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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| it would've been better to be less dramatic but more realistic. |
Hell yes.
And most of the monologue could have been thrown away.
Didn't Blade Runner teach these people anything? |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| Hobophobic wrote: |
| and tuck the laces in under the tongue....but sometimes they manage to wiggle out and drop into a puddle or worse...I cry because I need to tuck them back in or else my secret will be out. |
wow we share something in common.. you Australian? or you a skater?
I have been tucking it under the tongue since I was 12 and a skater!
anyway back to nick cage..
come on he is good!! he has his own unique style as do most actors!!
tell me an actor that has a clean record of great preformances..
nick has never come out and said he is a great actor.. actually I remember him saying he doubts his abilities sometimes.. he does a good job I can think of more worse actors than him.. he makes the kind of movies where you dont need to be anthony hopkins or al pacino to make it a great acting movie..
but he has made his fair share of great actor driven roles..
he is a box office actor, popcorn action man! he is easy to watch!
he gets paid 20million dollars for it.. thats hollywood..
people get lucky and once they get there.. they are there to stay and they get cast in big movies and we have to watch them. either like it or dont! I personally take nick for what he is.. he is not amazing! he is not bad.. he gets the job done.. |
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plato's republic
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Ancient Greece
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw the movie last weekend. Wasn't bad, wasn't great. So is it actually based on a true story or not? |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| There weren't any plot twists. There wasn't much interesting action. The best four minutes was the cargo plane situation. Everything else was predictable, including the person who died at the end. It was like a documentary with better cinematography (and worse writing). And at the very end they take a jab at George W Bush that just seemed forced. (They use "he" instead of "the government" or "the White House" to try and accuse Bush personally, instead of all Presidents, of selling arms.) Lame. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| I thought it was a great movie. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| I thought it was a great movie. |
Seconded |
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| I thought it was a great movie. |
Seconded |
Er... Thirded! |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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****SPOLIER ALERT*****
I was deeply let down, I was excited to this see this movie, some great talent and I like Nic Cage, but the VO was stupid, VO's are the mark of a bad writer because once you have a VO there's no need for a story now is there. Also I found the movie too moralizing, it would have been better if they hadn't tried to make him feel guilty all the time, instead he's setup through most of the movie to feel guilty then at the end he decides to keep doing it anyway, wtf? Also the movie felt like a damned history documentary with him explaining how the Wall feel down and that he worked the corrupt new democracies and how interpol works and the UN blah blah blah. Ethan Hawke, who cares? He wasn't a very good nemesis just boring and dull (and kinda stupid). And finally, the end was a bit over the top explaining how the UN security council is the biggest arms dealer in the world, etc. Most of us knew that and if you didnt ur a dumba**.
Good idea, but poor execution.
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| nick cage can't act his way out of a used condom. |
Is the end of it tied up?
I don't think there are to many people who could get themselves out of a used condom that has been tied up at the end.
It'd be like being trapped in a rubber room covered in semen. Smelly and mucky. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Good movie, man. I like the way the character just moved through his life being who he was. And the ending; 'the key to survival is to not go to war with anyone, especially yourself'. Then he walks away and the camera drags over an endless litter of bullet casings. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Bo Peabody wrote: |
| Demonicat wrote: |
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| I thought it was a great movie. |
Seconded |
Er... Thirded! |
Yep, na-do /// ... QUATROZ !!! |
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