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11-21-2008, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Yeah, it's a surprising movie to come from David Lynch. Great movie.
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11-21-2008, 12:48 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by BillP3
Anyone here seen The Straight Story? i've seen it a few times and always love it. Its slow and i think a lot of people would not like it but i think Richard Farnsworth was brilliant in this movie. sad that it was his last.
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Yeah, I found it to be boring and slow. With a story like that you have to enjoy the characters, and I didn't.
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11-21-2008, 01:05 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Finland
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Originally Posted by Johner
Yeah, I found it to be boring and slow. With a story like that you have to enjoy the characters, and I didn't.
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+1. Didn't work for me either.
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11-21-2008, 01:38 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Mongol was very overrated...poor character development, at least a complete failure with the main character. Pissed me off really, as the hype around it was pretty big. Portrayed one of the foremost military genius' as a dullard.
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11-21-2008, 01:41 AM
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Black Belt
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Is The Straight Story the one with the guy riding his mower across the country? If it's the flick I'm thinking of, yeah I hated it.
Damn girl I was dating at the time had me watch that with her since it was "Like oh my god, the best and most moving movie I've seen since the Titanic." It moved me to boredom, that's for sure.
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11-21-2008, 01:52 AM
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Brown Belt
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Finland
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Originally Posted by X The Dude X
Is The Straight Story the one with the guy riding his mower across the country? If it's the flick I'm thinking of, yeah I hated it.
Damn girl I was dating at the time had me watch that with her since it was "Like oh my god, the best and most moving movie I've seen since the Titanic." It moved me to boredom, that's for sure.
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Nothing fucking happened in that movie.
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11-21-2008, 02:19 AM
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Brown Belt
Join Date: Mar 2008
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The Truman Show was on tonight. Does anyone else love this movie?
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11-21-2008, 02:22 AM
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Brown Belt
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Originally Posted by HH
Correction: Tropic Thunder
is the worst movie I've seen in months.
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Tropic Thunder > Pineapple Express.
I was disappointed in both, but more with PE.
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11-21-2008, 02:42 AM
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HE IS UGLY
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by theskza
The Truman Show was on tonight. Does anyone else love this movie?
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Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I wouldn't hesitate to rank it in the top 25 best films of all time and I'm completely serious about that.
There are so many small little touches in the film that they never even mention in the film that I read about or saw in the extra materials eventually released. The most impressive was how props were placed in EVERY SINGLE shot to make the ad culture more believable, like little trinkets that the show would be selling in their catalog or pictures in Truman's office of things that happened in the past. Also, there are hundreds of things in real life that simply don't exist in Truman's world, like many different animals, but more specifically, cats. So Truman doesn't even know a cat exists. That's why there are all those 'Dog Fancy' magazines all over and everyone seems to own a dog: they are much easier to train for a television show.
I could go on and on forever but the film is so rewatchable it's insane. I've noticed so much over the years.
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11-21-2008, 02:48 AM
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Brown Belt
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Will Jacobs
Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I wouldn't hesitate to rank it in the top 25 best films of all time and I'm completely serious about that.
There are so many small little touches in the film that they never even mention in the film that I read about or saw in the extra materials eventually released. The most impressive was how props were placed in EVERY SINGLE shot to make the ad culture more believable, like little trinkets that the show would be selling in their catalog or pictures in Truman's office of things that happened in the past. Also, there are hundreds of things in real life that simply don't exist in Truman's world, like many different animals, but more specifically, cats. So Truman doesn't even know a cat exists. That's why there are all those 'Dog Fancy' magazines all over and everyone seems to own a dog: they are much easier to train for a television show.
I could go on and on forever but the film is so rewatchable it's insane. I've noticed so much over the years.
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+500. Tonight I noticed how easily visible the cameras were. There were bulbs everywhere, from his ring to his neighbors garage can. But those were completely normal for Truman.
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