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nettwerkjohn
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:14 am Post subject: last triple feature you did, and when |
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last night - Conan the Barbarian (almost doesn't put a foot wrong), followed by Elizabeth II:The golden age (period melodrama at its best), and finished with Babel (stunning to look at, but largely, a steaming dog turd)
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emdawgz1
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i sat thru the untouchables 3 times straight when it was in the theater!
I loved it!
The only movies i'd triple on are...
Star Wars ep 2, 3, 4 or
Raiders of the lost ark, Indiana jones and the final crusade, and IJ kingdom of the crystal skull
And only when the B/R releases!
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AnalogRocks
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I did the first 3 Star Wars when the re-releas/bastardization happened back in 1997. That was in the theater though.
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| nettwerkjohn wrote: | | ...and finished with Babel (stunning to look at, but largely, a steaming dog turd) |
OMG, my wife and I both thought Babel was one of the better movies we saw all year last year. What an awesome film! I loved the story, and how they wrapped the communication theme into the story (or wrapped the story around the theme). How we all take for granted the ability to communicate. How not being able to communicate can be life or death. How we're all way more connected than we think. I thought it was really well-done - masterful even - muliti-layered story telling. Truly stories within a story - just like life.
What could you possibly have found so bad about it to call it a "steaming dog turd"? I can see how you might not have liked the disjointedness, or the time/geography discontinuity, but seriously - "dog turd"?!?!? I usually reserve labels like that for movies like Howard the Duck, Deuce Bigalow, or anything with Ben Stiller, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, or talking babies in it.
As for triple-features... I don't remember the last time I did that. I've had kids for 3 years, a new house for 4, and no HT before that. I know we watched 3 movies one snowy New Years' Day, but that's probably been 10 years ago.
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AnalogRocks
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I just looked that up. It was so memorable I forgot I had seen it. I wasted $5 renting that. It was kind of a Bourn Identity Crisis, meat's the other crappy Brad Pit movie where he was a spy with robert redford.
I'll see the dog turd and raise you a tonic John. 
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nettwerkjohn
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kinda like a six-degress of seperation...only dreary witha hefty dose of who gives one...
blech. blecch. bleeecchhhhhh!
just for the record - i like multilayered storytelling - magnolia is a fave round here... just didn't really gel with any of the characters. my inner perve approved of the japper schoolgirl uniforms tho...
best movie of the year? maybe the departed. but, we watch heaps, normally 2 a day... the joys of being fishermen, we get our time off in 7 week chunks. 
so when off, we mooc h around and watch movies. for 6 weeks straight!
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JustGreg
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It's been quite some time since we pulled one but if memory serves it was the Evil Dead series. (Who could ever forget..."It's your sis-ter Cherrrrr-uhlllllllll". 
Bruce Campbell is releasing a movie in which he wrote, directed, and stars in called, My Name is Bruce. It's a "pseudo-documentary about Bruce living his everyday life in which he is mistaken as Ash and must fight real-life deadites in his home town in Oregon. The film is set to be released in 2008." [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead_series]
I'm a fairly avid Bruce Campbell fan despite some of the trash he's done over the past 5 years or so but I can't see him cranking out anything worthwhile without Sam Raimi. I guess I'll find out if it goes from 25 theaters to the DVD cutout bin at the carwash within 2 months. 
I've never seen the 36 minute prototype film (Within the Woods) mentioned in the Wiki link that generated the funding to "properly make The Evil Dead". Has anybody here seen it?
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nettwerkjohn
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and whats wrong with howard the duck anyway?
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Phil Smith
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I didn't dislike Babel, but I can't say I liked it either. For me, it was just ok.
From time to time I'll watch 2 movies back to back, but never 3. I don't think I've ever done that.
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Some friends and I considered doing a marathon of LOTR:EE. Then we watched the first one (the short one!) and decided we were nuckin' futz.
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Phil Smith
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I can hardly watch the 3rd LOTR in one sitting. I'll probably watch it in 2 sittings the next time I watch it. I think I'd enjoy it more that way.
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nettwerkjohn
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well, we're pretty much doing 3 movies a day, every day...
last night was the following:
no country for old men (awesome - seat of edge stuff)
michael clayton (triumphant return to form for clooney)
LOTR:2 TOWERS
tonight is gonna be:
I am legend
the mist
back to the future
we're putting almost 50 hours a week on the ruby...
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dc_pilgrim
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About 3 years ago I did the LOTR:EE marathon. I am in no hurry to do it again.
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AnalogRocks
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| dc_pilgrim wrote: | | About 3 years ago I did the LOTR:EE marathon. I am in no hurry to do it again. |
Aboiut 3 years ago I hade a 3 week root canal. I took the drugs and couldn't get off the floor. I had LOTREE TT disk 2 on repeat for aobut a week. I know the dialog now.
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | dc_pilgrim wrote: | | About 3 years ago I did the LOTR:EE marathon. I am in no hurry to do it again. |
Aboiut 3 years ago I hade a 3 week root canal. I took the drugs and couldn't get off the floor. I had LOTREE TT disk 2 on repeat for aobut a week. I know the dialog now. |
MMMM-----Aboiut?????????
What the hell does that mean
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I saw that after I posted and decided that since it's before noon I'm not awake enough to care.
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I think that's how you spell "aboot" in Canuck.
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AnalogRocks
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| garyfritz wrote: | | I think that's how you spell "aboot" in Canuck. |
NEVER ask me how I speell something. THe way I spell it and the way everyone else spels it tensd to differ.
It's a-boooot time someone noticed my spketaculazr spellzing. ( the "Z's'' are silent BTW )
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nettwerkjohn
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well, the mist was a stinker...
and i am legend was ok, altho we accidently watched the alternate, love conquers all version... patooey
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In january 2007 a couple of buddies and I did sw ep 4 5 6 after I plunked a DLP from work on the windowsill in my old apartment.
That's what started the whole thing...
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