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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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Mind-blowing movie, this is about as close as cinema comes to being a religious experience. Highest, biggest, most topped-off recommendation on this one. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Books for my Kindle.
Douglas Adams, Plato, Aristotle, various classics I should have read years ago but never did like LOTR, harry pothead, Journey to the Centre of the Earth etc.
A couple of shakespeares I remember from school but never understood at the time, Sagan, Homer, Pratchett.
Man. All the stuff I wanted for years but never had the motive to actually get them because they require money. Now I can just torrent them, I'll be reading almost permanently for the rest of my life. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
Mind-blowing movie, this is about as close as cinema comes to being a religious experience. Highest, biggest, most topped-off recommendation on this one. |
Not much more I can add to this. |
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Livewire
Joined: 27 Feb 2011
Location: BI-WINNING!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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That movie was a lame 'student / teenage filmaker tries to make latest edgy film' type effort.
Best thing I downloaded recently was 'An idiot abroad.' Very entertaining and likeable travel show that follows a little Englisher around the countries that are home to the 7 wonders and his often narrow minded opinions on what he experiences. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Livewire wrote: |
| That movie was a lame 'student / teenage filmaker tries to make latest edgy film' type effort. |
Literally an objectively wrong opinion right here, folks. Ignorant as well. |
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Livewire
Joined: 27 Feb 2011
Location: BI-WINNING!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
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| That movie was a lame 'student / teenage filmaker tries to make latest edgy film' type effort. |
Literally an objectively wrong opinion right here, folks. Ignorant as well. |
Sigh, getting upset because someone esle doesn't like the same movie that she does... Dear oh dear. How did you manage to get up the gumption to move overseas?
Moreover, opinions are subjective. Secondly all my friends also thought it was a movie that seemed made by a very young filmaker trying to be edgy, but failing due to it's over obviousness and over explicitness and simplicity. Subtlety, knowing when to use a silence in music - same applies to all art forms.
Thirdly - reported to mods for needless personal attack. |
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movybuf
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Location: Mokdong
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| rumdiary wrote: |
| RMNC wrote: |
Mind-blowing movie, this is about as close as cinema comes to being a religious experience. Highest, biggest, most topped-off recommendation on this one. |
Not much more I can add to this. |
I will also say that this movie rocked. Not the type of movie I would recommend to everyone, though.
I would recommend to everyone downloading the movie "Mary and Max." It was one of the most entertaining and emotional movies I have seen in a long time. It is my new go-to recommendation, taking over for my old one, "The Fall." |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
Mind-blowing movie, this is about as close as cinema comes to being a religious experience. Highest, biggest, most topped-off recommendation on this one. |
i heard about this movie on the joe rogan podcast. i'll have to check it out.
i also heard about irreversible and the infamous rape scene. bobby lee was actually talking about it on the same podcast and said he had to turn it off after that scene because it was so disturbing. i downloaded it but am afraid to watch it. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| Livewire wrote: |
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| Livewire wrote: |
| That movie was a lame 'student / teenage filmaker tries to make latest edgy film' type effort. |
Literally an objectively wrong opinion right here, folks. Ignorant as well. |
reported to mods for needless personal attack. |
Dear oh dear. How did you manage to get up the gumption to move overseas? |
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Livewire
Joined: 27 Feb 2011
Location: BI-WINNING!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:42 am Post subject: |
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By not being a deliberately insensitive douche.
It kinda helps! |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| Come on, get snide and insulted somewhere else. This thread's for recommendations, not squawking. You've got the whole rest of the site for criticism and bitchiness. |
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Livewire
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Blurgalurga - you see the irony in your post - right? |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Sigh...yes, I suppose you're right...I've no defense.
Anyway, I got a torrent of Errol Morris' First Person off Demonoid a few days ago. Really good stuff. It's a shame Morris' voice is so nasal, because the questions he asks are really excellent.
I've watched about half of them now, and they're invariably very well done.
Morris is a pretty interesting guy--here's the link to his wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris
Think most of his stuff is on youtube. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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Just finished season 3 of Mad Men and I swear that show just keeps getting better.
Surfer Blood-Astro Coast
There's plenty to like about Astro Coast, the debut LP from the youthful Floridians in Surfer Blood, but first and foremost it's a great guitar album. So what exactly does that mean these days? Often, it's a reference to either a display of astounding technical chops or innovative use of tone and texture, qualities which, to be quite honest, aren't particularly present here. This is a great guitar album in the way Weezer's Blue Album, Built to Spill's Keep It Like a Secret, or, more recently, Japandroids' Post-Nothing are: six-strings serve as a multiplier for hooks, making it every bit as easy and fun to air guitar with as it is to sing along to
Sleigh Bells-Treats
Once in a while a record comes along that makes you re-think loud: King of Rock; The Land of Rape and Honey; Nation of Millions; Super Ae; I Get Wet; Kesto. Setting aside the quality of the material-- there are classics here, along with albums I never listen to anymore-- these albums are notable for me because the first time I heard them, music just seemed bigger than it had before, like it took up more space and hit with more force and went further than once seemed possible.
Sorry I stole the reviews because I'm too lazy to write my own. |
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