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Supreme Being
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| I watched Speed Racer and The Strangers last night. Speed Racer was a lot cooler than I expected. I had high expectations when I heard about it and who was directing it, but then it became one of the biggest box office flops ever. But since it was done by the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix) I did expect some visuals like nothing I had ever seen and it definitely delivered that. If nothing else, it's extremely original and really does feel like a live-action/cartoon blend, which fits the source material. It does run long though... over two hours of A.D.D. neon spazz. Anyhow, I give it a pretty good recomendation, especially if you have young boys that like cars and bright flashy colors. The Strangers was creepy at times, but basically a connect-the-dots psychological horror movie with an assload of cliches, zero plot (not really a surprise there), and disapointingly (and surprisingly) very little gore even in the unrated edition.
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Supreme Being
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Josh F. (10/22/2008)
I also watched The Happening and it was fucking horrible. Almost as bad as Lady in the Water, which means they're both on my list of worst "attempt to be taken seriously" movies I've ever seen. Terrible terrible acting and dialogue, and super retarded plot. This one doesn't have a twist ending so I'm not giving much away, but here's the plot spoiler: Basically, plants evolve an anti-human defense that allows them to expell a neurotoxin that makes people kill themselves. Apparantly the plants also evolved the ability to control wind in order to spread the toxin. Somehow the only plants that have this ability are along the East Coast of the U.S. and only for something like 2 days and then it goes away unexplainably at the exact moment that the main characters give up hope. It plays like a reverse twist because they introduce the whole plot concept toward the beginning and the rest of the movie you (and the even characters in the movie) are waiting/hoping for it to twist into some smarter, less retarded idea but the anti-twist is that there is no twist, and the retarded idea really was what happened.I am so glad I read this post! Bare and I have been talking about seeing this movie, and I've said from the beginning that it was going to be incredibly awesome or fucking horrible (but was leaning more towards fucking horrible). I'm glad I won't waste my time now. So, thanks for taking one for the team, Josh! 
Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
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Metalhead
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I recently watched and bought the Back to the Future Trilogy, it had been a long time since I had watched them and I forgot how much I loved those crazy time travel movies.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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Supreme Being
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Watching Dawn of the Dead, the original version, and will probably watch a few more horror films from the old DVD collection in the days leading up to Halloween.
Insanity takes its toll, so please, have exact change.
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Metalhead
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I watched The Evil Dead tonight, awesome movie, most definitley in my top 10 favorite movies
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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Supreme Being
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| Anyone seen Mother of Tears yet? I'm thinking about renting it, but I've heard good and terrible and so terrible it's good. I saw Suspiria a few years ago and I thought it was okay, but it didn't blow me away like a lot of people. Never seen Inferno. Not sure if I really need to watch the other two before I would watch Mother of Tears or not.
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Supreme Being
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| Watched Tropic Thunder last night. It's pretty funny. Got a strange tidbit to share... In the film Ben Stiller's character (an actor) played a retard in another of his films and really hammed up the retard. He gets into a discussion with Robert Downey Jr. and RDJ tells him that the Oscar winning retards never go "full-on retarded". Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man was a lovable card shark and Forrest Gump was retarded but somehow a pingpong champ and a war hero. "Does that sound like any retard you've ever known?" Anyhow... in the special features there's a feature listed as "Dreamworks Public Service Announcement". I clicked on it... It's basically a PSA campaigning against the word "retard". A bunch of smiley shiny happy pictures of mentally challenged people and the tag line is something like "They deserve one R word... and that's Respect". Talk about covering your ass. Feels about as genuine as tobacco companies being forced to sponsor anti-tobacco ads.
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