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Amon
12-09-2007, 11:34 PM
Anyone seen it yet? I wanna watch it bad but I'm waiting for my wife to get over her illness.
Mark Carras
12-10-2007, 01:45 AM
I tried to get Sherri to go, but for some reason we haven't yet. I am going to really try again next weekend though.

I have heard the religious zealots are working hard to get the movie more press. :rotfl

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5364487.html
Amon
12-10-2007, 06:55 PM
Lol yeah I heard some of that on the news this morning.

I wanna see it even more now! :p
Amon
12-20-2007, 08:40 PM
Pretty cool movie. The religious idiots are just pissed that it shows how controlling organized religion is.

It ended abruptly so there will be a sequel.
Mark Carras
12-20-2007, 09:12 PM
Pretty cool movie. The religious idiots are just pissed that it shows how controlling organized religion is.

It ended abruptly so there will be a sequel.

I think we are going to see it this weekend. :monkey
Amon
12-21-2007, 07:12 AM
I plan on watching I Am Legend this weekend. Hopefully I'll also see Sweeny Todd.
tbhride
12-21-2007, 11:47 AM
I am Legend was goodtimes.
CFH
12-21-2007, 04:39 PM
I plan on watching I Am Legend this weekend. Hopefully I'll also see Sweeny Todd.

I am Legend looks like it could be okay and Sweeney Todd looks fucking amazing.
Mark Carras
12-21-2007, 05:17 PM
I am Legend looks like it could be okay and Sweeney Todd looks fucking amazing.

Sweeny Todd is the first film with the Tim Burton & Johnny Depp duo that me and the wife have no interest in at all. It just looks like a typical slasher film and I have always expected so much more from movies with both of them.
tbhride
12-21-2007, 09:43 PM
Sweeny Todd is the first film with the Tim Burton & Johnny Depp duo that me and the wife have no interest in at all. It just looks like a typical slasher film and I have always expected so much more from movies with both of them.

For the record, its a musical.
Amon
12-21-2007, 09:44 PM
Sweeny Todd is the first film with the Tim Burton & Johnny Depp duo that me and the wife have no interest in at all. It just looks like a typical slasher film and I have always expected so much more from movies with both of them.

From what I've gathered it's a musical. Still I'm not as excited to see it as I usually am with Burton flicks.
Mark Carras
12-21-2007, 10:15 PM
For the record, its a musical.

From what I've gathered it's a musical. Still I'm not as excited to see it as I usually am with Burton flicks.

Yes, it is a slasher musical. One film type that bores me and one that annoys me. However, I really love everything that the two have done before so I might watch it someday. I'm sure it isn't as bad as the previews make it look, but there are so many movies coming out right now that it isn't likely I will catch this one before it leaves the theater.
tbhride
12-21-2007, 10:26 PM
Its an old musical... for another record :D (by Stephen Sondheim)
Mark Carras
12-22-2007, 01:28 PM
Its an old musical... for another record :D (by Stephen Sondheim)

The story is even older then that, but this specific version is adapted from Stephen Sondheim. However, there is going to be major differences between the play and the movie. It is the Tim Burton re-telling that makes me even give it a chance.
Mark Carras
12-29-2007, 11:01 PM
Ok, back to the subject of GOLDEN COMPASS!

Me and Sherri just got back and that had to be one of the best fucking fantasy movies I have ever seen. Absolutely amazing.

DId anyone notice that a gay guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McKellen) plays a bear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_community)? Am I the only one who found that to be an entertaining (and unintentional) coincidence? He of course had the perfect voice for that and only maybe Sean Connery could have pulled it off as well. I just find that connection to be kind o funny. :shrug
Amon
12-31-2007, 12:55 AM
Lol yeah I noticed that as well. The evil bear was Ian Mcshane (Al Swearingen in Deadwood). I kept expecting him to call the other bear a "cocksucker"! :p
Mark Carras
12-31-2007, 04:33 AM
Lol yeah I noticed that as well. The evil bear was Ian Mcshane (Al Swearingen in Deadwood). I kept expecting him to call the other bear a "cocksucker"! :p

Holy shit! I never even noticed that. :shock Now I want to go watch it again with that in mind. :rotfl
Creeperette
09-26-2008, 05:49 PM
I loved this movie! We actually JUST watched it last week-end.
Looking forward to the second part!!
Mark Carras
09-26-2008, 08:32 PM
I loved this movie! We actually JUST watched it last week-end.
Looking forward to the second part!!

Sad to say there will probably never be a sequel. The fans of the book hated the movie because it wasn't true enough to the book and the religious zealots hated it because the book was anti religion. So nobody went to see the movie and it was considered a major flop. So sad that the agnostics didn't stop to think that they were doing exactly what the far right wanted them to do.

Anyways, if you like audio books at all there is a REALLY well done audio book. They had a separate actor for every voice so it sounds really good. Very true to the book.
StonerMafia
09-27-2008, 03:21 AM
I just added this to my netflix last week. I might have to look into the books.
Mark Carras
09-27-2008, 05:35 PM
I just added this to my netflix last week. I might have to look into the books.

The book might offend you with you being such a good Christian and all. :rotfl
Creeperette
09-27-2008, 08:39 PM
Cool. I'll have to check it out!!

Sad to say there will probably never be a sequel. The fans of the book hated the movie because it wasn't true enough to the book and the religious zealots hated it because the book was anti religion. So nobody went to see the movie and it was considered a major flop. So sad that the agnostics didn't stop to think that they were doing exactly what the far right wanted them to do.

Anyways, if you like audio books at all there is a REALLY well done audio book. They had a separate actor for every voice so it sounds really good. Very true to the book.
StonerMafia
09-28-2008, 03:25 AM
The book might offend you with you being such a good Christian and all. :rotfl


Oh hell nah! Don't make me get all biblical up in this mother fucka!!!:puke
Vish
09-28-2008, 09:23 AM
The audiobooks are amazing. Blew my mind for sure. I read on His Dark Materials wiki page that they are working on doing the sequels and that they will be more true to the books... or something like that. the first movie was to suck fans in without too many religious themes of the book being prevailant, but the other two books it would be impossible not to have the religious theme.