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MI III
Not a bad movie visually but one very weak plot. Whoever directed this movie knew what he was doing as there were some very well done visuals. The plot was so thin that it made Tom Cruise look stupid. There was one line by L. Fishburn (sp) that I truely loved though... "I would bleed on the flag to keep the stripes red."

Equalibrium
I mentioned this movie before but wanted to bring it up again as it is truly one of the best movies I have seen in years. Read the reviews of this movie on amazon.com

Thank You For Smoking
Simpmly one of the more brillant dark humor dramas I have seen in a while. A delightfully clever movie based upon a best selling book. MOD were funny and could be a movie in their own right. I enjoyed this movie and intend to buy the DVD when I can aford it.

Lucky Number Sleven
An interesting revenge flick with some long sequences that could put even the most hyperactive kid to sleep. I think this was a short story at some point. The movie isn't bad but does have some very slow moments. Over all I think they didn't know what direction to take this movie in, is it a dark comedy or a serious revenge flick...

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Equilibrium: This movie was a total surpise to me, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. A damn fine flick.Christian had an excellent range, BTW, and I seriously recommend "The Machinist". Seems slow, but all comes together so well at the end.

Thank You For Smoking: Damn, somebody was dead-on with this one. It's scary to know that these kinds of people ARE really out there !!!

I haven't seen the other two yet, but they're on my to-do list...

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I don't think it takes a thin plot to make Tom Cruise look stupid; he's very capable of doing that on his own http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Rented Volume I of Rome which was pretty good. I haven't decided if it is worth renting the following 4-5 discs to see the end of the season, but I enjoyed the centurion and Pullo's discourse quite thoroughly.

EDIT - Just remembered to add - sex and violence are a part of this series. Don't rent planning to sit down with your kids to watch. Unless you like explaining things.

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AVP - Alien Verses Predator

When I first saw this movie I utterly hated it. I mean I just fricken dispised it. Recently I learned that they are making a sequal to this movie. Aliens and Predators are at war and they bring the fight to a small town in the US and the citizans must fight them both to survive. Sound lame as hell to me, kinda like the abismal plot of Alien 3.

I like Alien. It hought it was a bold, dark, compelling movie that thankfully was skillfully given an exceptional sequal; Aliens.

Aliens was without a doubt one of the most impressive movies I have ever seen. It hold a place as one of my top five most favorite movies.

Alien 3 was just a major unfiltered disappointment on an epic scale of failure. My opinion of this movie and what it did to the Alien franchise became so low that they would have to work very hard indeed to dissapoint me again.

And then comes Alien 4. WTF was this movie about? Answer, put a bunch of semi-good actors on a space station and have them fight it out. Orginally this was going to be an AVP movie but they ditched the Predator parts and re-wrote the movie to be just an alien movie. BIG F'ing mistake. Had they kept the original script as an AVP script, then the movie might have been special.

AVP - As I said, I really hated this movie when it first came out. I have this rule, if I hate a movie I will watch again in a year or so. Well its been over two years and I finally decided to watch AVP again, the extended version.

I have to say that I was wrong about this movie. It was a very good movie and I don't recall why I hated it so. I found that the extended version made more sense than the theatrical version. I like the attention to detail that they had in the movie. The plot was only weak in a few areas, (Such as from the time of face hugger victim 1 to the first full grown alien attack was only about 20 minutes or two changes in the pyramid. Astect time every 10 nimutes.

The were more aliens than there were people, I think 12 aliens overall and only 9 victims.

I like the way they did many of the things in this movie. In retrospect I was very unfair to this movie and just wanted to set the record strait.

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Behind Enemy Lines 2

Ok here was a movie that I just knew was going to be a bad movie. A real B movie of epic proprotions. I avoided renting it simply because I knew that it was just a B flick with bad actors and a ****ty plot.

Well I finally broke down and watch this movie and let me say this for it, it was one hell of a good movie. I was completely taken back by the qaulity of its production values, solidiness of its story and plot. I especially enjoyed all of the great attention to detail like the fog in the plane as the SEAL team was preparing to drop. That detail is often overlooked in B budge movies. But in this movie they had it.. very cool detail.

The plot is based around the "mysterious" real life unexplained explosion in North Korea.

The writer took that real life incident and made a movie around it. The Players were all named differantly, but you get the sense that they were strongly based off of the current administration. (See the movie and you'll understand.)

There were so many small things, from good dialog to very good dialog. I really enjoyed the North Korean General, the south Korean Ambassador, and US Admiral and General performances. The cast was a great ensamble group of vetetrin actors.

What was really a nice touch was that the movie didn't leave you hanging. It actually had a very good well thought out and conclusive ending. You would expect a movie like this to end with the rescue of the remaining SEAL members from North Korea, but it went far further in detail and for that I am very thankful.

If you haven't yet seen this movie, I would recommend it. It is in the rental stores now and is well worth the price.

I liked this movie so much I am going to buy the DVD.

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Rocky Balboa

WOW - I have to say that is was a very good movie. I honestly went into it with mixed feelings and came out surprised and pleased.

This was a very good movie and you would be giving yourself a treat if you go and see it.

7 out of 10 (Worth Seeing full price at the theaters.)

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I have to agree, this was a good flick. If you enjoyed the first two I think you'll like this one.

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Casino Royale

Today I saw the latest James Bond movie. It has the new guy, Daniel Craig, as Bond and he's good. Compared to the previous guy who tended to joke around sometimes, he is more tough and serious, and the movie has somewhat of a darker tone. Lots of action and violence, and no unrealistic secret gadgets like the other movies. A pretty good movie.

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Awww! But I like the gadgets! On the other hand, Daniel Craig does tend to rock, so maybe I'll go see it despite the lack of gadgets.

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No gadgets?! What's a Bond movie without gadgets?!?!

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I read a review saying they decided to take a different direction when they got carried away. Apparently driving around in a car with a cloak is too unrealistic.

I once read though that back in the 60s they had a movie with small underwater breathing devices, sort of like the scuba masks the Jedi in Phantom Menace had. This bloke had been working for years trying to develop such a device and when he saw the movie he insisted on seeing the developers. Apparently it broke his heart when they told him the actors just held their breath.

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I once read that someone paid a million dollars for the secret to the automatic doors in ST:TOS.

The secret was two stagehands pulling on them on the other side.

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I heard that he want to make to do a gay love scene in the next James Bond movie to show that James Bond is indeed an every man kind of guy. I am sorry but the day they do a gay love scene in Jame Bond is the day I stop watching James Bond movies. PERIOD.

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Amen to that. Daniel Craig was pretty good. I would have liked the movie more if they had really treated it like how a 007 is created. But the man he met in the first scene already knew his name as Bond. I would have preferred it that he would have been a nameless section head and then given the name Bond to go with the 007 license. That would have been a good way of saying why there's been 5 or 6 guys using that 007 title with the name of James Bond over the past 40 years.

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Didn't you know? The're all one person.

How do I know this? Well, I was passing an alley one day when I saw a swordfight...

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Wrong crossover.

You should have said that he has an affection for jelly babies, always carrying some in his pocket, and his medical files say he has two hearts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Well, excuse me for not memorizing an actor from a series I've never had a chance to see! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Well your reference meant nothing to me but I know Baron's instantly.

Yes I guess it's an immortal, but only because I understood what Baron was getting at.

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Oh well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Tom Baker was my Dr. Who, although the NEW series guys are both doing a great Job, so I got the reference to 'Jelly Babies' The real question is which was the best Baker partner: Lela, Sarah, Romana I or Romana II. Romana I was probably the hottest, but I likes the Barbarian - Multi-generational ship born Lela (am I spelling her name wrong ?).

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O 007. BONB:-) i have to say bond is awesome. Lol past 2 days ive been watching 007 days of christmas on spike tv! Bond is good and the movies i have seen...

1: V for Vendetta (multyple times)

2: Lord of War

3: Blood diamond (soon to be seen)

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I am going to stop recommending movies and TV shows. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Every time I do the movie tanks. Serenity, Rocky VI, etc. WTF, am I just a curse or what?

Same thing for good tv shows: Smith, Daybreak, Firefly, The Nine, etc.

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Eragon was pretty good and left it open for the sequel and Rise of the Silver Surfer (Fantastic 4) looks great in the trailer for summer 07

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Nah, it's just that your taste in entertainment is too refined for mass-market success. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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lol atrocities. i rather liked serenity although it was weak. Like it had a good idea but they made it horrible:-(

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I think it was spelled 'Leela' and did you know the character on Futurama was named in her honor? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I think the first Romana was the best companion for Tom Baker's Doctor. She was another Timelord, and therefore much more competent than almost any other of The Doctor's companions. Most of them would constantly get lost not knowing what to do. The screamers & panicers were frankly annoying (although they were mainly companions of other Doctors). Not only did Romana actually know what to do most of the time, but she would poke fun at him, too. The 'second' Romana (The Honorable Lalla Ward, who is now married to scientist/author Richard Dawkins, btw...) was supposedly the same person but was written rather differently. I prefer Mary Tamm as Romana.

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My theory on favourite Dr Who's assistant is based on how old you were when you saw them... Tegan or Peri when I was in my mid-to-late-teens would be my favourites. Leela used to run around in a bikini most episodes (from memory) but I was only about 10 or 11 when she started so didn't really care. I preferred the dark haired Romana to the ratty one - I do remember that. Though I'm a big fan of Dawkins now so go figure.

Edit - and the ratty Romana had played a princess or somesuch in a previous episode and taken on her likeness when the hot Romana regenerated. Stupid regeneration. Should have stuck with the same face and maybe bigger boobs. Now THAT'S regeneration.

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I really never liked Dr. Who. Sorry man, but I just really never got into it. However I would like to see a comedy based off of the series's. Perhaps use that Bean dude or Steve Martin?