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  1. chris_m_white

    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    This is a game where I can walk up to an innocent bystander on the street, and blow their head off with a shotgun. Or sneak up behind them and stab them in the throat with a knife. Or take a baseball bat, shovel, or nightstick and club them to death. Yet a sex mini-game, that most people can't...
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    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    I liked Vice City. Didn't love it, though. I thought the missions were difficult, and the open-ended aspects didn't do enough to hold my attention. Sure, it was fun to explore, to do the ambulance/taxi/vigilante missions, or to cause general mayhem, but I didn't feel enough incentive to just...
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    Historical Authors - McCullough vs Shaara

    McCullough writes historical non-fiction, while Shaara (Michael and Jeffrey) write historical fiction. That's the biggest difference. McCullough writes in a narrative fashion, but if he speculates as to what his subjects are thinking are feeling, he mentions it as speculation. Shaara on the...
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    Commentaries You'd Love To Hear, But Are Not Possible

    This falls under the category of technically possible, but extremely unlikely... I really enjoy Oliver Stone's commentary on JFK. He backs up his point of view, is engaging, and relates a lot of good production information, anecdotes, and personal philosophy. I think a fascinating...
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    The Amazing Race 7

    This episode shows the first chinks in the armor of Romber. First, they make the decision to go for the Fast Forward. Not a bad strategy, but their inability to find the place quickly cost them time. I thought that Rob's reaction to Alex and Lynn not letting them in the cab was overblown...
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    ***Official SUPER SIZE ME Discussion Thread

    I watched this last month and really enjoyed it. I don't think the shocking aspect was the fact that Spurlock would gain weight, or raise his cholesterol after his 30-day McDonald's oddesey. It was the extent to which he gained weight, raised cholesterol, and saw decreased liver function. That...
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    "Ray" - no reviews yet!

    Can someone who watched Ray with the branching feature tell me (in spoilers of course) what scenes were included? I watched the theatrical cut last night, and am interested to hear what I missed. Thanks.
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    VH1 is getting out of hand with these "Top 50 worst songs..." shows.

    VH1 takes a good idea and runs it into the ground. Take Behind The Music for example. The show was great...until they started running out of interesting bands/people. Then they started coming out with Behind the Music: 1968, and that was interesting for a while until they ran out of interesting...
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    The Golden Globes

    Wasn't The Passion of the Christ ineligible for Best Picture. The HFP said something about it being a foreign language film. If that's the case, was it also ineligible for other nominations (acting, directing)? If so, that may explain the perceived snubs. As to 60% of the critics panning The...
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    The Ongoing Survivor 8 All-Stars thread

    Rob may be setting himself up nicely to get to the Final Two, but I don't see how he wins the thing. There are now three people on the jury that he has screwed over. If he screws over one more person than that's four votes against him. Unless they decide to vote for him because of how he's...
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    C.s.i. (4/1/04)...

    The bloody shirt was the waitress uniform for "Libby" the waitress they presumed was missing until realizing it was the killer's sister. The evidence pointed to either her being the killer of the pregnant woman, or assisting her brother somehow.
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    “But I think we pulled it off” and other DVD audio commentary inanities

    The most useless commentary I've listened to is the cast/crew commentary on Christmas Vacation. A major disappointment since it's the only special feature on the disc. Beverly D'Angelo spends most of her time talking/complaining about her hair, and there are a lot of "this was the studio...this...
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    Top 100 DVD Census 2004 - Vote Now For Your Top 10

    1. The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition 2. The Two Towers: Extended Edition 3. Black Hawk Down: Deluxe Edition 4. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 5. Warners Legends Collection 6. Moulin Rouge 7. Ultimate Toy Box 8. Fantasia Anthology 9. Band of Brothers 10. Looney Tunes...
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    Scenes That Gave You A Chill...

    Three that immediately came to mind: Elliot and ET fly across the moon in ET Luke Skywalker gazes at the twin sunset in Star Wars Barry opens the door to his house during his "kidnapping" in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (Also, the first time we see the mothership revealed)
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    Best use of music in a movie

    In Your Eyes in Say Anything That song will forever be linked in my mind with the image of Lloyd holding up a Boom Box.
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    "Dances with Wolves" SE DVD a good blind buy?

    Some of the free MGM SE DVD's include: Platoon SE The Princess Bride SE The Silence of the Lambs SE Hanibal The Terminator SE Heartbreakers The Last Waltz Legally Blonde ...and a lot more. Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. You can get one by sending either...
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    Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament

    Gandalf Gene Kranz General Zod George McFly Gertie Gimli Gollum Abstain Grima Wormtongue Sgt. Hartman Hans Gruber Abstain Abstain Henry Jones, Sr. Abstain
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    Directors LEAD Characters - The Movie Characters Tournament

    Abstain Abstain Abstain Freddy Krueger Frodo Abstain George Bailey Abstain Abstain Han Solo
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    Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament

    Dr. "Bones" McCoy Abstain on the rest
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    Directors LEAD Characters - The Movie Characters Tournament

    Derek Vineyard Abstain x 3 Doc Holliday
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    Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament

    Delmar Abstain Doughboy Doyle Hargraves Abstain
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    Directors LEAD Characters - The Movie Characters Tournament

    Dark Helmet Darth Vader David (AI) Abstain Abstain
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    Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament

    Abstain Cousin Eddie Damon Killian Darth Maul Dean Vernon Wormer
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    Directors LEAD Characters - The Movie Characters Tournament

    Conner MacCleod Abstain Crash Davis Abstain Daniel Kaffee
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    Directors LEAD Characters - The Movie Characters Tournament

    Chuck Noland Clarice Starling Clark W. Griswold Abstain Abstain
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    Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament

    Chuck Yeager Clarence Boddicker Claudia Col Kilgore Col. Nathan Jessup
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    Went to a store today and virtually ALL DVD's were ABOVE MSRP!!!!

    The FYE in Atlanta also has expensive DVD's. Even their sales items were more expensive than, say, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc... However, I did find Mickey Mouse In Living Color last month, and was able to snatch that up (at MSRP of course). Someone mentioned it in one of the posts above, but I...
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    Philadelphia Movies: A Tournament

    I'll nominate: The Sixth Sense Signs
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    Directors SUPPORTING Characters - The Movie Character Tournament

    Blake Blue Raja Boba Fett Bobby Peru Boromir
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    Directors LEAD Characters - The Movie Characters Tournament

    Abstain X 4 Buck Russell
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