[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
hahaha…that’s funny. Actors giving up acting to pursue music has almost always worked out well for them. Anyone remember the name of Keanu Reeves band?
Dog Star? Star Fish? Something like that…
Singing careers appear to be working for Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson.[/quote]
Hahaha…that’s a good one. Unless you were being serious, and I really, really hope you weren’t being serious.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Joaquin Phoenix dropped quite a shocker at Monday’s Paul Newman tribute, announcing his plans to quit acting.
“I want to take this opportunity … to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor,” the two-time Oscar nominee told Extra. “I’m not doing films anymore.”
“Are you serious?” asked the stunned interviewer Jerry Penacoli.
“Yeah. I’m working on my music,” Phoenix insisted. “I’m done. I’ve been through that.”
The 34-year-old performer gave no further details on his career plans - but he has been working on a record for some time British band The Charlatans.
Phoenix, who co-stars in the upcoming romantic drama “Two Lovers” with Gwyneth
Paltrow, first learned to play guitar for his Academy-Award-nominated role as Johnny Cash in 2005’s Walk The Line.
He was also nominated in 2000 for his supporting role in “Gladiator.”
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Was that really the time and place for him to focus attention on himself?
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
hahaha…that’s funny. Actors giving up acting to pursue music has almost always worked out well for them. Anyone remember the name of Keanu Reeves band?
Dog Star? Star Fish? Something like that…
Singing careers appear to be working for Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson.
Hahaha…that’s a good one. Unless you were being serious, and I really, really hope you weren’t being serious.
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I really, really do need to get that signature. 
MONGOL!!!
man I loved that movie. It was so good. Now I want a book on Genghis Khan. I wish it didn’t have subtitles because I know some people won’t see it because of that, but it was such a good movie.
I see that is it part of a trilogy so I am already looking forward to the next 2 movies.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
I finally watched “Crank” last night. I’m trying to convince myself that this was really the director of photography’s demo reel and he convinced a studio to buy it. It was nothing but crazy shot after crazy shot lumped together with some horrible attempts of acting.
After Transporter 3, I have the over/under on Jason Statham only being in direct-to-DVD movies at 2. He and Vin Diesel are going to be this generation’s Jean Claude and Steven Seagal.[/quote]
WHAT?! I thought Crank was totally realistic.
I’d say that’s a safe bet for both of those guys. I used to think both of them were cool, but I can’t take either of them seriously anymore.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
I finally watched “Crank” last night. I’m trying to convince myself that this was really the director of photography’s demo reel and he convinced a studio to buy it. It was nothing but crazy shot after crazy shot lumped together with some horrible attempts of acting.
After Transporter 3, I have the over/under on Jason Statham only being in direct-to-DVD movies at 2. He and Vin Diesel are going to be this generation’s Jean Claude and Steven Seagal.
WHAT?! I thought Crank was totally realistic.
I’d say that’s a safe bet for both of those guys. I used to think both of them were cool, but I can’t take either of them seriously anymore.[/quote]
I checked imdb, and couldn’t believe there was “Crank 2” listed in post production. The worst part is people are defending movies like these. One thread over there showed several people who think Transporter 3 will be BETTER than Quantum Of Solace! I had to get out of there for fear of my head exploding.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Joaquin Phoenix dropped quite a shocker at Monday’s Paul Newman tribute, announcing his plans to quit acting.
“I want to take this opportunity … to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor,” the two-time Oscar nominee told Extra. “I’m not doing films anymore.”
“Are you serious?” asked the stunned interviewer Jerry Penacoli.
“Yeah. I’m working on my music,” Phoenix insisted. “I’m done. I’ve been through that.”
The 34-year-old performer gave no further details on his career plans - but he has been working on a record for some time British band The Charlatans.
Phoenix, who co-stars in the upcoming romantic drama “Two Lovers” with Gwyneth
Paltrow, first learned to play guitar for his Academy-Award-nominated role as Johnny Cash in 2005’s Walk The Line.
He was also nominated in 2000 for his supporting role in “Gladiator.”
Was that really the time and place for him to focus attention on himself?
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Took the words right out of my head!
Halloween 4 - They should have called this one “Rednecks with guns vs Michael Myers”. I don’t remember seeing this one before but it was pretty bad. Lots of obvious continuity screw ups and the mask used didn’t even look like the original Nixon mask, it was like some cheap Michael Myers impostor was running around killing people.
The plus side was that the little girl that played Myers’ niece in the movie is all grown up now and is smokin’ hot. Rob Zombie got to chat with here between commercial breaks, lucky bastard.
Oooh, I watched Bride of Chucky last night. I freakin’ love the Child’s Play movies. Chucky scared the shit out of me when I was like, ten.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
I finally watched “Crank” last night. I’m trying to convince myself that this was really the director of photography’s demo reel and he convinced a studio to buy it. It was nothing but crazy shot after crazy shot lumped together with some horrible attempts of acting.
After Transporter 3, I have the over/under on Jason Statham only being in direct-to-DVD movies at 2. He and Vin Diesel are going to be this generation’s Jean Claude and Steven Seagal.
WHAT?! I thought Crank was totally realistic.
I’d say that’s a safe bet for both of those guys. I used to think both of them were cool, but I can’t take either of them seriously anymore.
I checked imdb, and couldn’t believe there was “Crank 2” listed in post production. The worst part is people are defending movies like these. One thread over there showed several people who think Transporter 3 will be BETTER than Quantum Of Solace! I had to get out of there for fear of my head exploding.[/quote]
I shuddered when I heard there was going to be a Crank 2. I didn’t even know there was going to be a Transporter 3, but it gave me the same shudder.
People actually think that not only will Transporter 3 be good, it will be better than QoS? I get scared for the future of movies when I hear shit like that.
This is why they keep making movies like Epic Movie and Meet The Spartans. People actually pay to see them and think they are funny. I went to my friend’s house the other day and was looking at his movie collection, only to see that he had bought Meet The Spartans. I died a little inside.
The original was a William Shatner mask painted white.
I got around to watching movies over the weekend. I watched Vacancy, The Omen and White Noise 2.
I didn’t really enjoy any of them. I found them all to be rather boring.
i watched The Happening last night, it was pretty good and its not farfetched so it makes you think and take a step back like yea, maybe we should stop fucking this planet up so much
[quote]p-dubs wrote:
the mask used didn’t even look like the original Nixon mask
The original was a William Shatner mask painted white.
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Of course. Where did I get Nixon from? Horror film genre brain fart
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i watched The Happening last night, it was pretty good and its not farfetched so it makes you think and take a step back like yea, maybe we should stop fucking this planet up so much[/quote]
LoL sarcastic?
[quote]Thomas Gabriel wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i watched The Happening last night, it was pretty good and its not farfetched so it makes you think and take a step back like yea, maybe we should stop fucking this planet up so much
LoL sarcastic?
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I hope so, otherwise I know not to ever take a post of his seriously again regarding movies.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
The Strangers. dumb fuckin movie. It had my heart going a few times which was good, but WTF?
I saw it last night.
The first 30-minutes was tooooooo slow, the middle to last part was never wracking, and then the end was a bit of a let down.
But the tense scenes were good
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I don’t know…considering most of the crap that gets made today, if a movie can effectively make me say, “oh shit” once or twice (like when you initially see one of the intruders in the house behind Liv Tyler…or when he predictably takes out his best friend), I’ll pretty much let some things slide.
My honest opinion is that most people would be unprepared if they faced home invasion like that. While some people do keep guns in the house, most seem to also greatly overestimate their skill in using that firearm in a real situation. The average person is not a soldier. Hell, the average person grunts and strains just to get out of bed in the morning.
They seemed to make an attempt at being a “70’s slasher movie” even though they had cell phones and they pulled it off for the most part.
The movie Them was worse than this and nowhere near as effective with the tense scenes.
The ending was weak though. They were pushing for a sequel.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
The Strangers. dumb fuckin movie. It had my heart going a few times which was good, but WTF?
I saw it last night.
The first 30-minutes was tooooooo slow, the middle to last part was never wracking, and then the end was a bit of a let down.
But the tense scenes were good
I don’t know…considering most of the crap that gets made today, if a movie can effectively make me say, “oh shit” once or twice (like when you initially see one of the intruders in the house behind Liv Tyler…or when he predictably takes out his best friend), I’ll pretty much let some things slide.
My honest opinion is that most people would be unprepared if they faced home invasion like that. While some people do keep guns in the house, most seem to also greatly overestimate their skill in using that firearm in a real situation. The average person is not a soldier. Hell, the average person grunts and strains just to get out of bed in the morning.
They seemed to make an attempt at being a “70’s slasher movie” even though they had cell phones and they pulled it off for the most part.
The movie Them was worse than this and nowhere near as effective with the tense scenes.
The ending was weak though. They were pushing for a sequel.[/quote]
the strangers was ehh one of the lesser movies I have seen this year, then again I’m not really a big fan of horror movies.
tonight I saw rock n roller, hopefully see death race in the next week or so. I have been too the movies around 30 times this year
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Thomas Gabriel wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i watched The Happening last night, it was pretty good and its not farfetched so it makes you think and take a step back like yea, maybe we should stop fucking this planet up so much
LoL sarcastic?
I hope so, otherwise I know not to ever take a post of his seriously again regarding movies.[/quote]
no. im being serious. we fuck up our planet on a consistent basis, the bees really are vanishing for an unexplained reason. im not saying trees are going to kill us with airborne spores but nature does react maybe not consciously but when you damage the ozone layer and the planet in itself it has ways of trying to repair. basically in the form of catastrophic weather.
this doesnt have to do with movies, it has to do with real life.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Thomas Gabriel wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i watched The Happening last night, it was pretty good and its not farfetched so it makes you think and take a step back like yea, maybe we should stop fucking this planet up so much
LoL sarcastic?
I hope so, otherwise I know not to ever take a post of his seriously again regarding movies.
no. im being serious. we fuck up our planet on a consistent basis, the bees really are vanishing for an unexplained reason. im not saying trees are going to kill us with airborne spores but nature does react maybe not consciously but when you damage the ozone layer and the planet in itself it has ways of trying to repair. basically in the form of catastrophic weather.
this doesnt have to do with movies, it has to do with real life.[/quote]
I agree that nature is changing and that the very likely culprit for much of it is us and industrialization. What I don’t agree with is the spontaneous release of a psychoactive airborne hormone that drives us insane being released from ALL species of plant life all in one portion of the country…and then its spontaneous disappearance to where we can suddenly go outside at the end of it days later. That makes ZERO sense.
All plants are not the same. The premise of HATRED for our species coming from all plant life is ridiculous especially if it goes away as fast as it came.
i say we gotta stop this middleground shit.
either we be nice to nature and live in harmony with the planet or we find a new way to make oxygen and burn this mother down.
nature doesnt even have to assist in fucking us up we do a damn good job of it ourselves. it seems to me that theres new diseases all the time and theyre so widespread, its like cancer is as common as the cold. its the sad but true reality. im sure it has much to do as much with land, aire and sea pollution as it does with our magnificent factory processed foods.
oh and of course how all these great chemical concotions we make ends up going right back into the water we drink, air we breathe and food we eat.
Regardless of your feelings on nature and the planet, The Happening was a stupid MOVIE. This is a thread about MOVIES.
I say we get back on topic please.