10-03-2006, 10:51 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Footscray
I haven't had a chance to see either but will look them up, I thought he was quite good in Oliver Twist though as fagan - Guy Pearce is one of the actors I enjoy watching usually.
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Speaking of Guy Pearce, you should watch the Proposition..awesome movie (probably off topic because it got good reviews)
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10-03-2006, 11:29 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Taking Lives. Not just because of Angelina Jolie but this had a pretty good plot and an good twist. I really really enjoyed this movie.
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10-03-2006, 12:45 PM
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
They can't all be Titanic.
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Titanic belongs in that other thread: "Movies that got good reviews but actually sucked ass."
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10-03-2006, 12:46 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Titanic belongs in that other thread: "Movies that got good reviews but actually sucked ass."
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Haha! Hear hear!! God what a lame movie. Good Will Hunting got ROBBED of an Oscar!!
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10-03-2006, 12:48 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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What was wrong with Titanic? I thought it was a really really good movie.
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10-03-2006, 12:50 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan
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What was wrong with Titanic? I thought it was a really really good movie.
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Hmmmm, hard to pin it on a few things. For me, the tear-jerker moments were so "placed" and contrived it just made it laughable. Actually, I laughed at a few parts, much to the disgust of my wife and others in the theatre.
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10-03-2006, 12:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
Hmmmm, hard to pin it on a few things. For me, the tear-jerker moments were so "placed" and contrived it just made it laughable. Actually, I laughed at a few parts, much to the disgust of my wife and others in the theatre.
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I'm so glad to hear I wasn't the only one. Some parts are wicked funny! Like all the times that the early 20th-century kid from Ireland sounded sort of like a late-20th-century inner city basketball-playing kid from Detroit.
Not to rag on DiCaprio's admittedly masterful acting ability. 
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10-03-2006, 12:54 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I'm ashamed to admit it but I actually liked the Benchwarmers.
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10-03-2006, 01:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC
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Miami Vice-I thought the style in it was awesome. Michael Mann never diapoints, I can't think of a movie of his that I didn't like.
The Descent-Great horror movie, not scary in the sense that when I got home I turned all the lights on, but still very creepy.
Snakes on a Plane-So good.
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10-03-2006, 01:02 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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One of my favourite parts is at the end of Titanic when Leo is in the water and Kate is floating on something. He's holding on to the side and she is holding his arms and they're talking all lovie-dovie and crap and he says "Promise you'll never let me go" and she says "I promise" and they pass out. She wakes up and he's a frozen popsicle so.....she lets him go!!
I actually said out loud in the theatre "Oh nice promise!" and my wife elbowed me in the gut.
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10-03-2006, 01:14 PM
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Lives In Fear Of Labelling
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My girlfriend at the time elbowed me in the ribs quite hard in Titanic when I laughed out loud, It was when the boat was going down, and people were falling off and bouncing off the props, I know I'm a sick and twisted individual but I thought it was funny damn it!!!
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10-03-2006, 01:32 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by someguy51
I'm ashamed to admit it but I actually liked the Benchwarmers.
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I liked it too 
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10-03-2006, 01:32 PM
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
One of my favourite parts is at the end of Titanic when Leo is in the water and Kate is floating on something. He's holding on to the side and she is holding his arms and they're talking all lovie-dovie and crap and he says "Promise you'll never let me go" and she says "I promise" and they pass out. She wakes up and he's a frozen popsicle so.....she lets him go!!
I actually said out loud in the theatre "Oh nice promise!" and my wife elbowed me in the gut.
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 OK--time for a new Powerbook. This one has Iced Caramel Latte on it.
When my wife and I saw Titanic, I turned to her as the movie ended and said "well, that's six hours I'll never get back."
Looking at her watch, she said "it wasn't six hours. It was like three and a half."
I answered "Trust me. It was six."
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10-03-2006, 02:19 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
One of my favourite parts is at the end of Titanic when Leo is in the water and Kate is floating on something. He's holding on to the side and she is holding his arms and they're talking all lovie-dovie and crap and he says "Promise you'll never let me go" and she says "I promise" and they pass out. She wakes up and he's a frozen popsicle so.....she lets him go!!
I actually said out loud in the theatre "Oh nice promise!" and my wife elbowed me in the gut.
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Now THAT is funny 
I'm a sucker for Gangs of New York ( I just have to watch it every time it's on)
Some of my other Favourites: V for Vandetta, LOTR and the Blade movies (even though they got super cheesy with all the wrastlin moves in the movie)
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10-03-2006, 02:55 PM
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Unbreakable, M nights best film
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10-03-2006, 03:06 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lethbridge
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Quote:
Originally Posted by someguy51
I'm ashamed to admit it but I actually liked the Benchwarmers.
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Nothing to be ashamed about that movie was hilarious and much better than many films already mentioned.
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10-03-2006, 03:33 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
One of my favourite parts is at the end of Titanic when Leo is in the water and Kate is floating on something. He's holding on to the side and she is holding his arms and they're talking all lovie-dovie and crap and he says "Promise you'll never let me go" and she says "I promise" and they pass out. She wakes up and he's a frozen popsicle so.....she lets him go!!
I actually said out loud in the theatre "Oh nice promise!" and my wife elbowed me in the gut.
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The best part for me was the hamfisted way they made that aristocrat-type played by Billy Zane into maybe the worst person in the history of the world.
I waited six months to see that movie and when I finally did see it there were some young girls in there crying for probably the 50th time. They sure gave me a sour look when I was snickering.
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10-03-2006, 03:55 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: The wagon's name is "Gaudreau"
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Everytime anyone brings up Titanic I have to mention how much I hated it. Kate and Leonardo had brutal performances in that movie. I'm just glad those two didn't get an Oscar for that.
And yes, Benchwarmers was awesome. "The sun is not a monster!!"
How did Snakes on a Plane rate? I thought it was wicked!
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10-03-2006, 04:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Here are my top 10 reasons that Titanic sucked.
1. It's longer than Lawrence of Arabia--and contains no "Alec Guiness playing an Arab" to brighten up the drudgery of watching it.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio
3. I knew how it was going to end before the movie even started.
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
5. It's maudlin, and the dialogue is terrible.
6. The story is pointless. Guy gets girl. Guy dies. Girl loses necklace. Yawn.
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
8. It's anachronistic, and pays no attention to dialect. I'm supposed to believe that Leo is Irish? That Kathy Bates is uppercrust New-English? Please.
9. Leonardo DiCaprio
10. Did I mention it's too frikkin' long? It's really long--and having a row of sobbing teenagers in front of you doesn't make it any more bearable.
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10-03-2006, 04:16 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
2 I thought were great right off the top of my head.
The Matador
Elizabethtown
Anybody else see these? Others that the critics ripped that you thought were great?
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Matador was very funny. Very good casting and lots of good scenes.
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