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clark

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Registered: 2001-09-20

Posts: 6,374

Re: Flicks - ...other than sci-fi

Keannu at his best...

"I know kung-fu."

Too bad he dosen't know how to act...  :laugh:

DanielCook

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2004-02-19

Posts: 90

Re: Flicks - ...other than sci-fi

Sad to say, but most of the Animatrix was better than the two sequels of "The Matrix". I've not even bothered to go watch the last one in the trilogy.

Another great movie: "Ghost in the Shell" ...

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dicktice

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

Registered: 2002-11-01

Posts: 1,764

Re: Flicks - ...other than sci-fi

Yes, Cindy [Wasn't "The Magnificent Seven" (Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen) a westernized version of "The Seven Samurai"?] But, the original was an original and, as such, utterly unpredictable for us who knew nothing of the samurai tradition, at the time. In black & white, the story overcomes the bloodiness that colour over-emphasizes (I would never make it as a surgeon) in later Japanese colour films.
   Rashamon was the first (I think) to do this, but with the swordplay in the hands of ordinary people (experiencing fear and clumsiness) who nonetheless had to fight each other for their lives. It's the first time (I seem to remember) that sunlight gleaming through the leaves of the tree canopy was used to denote running through a forest.
   Ah, memories like this. . . .

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Flicks - ...other than sci-fi

*Went to see "The Day After Tomorrow" with my nephew, this afternoon.  Byron, if you read this, did you see it yet?  I remember your posting elsewhere wanting to see the film.

Mundaka, if you read this:  Robert Holguin of KVIA has a bit part...as a reporter, of course.  He's got maybe 5 seconds of screen time.  Of course, I don't know which EP news channel you watch. 

Good movie, great special effects (except I think computer-animation tornadoes still look fakey...and there are many variations in how tornadoes can look -- Hollywood prefers brown-caramel colored ones with mostly indistinguishable funnels), good acting.  Dennis Quaid still looks good. 

Weird mini-coincidence...after dropping nephew off at home, there's a wreck on the interstate overpass, traffic lights are out...further in the city, more lights out and sirens all over (more wrecks, I presume).  People being rude and antsy in traffic, nearly saw another collision -- glad to get home, then the power goes out.  :laugh:  That movie is bad luck, I guess.

One major criticism of the movie:  We've got to establish a big refugee basecamp in *Mexico*?  It's only 50 miles from where I'm sitting.  There's plenty of wide-open land areas -- hundreds of square miles -- in NM, AZ, west and SW Texas.  Whatever...

Anyone else see the film?

--Cindy

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falkor

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From: Surrey

Registered: 2004-08-21

Posts: 112

Re: Flicks - ...other than sci-fi

please look at this screen maties:

These trees are a literal HIGH POINT in this film, but what film?

I just saw this movie on TV very recently, what a thriller! anybody seen this film?  :laugh: