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Post by Ahmed Johnson on May 11, 2002 0:48:37 GMT -5
Speaking of the Cube, he was in that great film Higher Learning w/ Sir Omar Epps, Tyra Banks, and a little man I like to call Michael Rappaport.
Man, the good old days!
GOTTAGOTTAGIRLFRIEND!
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Post by nick_of_c on May 11, 2002 6:38:40 GMT -5
hrmm i still wanna see that. ever since i saw the baseball bat + hair incident i was hooked. gimme fuel gimme fire ...
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Post by Mr. Danger on May 14, 2002 7:32:41 GMT -5
the judge says... "Innocent till proven guilty" !WARNING! you have performed a illegal operation!
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Post by Ahmed Johnson on May 20, 2002 0:10:59 GMT -5
Man, this is a fun one to write. Tonight we went and saw Episode II (Luckily Steve and I snuck in) and it was really boring and bad. I'm not a fan of the old star wars but they are entertaining where as this was just a bunch of shit. George Lucas fronted a billion dollars just to sugar coat the fecal matter that was the plot. I want to say the acting was horrible, but it could have just been the writing. Unless Ewan McGregor really did fall real far from Trainspotting. Oh man here we go:
Paw4Pez: i saw episode 2 tonight. Patony Co: no ... bulian Patony Co: what did you think of it Paw4Pez: twas good. Paw4Pez: what did you think? Patony Co: it was garbage Paw4Pez: i didn't think so. Paw4Pez: i liked it.
The special effects were really cool looking and it was nice to see that every scene was just shot in a large green screen room. Steve and I laughed throughout the whole movie making fun of things. Especially when they resurrected Selena for one scene. It was nice to throw in a cameo of Jimmy Smits as well. All in all, if you're a Star Wars fan, then just go to the video and rent one of the original three because this is definitely not a Star Wars movie.
DONEANDDONER
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Post by Mr. Danger on May 21, 2002 5:49:08 GMT -5
you have alot to learn dylan stern.
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Post by Mr. Danger on Jun 20, 2002 7:33:19 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]-The Boy Who Could Fly-[/glow]
Well I watched "the boy who could fly" a few days ago. It took me back to my childhood. Last time I watched this movie I was younger than the boy who could fly.
The movie special fx are pretty bad. But for their time they got the job done. One of my favorite parts is where their sitting on the clouds watching fire works and one flys right by them... their ear drumbs would be dead.
the boy who could fly's uncle is a drunk slopy mess. Reminded me alot of me.
movie score: 8.8
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Post by Ahmed Johnson on Jun 20, 2002 13:01:36 GMT -5
Isn't that precious JAKETHESNAKE
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Post by Mr. Danger on Aug 5, 2002 2:35:00 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]-SIGNS-[/glow]
I'm going to start off by saying this movie was briliant. Some of you probably wen't thinking "this is going to be scary" but I did not. I went thinking this will be a neat and cool story. I really wasn't to scared most of the movie. The scariest part was with the dog.
The not showing the aliens gave a really cool effect... but they did show a alien at the end. I personaly do not think this ruined the movie. I look at it like this... That was one persons vision on how aliens look. Even though it might of been better if they didn't show a full alien and let you imagine how they looked in your mind, like when you read a book. But they did not do this and this is not a book. It's a movie. And what is a movie? movies are art.
I give this movie a 9
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Post by Ahmed Johnson on Aug 5, 2002 14:11:37 GMT -5
First off Dange, Signs is a scary movie. It's not like a maniac slasher scary movie, but it is meant to pyschologically scare people. Along w/ that it has the drama of the priest loosing his faith.
I liked most of this movie (there might be a few spoilers here). The beginning and middle were real good. I didn't care for the whole dead wife storyline kind of thing. And I wished it would have focused on the cornfield and them trying to get to the bottom of the crop circle.
I thought I was going to see a film about crop circles and aliens. All in all there is some great camera work and really cool parts. (when mel gibson searches in the cornfield, when they are in the basement w/ the flashlights, and some more).
THEDLIST
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Post by Ahmed Johnson on Aug 5, 2002 14:18:31 GMT -5
Man, this person almost read my mind exactly
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Last night I attended a screening of 'Signs', the latest motion picture written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan ('The Sixth Sense' and 'Unbreakable'). I looked forward to seeing it! The trailer, already airing on TV, portrayed the movie to be a very exciting sci-fi thriller.
Mel Gibson stars as Graham Hess, a former reverend whose wife was killed in a grisly car accident six months earlier. After that, he quit the ministry and abandoned all belief in the existence of a higher being. The supporting cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin and Cherry Jones. All turn in good performances.
The movie opens with the discovery of giant crop circles in Hess' corn field. Who made them? Do they have some profound meaning, or is it just a prank? Without exposing the plot, I will tell you that the crop circles are just one of many 'signs' that lead the characters toward the conclusion.
Some early scenes have a good sense of humor, taking full advantage of Gibson's wry wit. The funniest involves Phoenix, Culkin and Breslin in silly tin-foil hats. But the film is frequently as dull as its dark lighting and subdued atmosphere.
**** POSSIBLE SPOILERS ****
At one point, the screen goes totally black -- for what seems like an eternity -- while noises are heard. Then, a face is illuminated (chin up) by a flashlight beam. For a split-second, I thought I had stumbled into a rerun of 'Blair Witch' by mistake. But no, this was just one of several scenes that mimicked other films a bit too closely. I spotted near-perfect renditions of scenes from 'War of the Worlds', 'Field of Dreams', 'Children of the Corn' and others.
The scariest moments are the classic 'bump-in-the-night' variety. Special effects are nearly absent unless you count the alien, who looks like a tall man dressed in two-dollar spandex tights from a Halloween close-out sale.
Yet, the film is spellbinding because you constantly feel as though something really extraordinary is about to happen. Unfortunately, the anticipation is never rewarded and the story ends suddenly with a disappointing and unsatisfying conclusion. (As the credits began to roll, I stared at the screen in disbelief.)
'Signs' is really not the movie portrayed in the trailer. The sci-fi story you came to see -- dealing with extraterrestrials and crop circles -- is merely a subplot to the internal, spiritual strife suffered by Hess (Gibson). Sci-fi is simply a colorful wrapper used to conceal the movie's true focus: a ponderous message about human spirituality.
That brings me to my favorite 'sign' of all. It was bright. It was red. It had four letters. They read: 'E-X-I-T'. So I did.
As I filed out of the theater, I overheard several conversations expressing the same sense of disappointment that I was feeling. A teenage girl, talking to her girlfriend, said it best: "Well, I never want to see that again!"
Ditto.
DITTOCORRECTO
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Post by Mr. Danger on Aug 5, 2002 22:49:27 GMT -5
"And I wished it would have focused on the cornfield and them trying to get to the bottom of the crop circle." rofl that is the last thing that "night" wanted to do. He wanted an alein movie from another point of view. We have seem a hundred alien movies where they get to the bottom of the dang alien trash. We dont need another one.
"saying this movie is scary doesn't make sense to me. "
amen night
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Post by Ahmed Johnson on Aug 6, 2002 12:15:44 GMT -5
Hehe, I'm loving this bond you have to M. Night dange. You know all of his intents and whatnot. Anyway, it's not really even an alien movie. It's just the story of a priest losing his faith only to regain it during the happy ending. All the supernatural stuff is just secondary to the real plot. So blow it out your ass M. Night!
CORNONTHETYCOB
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