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post #13441 of 28163
1/25/06 at 7:39pm
The main reasoning as to why I like that shot is because of my hoping the opening scene for Indy 4 will take place in a haunted castle with some kick ass supernatural stuff going on. Secret passages, booby traps, hidden walls, secret rooms, levers and devices. Throwing ghosts and such into the mix would certainly make me stare in wide-eyed wonder. It was almost like I was having ideas running through my head while playing Return to Castle Wolfentein as to what sort of things Indy would be up against. A dark gloomy unkept castle with catacombs just makes for an ideal setting for our whip-cracking adventurous archaeologist. The right lighting, set design, construction and aged look would be a perfect task for the film crew to undertake. An isolated, stuck in a deep and twisting forest with looming craggy mountains over the tops and between the trees perhaps? I could go on and on for the various settings the new film could have seeing there're hundreds of ideas in my head.

I really ought to get the remainder of the Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix comic book mini-series soon. The story is very suitable for a feature film. The same could be said for Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny.
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post #13442 of 28163
1/26/06 at 11:09am
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First, there was darkness.
Then came the Strangers.
They were a race as old as time itself.
They had mastered the ultimate technology.
The ability to alter physical reality by will alone.
They called this ability "Tuning."
But they were dying.
Their civilization was in decline,
and so they abandoned their world,
seeking a cure for their own mortality.
Their endless journey brought them to a small, blue world...
in the farthest corner of the galaxy.
Our world.

?
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post #13443 of 28163
1/26/06 at 3:18pm
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Dark City


GREAT film!
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post #13444 of 28163
1/26/06 at 4:33pm
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Yup Dark City, the first "Matrix", without all that bullet-time malarkey and with Jennifer Connelly, hubba hubba!

Want some more movie opening lines? Zen might know this one...

Every night, the same dream.
The same strange planet.
But why? What are they trying to tell me?
It has been 34 years since they arrived on this planet.
And not a day passes, that the survivors, forced to live in Barrier Cities, do not live in fear
I have vowed to end that fear.
I believe my dreams hold the key.
The question is will I be in time to save the Earth?
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post #13445 of 28163
1/26/06 at 9:41pm
Might? c'mon Steve




Have we done screenies for FF?
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post #13446 of 28163
1/26/06 at 10:37pm
No thanks. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a passable miss for me due to the reasons I explained a few pages back. Here's ANOTHER list. This time it's films which I don't particularly care for and would most likely wouldn't want to watch again or watch in the first place. Difficult actually to think of what the majority of them are.

ALIEN³ - Theatrical Version
ALIEN: Resurrection
Batman & Robin
Dungeons & Dragons
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (I really only watch this mainly because of Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor.)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Titanic
Zoolander

There are other sequels and various other films which could probably go on my list though.

Here's a purposefully short list of films in which I personally prefer the Director's Cut/Special Edition/Extended Edition version of. (Special note about ALIEN. I like both cuts of the film and even a certain fan-edited special longer version too.)

THE ABYSS
ALIENS
ALIEN³
Brazil
Independence Day
LEGEND
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
STARGATE
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Superman: The Movie
Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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post #13447 of 28163
1/27/06 at 6:28am
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Quote:
(I really only watch this mainly because of Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor.)


Not because of Jar Jar Binks? Wait wasn't there an actress called Jar Jar Gabor? eh?

Quote:
Might? c'mon Steve


I know Zen, we seem to be the only two people on the forum who love that film though, sad innit?

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Brazil


I didn't figure you for a Brazil fan Ray, there's hope for you after all, I keeed!

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs,
that is Pete, Georgie and Dim.
And we sat in the Korova Milk Bar trying to make up our
rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
The Korova Milk Bar sold milk plus...
Milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we were drinking.
This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old Ultra-Violence.
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post #13448 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:32am
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Merry Christmas!
- What's your name, little boy?
- Eric.
What do you want for Christmas, Eric? Hm?
A Johnny Lightning 500.
- You been good, little boy?
- Yeah.
Good. You like Santa Claus? Huh?
Now, you like Santa Claus, right?
Let's sing a little song. "Jingle Bells".
Get up.
Get up! And hold 'em up.
- Hold it!
- Freeze!
Jimmy, watch it. He's got a knife.
- Hold it, you son of a bitch!
- No, no!
That's enough. Don't kill him. That's enough!
- Get up!
- Come on, give me a break!
- I ain't done nothin', man.
- Break, your ass.
- Come on.
- Get up!
Will you stop it? Stop it!
- Jimmy.
- Let me bust him. I wanna bust him.
- I wanna bust him.
- Let me talk to him. Let me talk to him!
- You got a friend here. You got a friend.
- You gonna tell us who your man is?
When's the last time you picked your feet?
Who's your connection, Willie?
- Answer him!
- No, no, man!
Is it Joe the barber?
That's who it is, isn't it?
Don't give us any shit.
What's Joe's last name?
- I don't know, man!
- Give him a chance. Just give him a chance.
All I know is he lives on 125th Street, man.
Above the barber shop.
What side of the street does he live on?
North or south?
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- What side of the street does he live on?
- When's the last time you picked your feet?
- What's he talkin' about?
I got a man in Poughkeepsie wants to talk to you. You ever been in Poughkeepsie?
- Hey, man, give me a break.
- Come on, say it. Let me hear you say it.
Have you ever been to Poughkeepsie? You've been to Poughkeepsie? I wanna hear it!
- Yes, I've been to Poughkeepsie.
- You sat on the edge of the bed.
You took off your shoes and picked your feet, didn't you?
- Now say it!
- Yes.
All right. You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means, goddamnit?
All winter I gotta listen to him gripe about his bowling scores.
I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags, then I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet.
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post #13449 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:36am
Good one, Steve, fun to see the opening Christmas-themed dialogue of The French Connection.
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post #13450 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:40am
Well, in the case of Legend it's tough for me. And, I may be shot. I tend to like the Tangerine Dream score from the shorter version rather than Goldsmith's "phoned-in" one. Of course though, the extended Euro, World, Director's cut.... whatever... is much better than the chopped 89 minute release. The extended footage though doesn't help the film much. It's great eye-candy but a bit of a cacaphony in terms of story. A real miss in my opinion.

As to the Super-Mario Extended LOTR......yeah, truly helps flesh out the camping skills ....no I'll stop
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post #13451 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:43am
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Haggai, I had a feeling you were going to get that one, how many lines down before you realised what film it was? Or did you know straight away? I thought for some it won't dawn on them until the 'picking your feet' bit. Great film, a 70's masterpiece. The sequel wasn't bad either. Whatever happened to William Friedkin eh? After the double whammy of The French Connection and The Exorcist it was downhill all the way. Same with Michael Cimino, the Oscar winning The Deer Hunter was followed by the studio wrecking Heaven's Gate and near oblivion.
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post #13452 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:46am
The abrupt transition from singing Jingle Bells to:

Jimmy, watch it. He's got a knife.
- Hold it, you son of a bitch!

...was enough for me. Although there's some running and chasing in between those things, so I don't normally associate the dialogue from before with the stuff that comes once they catch up to him.

Regarding Friedkin, have you seen To Live and Die in LA, Steve? Not on the level of French Connection, to be sure, but good stuff nonetheless.
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post #13453 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:49am
I'll be viewing 2046 tonight
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post #13454 of 28163
1/27/06 at 8:56am
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Yeah I loved To Live and Die in LA, not a success, but very well made, contains one of the great car chases. And I'm a big fan of Cimino's 1985 Year of the Dragon too. Two excellent directors who today should have been rubbing shoulders with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, it was just not meant to be.
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post #13455 of 28163
1/27/06 at 9:02am
I too, loved Year of the Dragon.
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post #13456 of 28163
1/27/06 at 9:04am
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I tend to like the Tangerine Dream score from the shorter version rather than Goldsmith's "phoned-in" one.


Kidding Zen? Thats one of Jerry Goldsmith's greatest film scores! Some of the Tangerine Dream flutey score is nice but compared to Goldsmith's magnum opus? No chance.

btw Jerry Goldsmith along with Bernard Herrmann are my two favorite film composers. Since Goldsmith's death I've sort of lost interest in todays movie music and rarely bother to check the composers name on film posters like I used to.
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post #13457 of 28163
1/27/06 at 9:10am
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I'll be viewing 2046 tonight


Have you seen any other Wong Kar-Wai movies, Zen? 2046 will probably be more of a head-scratcher than intended (though it is pretty firmly in goatee-stroking territory anyway) if you haven't seen In The Mood For Love first. Days of Being Wild is the other one that provides a reference point for some of what happens in 2046.
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post #13458 of 28163
1/27/06 at 3:25pm
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post #13459 of 28163
1/27/06 at 3:27pm
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In the first years of the 21st century a third World War broke out.
Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth.
That our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked.
So we have created a new arm of the law, the Grammaton Cleric
whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man.
His ability to feel.
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post #13460 of 28163
1/27/06 at 3:30pm
Wong Kar-Wai is a director I've wanted to see more of. I did love Ashes of Time but that's about it. As to 2046, it's already ready to roll for tonight.
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post #13461 of 28163
1/27/06 at 4:16pm
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Equilibrium


Here's another I'd really like to own!
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post #13462 of 28163
1/27/06 at 5:46pm
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That completes my final report until we touch down.
We're on full automatic, in the hands of the computers.
I've tucked my crew in for the long sleep, and I'll be joining them soon.
In less than an hour we'll finish our sixth month out of Cape Kennedy.
Six months in deep space. By our time, that is.
According to Dr Hasslein's theory of time in a vehicle travelling nearly the speed of light,
the Earth has aged nearly 700 years since we left it, while we've aged hardly at all.
It may be so. This much is probably true.
The men who sent us on this journey are long since dead and gone.
You who are reading me now are a different breed. I hope a better one.
I leave the 20th century with no regrets. But one more thing...
If anybody's listening, that is.
Nothing scientific. It's purely personal.
Seen from out here, everything seems different.
Time bends. Space is boundless.
It squashes a man's ego.
I feel lonely.
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post #13463 of 28163
1/27/06 at 6:02pm
[rant]Damn you!! Damn you all to Hell!!![/rant]

On the other hand, anything that squashes Heston's ego has got to be worth seeing.
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post #13464 of 28163
1/27/06 at 6:54pm
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[rant]It's a mad house! A mad house![/rant]

Here's a difficult one...



The beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year 10,191. The known Universe is ruled by the Padashar Emperor Shadam the Fourth, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life, the spice expands consciousness, the spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and it's navigators, who the spice has mutated over 4,000 years, use the orange spice gas which gives them the ability to fold space. That is travel to any part of the universe without moving. Oh yes, I forgot to tell you. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe. A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom.
The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.

Clue 1: the title of the film is in there somewhere.

Clue 2: it's not Melange.
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post #13465 of 28163
1/27/06 at 7:53pm
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DUNE


And I'ma gonna buy it this coming Tuesday!

WELCOME TO PAGE 450!
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post #13466 of 28163
1/28/06 at 3:14pm
Here are some DVD covers I think look really nice.










(Still waiting for a Two-Disc Special Edition but MIGHT buy the current one. And it appears to be a flipper the same type for such releases as Michael Collins. Any helpful suggestions?)
Fixed. Sorry.:b
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post #13467 of 28163
1/28/06 at 4:11pm
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14 large dvd covers Ray? Isn't that overdoing it just a tad laddie? A list wasn't enough?
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post #13468 of 28163
1/28/06 at 4:22pm
I guess the artwork was what he was commenting on, so listing the names wouldn't have the same effect. He could have posted thumbnails, though, I guess, and had each one be a link -- but he seems to have trouble resizing images? so that might not work out.
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post #13469 of 28163
1/28/06 at 5:10pm
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No excuse Ray you have PM.
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post #13470 of 28163
1/28/06 at 5:18pm
Sorry about that, I'm fixing it as we speak.:b
Fixed it!

Here are some more THUMBNAILED DVD covers of which I particularly like. Only six this time... (What the hell is it with me and lists anyway?)



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