And the highlight of that for me was the reading of the heartbreakingly eloquent letter Major Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife just one week before he died at the first battle of Bull Run.

If you've never heard it, take three minutes or so to listen to it here, backed by the equally evocative Ashoken Farewell.

The bolded holds a special personal resonance for me, as I spoke it at my wife's memorial service.
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wow, that's awesome. One thing that always gets me is the stark difference between soldier's letters of the Civil War, vs those in our more recent years. These were similarly young kids, but the eloquence with language, the poingant self-reflections are completely absent.

Just another way to see how truly dumb we have all become.

and...a bit of a plug for a friend, since this seems to interest you:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Valor-Int.../dp/0967386306

My pal re-discovered these letters while helping his son with a high school project many years ago. He then went full-on into research, traveling to all of these places--the battles, the towns, the cemeteries that held the graves of many of the people in the letters. Anyway, the book is well-regarded amongst Civil War historians, and I even helped him out quite a bit on the documentary that he made about these letters, which he shows somewhat regularly in the midwest--primarily Iowa and Illinois.
 
IHateMyJob2004

IHateMyJob2004

Lifer
Sep 29, 2004
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PSA: Netlfix added some good movies on Nov 1!
http://instantwatcher.com/titles/new

This is unusual because there are actually some big time popular movies appearing. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation anyone?!?!?!?

The Polar Express (awesome kids movie)
Teen Wolf
Urban Cowboy
Jack Frost
Bad Boys
Big Top PeeWee
Caligula
 
CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
24,195
857
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IHateMyJob2004 said:
PSA: Netlfix added some good movies on Nov 1!
http://instantwatcher.com/titles/new

This is unusual because there are actually some big time popular movies appearing. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation anyone?!?!?!?

The Polar Express (awesome kids movie)
Teen Wolf
Urban Cowboy
Jack Frost
Bad Boys
Big Top PeeWee
Caligula
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Meh. The stuff comes and goes. I watched "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" on Netflix in 2010.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
111,783
31,204
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lol, Caligula.


shorty--Netflix streaming has shown 9 Songs, so....they do not limit themselves in what they make avialable, so....there you go
 
sdifox

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
99,769
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Pacific Rim 8/10 Loved it. Yes, I know it is a popcorn movie, but damn it is a well done popcorn movie.
 
Muse

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
40,636
10,050
136
Thelma and Louise 8.5/10

Never saw it before. Kind of sticks with you. Pretty fabulous casting and acting.



Silver Linings Playbook 9/10

I had to watch each and every extra on the DVD after watching the movie. Toward the end I had to wonder if it wasn't a Nora Ephron movie, except that I figured it strange for her to have the NFL obsession stuff. However, it was derived from a book. Some pretty amazing scenes and acting. Also extremely well cast. One or two scenes were a little preposterous (not as much so as some of the deleted scenes!), but that's a minor quibble.
 
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OutHouse

OutHouse

Lifer
Jun 5, 2000
36,410
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silkwood with Susan Sarando. good movie and from 1981. and i do believe that she smokes in every single scene. that has to some record.
 
DigDog

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,560
2,952
136
i believe KT is correct (without even checking IMDB)

Ichinisan said:
Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 5/10

Watched on Hulu Plus. It was pretty bad. What passes for "dark humor" just isn't funny at all.

Wikipedia says the movie wasn't copyrighted because it wasn't expected to be a success; so it entered public domain.
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have you tried the Ricky Moranis version? that happens to be one of my fav movies.
 
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