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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: powercatmiller on January 18, 2009, 11:53:47 AM
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Its a hoot
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I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to see it until a 12 year old said it was funny. Meh, too family friendly.
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I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to see it until a 12 year old said it was funny. Meh, too family friendly.
so what all did winterz have to say about the flick?
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:lol:
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:lol:
What are you laughing at? You're the same developmental age.
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:lol:
What are you laughing at? You're the same developmental age.
Again...the stalking, man.
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Should have went with Gran Torino. Probably more comedy and definitely more badass with Eastwood.
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Should have went with Gran Torino. Probably more comedy and definitely more badass with Eastwood.
Holy Sh1t this is a good movie!. Eastwood is def. a BA.
Nearly every racial slur is used in the movie...to the point of making you uncomfortable, but wow Clint can direct.
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I will watch it online for free, only because I forgot that Ellismate is in it.
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From what I have heard Gran Torino is way overrated.
The action never comes, asian kid acting way forced, cheesy, etc.
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I don't know how anyone could buy Clint Eastwood as an action hero, he's like 80.
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From what I have heard Gran Torino is way overrated.
The action never comes, asian kid acting way forced, cheesy, etc.
Disagree.
Eastwood carries this movie, and carries it well, IMO.
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go see the wrestler.
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go see the wrestler.
Great movie. Rourke for best actor.
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great director. one of my fav's.
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great director. one of my fav's.
Well, I thought Requiem was downright repulsive, but The Wrestler was great.
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Slumdog Millionaire is very :bitchslap: :jail: :flush: :whiteflag: :violin: :limb: :'byecruelworld: :whistle1: :sword: :forked::runaway: :jacko: :wink: :impatient: :love: :swinglegs: :boxing: :scarymovie: :curse: :snort: :gunsfiring: :suicideispainless: :Driving: :flashphotog: :WTF: :whatthe: :dunno: :ohno: :blahblah: :woot: :adored: :clap:
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Yes, the asians are pretty bad at acting. But, that's expected coming from a bunch of zipperheads. The movie as a whole is excellent if you like comedy and Clint Eastwood kicking ass.
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From what I have heard Gran Torino is way overrated.
The action never comes, asian kid acting way forced, cheesy, etc.
Acting was a bit forced, but it in no way makes the movie over rated. It's a good movie. It deserves the recognition. So does the Wrestler. Aronofsky is a genius.
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great director. one of my fav's.
Well, I thought Requiem was downright repulsive, but The Wrestler was great.
the double dong scene get to ya? its a hit or miss with that one.
i was referring to the fountain., also
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The Fountain is one of my favorite movies.
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The Fountain is one of my favorite movies.
I didn't understand The Fountain. This movie was so completely abstract that it left we with one of two conclusions: either (1) this movie is so profoundly deep that my pea-size brain cannot comprehend it, or (2) this is just a complete bunch of bullcrap. It's a lot like modern art: Maybe it really stands for something, or maybe it's just a bunch of paint spattered against a canvas.
I read several reviews of The Fountain trying to explain it, and every review came across like a bunch of pretentious BS. If someone could provide me a scene-by scene Cliff's Notes of what the &@#% is going on in this movie, I'd be willing to give it another try.
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What is number one.
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The Fountain is one of my favorite movies.
I didn't understand The Fountain. This movie was so completely abstract that it left we with one of two conclusions: either (1) this movie is so profoundly deep that my pea-size brain cannot comprehend it, or (2) this is just a complete bunch of bullcrap. It's a lot like modern art: Maybe it really stands for something, or maybe it's just a bunch of paint spattered against a canvas.
I read several reviews of The Fountain trying to explain it, and every review came across like a bunch of pretentious BS. If someone could provide me a scene-by scene Cliff's Notes of what the frack is going on in this movie, I'd be willing to give it another try.
the fountain made sense to me after the 13th time i saw it. i think its how we want to interpret it. i didnt read any of the BS that people are thinking. ill sum up what i think happened.
obv. 3 seperate stories...in a way. they are interwoven.
1. hugh is a scientist-lookin for cancer cures, wife dies. vows to cure death.
2. hugh is a conquistador-looks for the tree of life, fountain of youth.
3. hugh is a space traveller of some kind. - after he discovers a cure for death he travels to the nebula to get reborn. his wife who died is the tree. etc..
god. theres more. but i just confused myself.
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couple of theories:
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The spanish story: Fake
The modern story: Real
The future story: Fake
But it's not as simple as that. The spanish story is just a story Izzi is writing, so she better can understand her death. Tommy is the main character in the story because he is the one reading it.
There isn't so much to talk about the modern story. Tommy is just searching for a cure against cancer and Izzi is just trying to live her life.
Now... The future story. This is where it really gets exciting. The bubble is actually his subconsciousness. A little copy of Tommy running around and meeting all the things he thinks of. Suddenly he meets Izzi and then it's Isabel from the spanish story. It's all fragments from his memory that comes to attention. Thats why the tree dies at the exact moment Izzi dies. He wants to save Izzi, so he places the tree in the dying star. Accepting death. When he then dies by the star, he starts on a new life and lets Izzi go.
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The past is izzy book, the Modern time is his past, the future is the present time, in the begining of the movie is izzy book when the father is about to swing his sword , tom from the bubble wakes up. Hes also doing jitsu which people believe this is an excercise to live a longer life , he is struggling to finish the book that izzy wrote thas why he goes back to the modern time to his last moments with her, he then realizes death is the cure , he dies then hes in heaven with izzy last scene is shot in white, he says i finished it, she says is everything alright? He says yes.
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Spanish = The book Izzy is writing
Present = Now
Future = Tom writing the book
Remember Izzy asking him to finish it. It is a way for him to deal with her death. Nothing more... nothing less. The movie is a love story. And Tom writes the ultimate love story... with the search for eternal life, so that he can save her.
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my mind just got F'd
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From what I have heard Gran Torino is way overrated.
The action never comes, asian kid acting way forced, cheesy, etc.
That person is an idiot.
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couple of theories:
1.
The spanish story: Fake
The modern story: Real
The future story: Fake
But it's not as simple as that. The spanish story is just a story Izzi is writing, so she better can understand her death. Tommy is the main character in the story because he is the one reading it.
There isn't so much to talk about the modern story. Tommy is just searching for a cure against cancer and Izzi is just trying to live her life.
Now... The future story. This is where it really gets exciting. The bubble is actually his subconsciousness. A little copy of Tommy running around and meeting all the things he thinks of. Suddenly he meets Izzi and then it's Isabel from the spanish story. It's all fragments from his memory that comes to attention. Thats why the tree dies at the exact moment Izzi dies. He wants to save Izzi, so he places the tree in the dying star. Accepting death. When he then dies by the star, he starts on a new life and lets Izzi go.
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The past is izzy book, the Modern time is his past, the future is the present time, in the begining of the movie is izzy book when the father is about to swing his sword , tom from the bubble wakes up. Hes also doing jitsu which people believe this is an excercise to live a longer life , he is struggling to finish the book that izzy wrote thas why he goes back to the modern time to his last moments with her, he then realizes death is the cure , he dies then hes in heaven with izzy last scene is shot in white, he says i finished it, she says is everything alright? He says yes.
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Spanish = The book Izzy is writing
Present = Now
Future = Tom writing the book
Remember Izzy asking him to finish it. It is a way for him to deal with her death. Nothing more... nothing less. The movie is a love story. And Tom writes the ultimate love story... with the search for eternal life, so that he can save her.
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my mind just got F'd
Watched the movie about 2 years ago. I came away thinking that Death is the fountain of life. You know, you die and become fertilizer for new life. Thats all I got.
Just saw GranTorino last night, great movie. Clint Eastwood = The most bad ass 80 year old alive
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couple of theories:
1.
The spanish story: Fake
The modern story: Real
The future story: Fake
But it's not as simple as that. The spanish story is just a story Izzi is writing, so she better can understand her death. Tommy is the main character in the story because he is the one reading it.
There isn't so much to talk about the modern story. Tommy is just searching for a cure against cancer and Izzi is just trying to live her life.
Now... The future story. This is where it really gets exciting. The bubble is actually his subconsciousness. A little copy of Tommy running around and meeting all the things he thinks of. Suddenly he meets Izzi and then it's Isabel from the spanish story. It's all fragments from his memory that comes to attention. Thats why the tree dies at the exact moment Izzi dies. He wants to save Izzi, so he places the tree in the dying star. Accepting death. When he then dies by the star, he starts on a new life and lets Izzi go.
2.
The past is izzy book, the Modern time is his past, the future is the present time, in the begining of the movie is izzy book when the father is about to swing his sword , tom from the bubble wakes up. Hes also doing jitsu which people believe this is an excercise to live a longer life , he is struggling to finish the book that izzy wrote thas why he goes back to the modern time to his last moments with her, he then realizes death is the cure , he dies then hes in heaven with izzy last scene is shot in white, he says i finished it, she says is everything alright? He says yes.
3.
Spanish = The book Izzy is writing
Present = Now
Future = Tom writing the book
Remember Izzy asking him to finish it. It is a way for him to deal with her death. Nothing more... nothing less. The movie is a love story. And Tom writes the ultimate love story... with the search for eternal life, so that he can save her.
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my mind just got F'd
Some how, it clicked with me the first time I watched it. The book to the past thing was obvious, but the future had some lingering doubts. I saw the future as his subconscious, but also a tool to bring some things together and elaborate on them. The whole tatoo ring thing becoming the rings on his whole body connecting with the aging tree was the most obvious connection. The rebirth thing is a continuous motif. Like Ben said, everlasting life comes in the form of us changing form and becoming the food for other things to live be it the fountain in the past, the tree that was planted over Izzy in the present, or the star in the future.
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more like Gran Awesome-o
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couple of theories:
1.
The spanish story: Fake
The modern story: Real
The future story: Fake
But it's not as simple as that. The spanish story is just a story Izzi is writing, so she better can understand her death. Tommy is the main character in the story because he is the one reading it.
There isn't so much to talk about the modern story. Tommy is just searching for a cure against cancer and Izzi is just trying to live her life.
Now... The future story. This is where it really gets exciting. The bubble is actually his subconsciousness. A little copy of Tommy running around and meeting all the things he thinks of. Suddenly he meets Izzi and then it's Isabel from the spanish story. It's all fragments from his memory that comes to attention. Thats why the tree dies at the exact moment Izzi dies. He wants to save Izzi, so he places the tree in the dying star. Accepting death. When he then dies by the star, he starts on a new life and lets Izzi go.
2.
The past is izzy book, the Modern time is his past, the future is the present time, in the begining of the movie is izzy book when the father is about to swing his sword , tom from the bubble wakes up. Hes also doing jitsu which people believe this is an excercise to live a longer life , he is struggling to finish the book that izzy wrote thas why he goes back to the modern time to his last moments with her, he then realizes death is the cure , he dies then hes in heaven with izzy last scene is shot in white, he says i finished it, she says is everything alright? He says yes.
3.
Spanish = The book Izzy is writing
Present = Now
Future = Tom writing the book
Remember Izzy asking him to finish it. It is a way for him to deal with her death. Nothing more... nothing less. The movie is a love story. And Tom writes the ultimate love story... with the search for eternal life, so that he can save her.
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my mind just got F'd
Some how, it clicked with me the first time I watched it. The book to the past thing was obvious, but the future had some lingering doubts. I saw the future as his subconscious, but also a tool to bring some things together and elaborate on them. The whole tatoo ring thing becoming the rings on his whole body connecting with the aging tree was the most obvious connection. The rebirth thing is a continuous motif. Like Ben said, everlasting life comes in the form of us changing form and becoming the food for other things to live be it the fountain in the past, the tree that was planted over Izzy in the present, or the star in the future.
This sounds like the kind of movie people pretend to like so that they can look smart and sophisticated but really they have no idea what's going on and probably actually hate the movie.
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Slumdog Millionaire is very :bitchslap: :jail: :flush: :whiteflag: :violin: :limb: :'byecruelworld: :whistle1: :sword: :forked::runaway: :jacko: :wink: :impatient: :love: :swinglegs: :boxing: :scarymovie: :curse: :snort: :gunsfiring: :suicideispainless: :Driving: :flashphotog: :WTF: :whatthe: :dunno: :ohno: :blahblah: :woot: :adored: :clap:
Anyone else have a hard time figuring out what Slumdog Millionaire was like? :confused:
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ew and I have already been through this Fountain thing. I'm pretty adept at reading film--heck, I taught a class on it--and I think the movie reads like those crappy short stories freshmen crap out in creative writing classes because they're "so deep nobody gets me."
As for Slumdog Millionaire, I have a thing about India, and not a good one. After months of getting calls from there or calling there for help, and after dealing with one of my in-laws who is from Mombai and thinks he's superior to anyone with skin lighter than coffee with 5 creams, I've kind of had it with the whole India/Bollywood hard-on everyone has. And I haven't even started on M. Night Shamalamadingdong.
I'll pass on the slumdog, thanks.
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Just got around to seeing Gran Torino.
I'm behind the times I know but I have a file list of about 20 torrents that I haven't had time for.
Eastwood did a great job playing the old tough guy role....He sounded alot like my late uncle before he passed. A Korean vet as well. Wouldn't even eat at an Asian restaurant because it reminded him of the rice gruel crap he had to eat when he was at war in the '50's. He acted like the war was still going on...and arguably it is...albeit a cold one with NPRK.
A sacrfice so that a younger generation shall have peace. Loved the plot line and the ending was more poetic than shoot'em up. I think Eastwood has been in plenty of those....but not enough of the type of endings that Torino had.